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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
were many opportunities for enormous personal gain that distracted top executives from the essential tasks of maintaining institutional integrity and building stable relationships with shareholders and employees. Similarly, Enron's... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
competition, and this logic breaks down in thin political markets. The result is a structural flaw in the determination of critical institutions of our capitalist system, which, if ignored, can undermine the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
Action that is head and heart driven, not just head driven. Most people won't want to help if you appeal only to logic with numbers and business cases. You must also appeal to how people will feel about doing important work to make big... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
undercharge the buyer. When the final performance of the service or product is in doubt, the performance-based arrangement guarantees that as the seller provides more, it is paid more. Significantly, the buyer also receives insurance that it will not overpay at both... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
percent of its revenues to fraud annually, which translates to a projected global fraud loss of $3.7 trillion. Most of those studies, however, have focused on the practical logic behind the crimes. What sets this study apart is that it is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
evidence that the decline in performance outcomes stems from reduced effort or increased risk taking. Instead, errors in logic lead to a decline in performance, which suggests a cognitive explanation for the negative response to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the public... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
typology of social entrepreneuring models. This typology is based on four possible forms of capital that can be leveraged: social, economic, human, and political. Furthermore, our findings reveal that these four social entrepreneuring models are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
excellence. Xerox also realized that it had to hire a renowned local scientist as the initial laboratory leader. The leader needed to be able to understand the local scientific community, attract junior scientists with high potential, and target the right university... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
that had left the company in a compromised state. Over the next six years, Cote worked to turn Honeywell around through implementing a series of improvements in the company’s operating systems, forming a single culture from all the merged organizations, and View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, firms in related industries, and associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate") in your 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I... View Details
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465064 August 2013 Institutional Logics in Action. Vol. 39B, Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series, edited by Michael Lounsbury and Eva... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
Consolidation and the Institutional Contingency of Professional Counter-Mobilization in US Banking Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury Periodical:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
sequencing choices. With whom should you speak first? Whom next? Rules of thumb such as "allies first" or "negotiate internally, then externally" are unreliable guides. Yet a more effective approach, the logic of... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research,... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations... View Details