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Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Ryann Noe
This study reveals how incumbent actors leverage physical place as source of differentiation in response to the threat of digital commoditization. Through a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the U.S. independent bookselling industry from 1995 to 2019, we outline... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Place Making; Bookstores; Industry Evolution; Digital; Commoditization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Distribution Channels; Civil Society or Community; Value Creation; Retail Industry
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Ryann Noe. "Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores." Administrative Science Quarterly (in press). (Pre-published online May 3, 2025.)
- January 14, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There." The Atlantic (January 14, 2021).
- 2014
- Chapter
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Agglomeration; Clusters; Place Making; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; United States
Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 129–166. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- 01 Jan 1980
- Conference Presentation
The Impact of Public and Private Institutional Policies on Families: The Work Place
By: R. M. Kanter and A. R. Cohen
- 16 Jun 2015
- News
Is The Happiest Place On Earth Only For The Richest Kid In Town?
- 30 Nov 2023
- News
Coca-Cola Is the Best Place to Work to Get Ahead in Your Career
- June 2010 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Piramal e-Swasthya (A): Attempting Big Changes for Small Places - in India and Beyond
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Anand Piramal and his team sought to "democratize healthcare" in India through the development of a new service delivery model. If Henry Ford could build and deliver cars to everyone in the United States, Piramal thought, then why can't India deliver healthcare to the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; India
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Matthew Bird. "Piramal e-Swasthya (A): Attempting Big Changes for Small Places - in India and Beyond." Harvard Business School Case 310-134, June 2010. (Revised December 2019.)
- 2001
- Chapter
From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Placing Dominant Designs in Social Context
By: J. Murmann and M. Tushman
Murmann, J., and M. Tushman. "From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Placing Dominant Designs in Social Context." In The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: The Origins of Entrepreneurship and Its Role in Industry Evolution, edited by K. Schoonhoven and E. Romanelli, 178–203. Stanford University Press, 2001.
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Why real-life places still matter in the age of texting and Twitter
- May 2011 (Revised December 2019)
- Teaching Note
Piramal e-Swasthya (A): Attempting Big Changes for Small Places - in India and Beyond
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for 311132. View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Reddest Place North of Havana: The Tricontinental and the Struggle to Lead the 'Third World’
By: Jeremy Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy. "Reddest Place North of Havana: The Tricontinental and the Struggle to Lead the 'Third World’." Chap. 7 in The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War, edited by R. Joseph Parrott and Mark Atwood Lawrence. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- 2012
- Book
All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World
By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
Quelch, John A., and Katherine E. Jocz. All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
- August 2021
- Supplement
Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism: Zita Cobb, Founder and CEO
By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 320-098. In 2006, Zita Cobb and two of her brothers, Alan Cobb and Tony Cobb, native Newfoundlanders, launched Shorefast to help grow another leg of Fogo Island’s economy. Like so many rural communities, Fogo Island’s fate was tied... View Details
Keywords: Place Making; Nonprofit; Hotel; Economic Development; Tourism; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Development Economics; Economic Systems; Tourism Industry; Canada
Trelstad, Brian. "Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism: Zita Cobb, Founder and CEO." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 322-701, August 2021.