The challenge facing incipient digital platform ecosystems The success and proliferation of digital platforms like Uber and Amazon are increasingly inspiring entrepreneurs to build new ventures on similar lines. Despite the prominent success stories, there exists a...
The challenges our society faces ahead are undeniably substantial and unrelenting. Increasingly, the role of private organizations and businesses has exceeded the one of economic value creation for its shareholders, to include the creation of non-economic value—e.g.,...
Chance favours the prepared mind only. - Louis Pasteur Why would a team or project incentivised to do X change their ways to do Y? More broadly, how and why would a firm change towards a goal that has no direct incentive to pursue? We asked these questions in a recent...
Innovative projects spearheaded by United Nations (UN) country offices are remodeling the institution and expanding its role. Digital initiatives and initiatives that scaled through headquarters were shown to have the strongest impact, changing ways of working,...
Gro Kvåle and Zuzana Murdoch The company we keep is often perceived to say a lot about who we are and what we stand for. Whenever we voluntarily interact with a certain person or organization, this can be interpreted by those around us as a tacit expression of...
Source: Bradley Pisney (unsplash.com) What was the motivation of the research team? In their individual roles and from their different perspectives all members of our research team are currently investigating digitalization and digital transformation activities of...
Large corporations represent complex and dynamic ecologies in which strategic ventures compete for organizational resources and managerial attention. This creates unique challenges for managers when trying to establish new internal ventures and to make these part a...
Digitalization of interorganizational relationships Societies experience growing levels of connectivity and computing power, which have led to the emergence of a phenomenon broadly referred to as “Industrial Internet” or the “4th Industrial Revolution”. In an attempt...
Sean T. Hsu andSusan K. Cohen Disruptive Innovation and the Incumbent Dilemma We have entered an era of continual disruption in which incumbents’ inabilities to successfully appraise disruptive innovations have contributed to their shrinking average lifespan....
David King, Olimpia Meglio, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Florian Bauer and Alfredo De Massis Family firms and restructuring There is an intuitive appeal that family firms display peculiarities in general and that this also affects their restructuring behavior. Family firms are...