In today’s business environment, progressive companies want their leaders to act ethically and set a viable example that encourages their followers to do the same. In some parts of the world, however, it is often better to let your actions speak for you, rather than...
The problem: who is worthy of trust when performance is hard to measure, and opportunism is easy to hide? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn noted in The Gulag Archipelago,“the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political...
Knowledge in multinationals travels not only from but also to headquarters. Expatriation involves employees from the headquarters (HQ) of a multinational company (MNC) undertaking an international assignment in a foreign subsidiary, usually with the aim to develop...
After more than a century of globalization, the key question by management scholars and corporate executives has broadened from how multinational enterprises (MNEs) enter new markets to a focus on how established subsidiaries remain competitive and influential over...
ABC, a digital startup from Estonia, was selected as the preferred supplier in a procurement contest for delivering a customer relationship management (CRM) system. The entire team was thrilled about this opportunity as it was the first time they had secured interest...
It has long been established by management science that organizations that are able to combine and integrate employee expertise across organizational unit boundaries have a competitive edge over those organizations where knowledge remains locked in organizational...
Almost every aspect of life has changed in some way over the last two years, and the motivation for circular economy (CE) is no exception. Just two years ago, the nascent interest in circular economy was primarily motivated by pressure to reduce natural resource...
Managers distill their experience into simple rules. Top managers distill the lessons they learn into easy to remember simple rules that guide important aspects of their activity. Ray Dalio even wrote a best-selling book titled Principles: Life and Work, in which he...
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank is the leading venue for settling investment disputes between foreign firms and host governments. According to the ICSID database, the number of cases presented before ICSID has...
Celebrities are increasingly important actors in social disputes, with their high public profiles used to amplify political campaigns and businesses using celebrity endorsements to promote their brands and justify their actions. Celebrities are particularly prominent...