When it comes to solving big problems like climate change or creating cutting-edge innovations, collaboration among many organizations is crucial. However, these large-scale collaborations often fail because the different goals and interests of the organizations...
Image created by OpenAI WALL-E Multisided platforms are integral to the digital economy, connecting product or service providers (generally known as complementors) and consumers or users. These platforms thrive on “cross-side network effects”, where the platform’s...
Image credit: created with the assistance of DALL-E 2. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries, firms must strategically navigate the opportunities and risks it presents. Our recent study published in the Journal of Management Studies explores...
Navigating Compassion in Emotionally Demanding Contexts How do organizational members balance serving others while protecting themselves from emotionally taxing situations? How do they manage to sustain compassion over time? Navigating the contradictory needs of...
Summary Despite growing awareness of large-scale crises, understanding how organizations construct urgency in prolonged disasters remains limited. Our recent study, published in the Journal of Management Studies, explores the activities of the Robert Koch Institute...
We were happy when the authors of the Point essay invited us to respond to their call for a new, environmentally based, strategy paradigm. We enjoy lively dialogue and debate and believe that important insights often emerge challenging the conventional wisdom....
We welcome the chance to continue the dialogue with our colleagues in strategy. Although we think of ourselves primarily as organization theorists, we have at least passing familiarity with the field of strategic management and what it teaches. We share the concerns...
In our essay “Strategy Can No Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy’s Ecological Fallacy” (Bansal et. al., we argue that the field of Strategy has contributed to the planetary crisis, including particularly climate change and loss of...
Our article examines the market entry process of the first Islamic bank in Germany, particularly its interactions with regulatory agencies and other societal actors. When an organization enters a new market with a novel value proposition and business model, it often...
Photo credit: Mari Ovaska ‘Business as usual’ has downsides. When nature gets damaged beyond repair, entire ecosystems collapse. The tragedy of commons is no longer a hypothetical to prevent, but a reality we need to accept. Or change! Our new study...