Publications des institutions partenaires
Strategy processes and practices: Dialogues and intersection
Building on our review of the strategy process and practice research, we identify three ways to see the relationships between the two research traditions: complementary, critical, and combinatory views. We adopt in this special issue the combinatory view, in which activities and processes are seen as closely intertwined aspects of the same phenomena. It is this view that we argue...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2018
The climate for entrepreneurship at higher education institutions
While the importance of a supportive context for entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged, its antecedents are rarely investigated. We apply the concept of organizational climate to higher education institutions and examine the drivers of students’ perceptions of the entrepreneurial climate in their university. Combining data from two unique datasets and using multilevel techniques,...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2018
Overcoming constraints of collective imagination: An inquiry into activist entrepreneuring, disruptive truth-telling and the creation of ‘possible worlds’
This article introduces ‘activist entrepreneuring’ to suggest a fresh understanding of en- trepreneuring which foregrounds how constraints of imagination are removed through critical speech. Specifically, we link Michel Foucault's work on parrhesia, or courageous speech, and various literatures on (utopian) imagination to discuss ‘disruptive truth-telling’ as the generative...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Efficiency Versus Effectiveness in Hospitals: A Dynamic Simulation Approach
Hospitals provide highly sophisticated services, but they are largely
steered by means of simplistic management models, which do not match the complexities faced by these organizations. The design of management models in hospitals and public organizations at large shows a bend toward reductionism. The reductionism of these models is rooted in their short-termism, and in the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Problematizing Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms: A Systems-Theoretical Reframing
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Communication and attention dynamics: An attention-based view of strategic change
The attention-based view (ABV) has highlighted the role of organizational attention in strategic decision making and adaptation. The tendency to view communication channels as “pipes and prisms” for information processing has, however, limited its ability to address strategic change. We propose a broader role for communication as a process by which actors can attend to and engage...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Third-Party Logistics Providers in the Digital Age: Towards a New Competitive Arena?
This paper looks at the impact of digitalization on third-party logistics (3PL) business models. An eclectic framework for the analysis of digital disruptions in service industries is elaborated by linking Porter’s five forces to insights from research on digitalization and innovation. Applying this framework to the business field of 3PL reveals that logistics service providers face...
Institution partenaire
English / 04/11/2017
Managerial Decision Making in Open Innovation: The Effect of Individual Hierarchy Level on the Evaluation of Customers’ and Employee’s ideas
The present research deals with the influence of managers’ construal level on evaluations of customers and employee’s ideas in innovation contexts. While prior research found one’s situational construal level associated with creativity and feasibility ratings of ideas, we provide theory and evidence to suggest that the true hierarchy level of managers can alter evaluations of ideas...
Institution partenaire
English / 29/09/2017
Disruption at the Door: A Taxonomy on Subscription Models in Retailing
Subscription models have become a popular new way for consumers to
do their shopping. This paper presents a taxonomy of the three main
archetypes of subscription models and develops a classification scheme
with type-specific features relevant to their successful management.
An implementation framework offers managers a guideline to introduce
subscription...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
Responsible Practices are Culturally Embedded: Theoretical Considerations on Industry-Specific Corporate Social Responsibility
In this paper, we develop our argument in three steps: Firstly, we elaborate on some theoretical perspectives for industry-specific CSR by referring to cultural business ethics, a theoretical approach which is located between purely business perspectives and purely normative perspectives on CSR. Secondly, we briefly introduce the papers of this special issue, which covers a wide...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/07/2017
Responsible Practices are Culturally Embedded: Theoretical Considerations on Industry-Specific Corporate Social Responsibility
In this paper, we develop our argument in three steps: Firstly, we elaborate on some theoretical perspectives for industry-specific CSR by referring to cultural business ethics, a theoretical approach which is located between purely business perspectives and purely normative perspectives on CSR. Secondly, we briefly introduce the papers of this special issue, which covers a wide...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/07/2017
Brand Disruption: Decoding the Contingency of Clashing Stakeholders
The present research project aims to overcome conventional branding theories assuming brand meanings to be under exclusive control by the legal brand owners. Due to the utilization of a practice-theoretical perspective systematic understanding on how and why unintended brand meanings emerge is pursued. The two distinct brand cases Birkenstock and NewBalance are investigated to study...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/07/2017
The triple space of the experimental: A conceptual contribution along and beyond H.-J. Rheinberger
While experimentation is an increasingly popular topic to explore organizational becoming, profound conceptualizations of experimentation are still missing. The paper explores experimentation by drawing up on different conceptual and empirical resources and suggests that experimentation occurs in a triple experimental space. Through reviewing literature on experimentation in Art...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/07/2017
Resource Integration and Value Co-Creation: Evidence from the Energy Sector
Institution partenaire
English / 18/06/2017
Are family firms good employers?
Family firms employ about 60 percent of the global workforce. While it is widely assumed that they are good employers, data about their conduct is mixed. In this study, we extend stewardship and agency theories to test competing propositions about the impact of family on employment practices using data from 14,961 private Belgian firms over a 19-year period. Higher investments, lower...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/06/2017
Practitioner perspectives on supply chain management and logistics: a study from Poland and Switzerland
Purpose
The focus of this paper is the evolution of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics and the relationship between these concepts. Its purpose is to generate deep insights into practice, particularly in relation to the fundamental issue of how practitioners from different industrial and geographical contexts define the supply chain, SCM and logistics.
Design/...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2017
Beyond possession and competition: Investigating cooperative aspects of power in multilingual organizations.
This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/04/2017
Collaborative aspects of buying business services – a structural equation model
The focus of this research is to observe the purchaser integration within business service procurement and its impact on the collaboration with both internal customers and external service providers (suppliers). Therefore, different service types were examined in more detail occurring as a contingent factor. Based on structural equation modelling, partial least square analysis (PLS)...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/04/2017
Video: The New Rules of Communication
Although video communication offers the potential to engage with employees and consumers, many established firms adopt video as a new communication medium quite slowly and with little enthusiasm. Based on our experience with leading national and international firms, we introduce a four step approach to help companies in adopting a video communication strategy, summarize the main...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/04/2017
Blockchain-driven supply chain finance: Towards a conceptual framework from a buyer perspective
The main objective of this article is to develop a conceptual framework for blockchain-driven supply chain finance (SCF) solutions. The frame of reference intends to foster the coordination in buyer-supplier relations and eliminates existing inefficiencies in the execution of discrete SCF-instruments, such as reverse factoring and dynamic discounting. Moreover, we introduce value...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/04/2017
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