...Maria Inês Fangueiro; Ricardo Hugo Gonzalez; Adérito Seixas; A. Rui Gomes Purpose Organizations seek leaders capable of providing competitive advantages in complex markets; however, recruiting leaders can be quite challenging, given that it is unclear which psychosocial characteristics...

...Pekka Aula Purpose This paper aims to discuss the emergence of corporate reputational risk in terms of social media, exploring its threats to and possibilities for organizations' strategic reputation management. Design/methodology/approach Reputation risk, the possibility...

...George S. Day; Paul J.H. Schoemaker Purpose The authors posit that most organizations lack sufficient capacity to detect, interpret and act on the critically important but weak and ambiguous signals of fresh threats or new opportunities that emerge on the periphery of their usual business...

... in capabilities to reach that level of competence are significant for most of the companies we studied: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Innovation Organizations Top‐performing global companies, much like their competitors, are banking on innovation to drive growth. But, unlike...

... Creative thinking Training Master of business administration Organizations Organizations inevitably decay when they fail to innovate, to apply creative solutions to the needs of the enterprise. Ironically, an organization's success often sows the seeds of its own destruction. As it grows...

... advantage Organizations Value added Twin paradoxes describe the twenty‐first‐century economy. Consumers have more choices that yield less satisfaction. Top management has more strategic options that yield less value. This emerging reality is forcing a reexamination of the traditional system...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Organizations Value added Partnership A decade ago, when C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel published Competing for the Future, widely recognized as one of the landmark strategy book of the 1990s, they aimed to redirect business leaders away from “catch‐up” concerns...

... component makers and solution integrators; less value for product design and assembly; (4) branding and customer relationships will differentiate commodity products; (5) collaborative networks will emerge; (6) global supply and global customers will mean global organizations; (7) competitors will encroach...

... a process to push shared service managers into value‐enhancing initiatives and strategies and how that process helped transform the company’s performance. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Management Strategy Human resource management Organizations Shared service functions such as finance and human...

..., but does not break in a hurricane[6].) 4. Recruit a team of world-class managers and allow them to "tend their own gardens." 5. Keep your organization structure very flat. (Akamai's senior managers report directly to the CEO, who sets a coherent context of purpose and principles...

.... Communities of practice can help with garden-variety communication problems such as: Coverage. How do you know that you've covered all the groups of people you need to reach, how do you select subsets of the whole organization,and how do you maintain distribution lists for them? It's...