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CEO’s temporal focus and business model innovation in family firms under environmental dynamism

Business model innovation (BMI) is critical for firms’ long-term survival under environmental dynamism and depends heavily on CEOs’ cognition. While Socioemotional Wealth (SEW) explains why family CEOs may resist or engage in BMI, it largely assumes homogeneous responses under similar environmental conditions. Upper echelons theory (UET), in tur…

Family Business
By Muhammad Anwar, Matheus Franco, Thomas Clauss and Alfredo De Massis
in Long Range Planning
August 2026, vol. 59, no. 4, 102656, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102656
CEO’s temporal focus and business model innovation in family firms under environmental dynamism
By Muhammad Anwar Matheus Franco Thomas Clauss and Alfredo De Massis
in Long Range Planning August 2026, vol. 59, no. 4, 102656, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102656
Summary
Business model innovation (BMI) is critical for firms’ long-term survival under environmental dynamism and depends heavily on CEOs’ cognition. While Socioemotional Wealth (SEW) explains why family CEOs may resist or engage in BMI, it largely assumes homogeneous responses under similar environmental conditions. Upper echelons theory (UET), in tur…
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Exploring deglobalization effects on global innovation ecosystems, and the role of cosmo-localism

Over the past years profound changes in the public sentiment and policy environment suggest the beginning of a new era with reversal attitudes towards globalization. Deglobalization which is commonly defined as the process of decreasing interdependence among nations has recently become the focus of scholarly attention with particular interest on…

Global Business
By Ioanna Stylianou, Michael Christofi, Karolina Sallaku and Alfredo De Massis
in Technovation
August 2026, vol. 156, 103640, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103640
Exploring deglobalization effects on global innovation ecosystems, and the role of cosmo-localism
By Ioanna Stylianou Michael Christofi Karolina Sallaku and Alfredo De Massis
in Technovation August 2026, vol. 156, 103640, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103640
Summary
Over the past years profound changes in the public sentiment and policy environment suggest the beginning of a new era with reversal attitudes towards globalization. Deglobalization which is commonly defined as the process of decreasing interdependence among nations has recently become the focus of scholarly attention with particular interest on…
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“China shock 3.0” is coming. And it’ll be AI-powered robots

The world’s attention is fixed on frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, but China’s robot-making factories deserve just as much attention. Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has predicted that robots would ultimately replace its 700,000 delivery workers, while workers at South Korean carmaker Hyundai are threatening strike action over iss…

Artificial Intelligence
By Mark J. Greeven
in South China Morning Post
5 July 2026
“China shock 3.0” is coming. And it’ll be AI-powered robots
By Mark J. Greeven
in South China Morning Post 5 July 2026
Summary
The world’s attention is fixed on frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, but China’s robot-making factories deserve just as much attention. Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has predicted that robots would ultimately replace its 700,000 delivery workers, while workers at South Korean carmaker Hyundai are threatening strike action over iss…
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