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Article Family Business Innovation Human Resources Competitiveness
Employee incentives and family firm innovation: A configurational approach
According to family business theory and practice, family firms often face a paradoxical tension between their anchorage to the past and the need to renew and innovate to remain competitive, which often hampers innovation. Given that innovation is inherently a social process that depends on the knowledge and creativity of an organization’s people…
18th EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht Best Paper Award on Innovation, Transformation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
By Elisa Villani Christian Linder Alfredo De Massis and Kimberly A. Eddleston
in Journal of Management 9 March 2023, ePub before print, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231157323
Employee incentives and family firm innovation: A configurational approach
Employee incentives and family firm innovation: A configurational approach
By Elisa Villani Christian Linder Alfredo De Massis and Kimberly A. Eddleston
in Journal of Management 9 March 2023, ePub before print, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231157323
Summary
According to family business theory and practice, family firms often face a paradoxical tension between their anchorage to the past and the need to renew and innovate to remain competitive, which often hampers innovation. Given that innovation is inherently a social process that depends on the knowledge and creativity of an organization’s people…
18th EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht Best Paper Award on Innovation, Transformation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
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Article Social Innovation
Stakeholder governance for responsible innovation: A theory of value creation, appropriation, and distribution
In the face of intractable societal grand challenges, organizations increasingly resort to responsible innovation – that is, they pledge to create value for multiple stakeholders through developing new products or services that avoid doing harm and improve conditions for people and the planet. While the link between responsible innovation and so…
Journal of Management Studies 2022 Best Paper Award
By Sophie Bacq and Ruth V. Aguilera
in Journal of Management Studies July 2021, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 29-60, https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12746
Stakeholder governance for responsible innovation: A theory of value creation, appropriation, and distribution
Stakeholder governance for responsible innovation: A theory of value creation, appropriation, and distribution
By Sophie Bacq and Ruth V. Aguilera
in Journal of Management Studies July 2021, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 29-60, https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12746
Summary
In the face of intractable societal grand challenges, organizations increasingly resort to responsible innovation – that is, they pledge to create value for multiple stakeholders through developing new products or services that avoid doing harm and improve conditions for people and the planet. While the link between responsible innovation and so…
Journal of Management Studies 2022 Best Paper Award
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Professors honored by The Case Centre among the top 50 best-selling case authors (2022/2023)
Kamran Kashani
Kamran Kashani
Emeritus Professor
Peter Killing
Peter Killing
Emeritus Professor
Dominique Turpin
Dominique Turpin
Emeritus Professor
Stefan Michel
Stefan Michel
Professor
Case Study Sustainability Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
OCP: Liberating energy to create sustainable growth
The case focuses on the transformation of OCP, a state-owned monopoly that mined and exploited Morocco’s phosphate reserves. By 2021 it had become an organization with a mission to contribute to the sustainability of food security as the custodians of 70% of the world’s phosphate reserves. Phosphate is one of three vital ingredients in fertilize…
The Case Hub at Suliman S. Olayan School of Business Annual Case Writing Competition – First Place
By Heather Cairns-Lee and Tawfik Jelassi
Case reference: IMD-7-2330 ©2022
OCP: Liberating energy to create sustainable growth
Article Family Business Sustainability Leadership
Women can help family firms innovate – but socioemotional factors matter
Around Europe and elsewhere, the number of women in leadership roles is going up, and they are having a measurable impact on innovation and profits. Many researchers have found that having more women in top management, such as boards of directors, can increase innovation. Women can offer different perspectives than men and contribute to top mana…
2023 Schulze Publication Award
By Jonathan Bauweraerts Emanuela Rondi Paola Rovelli Alfredo De Massis and Salvatore Sciascia
in Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange 8 September 2022
Women can help family firms innovate – but socioemotional factors matter
Women can help family firms innovate – but socioemotional factors matter
By Jonathan Bauweraerts Emanuela Rondi Paola Rovelli Alfredo De Massis and Salvatore Sciascia
in Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange 8 September 2022
Summary
Around Europe and elsewhere, the number of women in leadership roles is going up, and they are having a measurable impact on innovation and profits. Many researchers have found that having more women in top management, such as boards of directors, can increase innovation. Women can offer different perspectives than men and contribute to top mana…
2023 Schulze Publication Award
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Article Family Business Strategy
Using family history for competitive advantage
Family businesses often have dense histories interweaving both the family and the business and involving more than just the past. Our recent study (Ge, De Massis & Kotlar, 2022), shows that family businesses, even new ones where past generations are not involved, can use the family’s past to create competitive advantages in the present. The key …
2023 Schulze Publication Award
By Bingbing Ge Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar
in Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange 3 June 2022
Using family history for competitive advantage
Using family history for competitive advantage
By Bingbing Ge Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar
in Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange 3 June 2022
Summary
Family businesses often have dense histories interweaving both the family and the business and involving more than just the past. Our recent study (Ge, De Massis & Kotlar, 2022), shows that family businesses, even new ones where past generations are not involved, can use the family’s past to create competitive advantages in the present. The key …
2023 Schulze Publication Award
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Report Organizational Learning Organizational Transformation
The LEGO Group & IMD: Building the leadership playground
In 2017, the LEGO Group’s sales had stalled after more than a decade of strong growth. The challenging external retail environment was expected to continue. Internally there was stagnation stemming from a weakened innovation drive and lack of focused delivery. Something had to change: The 90-year-old family-owned business needed to empower its …
EFMD Excellence in Practice 2023 Gold Award
By John R. Weeks and Nancy Lane
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2023
The LEGO Group & IMD: Building the leadership playground
Case Study Sustainability Communication Leadership
“Carbon is the new calorie”: Logitech’s carbon impact label to drive transparency in sustainability
This topical case covers the period from 2019 to 2022, when Prakash Arunkundrum, head of global operations and sustainability at Logitech, was focusing on reducing the company’s carbon footprint. It recounts how he and his team gained internal support to embark on an ambitious carbon labeling initiative and created a transparent methodology to a…
2022 EFMD Case Writing Competition Award – Responsible Leadership
By Julia Katharina Binder and Heather Cairns-Lee
Case reference: IMD-7-2416 ©2022
“Carbon is the new calorie”: Logitech’s carbon impact label to drive transparency in sustainability
Case Study Sustainability Social Innovation Entrepreneurship Strategy
Angaza: A Silicon Valley journey
Angaza’s story is not a typical solar light story, but the story of a female social entrepreneur with a for-profit Silicon Valley mindset transforming a social enterprise from a hardware to a software business model. It is about pivots, changing value propositions, and new products and business models as Angaza evolves to escalate social impact …
2021 EFMD Case Writing Competition Award – African Business Cases; 2023 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards – Highly Commended
Best-selling Case Study
By Vanina Farber and Shih-Han Huang
Case reference: IMD-7-2114 ©2020
Case Study Sustainability Entrepreneurship Strategy Supply Chain Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Lionheart Agrotech Limited, the holding company of Lionheart Farms is developing a large-scale sustainable hybrid coconut plantation with integrated processing and manufacturing capacities in the Philippines. The case describes the idea of the founders, their journey, the challenges they met and how they solved them. The case explores the key c…
2023 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards – Highly Commended
By Benoit F. Leleux Anna Ziolkovska Jose Mora Said Chekri and Thibaud de Veyrac
Case reference: IMD-7-2282 ©2022
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Case Study Family Business Sustainability Supply Chain Strategy Operations
Dachser (A): Intelligent logistics
The case, based on extensive interviews with top executives and two generations of Dachser family owners, documents the genesis and spectacular growth of the global logistics specialist, a group that now has close to 400 locations on all five continents and employs 30,000+ people. Despite its global footprint, Dachser stayed loyal to both its co…
Selected for the 2023 Schlesinger Global Family Enterprise Case Competition
By Benoit F. Leleux and Marta Widz
Case reference: IMD-7-2313 ©2022
Dachser (A): Intelligent logistics
Case Study Digital Disruption Entrepreneurship
Celonis: Building a lean digital ecosystem
To maintain its position as the category leader in process mining and execution management, Celonis needed to be able to facilitate – or even automate – corrective measures on these processes to edge closer to process mining nirvana, i.e. a fully automated, intelligent and real-time execution management system (EMS). But how to determine the rig…
2023 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – 3rd Prize
By Carlos Cordon Benoit F. Leleux and Marc Chauvet
Case reference: IMD-7-2286 ©2022
Celonis: Building a lean digital ecosystem
Report Sustainability Strategy
Winning sustainability strategies
As the expectations on corporate responsibility increase, and as transparency becomes more prevalent, companies are recognizing the need to act on sustainability. Professional communications and good intentions are no longer enough. Winning Sustainability Strategies helps executives aiming to create a thriving, sustainable future for their busin…
Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Gold Award – Best Advance in Education Delivered Through Technology
By Benoit F. Leleux Jan Van der Kaaij Christine Weinmann Catherine Agamis Robbie Cairns and Paul Hunter
December 2022
Winning sustainability strategies
Report Organizational Learning Organizational Transformation
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
Norway’s financial services group DNB entered the 2020s on a high note of best-ever quarterly performance; a highly diverse workforce; and great strides in rolling out innovative services. Nonetheless, its top management was conscious that the company needed to strengthen the way it collaborated along functional and divisional lines. The chal…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2022 Silver Award
By Ina Toegel and Martin Králik
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
Report Organizational Learning Organizational Transformation Talent Management
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond. An ambitious next level talent development program
In 2018, OCP Group – the Moroccan-based world leader in plant nutrition and phosphate industry, and one of the most important employers of the private sector in the country – was a decade into an ambitious transformation program to capture higher value-added downstream business opportunities. To achieve its growth ambitions, it needed to develop…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2022 Gold Award
By Bettina Büchel and Nancy Lane
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond. An ambitious next level talent development program
Book Strategy
ALIEN thinking: The unconventional path to breakthrough ideas
How do people come up with truly original ideas? For the past decade, the authors of this book have studied individuals who have made leaps of creativity-inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and artists-and concluded that there are five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns-Attention, Levita…
The Business Book Awards 2022 – Highly commended
By Cyril Bouquet Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael R. Wade
Published By PublicAffairs ©2021
ALIEN thinking: The unconventional path to breakthrough ideas