Strategic Direction: Volume 30 Issue 11

Strategy lessons from the FIFA World Cup 2014

Lesson 1: Regions still matter and localization helps. Lesson 2: Innovate before your competence gets commoditized or neutralized by a counter strategy. Lesson 3: There is no ONE…

Nuts and bolts of team creativity: Critical evidence to achieve desired results

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Getting personal with employability: Transformational leadership’s innovative role

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Romance or realism in leadership?: What motivates aspiration to the top jobs?

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

When marketing misses a trick: Failure to spread word about firm’s successes

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Customers happy to buy apps: Link between store visit and phone purchasing

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Avoiding the perils of short-termism: Sustainable approach to performance management

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Easy way to Facebook success: Brands need to focus on trouble-free use

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Developing a global mindset: Ford’s road to effective leadership

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Reading between the tweets: Using Twitter to identify customer needs

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Service providers and innovation: Adding value from outsourced business processes

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Getting closer to the customer: Social media and communication

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Profiting from innovation: How to maximize rent

– This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Amey employees go to work with a smile: Well-being program focuses on emotional as well as physical health

The paper aims to observe how the well-being program at public-service infrastructure provider Amey is doing much more than reducing sickness absence; it is helping employees to…

Competitive horizons

Restructuring, organizational change and leadership: a European Multinational in India

Making Sense of Organizational Learning: Putting Theory into Practice

Collaborative Leadership: Building Relationships, Handling Conflict and Sharing Control (2nd ed.)