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Adoption of artificial intelligence: A TOP framework-based checklist for digital leaders Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Aizhan Tursunbayeva, Hila Chaluz-Ben Gal
In the evolving digital landscape, organizations and leaders face increasing pressure to adopt and effectively utilize artificial intelligence (AI), which is steadily entering the management, work, and organizational ecosystems and enabling digital transformations. We observe AI-based applications assisting employees in daily tasks, project management, decision-making, and collaboration. But the successful
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Leadership in the metaverse: Building and integrating digital capabilities Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ilaria Mancuso, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Andrea Urbinati, Kurt Matzler
To master a digital technology such as the metaverse, firms have to build and integrate new capabilities, while leaders have to comprehend the strategic factors ensuring this technology will translate into business success. Through a multiple-case study enriched by interviews with prominent experts in the field, we explore (1) how firms can build and integrate digital and organizational capabilities
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Transformative leadership competencies for organizational digital transformation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Giovanni Schiuma, Francesco Santarsiero, Daniela Carlucci, Yasar Jarrarb
Despite the flourishing literature on digital transformation (DT), there is still less research on the human side of DT—particularly on leaders’ competencies required to successfully trigger and drive organizational transformation in the context of the digital age. The human-centric approach and the leadership role are essential to understanding how organizations navigate DT by integrating digital-based
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Mastering hybrid worlds through digital leadership: The role of agility in fostering innovation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Paola Bellis, Matteo Cunial, Daniel Trabucchi
We live in a complex and hybrid world in which the digital and physical realms have never been so closely intertwined. Managerial practices are increasingly merging to give rise to more agile approaches that align with the world we inhabit. In this study, we explore the case of xFarm, a scaleup that has developed a unique form of digital leadership to manage the innovation process. This approach allows
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A phenomenological learning approach to leading digitalization Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Rikke Bach
Existing theory in the field of digital leadership describes many different skills that leaders need to possess to succeed in leading digitalization. By exploring existing theories and engaging qualitatively with leaders in practice, this article identifies a gap between the skills the theory dictates leaders should possess and the skills leaders possess in practice. In practice, the number of skills
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The digital transformation canvas: A conceptual framework for leading the digital transformation process Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Gianluca Elia, Gianluca Solazzo, Antonio Lerro, Federico Pigni, Christopher L. Tucci
Digital transformation has garnered significant interest within the research and business communities and has become an umbrella concept to address the multiple technological, strategic, operational, and leadership dimensions involved in digitally enabled organizational renewal. Such transformation spans beyond mere automation of existing practices to a radical change of the business scope. Despite
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The characteristics of digital transformation leadership: Theorizing the practitioner voice Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Pat McCarthy, David Sammon, Ibrahim Alhassan
Digital Transformation (DT) is more than simply integrating a new digital technology into the organization. Despite a growing volume of research, however, there is little coverage of the characteristics of Digital Transformation leadership. Using a grounded approach, where 16 practitioner voices are central to the theorizing output, we present 10 DT leadership characteristics. Each characteristic links
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The role of digital leaders’ emotional intelligence in mitigating employee technostress Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Titiana Ertiö, Taina Eriksson, Wendy Rowan, Stephen McCarthy
Digital leadership involves dealing with complex challenges and anticipating trends that arise from emerging technologies. Amid the accelerated pace of digital transformation, consequences such as technostress have become apparent to organizations and their leaders. (EI) is an essential characteristic for enabling digital leaders to hone the necessary skills to lessen employees’ technostress by developing
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Why is progress toward diverse representation so slow? Contrasting management practices’ prevalence versus effectiveness for achieving diverse representation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Traci Sitzmann, Shoshana Schwartz
While a proliferation of management practices have been implemented in organizations in recent decades to create equitable and high performing workforces, there has been little to no progress toward diverse managerial representation during this timeframe. Our review contrasts the effectiveness of management practices for increasing diverse representation in management with how often these practices
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How organizations can innovate with generative AI Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jonny Holmström, Noel Carroll
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to have a profound influence on businesses across all sectors. Specifically, generative AI is set to underpin the development of potent and novel capabilities, ushering in a new wave of innovation. For example, there has been massive hype surrounding the launch of ChatGPT, with growing speculation regarding its disruptive nature of generative AI for organizations
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Explaining Gen Z's desire for hybrid work in corporate, family, and entrepreneurial settings Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 María Lucila Osorio, Sergio Madero
As the current future workforce, Generation Z provides unique advantages and challenges for the contemporary workplace. To harness its full potential, employers need to adapt their practices to accommodate the preferences of these workers, such as flexible work arrangements and work–life balance, and thereby tap into this generation’s wellspring of talent with an enhanced employee value proposition
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Pledging of shares by controlling shareholders and implications for foreign institutional investors Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nupur Pavan Bang, Nandil Bhatia, Sougata Ray, Kavil Ramachandran
Offering shares as collateral (share pledging) to avail of business or personal loans has increasingly been used as a financing tool by controlling shareholders in developing economies such as India. With the focus on protecting the rights of minority shareholders, pledging of shares has been subject to scrutiny as academicians, regulators, and corporate governance experts have highlighted the detrimental
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Managing foreign business operations in Ukraine in the context of war Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Anatoliy Kostruba
The development of foreign businesses is crucial for any nation's prosperity, including Ukraine, because they bring in valuable investments, international expertise, job opportunities for citizens, tax revenue, and industry growth. However, after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, almost all foreign business operations were suspended . Currently, although businesses, including
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Inside front cover - ed board Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-29
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The power, process, and potential of mapping An entrepreneurial ecosystem Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Brian J. Bergman
Fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), the set of actors and factors coordinated to encourage entrepreneurial activity and innovation in a particular city or region, has become a focal point in contemporary economic development policy. However, cultivating an EE is hard work, especially in places that are under-resourced or typically not associated with entrepreneurship and innovation. This can
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Increasing the practical relevance of management research: In honor of Timothy T. Baldwin Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ernest H. O’Boyle, Martin Götz, Damian C. Zivic
As applied fields, management, industrial-organizational psychology, and related disciplines seek to make their knowledge relevant to business practitioners. But the current dissemination model is inefficient, leading some to conclude that the gap between academics and practitioners poses one of the most pressing problems in management today. Using insights derived from the life and work of Timothy
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Amish brain gain: Building thriving rural communities through a creation perspective toward work Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Blake D. Mathias, Haley Hutto, Trenton Alma Williams
The mass mechanization of farming, coupled with the push to go away for college, has led to rural communities losing many of their most educated and talented workers. This trend, referred to as brain drain, has resulted in rural communities suffering significant population declines and an array of social problems. But one set of rural communities has greatly deviated from this trend: Amish communities
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Transferring informal learning: The role of manager support in linking learning to performance Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Brian D. Blume, J. Kevin Ford, Jason L. Huang
Organizations face increasing demand for employees to develop their skills, and managers play an important role in supporting employees’ learning and development. In contrast to the large body of research evidence on formal training, the emerging findings on informal learning have yet to provide managers with the necessary guidance to support employees’ informal learning activities. Adopting a coaching
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Punishing the good? How to minimize an unfair CSR-washing label Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Ursula M. Martin, Urusha Thapa, Herman Aguinis
Many businesses engage genuinely in corporate social responsibility (CSR). But others engage in CSR-washing: using social concerns for financial gain and the distortion of internal practices to project the image of CSR to stakeholders. Unfair CSR-washing happens when a company is accused of being a CSR-washer despite having made significant and genuine efforts to address social or environmental issues
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Building professor-student rapport: A model, survey findings, and implications for practicing professors Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Lisa Burke-Smalley, Andrea R. Neely, Eleanor Bryant
This article is about bolstering professor-student rapport (PSR) in business education. Specifically, we integrate relevant published works to advance a model of PSR that includes literature-supported concepts and some examples from Tim, a master rapport builder. We surveyed students in a southeastern university to gain qualitative inputs that we use to refine our conceptual model (n = 75) and present
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Entrepreneurial leadership: Putting the “U” in team Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Daniel R. Clark, Kyle Bradley
Entrepreneurial firms, due to their size and limited resources, are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent. These challenges place the firm’s survival and success in jeopardy, as they waste resources on talent management and operate amid talent shortfalls. Simply put, in the scale-up phase, managing talent could be the most important activity entrepreneurs
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Celebrating the work and the spirit of Tim Baldwin Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Greg Fisher
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Not just for play: Why the metaverse should be leveraged for co-creation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yuna Kim
Co-creation acknowledges consumers as collaborators rather than mere recipients of products. While Web-based platforms have facilitated the co-creation process by enabling firms to interact with a large number of consumers directly, continuously, and in real-time, this article proposes that the metaverse, which refers to an interconnected network of virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously
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How to prevent and minimize DEI backfire Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Lauryn Burnett, Herman Aguinis
Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives is an ongoing process that poses benefits and potential risks. One of the major challenges organizations face in implementing DEI initiatives is backfire, which occurs when well-intended initiatives result in unintended negative outcomes (e.g., discrimination against and decreased performance of members of underrepresented groups). Many
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Seven recommendations for managing projectification Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Steve Lovett, Taiwo Abraham, Joo Jung
Over the past half-century projects and project-based work have become more and more important to organizations. This may be inevitable due to the increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of our modern world. Many organizations routinely use project structures to develop new products, enter new markets, or upgrade IT systems, for example. A project is a set of tasks aimed at achieving
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Meeting load paradox: Balancing the benefits and burdens of work meetings Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Alexander C. Romney, Joseph A. Allen, Zahra Heydarifard
Work meetings are a significant part of individuals’ professional lives and have increasingly become a vehicle for organizations to get work accomplished. Recently virtual meetings have become a more prominent feature of employees’ work lives, and scholarly attention to the changing nature of work meeting dynamics has increased in parallel. Not surprisingly, these circumstances have increased the number
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Inside front cover - ed board Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-10-10
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Opening the floodgates:How big companies can reap the benefits of internal crowdfunding Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Claus P. Schöttl, Christian Homma, Tim G. Schweisfurth, Christina Raasch
Digital technologies enable employees at all levels to participate in distributed decision-making. We examine the design principles, benefits, and challenges of a new type of distributed decision-making: internal crowdfunding. We build on a five-year case study of internal crowdfunding contests at Siemens AG to deepen our understanding of the design principles of internal crowdfunding and its potential
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How business pivots during war: Lessons from Ukrainian companies’ responses to crisis Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Krzysztof Obłój, Roksolyana Voronovska
This article explores how large companies in Ukraine have been responding to the crisis caused by the war. We find that the core theories of managerial reaction to crisis—the threat-rigidity and contingency theories—aptly describe companies’ responses to the war, with the first theory explaining companies’ initial reactions, and the latter theory explaining the subsequent behaviors of companies as
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On your marks, headset, go! Understanding the building blocks of metaverse realms Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Brendan James Keegan, Ian P. McCarthy, Jan Kietzmann, Ana Isabel Canhoto
In 2011, Business Horizons published the social media honeycomb article to help managers and scholars understand what was, then, a new form of media, along with its various platforms and how to engage with and learn to use it. Today, we face similar challenges and opportunities with the metaverse as we try to discover how to attract, enable, serve, and capture value from users in the virtual world
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Evidence-based recommendations for recorded-meetings policies Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Stephen Carradini, Kristen Getchell, Peter Cardon, Carolin Fleischmann, Jolanta Aritz, James Stapp
Recordings of virtual meetings have become a common part of virtual and hybrid workplace environments. Meeting recordings offer potential benefits (e.g., speedy transcript production, expedited information sharing, searchable information, inclusion of visual and tonal expressions) and drawbacks (e.g., difficulty discussing sensitive issues, employee privacy, limited off-the-record capabilities, and
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Inside front cover - ed board Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-08-16
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Fighting fake reviews: Authenticated anonymous reviews using identity verification Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Aishwarya Deep Shukla, Jie Mein Goh
Fake reviews have become a pervasive problem in the realm of online commerce, affecting businesses and consumers alike. These fraudulent reviews can cause significant damage to the credibility of companies and negatively impact consumer welfare. While various platforms, such as Yelp and Amazon, have implemented measures to combat fake reviews, these efforts have been largely ineffective and, at times
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To write or not to write: That is the question Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Idalene F. Kesner
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Feel the churn: Exercising talent management practices to support a climate for career mobility Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Erin E. Makarius, Alison M. Dachner, Rebecca M. Paluch, Jenn Pedde
The rise of employee mobility over the past few decades has significant implications for both organizational performance and individual careers. The traditional organizational response aims to combat turnover with increased retention efforts, but we offer an alternative strategy. In this article, we suggest that organizations also support employee mobility by proactively implementing practices that
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Fear and the poverty entrepreneur: The paradox of failure and success Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Michael H. Morris, Donald F. Kuratko, Susana C. Santos, Sohab Soleimanof
When low-income and disadvantaged individuals start businesses—herein, poverty entrepreneurs—the experience of fear can be especially impactful on their behavior. In this article, we explore the role of fear as an obstacle and facilitator in both the launching and development of ventures by poverty entrepreneurs. Two primary fears are examined. The first, fear of failure, has been examined extensively
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Business Horizons: Behind the scenes Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Idalene F. Kesner
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Business Horizons Special Issue: Corporate Restructuring and Value Creation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-15
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Roll up, roll up, read on! How to sell like Stephen King Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Stephen Brown
One of the best known writers in the world today, Stephen King is a superstar storyteller. His story-selling skills are equally outstanding. With 65 chart-topping novels to his name, he knows everything there is to know about moving the merchandise in an overcrowded market. Irrepressibly irreverent, the rock ’n’ roll-inspired novelist is an outstanding “authorpreneur” whose achievements contain lessons
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Inside front cover - ed board Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-10
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Guidelines for sponsorship signaling within socially complex markets Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Hsin-Chen Lin, Patrick F. Bruning
Organizations use sponsorships to influence various marketing, financial, and public relations outcomes. Sponsorship communications occur in socially complex markets where messages diffuse quickly. Such messages are also widely accessible to and influenced by various audiences, which can be supportive, neutral, skeptical, or decisively antagonistic. These conditions require managers to adopt nuanced
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Lesson from Chopped Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Idalene F. Kesner
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Digital Davids, global Goliaths, and the Web3 sling Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Kaushik Gala
The Web 2.0 digital economy, centered on dominant platforms, generates substantial opportunities for managers and entrepreneurs yet creates critical dependencies. Platform-dependent businesses engage in competitive actions—rivalrous, competitive-cooperative, and relational—vis-à-vis digital platforms to gain a fair share of economic value. While the (supposedly) trustworthy custodians of digital data
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Business Horizons CIBER special issue: Turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) theory into action: Implications for global business leaders Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-23
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Embracing whistleblowing for enhanced firm self-regulation Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Daniel R. Clark
Whistleblowing is extraordinarily controversial because its occurrence is often reflective of fundamental failures in organizational governance, making leadership look bad. I argue that this perspective is shortsighted; rather, whistleblowing is a critical self-regulatory mechanism that, when properly actualized, protects asset value. I build on new research exploring a whistleblower orientation and
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Are you ready for the sustainable, biocircular economy? Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Donna Marshall, Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Andrea Prothero, Orlagh Reynolds, Enrico Secchi
With the effects of the climate crisis becoming more extreme, and in view of the urgent need to achieve sustainable development goals, managers, companies, and entire industries must embrace the sustainable, biocircular economy, enabling all stakeholders as well as our planet to thrive in this inevitable future. This article clarifies the emerging concept of sustainable biocircularity by showcasing
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Navigating the volatile world of digital entrepreneurship Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Henrik Wimelius, Johan Sandberg, Markus Olsson, Martin Gunhaga
Having secured venture capital for their startups, digital entrepreneurs face a critical transition to the postinvestment phase. They must evolve new organizational models and demonstrate their capacity to operate in the present while maintaining attention to the future. This transition unfolds in a hyperturbulent context in which rapid growth is crucial owing to competitive advantages from scale and
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Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2022 Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-28
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The paradoxical marketer: Interpretations, illustrations, and implications Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Carsten Lund Pedersen
Marketers face many daily dilemmas and conflicting consumer pressures. As such, there is a need for marketers to become more paradoxical in how they consider their roles. In other words, they must be able to combine two seemingly opposite forces in their marketing efforts. In this article, I suggest that marketers are being drawn into four distinct paradoxical roles: (1) authentic illusionist, (2)
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Democratizing artificial intelligence: How no-code AI can leverage machine learning operations Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Leif Sundberg, Jonny Holmström
Organizations are increasingly seeking to generate value and insights from their data by integrating advances in artificial intelligence (AI) (e.g., machine learning (ML) systems) into their operations. However, there are several managerial challenges associated with ML operations (MLOps). In this article, we outline three key challenges and discuss how an emerging type of AI platform—no-code AI—may
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Inside front cover - ed board Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-04-11
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The relationship between authors and reviewers: Love/hate or something more? Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Idalene F. Kesner
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The more they know: Using transparent online communication to combat fake online reviews Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Yiru Wang, César Zamudio, Robert D. Jewell
Technological advances and shifts in consumer preference continue to further the critical roles that digital platforms and online word-of-mouth play in organizational success. Within this context, a key concern is the growing proliferation of fake online reviews, which mislead consumers and damage businesses’ reputations, resulting in additional platform maintenance expenditures to curb this problem
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Sufficiency and the dematerialization of fashion: How digital substitutes are creating new market opportunities Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Sebastian Schauman, Sharon Greene, Oskar Korkman
The global fashion industry represents an over US $1 trillion market but is one of the most wasteful industries in the world. Digital fashion has the potential to decouple some crucial aspects of the fashion industry from their material requirements. Considering the growing interest around the metaverse, nonfungible tokens, the rapid evolution of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology
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Business Horizons Special Issue: Gender equity in business Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-22
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A new leadership challenge: Navigating political polarization in organizational teams Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mansour Javidan, Rick Cotton, Anirban Kar, Medha Satish Kumar, Peter W. Dorfman
In this article, we highlight an increasingly important issue in the workplace: the dysfunctional divide between employees of different political affiliations that results in reduced trust and heightened conflict. We provide evidence that differences in political views are having an increasingly corrosive effect on trust, interpersonal relations, and the very ability of teams—at all levels and in many
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Acquisitions of divested business units: A typology and strategies for success Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Patia J. McGrath, Hugh M. O’Neill
Acquisitions are notoriously difficult to execute successfully. Poor implementation of the postacquisition integration process is a major source of acquisition value destruction. To find new solutions for this vexing problem, we leverage the emerging, triadic view of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities, which emphasizes the interconnectedness between sellers, acquirers, and the units that are
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A practical guide to SEC financial reporting and disclosures for successful regulatory crowdfunding Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Zhuoli Axelton, Vallari Chandna
With the enactment of the long-awaited U.S. security-based crowdfunding regulations in May 2016, early-stage private companies can utilize regulatory crowdfunding to raise funds on digital platforms via multiple nonaccredited investors. To protect such small microinvestors and maintain market efficiency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires extensive disclosure information in filings
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Quality shareholders versus transient investors: The alarming case of product recalls Business Horizons (IF 10.562) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Catherine A. Helmuth, David J. Ketchen, Christopher W. Craighead, Kang Bok Lee, Brian L. Connelly
In this installment of Organizational Performance, we draw attention to two types of shareholders that tend to push executive decision-making in different directions. Quality shareholders (QSs) invest in a small number of companies and hold their shares over time. QSs offer patient capital that allows executives to focus on building and sustaining competitive advantages. Transient institutional investors