Purpose The three authors of this paper are intrigued by ideas and how they are created. The purpose of this paper is to explore idea creation and work by means of remote collaborative autoethnography. Design/methodology/approach During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, the authors sent texts to...

Ours is an argument for ideas that become us. Illustratory is a statement by a well-known management author who lamented the difficulty of “escaping one’s past ideas”. Viewing himself a prisoner, his past published ideas had devoured him: they limited his ability to imagine or credibly...

Few firms can be said to be truly resilient by sustaining high performance for a long time. We draw on a case study of a large U.S.-based retailer to explore how an organization develops resilience – the ability to recover quickly from environmental jolts or misfortunes. The company's CEO,...

Die Dissertation untersucht den Strategieentwicklungsansatz bei der Siemens AG anhand eines vom Autor entwickelten Bezugsrahmens für innovative Strategieentwicklung.

In this proposal a cluster of questions will be dealt with, which have arisen in the kick off workshop of the competence centre. Specifically, we have combined the elements Boundaries and M&A Integration, because of the fact that we have seen inmany cases, that when you are dealing with...

After the kick off workshop we see the need to cluster the mentioned topic that interrelate with each other. We have clustered the single topics discussed in the workshop in the following topics:(...)

Industrial markets are frequently characterized by an oligopolistic market structure. As a result, suppliers may become highly selective with respect to decisions that involve collaborating with certain customers. Buying firms must therefore be more attractive than their rivals to obtain...