Article row 3 by Waleed Shleha, Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Yancy Vaillant
Publised in International Business Reviewe
As the importance of servitization and service-augmented solution delivery grows into a mainstream phenomenon for manufacturers, offering theoretically founded avenues to solve their specific internationalization challenges is necessary.
The study addresses the internationalization paradox faced by servitized manufacturers generated by the specific hybrid nature of their product-service offering. As such, this research is meant to understand the entry mode diversity for the internationalization of advanced servitization providers.
Our primary research deal-level data follows 1885 potential sales negotiations for servitized products closed in 2018 by a Poland-based multinational high-tech optics firm offering product-service systems. The results of the study support the idea that manufacturers of advanced servitization could benefit from the implementation of entry mode diversity.
It is found that the sales deal success when entry mode diversity is implemented in a foreign market is positively moderated when knowledge-intensive advanced servitization is included in the negotiation.
Article row 3 by Md Afnan Hossain, Shahriar Akter, Venkata Yanamandram, Samuel Fosso Wamba
Publised in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This study’s objective is to investigate how a business can achieve data-driven market effectiveness through the sustained application of a customer analytics capability to its operations.
Despite the abundance of literature on retail technology management, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of a customer analytics capability in promoting sustainable market performance within retail business operations remains scarce.
This study presents a model of a sustained customer analytics capability in the context of competitive, data-rich retail business processes, drawing on grounded market orientation capability theory. The study employs a taxonomy of explanation and prediction from an epistemological perspective, employing predominantly positivist methods, where data analysis validates the conceptual customer analytics capability and its sustained critical outcomes.
In addition, the study discusses the significant contributions of its findings regarding the acceleration of retail business operational performance in a big data environment and also provides future research directions to resolve any limitations of the current study.
On September 11, 2023, the Financial Times published its international ranking of Masters in Management. TBS Education moves up 13 places to rank among the world’s top Management Schools.
We are proud of this progress, which reflects the collective effort made on each of the pillars of our development strategy: pedagogical well-being, international influence, renewal of our 4 campuses in Paris and Barcelona, Casablanca and Toulouse. It also reflects the academic excellence of our Master in Management Program and the high level of expertise of our teaching staff.
— Stéphanie Lavigne, Dean TBS Education
By 2022, our Master in Management Program had already climbed 13 places and entered the Top 50. Once again this year, the prestigious Financial Times ranking, one of the most respected and followed in the field of education, honors the excellence of our training and the strategy led by the School. The strategy focuses on the educational well-being and renewal of the 4 TBS Education campuses: Barcelona, Paris, Casablanca and Toulouse. But also around international influence and the creation of new innovative training models.
On a national level, TBS Education ranks 9th among the best Master in Management programs offering a Master’s degree in Management.
TBS Education stands out in particular on the following criteria:
- Student support and development;
- Pedagogical innovation and career guidance;
- Recognition of the academic excellence of our teaching staff;
- Commitment to CSR (carbon footprint and parity).
An international ranking that speaks for its graduates
The Financial Times, the UK’s leading business and finance daily, publishes seven rankings a year of programs offered by international business schools, including Executive MBAs, Masters in Finance, Masters in Management and others.
Each year, the Financial Times ranks the world’s best Masters in Management programs. To build this top 100, the British daily relies mainly on the voices of graduates. Alumni are interviewed three years after the end of their studies, on criteria such as professional integration, career development and international mobility, as well as the faculty’s academic level, degree of internationalization and gender balance.
To compile its rankings, the Financial Times uses a wide range of criteria:
- average salary three years after graduation;
- employment rate three months after graduation;
- the ratio between the cost of education and students’ salaries;
- percentage of international students in the school;
- international student mobility and number of foreign professors;
- the percentage of women among both students and teaching staff;
- the reputation of the Research conducted by the School.
The aim of TBS Education’s Master in Management Program is to train future responsible managers, capable of implementing innovative projects that meet today’s sustainability challenges, with a real sense of collective intelligence.
Article row 3 by Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Prasanta Dey, Pavel Albores, Soumyadeb Chowdhury
Publised in Annals of Operations Research
When managing crises and disasters, decision-makers face high uncertainty levels, disrupted supply chains, and damaged infrastructure. This complicates delivering resources that are essential for the survival of the victims. Flexible and adaptable supply networks are needed to ensure a consistent flow of relief to the areas affected by disasters.
Intermodality is a valuable approach when infrastructure is damaged, as it allows the use of different delivery modes to reach demand areas. Nevertheless, involving different transportation modes has an impact on the environment. Looking at the importance of helping victims and considering the environmental impact of humanitarian operations for long-term sustainability, intermodality and carbon emission reduction measures can be an interesting combination.
This area, however, is currently understudied. This article introduces a two-stage stochastic formulation to fill that gap. The model addresses facility location, resource allocation, and intermodal relief distribution considering carbon emission reduction in facilities, intermodal activities, and distribution. The formulation minimises costs and the level of shortage of relief. The model is tested using a case study in Sinaloa, Mexico, to investigate the impact of intermodality and carbon emission reduction measures on costs and shortage of relief for disaster victims.
The findings confirm that the model proposed allows for the diversification of transportation modes and reduces carbon emissions whilst achieving a good level of performance in both metrics. The comparison with a benchmark model without intermodality and carbon reduction measures suggests that the formulation can increase flexibility and reduce the level of CO2 emissions whilst maintaining high satisfaction rates.
Article row 4 by Pawan Budhwar, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Geoffrey Wood, Herman Aguinis, Greg J. Bamber, Jose R. Beltran, Paul Boselie, Fang Lee Cooke, Stephanie Decker, Angelo DeNisi, Prasanta Kumar Dey, David Guest, Andrew J. Knoblich, Ashish Malik, Jaap Paauwe, Savvas Papagiannidis, Charmi Patel, Vijay Pereira, Shuang Ren, Steven Rogelberg, Mark N. K. Saunders, Rosalie L. Tung, Arup Varma
Publised in Human Resource Management Journal
ChatGPT and its variants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have rapidly become a focal point in academic and media discussions about their potential benefits and drawbacks across various sectors of the economy, democracy, society, and environment. It remains unclear whether these technologies result in job displacement or creation, or if they merely shift human labour by generating new, potentially trivial or practically irrelevant, information and decisions.
According to the CEO of ChatGPT, the potential impact of this new family of AI technology could be as big as “the printing press”, with significant implications for employment, stakeholder relationships, business models, and academic research, and its full consequences are largely undiscovered and uncertain. The introduction of more advanced and potent generative AI tools in the AI market, following the launch of ChatGPT, has ramped up the “AI arms race”, creating continuing uncertainty for workers, expanding their business applications, while heightening risks related to well-being, bias, misinformation, context insensitivity, privacy issues, ethical dilemmas, and security.
Given these developments, this perspectives editorial offers a collection of perspectives and research pathways to extend HRM scholarship in the realm of generative AI. In doing so, the discussion synthesizes the literature on AI and generative AI, connecting it to various aspects of HRM processes, practices, relationships, and outcomes, thereby contributing to shaping the future of HRM research.
Article row 4 by Maciel M. Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Rakesh D. Raut, Ilias O. Pappas
Publised in British Journal of Management
Business models for sustainability (BMfS) enable organizations to create social and environmental value for a wide variety of stakeholders. As BMfS are new for well-established industries, their implementation requires deep organizational change to overcome path dependencies of existing business models. In this article, we present a framework which outlines the organizational change process involved in BMfS development. The framework shows that organizations can experiment with novel configurations of value, resources, and transactions, and follow discursive and cognitive pathways to enable BMfS legitimization and implementation. Although the value, resources, and transactions levers can be used either separately or in concert, discursive and cognitive pathways are most powerful when pursued together. We use our framework to highlight the contributions of the articles in the special issue and to propose new directions for BMfS research. We argue that future research should investigate the impacts of BMfS on the sustainability challenges they seek to address.
Article row 3 by C. THEODORAKI, D. B. AUDRETSCH, D. CHABAUD
Publised in Review of Entrepreneurship
Over the past 15 years the literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems has emerged as important and compelling. This article reviews the literature at the intersection of entrepreneurial ecosystems and place in order to identify what is known and what is not known about the role of place in entrepreneurial ecosystems. This article sheds light on the definitions, methodologies, typologies, challenging and crisis contexts prevalent in the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature. It then introduces the six papers selected for the special issue and synthesizes their contribution with regards to future directions of entrepreneurial ecosystem research. This article concludes by highlighting the advances, gaps, and research directions towards a better understanding of the importance of research linking entrepreneurial ecosystems to place.
Article row 3 by J. PINKSE, F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, O. LAASCH, Y. SNIHUR, R. BOHNSACK
Publised in Organization and Environment
Business models for sustainability (BMfS) enable organizations to create social and environmental value for a wide variety of stakeholders. As BMfS are new for well-established industries, their implementation requires deep organizational change to overcome path dependencies of existing business models. In this article, we present a framework which outlines the organizational change process involved in BMfS development. The framework shows that organizations can experiment with novel configurations of value, resources, and transactions, and follow discursive and cognitive pathways to enable BMfS legitimization and implementation. Although the value, resources, and transactions levers can be used either separately or in concert, discursive and cognitive pathways are most powerful when pursued together. We use our framework to highlight the contributions of the articles in the special issue and to propose new directions for BMfS research. We argue that future research should investigate the impacts of BMfS on the sustainability challenges they seek to address.