Speculative Futures Inside Corporate Realities

Wireless Myths, Realities and Futures..

The Myth [1]: Sixty years of research following Shannon’s pioneering paper has led to telecommunications solutions operating arbitrarily close to the channel capacity ’flawless tele-presence’ with zero error is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime across the globe... The Reality [1]: Once we leave home or the office, even top of the range iPhones and tablet-computers fail to maintain ’flawles...

Everyday Futures : Speculative Thinking in the Domestic Sphere

Tweet Inside: Microblogging in a Corporate Context

With the advent of Twitter, Microblogging has become increasingly popular. The service is simple, easy to use and its success has company executives wondering if using the short message service in their Intranets would benefit organisational information sharing and communication. At the same time, others have cautioned against transferring social media inside the corporation as this might lead ...

Inside the Black Box of the Corporate Staff: Social Networks and the Implementation of Corporate Strategy

In multidivisional firms, the corporate staff is central to the implementation of corporate-level strategy, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. We examine one corporate staff through e-mail analysis. We find sharp cross-sectional differences in communication patterns: staff members have networks that are larger, more integrative, and richer in structural holes. However, much of t...

Inside Debt and the Design of Corporate Debt Contracts

Agency theory posits that debt-like compensation (such as defined-benefit pensions and other deferred compensation) aligns managerial interests more closely with those of debtholders and reduces the agency cost of debt. Consistent with theory, we find that a higher CEO relative leverage, defined as the ratio of the CEO's inside leverage (debt-toequity compensation) to corporate leverage, is ass...