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Executive Judgement in E-Business Strategy

INTRODUCTION One of the main strategic challenges for organizations today is to effectively manage change and stay competitive in the future. Change appears to be the only constant in contemporary business and is present in every industry and in every country (Brown & Eisenhardt, 1998). Moreover, the key area of importance, current within many organizations, is how to effectively leverage techn...

Do Business School Professors Make Good Executive Managers?

Executive Overview Despite suggestions that business school professors do not understand what actually accounts for the performance of business organizations, the evidence is anecdotal at best. We review past work, develop expectations, and provide large-scale evidence for examining the validity of such suggestions. We accessed extensive data provided by Dun & Bradstreet and procured detailed i...

Strategies to Increase Executive Commitment to Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) remains an important issue facing today’s organizations. Existing research has long shown that a key ingredient for success in BPM and BPM related endeavours such as process improvement initiatives is executive commitment (a.k.a. executive support, executive buy-in and top management support). Despite this, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no studi...

Integration of Business Sustainability Education into the Business Curriculum

Business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. More than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various EGSEE di...

Risky Business: A Theoretical Model Applied to the Advancement of Executive Women