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💡insightful 💡 Paola Bellis @Silvia Magnanini, Roberto Verganti offer a new study. 🔦 Taking the #dialogicorganizational development perspective, this study aims to investigate the framing processes when engaging in #dialogue for #strategy implementation and how these enable the evolution of implementation opportunities. ↘️ The authors identify four main framing processes – shaping, unveiling, scattering and shifting – and provide a framework of how these processes affect individuals’ #mentalmodels through increasing the tangibility of opportunities or elevating them to new #value hierarchies. Let’s discover more about Citation Bellis, P., Magnanini, S. and Verganti, R. (2024), "Dialogue for strategy implementation: how framing processes enable the evolution of new opportunities", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 28 No. 11, pp. 1-32. https://lnkd.in/dpzhVcVT

Call for Papers! Interdisciplinarity in Management Research: Premises, Promises, and Pitfalls How do we DO interdisciplinary research? And what do we know ABOUT it? We seek to push the debate on interdisciplinarity and how we can use it to better understand contemporary management phenomena. Submission deadline: 31 March 2025 Read the Call here: https://bit.ly/3vDX70S

Unleashing the power of diverse boards for innovation! This article explores how formal and informal social structures can amplify the benefits of deep diversity - such as knowledge and experience - while mitigating the challenges of superficial diversity, such as gender or ethnicity. Drawing on insights from the board-CEO dynamics of leading companies and global diversity mandates, it reveals actionable strategies for fostering inclusion and driving innovation. Discover how to optimise diversity for real impact! A must-read for those passionate about leadership, governance and progress!

Guys, am I over-reading? So, at last week’s AFR Super &  Wealth Summit, APRA publicly detailed their intent to scrutinise fund expenditure – particularly non-investment costs i.e. advertising, sponsorships, events, advice – to ensure spending is aimed directly at maximising member outcomes. At face value, uncontroversial?  Another familiar case of an agency cracking down the players it regulates – and all for the benefit of consumers; right?  I see it differently.  I’m a scientist obsessed with Trust – the forms it takes, the proofs necessary for each form of trust, and so on.   I see 2x big-enough-to-think-about unintended consequences of this publicised scrutiny. 1. Scrutiny paradox: our term for when the consumer is worse off for seeing their service provider being “named & shamed” WITH NO material improvement delivered to customer.  Why?  Because mistrust is a burden.  Who wants to worry about whether their fund is optimally spending their money?  Trust is a confident relationship with the unknown.  Mistrust is worry, it’s cognitively and affectively depleting.  It’s big enough to talk about.   If you’re going to fertilise mistrust, be prepared to deliver a material customer benefit - "hollow scrutiny" like this does more harm than good. Over-read?  2. Risk aversion corrodes group decision making:  typically, when diffuse responsibility, group decision making comes under scrutiny, that group will overweight the risk in their decision making – the key here is “over-weighting” i.e. leading to poorer quality decisions – and missed growth and scale opportunities.  Again, the member loses.  Over-read? We’re in a trust economy – trust is a perception – it’s delicate – get in touch to get-read on how it works and how to nurture it.

Customer Trust = hurdle requirement for brand engagement. Behavioural science evidence tells us loads about trust — including how a brands trust can be built or eroded. Whether it's related to a customer believing they can trust a brands: - pricing strategies - intentions with customers' data - sales representatives - etc... ...trust underpins customers' willingness to engage (or disengage) with brands and their representatives. Want to know more about trust (or anything behavioural)? HMU.

📢 #NewPublication Alert! Thrilled to share some exciting news – our new paper is now out in the Journal of Small Business Management with Taylor & Francis Group! 🎉 (ABDC: A, ABS: 3, FNEGE:2, IF: 5.3) Titled "Exploitative and Exploratory Search: Dynamic Capabilities Enhancing SME Adaptation, New Product Development, and Environmental Performance," our research dives into how small and medium businesses can harness dynamic capabilities to adapt, innovate, and make a positive environmental impact. 🌍✨ This study was an inspiring collaboration with my fantastic colleagues Christian Sarfo, PhD. and Andrea Caputo. 👉 Download the article here: https://lnkd.in/eyb-Suvg 📝 Citation: Sarfo, C., Fakhar Manesh, M., & Caputo, A. (2024). Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance. Journal of Small Business Management, 1–30.

How to get the most out of a diverse board? Read INSEAD Knowledge article by Professor Guoli Chen as he shares insights building from his latest research on how boards can create the formal and informal structures to optimise the effectiveness of board diversity. Link: https://lnkd.in/dTidz-4Z

NEW COURSE LAUNCHED It's live - designed and delivered by expert behavioural scientists Johann Ponnampalam, PhD and Jack Keramea. #DecisionDesign's The Scientific Drivers of Trust 100% online course is now available, on-demand. Are you ready to become a Trust expert? After all, Trust is proven to be one of the most important factors that shapes relationship outcomes, which is why leading brands and professionals harness Decision Design's The Scientific Drivers of Trust course to: 1. Influence others, including their customers 2. Establish Trust, and how to win it back - even if Trust has been broken 3. Positively handle sensitive concerns, rapidly building confidence This course will teach you what Trust is and give you a playbook for achieving long-term sustainable Trust. Get under the hood of the science behind each type of Trust today. https://lnkd.in/giEs5XrA #behaviouralscience #Trust #Trustincrisis #buildTrust

Part of the continuing theory building process is to enhance the focal theory's external validity by testing it in different parts of the world. To improve the theory's generalizability, I tested my theory of organizational vision in Australia and Thailand, and sought some empirical support in the States. These findings were reported by the Journal of Business Strategy in 2010. A scholar from from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used it to inform the development of a guidebook entitled "Design Roadmapping Guidebook for Future Foresight Techniques". https://lnkd.in/gYfJySjB

As part of the GIID Global Network, we're thrilled to share their latest research paper, "Innovation Districts and the Centrality of Land." 📝 Our collaboration with the Network is guiding us in tackling global challenges while addressing crucial issues locally. This research underscores the importance of effective governance in shaping innovation districts and land use decisions. Dive into the details here: https://lnkd.in/eTjF4ZmF