Layoffs can burden employees that remain, contribute to resignations聽
Beneath the spectre of a looming recession, Microsoft announced that it would lay off 12,000 people in January 2023. Just a few days later, Amazon announced it would lay off more than 18,000. These measures could help the tech giants reduce costs and weather the downturn, but they also carry risk.
Employee scheduling system contributed to major Southwest Airlines service disruptions, but company is likely to survive
When things went downhill for Southwest Airlines, they went downhill fast. During the 2022 winter holiday travel period, the Dallas-headquartered airline cancelled 6,500 flights in just three days. Winter weather played a role, but the low-cost carrier was disrupted far more than other airlines. Reports from within Southwest suggest that an outdated employee scheduling system contributed, says Prof. Karl Moore.
Both music and business demand improvisational skills and collective action
Even if executives solicit employee feedback, they don鈥檛 necessarily have the skills to enter into a dialogue about it. Being able to think on your feet is an important skill in a leader, and Prof. Saku Mantere says that music is one way to develop it. 鈥淛azz teaches us communication in the moment,鈥� says Mantere, who recently released his debut album, called Upon First Impression.
Delve: Scale Deep Not Up for Sustainable Local Entrepreneurship, with Anna Kim and Suntae Kim
How would definitions of business growth and success change if entrepreneurship ventures decided that instead of scaling up, they would 鈥渟cale deep鈥�? While scaling up allows an organization to pursue fast expansion with goals of going national or global, scaling deep lets an organization pursue enduring growth and sustainability anchored to its original location.
Creating innovation capabilities for improving global health: Inventing technology for neglected tropical diseases in Brazil
Authors: Paola Perez-Aleman and Tommaso Ferretti
Publication: Journal of International Business Policy, Forthcoming Published Online First (Open Access) September 2022
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RBC faces Competition Bureau inquiry for greenwashing
RBC has positioned itself as a champion of clean economic growth 鈥� but has continued to finance fossil fuel industry, according to a complaint filed with Canada鈥檚 Competition Bureau. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into greenwashing at Canada鈥檚 largest bank, but that鈥檚 only the first step according to Dror Etzion, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at Desautels.
The best managers balance the science and the art of management
MBAs have their advocates 鈥� and their detractors. Over the years, the MBA has suffered from comparisons with professional degrees that have more defined outcomes, like medicine and law. But management is part art and part science, and an overemphasis on the science side is partly to blame for this perception. As evidence of this, MBA News cites the work of Desautels Prof.
Professor Kim awarded SSHRC Insight Grant
Congratulations to Anna Kim,聽Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization, and Sustainability, who was awarded a聽2022 SSHRC Insight Grant
鈥淩esilience and Impact of Social Enterprises鈥�
Delve: Lessons on Economic Growth from the Informal Economy, with Robert Nason
What does the word 鈥渆ntrepreneurship鈥� immediately bring to mind? Risk and reward, innovation and hard work, funding and financial growth, filling gaps in the market? In truth, that answer looks different around the world, in both formal and informal economies, depending on how the local, state, and national economies function and on how the culture views business ownership.
Delve: Striking a New Balance in Management and Society, with Henry Mintzberg and Saku Mantere
How has management thinking changed in the past 50 years and where might management be headed today? In his research and writing, Desautels Faculty of Management Professor Henry Mintzberg covers not only the past 50 years but looks toward the future of managing organizations, developing managers, and rebalancing society, from business to politics to higher education.
Paolo Leone and Profs Mantere and Faraj's paper is Best Article Finalist
Congratulations to聽Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj, whose paper聽鈥淥pen Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies鈥� has been named Best Article Finalist聽by the聽Academy of Management (AOM).
Prof. Faraj named CTO 2022 Distinguished Scholar
Congratulations to Samer Faraj,聽Professor in Strategy and Organization, who has been聽named CTO 2022 Distinguished Scholar by the Communication, Digital Technology and Organization - CTO聽(A Division of the Academy of Management - AOM).
The implications for research on carbon labels
Author:聽Dror Etzion
Publication:聽Nature Climate Change, Correspondence article, Published online 04 August, 2022
Abstract:
Delve: Managing Ourselves Out of Climate Change
As heatwaves increase around the world and weather patterns become even more unpredictable, top researchers at 平特五不中鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management are finding novel solutions to the climate crisis鈥攕olutions that link multiple industries, regulatory bodies, leaders, entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers. Because the only way forward is together.
Prof Anna Kim's paper wins 2022 鈥淩esponsible Research in Management鈥� Award
Congratulations to Anna Kim,聽Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization, whose paper聽"No time like the present: How a present time perspective can foster sustainable development鈥� is the winner of the聽2022 鈥淩esponsible Research in Management鈥� Award, sponsored by the Academy of Management (AOM) Fellows and co-sponsored by Responsible Research in Business and Management.聽
