Top Research Papers on Business Management

The economic impact of the lock down and social distancing policy of the governments has been devastating on business. Should business look out for its own interest or deploy its resources and capabilities to fight the coronavirus even at the expense of short-term losses? This paper suggests that business and society are two peas in a pod and are mutually interdependent. One cannot survive without the other. The purpose of business is more than business. It is to nurture all of its stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, and community) and not just the investors. This is still common in...

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This article provides marketing managers with insights into how businesses pursuing various strategies approach these digital marketing issues, with the ultimate goal being to assist managers in the efficient and effective implementation of their firm’s adopted strategy.

Business Process Management (BPM) embodies a management philosophy, which is supported by a range of methods, techniques, and tools. Academics are continuously expanding this repertoire. In this overview article, the themes are sketched that characterize the development of the BPM discipline over the years: BPM Systems, process modeling, process design, coordination and interoperability, model management, process mining, and new technologies. Each of the themes is characterized in this overview on the basis of articles that appeared in Computers in Industry since its conception, now 40 years a...

The study notes the impactful role of DBI as an input repertoire that facilitates knowledge management with subsequent positive effects on process innovation, and reveals a positive link between DBI and process innovation.

Key relevant tendencies are identified in the most mature areas of the firm, which are the impact of digital technologies on the analysis of consumer behavior; digitalization and green innovation within organizations; and blockchain technology applied to financial services.

Abstract Integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into a for-profit organization’s business activities is fraught with tensions. This paper reports a case study of a construction company, exploring how different tensions emerged to challenge company-level aspirations for strategic CSR integration. The study identifies three types of persistent CSR tensions and four management practices, discussing how the management practices led the organization to navigate CSR tensions in both active and defensive ways. Furthermore, the study explicates why the case company succeeded in integrating ...

It is argued that the applicability of these underlying assumptions in theorising BPM needs to be re-examined in the context of digital transformation, and proposed new managerial approaches for BPM in digital transformation contexts are proposed.

The extent to which the Internet of Things and business process management can be combined is questioned, and emerging challenges and intersections are discussed from a research and practitioner's point of view in terms of complex software systems development.

This study zooms in on sustainability transformation processes by deploying Stouten, Rousseau, and Cremer's (SRC) model of ten key evidence-based steps in managing planned organizational change as an anchor to develop a sequential sustainability transformation model (STM) for business organizations. The study highlights phases and steps in sustainability transformation with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Implementing planned organizational change models in sustainability transformation provides new evidence that the governance (G) factor plays the most significant role am...

Abstract Scholars and practitioners across fields increasingly recognize that business models for the circular economy may be an effective lever for solving ecological persistent problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and growing natural resource scarcity. Despite a growing interest in the potential of circular business models, interconnections between the organizational dimensions of firms and their business model innovation processes remain underexplored. Based on problem‐centered expert interviews with business consultants experienced in circular business development, this stud...

Knowledge management has gained increasing importance and immense research interest for its promise in advancing sustainability. Despite its proliferation in the literature, little is known about the research profile of knowledge management research intertwined with sustainability. Given this gap, this article aims to conduct an extensive review of knowledge management for sustainability research. Using bibliometrics, which is suitable for large-scale reviews, this article reviews 1136 documents published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Web of Science between 2001 and 2021. Noteworthi...

An extensive review of the international business literature is used to address the research gap by identifying the different types of uncertainty, their antecedents and outcomes, the coping strategies used to mitigate their impact, and the consequences of these actions.

The results show that, while there is a strong link between current and future capability areas, a number of entirely new and enhanced capabilities are required for BPM to drive corporate success in view of digitalization.

While there is abundant literature in the field of performance measurement systems and performance management practices (PMM), there is little research into how the current highly volatile, uncertain and ambiguous operating environment are affecting the way organisations measure and manage performance. The literature suggests that business trends are indeed affecting the way organisations are managed in general, but their effect on PMM is rarely investigated. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore how current business trends are impacting PMM. A literature review reveals five business t...

This manifesto presents a vision for ABPMSs and discusses research challenges that need to be surmounted to realize this vision, and derives a set of challenges to realize systems with these characteristics.

In the e-commerce and financial industries, AI has been deployed to achieve better customer experience, efficient supply chain management, improved operational efficiency, and reduced mate size, with the main goal of designing standard, reliable product quality control methods.

This study reviews the scientific literature for business models contributing to sustainable plastic management and suggests avenues for future research. We define sustainable plastic management (SPM) as any technique along the waste hierarchy seeking to minimize the environmental damage of plastic material. Limited cases were found during the literature review, whereas many more SPM business models exist in practice, signaling a research gap. Forty-four scientifically documented business models were identified and analyzed on the basis of business model component, sustainability, level of was...

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications investigating entrepreneurial universities in the business and management fields. The authors collected 511 documents from the Web of Science and analysed them using Bibliometrix, an RStudio package for performance analysis and science mapping. The study aims to provide an overview of the evolution of research about this topic and describe the structures (i.e., conceptual, social, and intellectual) characterising it. It discusses the results to identify the main areas addressed so far and highlight gaps in the literature, o...

It is argued that a synthesis of assumptions is required to bring these streams of research together, and suggestions for how these assumptions can be updated are offered to facilitate a convergent conversation between the two research streams.