Strategy Practice

Innovation Language Pays Off for Women in Rewards-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns

A new study finds that women can benefit from making innovation claims, especially in male-typed contexts like technology. By Sarah Steimer Male entrepreneurs have traditionally had the upper hand over their…

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How Should Top Management Teams be Structured?

Read this post and learn: Three reasons for top management team (TMT) structure development: instrumental, institutional, and instructionalist The interplay of formal and informal structures: competing vs. complementary dynamics It…

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Strategy-Making: Why You Should Care About Language and Communication

by Matthias Wenzel, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany The digital transformation has generated new ways of communicating a firm’s strategy to relevant stakeholders such as investors, business partners, and customers.…

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Keynote Speeches: How Do Great Speakers Effectively Communicate their Firms’ Strategy?

Keynote speeches have become a conventional way of communicating a firm’s strategy. Popularized by firms such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, more and more executives announce strategic moves such…

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How do CEO Emotions Impact Firm Value?

By Paul P. Momtaz (momtaz@ucla.edu) based on https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3235 Why are CEOs coached for many hours in preparation for important public announcements, such as their presentations at annual meetings? The extensive preparation…

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

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Directed by Words: How Entrepreneurs Rely on Salient Frames to Devise a Market Entry Strategy

by Kisha Lashley Language is powerful; scholars have shown that organizations rely on language to guide stakeholder interpretations to create value for the focal firm. For example, entrepreneurial firms can…

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