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The Benefits of Losing a Star Employee (Temporarily)

Michael Roberto

John Chen and Pranav Garg examine these issues in a fascinating new paper titled, "Dancing with the stars: Benefits of a star employee’s temporary absence for organizational performance" - published in Strategic Management Journal. Here is an excerpt from their paper: Sending a star for a training program may be a win-win scenario.

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Crowdsourcing ideas: sexy ideas get implemented

Norbert Bol

The sourcing of ideas occurs on online idea crowdsourcing platforms that are open to everybody who has access to the Internet and no specific training or expertise is needed. Idea crowdsourcing is the act when a company outsources the generation of new ideas (e.g. Most studies about idea crowdsourcing focus on the phase of idea generation.