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Leadership in networked organizations

Norbert Bol

After my last blog about shared leadership I received many votes and many positive reactions. Especially about leadership that can be found everywhere at any level in an organization. Most of the readers agree that leadership is not just a function where you sit, but is more about what you do and how you do it. Norbert Bol.

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Real Estate Sustainability Supply Chain Learning

Norbert Bol

Sustainability supply chain learning is also dependent on the competitiveness and the sustainability pressures by the government and/or clients. In a competitive environment where the sustainability pressures are low, there is not really an incentive to increase learning activities. June 2022). Gosling, J., Gong, Y., & Brown, S.

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Sustainability and creativity are related, but they need a helping hand

Norbert Bol

Creating value for customers in a competitive business world, requires a creative and innovative attitude to improve products and services. For ethical business leaders and managers it is important to guide the company in the right direction by fostering an innovative-sustainability-based attitude. Norbert Bol. Literature. Michel, J.

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Creating more value in services

Norbert Bol

In the service industry, suppliers and customers think continuously about improving the process of value creation to remain competitive in a long term perspective. 2016) came online which proposes that in a modern service approach we should include ecosystem services as well. 2016, in press, corrected proof). D’Amato, D.,

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Why we need to understand innovation speed?

Norbert Bol

In the February 2016 edition of the Journal of Business Research, Shan et al. 2016) also find in their research that higher innovation speed leads to superior performance. Competitive aggressiveness, defined as the willingness to compete with rivals, is a characteristic that is strongly related to innovation speed. Norbert Bol.

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Knowledge sharing in project teams is important to go beyond your limitations

Norbert Bol

Modern knowledge-based organizations face continuous challenges to remain competitive. In the upcoming September 2016 issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior, there is an overview of the scientific literature about the topic of kwowledge sharing in project teams. Norbert Bol. Literature. Navimipour, N. J., & Charband, Y.

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The short term actions needed for sustainable long-termism!

Norbert Bol

Most managers do not resist this pressure as 78% of the managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value. Norbert Bol. Literature. Martens, M. L., & Carvalho, M.