By Joost Rietveld In 2012, the Wall Street Journal published an articled titled “When Freemium Fails”. The article remarked that, despite the attractive features of the popular digital business model, many freemium products fail to attract sufficient users, let alone … Continue reading When Freemium Succeeds
In this post Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Robbert Maseland, and André van Hoorn reflect on their award-winning GSJ article . Their work was selected as the winner of the Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Prize 2020 which is presented annually to honor … Continue reading Cultures Change, Distance Remains
By Charles E. Stevens (Lehigh University) and Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi (University of Victoria) The corruption conundrum Corruption—the abuse of entrusted power for private gain—is a major challenge that a multinational enterprise (MNE) must account for when venturing abroad. Management researchers know quite a … Continue reading How Do MNEs Manage Corruption Abroad? New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
By Emilie R. Feldman GE, Alphabet, Siemens, Facebook, Honeywell, Amazon, LVMH, Apple, and 3M. What do these companies have in common? All of them are modern-day “corporate parents” that own and manage multiple subsidiaries within the same corporate household. For … Continue reading The Corporate Parenting Advantage, Revisited
By Michaël Bikard Ideas often emerge as twins. Newton and Leibniz famously claimed to have invented calculus around the same time. Darwin and Wallace stumbled upon the idea of evolution through natural selection even though they were working on different … Continue reading Idea Twins: Simultaneous Discoveries as a Research Tool
