This study explores senior practitioners’ experiences with pre-merger communication, revealing how principles of fairness—engagement, explanation, and clarity—can mitigate employee anxiety, build trust, and significantly improve M&A outcomes. It offers actionable insights into more effective communication strategies during critical organizational transitions.
Generative AI avatar sales training offers a promising addition to traditional role play but faces uncertain adoption. This study examines engagement in an intercollegiate sales competition, revealing a statistically significant link between school experience, use, and performance. Findings are explored through theories of innovation diffusion, rugged landscapes, and self-determination.
This study extends citizen development theory by empirically validating and refining a comprehensive framework of technological, organizational, and individual effectiveness factors, providing evidence-based strategies for organizations to optimize citizen developer initiatives.
You Cannot Push A Rope: Understanding the disconnects and misunderstandings between business owners and financial advisors
While promising, online biometric studies with crowdsourced participants have vagaries that can limit success. This paper shares researcher experience with biometric online data collection and a study that compared the differences of online and lab-based eye tracking (ET) and facial expression (FE) data.
Crowdfunding research has primarily been composed of attempts to identify crowdfunding performance and success factors. A research gap exists concerning funder motivations and behaviors as well as the dynamics that occur with pledge changes during crowdfunding campaigns. Therefore, understanding funder motivations and pledging behaviors during reward-based crowdfunding campaigns was the focus of this inquiry.
In early 2020, many entrepreneurs were ready to turn to alternative financing such as crowdfunding. But were the ‘crowd’ financing campaigns like they used to? They were not; paradoxically, they were helping projects succeed at a never-before-seen rate.
Changing demographics, a new definition of work, and economic disruption has changed the market dynamics in hiring interns. This paper provides insights for companies on how students find internships, the percentage of students seeking internships, and what students are seeking in an internship.
Ops never maintained ‘Digital Twins’ in the past, why invest scarce resources now? We ask industry experts for their take on lifecycle information asset management of this rapidly emerging techno-trend.
A worldwide shortage of developers has made low- and no-code platforms important and necessary. This paper investigates the use of these platforms in organizations, along with the role of workforce automation tools.