Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden individuelle Vorstellungen von Karriere und karrierebezogenem Handeln analysiert und typisiert. Angeknuepft wird an die Diskussion, inwiefern „Einheitsmodelle“ von Karriere ausgedient bzw. jemals umfassende Gueltigkeit besessen haben. Im Zuge der...

Purpose – As design becomes more important for business, designers and business people need to work together more. However, they tend to find the relationship difficult, challenging and less productive than either side would wish. The purpose of this paper is to help both designers and...

Purpose – This paper aims to marry Michael Porter’s industrial cluster theory of traded and local clusters to Richard Florida’s occupational approach of creative and routine workers to gain a better understanding of the process of economic development. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how, in the future, the most successful business innovation efforts will balance analytical mastery and intuitive originality in a dynamic interplay that the author calls “design thinking.”” Design/methodology/approach – As a useful way...

Purpose – The paper aims to argue that stock‐based compensation for top leaders is a very recent phenomenon that is associated with lower shareholder returns, bubbles and crashes and huge corporate scandals and that it is time to bring an end to it and find a better, more authentic approach...

Purpose – The paper aims to explain how Procter & Gamble's new strategy review meeting structure and new inquiry culture established a new norm for communication between leaders and their teams throughout the organization. Design/methodology/approach – The authors, one a former P&G CEO and...

Purpose The authors translate their the concept of integrative thinking into a repeatable methodology, supported by a set of tools for thinking through difficult or “wicked“ problems, a process that offers a better chance of rejecting false choices and of finding a way through to an...