The strategic renewal literature recognizes that organizations should employ some form of management control system to ensure that their strategic goals and related capabilities are aligned with their environmental conditions, such as the dynamics of environmental change. This chapter focuses on...

In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that social media presents to researchers, and offer relevant theoretical avenues to be explored. To do this, we present a model that unpacks social media by using a honeycomb of seven functional building blocks. We then...

Innovations in mobile technology shape how mobile workers share knowledge and collaborate on the go. We introduce mobile communities of practice (MCOPs) as a lens for understanding how these workers self-organize, and present three MCOP case studies. Working from contextual ambidexterity, we...

From the seclusion of monastic life to the noise of Silicon Valley, the ancient practice of mindfulness has ‘come out of the cloister.' As an antidote to mindless cognition and behavior, the practice of mindfulness — with its principle of grounding attention in the present moment — has...