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The founder of bKash Limited (bKash), a successful mobile financial services (MFS) model pioneered in Bangladesh, built the company from scratch, targeting services at the lower socioeconomic segment of society and eventually acquiring 26 million customers. bKash has had a positive impact on the lives of countless poor people and has gained worl…
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In recent years, India had experienced a digital revolution, emerging as a forerunner in cashless payments and, in the process, dramatically raising the level of financial inclusion in the country. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), established in 2008 with the mandate to improve national payment systems, became a global gold sta…
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This article integrates the literature on radical innovation, the stewardship perspective, and family business research to develop and test a model examining the influence of a family CEO and the CEO’s generational stage on radical innovation, considering different types of family CEOs as distinct manifestations of strategic leaders’ stewardship…
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The literature indicates that the board of directors exists to provide resources and strategic direction (service task) and monitor top managers (control task), often tending to overgeneralize board tasks. Using a unique sample of 36 elite family firm directors having served on 615 boards with an aggregate 1447 years’ experience, and integrating…
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Although corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received considerable attention in family firms, empirical findings on the CSR/family firm performance nexus are mixed and inconsistent. This meta-analytic review aims to clarify the mixed results by establishing the degree to which CSR influences family firm performance and to test the moderati…
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Prior literature establishes a link between family involvement and the firm financial performance. However, the mechanisms through which family involvement in a firm affects its financial performance in different institutional settings are largely unknown. Using an unbalanced panel of 3,322 listed firms from 32 countries over a 9-year period, we…
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In the present work, we addressed the relationship between parental leave policies and social norms. Using a pre-registered, cross-national approach, we examined the relationship between parental leave policies and the perception of social norms for the gender division of childcare. In this study, 19,259 students (11,924 women) from 48 countries…
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We systematically review business research concerning the planetary boundaries framework: A natural science framework that identifies nine Earth system boundaries that govern the safe operating space for humanity. Ten years after the introduction of the planetary boundaries in business studies, we pose two critical questions: How has the planeta…
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The UAE has been making waves recently in the technology world. A $1.5 billion deal between American tech giant Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s AI champion,G42, seems to mark a shift in global alliances. This deal is significant not just in terms of the dollar value, but in what it represents for the UAE’s technology ambitions.
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Social enterprises are organizations that address pressing social and environmental challenges—such as poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation—through market-based activities. With over ten million social enterprises globally generating around $2 trillion in annual revenue, social entrepreneurship is an established global phenomenon. …
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Supply chain management experts Ralf Seifert and Richard Markoff pose the question: is fulfilment still an FMCG core competency?
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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often face unique challenges. Whether it’s scaling operations, managing cash flow, or finding specialized talent, business owners frequently need expert guidance to move forward. Senior talent, in the form of fractional executives, offer a potential solution, allowing businesses to tap into high-level exp…
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Improvements in technology have made deepfakes — fraudulent audio, video, and images — easier than ever to create. As a result, 2024 has seen a nearly 60% surge in phishing attacks. These attacks hijack our perceptions and our ability to distinguish fiction from reality. They work because they manipulate our brains in ways we’re naturally vulner…
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AI is already everywhere, ready to change the way we work and play, how we learn and how we are looked after. From hospitality to healthcare, entertainment to education, AI is transforming the world as we know it. But it’s developing at a different pace in different parts of the world. In the west, it seems, there is a tendency to aim for perfec…
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