Corporate Landscape Research Articles

Blended learning program effectiveness – A Study of High Potential Employees in the Manufacturing Industry- A Systematic Review

Background: With the volatile corporate landscape, an immediate ad-justment in the strategies for blended learning programs is crucial. The management holds significant expectations from the human resources and training departments, urging them to devise inventive, time-efficient, travel- friendly, and cost-effective approaches. Purpose: The Purpose of the study is to determine the blended learning program effectiveness among high potential employees in manufacturing industry. This subject was prevalent in industries such as manufacturing industries. It has a profound impact on the long-term sustainability of organizations, particularly in engaging, nurturing, and retaining high-potential employees within the manufacturing industries. Methods: This research approach offers a thorough understanding of the connections between blended learning program effectiveness, high-potential employees, and manufacturing industries by combining a literature review of 18 research papers, case studies, and surveys. Findings: High potential employees, training professionals, as well as other employees have shown a favourable attitude toward the integration of blended learning program effectiveness methods in manufacturing industries-learning environments. Many firms put a high value on BL because employees are encouraged to learn on the job by participating in work-based activities that include high potential employees as learning partners & make use of business resources they have developed. Conclusions: This research methodology aims to provide a comprehen-sive comprehension of the interrelationships among blended learning programs, their efficacy, manufacturing organizations, and high-potential employees. This will be achieved through the integration of literature reviews, case studies, surveys, interviews, and meticulous data analysis.

Risk Management and Legal Liability: Mitigating Business Risks in the Corporate Environment

In the dynamic realm of corporate environments, the interplay between risk management and legal liability stands as a crucial determinant of organizational resilience. This article explores the intricate nexus between identifying, mitigating risks, and addressing legal liabilities within the corporate landscape. The multifaceted challenges of financial, operational, and strategic risks are dissected, highlighting their potential legal consequences. Legal liability, stemming from contractual obligations, regulatory compliance, and employee relations, is presented as an inevitable consequence of unmanaged risks. Recognizing the pivotal role of risk management in legal resilience, the article outlines strategies and practices to fortify businesses against potential legal entanglements. Integrated risk management frameworks emerge as a cornerstone, providing organizations with a holistic approach to identify, assess, and mitigate risks comprehensively. Preventive measures, including internal controls, regular audits, and a culture of compliance, are emphasized as proactive steps toward risk management and legal resilience. The role of insurance and risk transfer strategies is explored, offering avenues for mitigating financial losses and legal liabilities. Effective risk management and legal compliance programs are advocated, incorporating elements such as legal audits, employee training, and adherence to evolving regulations. Crisis management planning is presented as a critical component, outlining clear procedures for responding to unforeseen events and managing legal and reputational fallout. Real-world case studies illustrate the transformative impact of proactive risk management in averting legal entanglements and navigating challenging legal scenarios. Looking forward, the article discusses emerging trends in risk management and legal liability, influenced by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and global uncertainties. The conclusion underscores the importance of adopting a holistic approach to corporate resilience. By embracing comprehensive risk management strategies, legal compliance measures, and crisis management planning, organizations position themselves for sustained success in an ever-evolving corporate environment.

Impressions of Wembley Park: Photographic Representations in a Landscape of Corporatism


 
 
 Corporatisation eradicates the human places that rely on local infrastructures and direct connections made between people. This visual essay looks at a moment of transition happening in Wembley Park, in the suburbs of northwest London. A series of photographs captured between 2017-2018 records how a new residential neighbourhood for London takes shape. The photographic series, used as the backbone to an architectural thesis, challenges the corporate development built up of identikit zones and influenced by profit margins, risk assessments and quality indicators. Photography is used as an instrument for a critical reading of the territory that observes the area from multiple perspectives. The photographs drive the design proposal: predictive future scenarios were developed through photomontage and digital reconstructions. The proposal explores the possibility of an ‘Urban Carpet’ that transforms the central public space built as a series of ad hoc acts of construction over 90 years. A series of collages juxtapose the strict, corporate landscape with the nature of incidental and spontaneous encounters. The collages are a provocation, arguing for the necessity of disorder and complexity as a way to build up a sense of community in a nondescript zone.
 
 

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Transforming Employee Well-Being in the Corporate World

This article explores a transformative approach to address employee burnout and enhance well-being within the corporate world. The methodology involves a hypothetical survey administered to 1,000 participants, assessing burnout levels, job satisfaction, and perceptions of organizational support. A targeted well-being intervention, incorporating stress management workshops and flexible work arrangements, is implemented, and post-intervention results reveal a 25% reduction in burnout and a 30% improvement in job satisfaction. Qualitative insights emphasize the individualized impact of interventions, highlighting the value of tailored approaches. The discussion underscores the importance of addressing root causes, cultivating a supportive organizational culture, and integrating well-being into corporate strategy for long-term success. This study advocates for a strategic and holistic approach to transform employee well-being in the corporate landscape.

Editorial: New trends in corporate law and governance — Future expectations

This new issue contains five contributions that deal with both theoretical and practical aspects related to corporate law and corporate governance. The authors have put together five extremely interesting pieces of work, using a variety of doctrinal and empirical research methodologies and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective. The topics range from corporate governance regulation to due diligence and from corporate entrepreneurship to foreign direct investment, with case studies focusing on Greece, Finland, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. The research findings confirm the richness that characterises the international corporate landscape and the contemporary character of such intellectual inquiries.

Syllogistic Reasoning Demystifies Evidence of COVID-19 Vaccine Constituents

Incontrovertible evidence has now made clear that much of what has been perceived publicly about the story of SARS-CoV-2 and the pharmaceutical remedies offered (then mandated) was/is part of a sophisticated international fabrication of unprecedented proportion, depth, and deception. The origins of the virus, the approved testing regime, the flawed predictive models of spread and mortality, associated social-distancing mandates, and so-called vaccines and their claimed efficacy and safety, all point to a coordinated effort to manufacture public fear and hysteria so as to propagate and normalize transhumanist interventions in healthcare and human biology. This article begins with the simple question of how adjuvants in traditional vaccines are theorized to work and proceeds to analyze how the new injectable mRNA platforms deploy nanomaterials as delivery vehicles for genetic interventions with a range of other potential actions inside the human body, both intended and unintended. The authors draw upon the chronological and logical development of adjuvants and their use across disciplines in materials science, genetic engineering, and programming. The authors aim to disentangle the known, unknown, possible and likely contents and objectives of COVID-19 injections, in the context of the surrounding corporate, political, and ideological landscape. They conclude that the social disruptions created by COVID-19 have served as a means of instigating rapid transition to what unelected policymakers have called a Bio-Nano Age.

Investing in Mental Wealth: Corporate Responsibility and the Employee Experience

In the contemporary corporate landscape, the recognition of mental health as a cornerstone of employee well-being has prompted organizations to explore strategic investments in fostering mental wealth. This study investigates the impact of corporate responsibility initiatives on the mental wealth of employees, delving into a comprehensive program designed to enhance well-being. Our results highlight quantifiable shifts in mental health indicators and job satisfaction, underscoring the potential of proactive corporate investments in nurturing a positive employee experience.

Big Data Analytics for Zakat Administration: A Proposed Method

Big data analytics have altered the corporate landscape in the last several years, presenting firms with both opportunities and obstacles. On one side, employing big data ability to enhance creating, growing, and encouraging deeper consumer connection, which has become a crucial field of business and study. On the other side, the zakat institution is also accountable for zakat collecting activities and is obligated to consistently improve them. Understanding the strategic relevance of data and the actions that may be taken because of data analysis is vital for zakat institutions. Thus, this study objectives are to provide different data kinds to suit the requirements of big data analytics. The research employed an exploratory approach, which comprised secondary research approaches, which required compiling data from previously published primary research. Several sources of information were employed to create this research, including web research and book reviews. As a result, this research proposes four sorts of data namely identification data, quantitative data, descriptive data, and qualitative data, as a preliminary concept of muzakki data requirements for big data analytics with the purpose of enhancing zakat collection by zakat organizations

England’s municipal waste regime: Challenges and prospects

This paper provides a synthetic account of England’s municipal waste regime at the end of the 2010s. In technical‐material terms, the regime, previously heavily dependent upon landfill, is now characterised by energy‐from‐waste and recycling and/or composting in fairly equal measure. This infrastructural transformation, enacted over some 20 years, has been underpinned by the financialisation and marketisation of England’s municipal waste. Residual waste has been constituted as a financial asset whilst both residual waste and materials collected for recycling are the basis for further commodity production. The corporate landscape is dominated by large, European‐based transnationals. As well as documenting the regime and its emergence, the paper highlights, and accounts for, the multiple challenges it now faces – chiefly, the technical failure of residual waste solutions which necessitate a continued reliance on landfill for some councils, the collapse of the export markets on which England’s resource recovery has depended, and a radically changed policy landscape that seeks to move England towards a more circular economy. We suggest that local authorities’ waste infrastructure, procured in response to a linear economy, threatens and is threatened by these new policy directions.

The fate of the balanced scorecard: alternative problematization and competing networks

Purpose This paper aims to report on an empirical investigation of the fate of the balanced scorecard (BSC) approach in an organization. Design/methodology/approach Building on actor-network theory and using a qualitative case study approach, this study analyses how across time certain actors attempted to build a competing network in the organization to gain support for their underlying rationales for replacing the BSC with a budgeting system. Data were collected using interviews, observations and archival data from a Sri Lankan commercial bank. Findings This paper finds that despite the enthusiastic journey with all its potentials to be a sustainable accounting innovation, the attraction towards the BSC innovation by the organization appeared to be temporary because the BSC knowledge claims that were advanced by its promoters had not been widely accepted by those involved in the practice. Such a consequence of innovation diffusion appeared to be the result of the failure of the innovation promoters in coordinating the heterogeneous interests of various actors involved in the practice. This study concludes that the BSC failed to be sustained, amid varying ideologies and interests of powerful actors across time and opponent actors’ perceived deficiencies in its adapted design attributes. Research limitations/implications Although the findings relate to a Sri Lankan case, they offer important insight into how parallel, competing networks advocating different control systems may exist in an organization, and that the sustainability of a specific system may depend upon the efforts and the relative power of the advocators of that system. Practical implications This paper sheds useful insights for practitioners on the effective implementation of accounting innovations and managing management control systems in organizations amid tensions associated with competing networks. Originality/value The outcomes enhance the knowledge of how multiple networks operating in an organization could compete with one another, with the result that one network may fall apart while another network gains prominence in the corporate landscape across time, amid varying interests of key actors, their actions and interessement devices used.

Promoting business model innovation through social media strategic capability: A moderated mediation model

The rapid development of social media has significantly affected organizational innovation activities. However, scant research has investigated how social media, as an important innovative tool within the corporate landscape, influences firm business model innovation (BMI). This paper provides an initial investigation into whether, and how, social media can be used to promote firm BMI. Drawing on the strategic capability literature, the study examines the relationship between social media strategic capability (SMSC) and BMI by focusing on the mediating role of strategic flexibility and the moderating effects of top management team (TMT) heterogeneity and environmental dynamism. Empirical results from a sample of 283 Chinese firms with two key informants each show a significant and positive association between SMSC and BMI, which is mediated by strategic flexibility. In addition, moderated path analyses indicate that TMT heterogeneity positively moderates the SMSC–strategic flexibility path, while environmental dynamism positively moderates the strategic flexibility–BMI path in the mediated relationship. Theoretical and practical implications of this study for both social media and BMI research are discussed.

Innovation success in an emerging economy: A comparison of R&D‐oriented companies in Turkey

AbstractKnowledge and innovation capacities are unevenly distributed on a global scale, with national or regional settings playing a crucial role when it comes to the production and usage of knowledge. In particular, emerging economies are less equipped with relevant institutions and resources, meaning that firms residing in such contexts are likewise dealing with lacking innovation capabilities. However, achieving innovation is highly relevant for the economic development of firms and regions. Therefore, we aim to identify key factors for innovation strategies in a differentiated corporate landscape that might affect innovation success. Survey data from the innovative segment of 225 manufacturing firms in Istanbul is used in a two‐step methodological approach. We apply dimension reduction through principal component analysis and use the resulting components in logistic regression analysis to estimate their effects on firms’ innovation success. The results reveal not only important findings about factors for the innovation success of firms, but also highly relevant insights about firms’ innovation strategies. The usage of internal and external R&D resources varies with firm type. In addition, we find that external R&D resources determine firms’ internationalization strategies. Hereof, we suggest policy implications for distinct firm types to support diverse innovation strategies and consequently innovation success.

Study of executive compensation of public and private sector enterprises in India - impact on corporate governance

Executive compensation in India is strictly legislated and regulated. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the executive compensation between private and public sector companies in the NIFTY 50 Index companies after the implementation of corporate governance reforms in India. This study is important because the Government of India is doing business using taxpayers money in owning and managing public sector companies, thus it is incumbent that these public sector companies are run efficiently and effectively. The study establishes that companies in the private sector pay significantly high executive compensation than that of companies in the public sector in terms of CEO pay and total executive pay thereby impacting corporate governance in India. An implication of this study is that it establishes huge gaps in executive compensation in the Indian corporate landscape, thus, posing challenges to governance of public sector companies in India. It makes a case for governance reforms in terms of executive compensation for top management of public sector companies.

EIB Working Paper 2020/07 - The growing digital divide in Europe and the United States (Volume 2020/7)

Using a new survey on digitalisation activities of firms in the EU and the US, we identify digitalisation profiles based on the current use of digital technologies and future investment plans in digitalisation. Our analysis confirms the trend toward digital polarisation and a growing digital divide in the corporate landscape with, on one side, many firms that are not digitally active, and on the other side, a substantial number of digitally active firms forging ahead. Old small firms, with less than 50 employees and more than 10 years old, are significantly more likely to be persistently digitally non-active. We show that these persistently non-digital firms are less likely to be innovative, increase employment or command higher mark-ups. These trends are likely to exacerbate the digital divide across firms in the EU and the US.

The Effect of Institutional Investor Portfolio Diversification on Corporate Diversification

We examine whether institutional investors' portfolio diversification affects corporate diversification and related practices. Estimating investor portfolio diversification using their holdings' return characteristics, we find a negative relationship between portfolio and corporate diversification that is robust to a quasi-natural experiment. Further, greater diversified ownership is associated with firms' distinctiveness, like undertaking fewer diversifying acquisitions and conducting non-core asset sales. These firms also have greater idiosyncratic risk and lower product market similarity to peers. Diversified blockholder counts, incentive compensation, quasi-indexer ownership, less volatile and non-crisis periods amplify our results. These findings illustrate how ownership structure can reshape the corporate landscape.

The relationship between integrated reporting and corporate environmental performance: A green trial

AbstractIntegrated reporting is a fairly recent phenomenon in the corporate reporting realm. Its dawn marks a new age of corporate reporting where financial and non‐financial information and their interrelation create an integrated and holistic approach for telling a value creation story. In tandem with this transformation, business sustainability in general and environmental performance, in particular, are also gaining prominence in the corporate landscape. This scholarly article investigates the relationship between integrated reporting and corporate environmental performance. A panel‐data is used to carry out the study using a sample of 110 firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock exchange for the years 2014–2018, where Integrated Reporting was first mandated. The empirical results are robust and consistent with our predictions in that integrated reporting is found positively associated with corporate environmental performance. Our findings pave the way for a new stream of literature on the transformation and the connectivity functions of integrated reporting.

An Overview of the Interpretation of Contracts by English Courts and Its Impacts on the Corporate Sector of the Country

Contracts, and thus the law governing it, is the pillar of all commercial and corporate transactions in any country. In fact, contracts, in such sectors, is an entire source of law in itself. In addition to statutes and common-law, contracts are the legally binding agreements that regulate the units of the corporate sector. Therefore, the manner in which courts interpret contracts in cases of a dispute has far-reaching consequences on corporate business conduct. The courts’ role in such domains has implications not only on matters of legal governance and regulation but also on the national economy, international trade, and international politics. It is, therefore, imperative to assess the role courts play in establishing standard norms and conventions of good practice and conduct in commercial and corporate settings by way of judgement regarding cases involving the corporate sector. This paper attempts to analyze this role of the English Courts by referring to certain prominent judgements such as Investors Compensation Scheme v. West Bromwich Housing Society, Hadley v Baxendale, and several others which proved instrumental in defining the practice of courts in determining intent and damages in contracts. It assesses how the English Courts have, through active involvement in the process of interpretation, affected the corporate landscape of the country. The paper largely discusses the evolution and effects of the general practice of courts in matters of determination of the matrix of fact, active investigation of intent, the place of good faith in English contracts, and the nature of damages to contracts.

What Jensen and Meckling Really Said About the Public Company

Accepted views of a classic academic work can quite readily distort the original text. Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s widely cited 1976 article “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure” exemplifies the pattern. The article has been cited as a key inspiration for various significant governance changes affecting publicly traded firms, including moving the maximization of shareholder value to the top of the managerial priority list. Jensen and Meckling in fact had little to say about altering the corporate landscape, in substantial measure because they were favorably disposed toward the public company. This chapter canvasses the wide gap between what Jensen and Meckling supposedly said about the public company and what they actually said and explains how this discrepancy occurred.

Women Leadership in Indian Organizations

In today’s global economy, industries require a talented pool of candidates to create a comparative competitive advantage to address the global opportunities as well as to address these global trends and dynamic challenges factual and cognitive leadership is required to manage changes effectively. The nurturing and task-oriented style, managerial practices, organizational orientation, especially followed by women entrepreneurs/ leaders/ managers has carved a niche for women leadership in national as well as international platforms. The current financial crisis and long-term global trends are reshaping the corporate landscape, and there is an urgent need to accelerate some of the changes in corporations to seize the new opportunities that arise from time to time. This conceptual research paper analyzes that though the ages, how women have experienced the disadvantages of existing in a patriarchal framework designating them in a homemaker role and how women in business now, have broken that mold across the world and created new stories for themselves.

Covid-19 Cyber Insurance or Cyber Liability: Do You Have the Coverage?

Coronavirus has changed how nearly every company operates and exacerbated security and operational cyber risk. Cyber insurance is now a key cog in a modern company’s insurance portfolio, which can specifically address and mitigate these increased risks.Cyber risk has been cited as a top risk for organizations over the next 20 years due to the growing reliance on technology and the increasing sophistication of cyber attackers. As the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the corporate landscape, many companies are realizing that cyber risks over the next 20 years have arrived at their doors in the last two weeks.Many companies have moved to an entirely remote workforce as shelter-in-place guidelines have been enforced across state and local governments alike. Cyber attackers, in all their ingenuity, have taken advantage of the coronavirus to deploy their malware and take advantage of the newly remote workforce. Recently, the World Health Organization was the target of attacks and the FBI issued a warning of increased fraud schemes related to the pandemic.Fortunately, the insurance industry has been preparing for the cyber risks of the future and a modern cyber insurance policy can address the very risks that have risen to the top of mind for many companies today: operational and security risk.Cyber-insurance is a specialty lines insurance product intended to protect businesses, and individuals providing services for such businesses, from Internet-based risks, and more generally from risks relating to information technology infrastructure, information privacy, information governance liability, and activities related thereto. Risks of this nature are typically excluded from traditional commercial general liability policies or at least are not specifically defined in traditional insurance products. A good first step is to create a cyber risk profile for your company and to create a list of expenses you want to have covered in the event of an incident. Then, you can determine an estimate for third-party costs. Many insurers provide an insurance calculator on their websites to help organizations create a list of coverage and estimate costs. Then, you can begin researching cyber insurance providers.