MBA510

Cooperrider, D & Selian, A. (2021). The business of building a better world : The leadership revolution that is changing everything. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Read Part 1, #3 Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Part 3, #17. Toward Reinvention of Your Theory of the Business: Five Principles for Thriving in the Disrupted World by Nadya Zhexembayeva and David Cooperrider. This e–book looks at the role of leadership, and especially value-based leadership in our current world and business environment.

Hoffman, A. J. (2021). Envisioning your career in management as a calling. In Management as a calling : Leading business, serving society. Stanford University Press.
Read Part 5, which consists of Chapters 16 and 17. Chapter 16: The Future World, which discusses the changes and trends we can expect in the future. Chapter 17: Your Role in Your Own Future, looks at how leadership and management will need to change to meet the new future in business.

DeJong, R. & vasn Reisen, M. (2021). Shaping the post-COVID 19 agenda: A call for responsible leadership. In Aarts, E., Fleuren, H., Sitskoorn, M., & Wilthagen, T. (Eds.). The new common: How the covid-19 pandemic is transforming society. Springer International Publishing AG.
Read Chapter 15: Shaping the post-COVID 19 agenda: A call for responsible leadership. This chapter discusses how responsible leadership will play a key role in the future and the business value will be redefined along three core dimensions: social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Also, the role of responsible business leaders will be towards more economic equity.

Atkova, I., & Ahokangas, P. (2020). From Structure to process: Dynamic aspects of business model change. Journal of Business Models, 8(2), 57–72.
This article uses complexity theory to look at how business models evolve.

Balakrishnan, R., Matsumura, E. M., & Ramamoorti, S. (2019). Finding common ground: COSO's control frameworks and levers of control. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 31(1),63-83.
This article includes diagrams and charts. It includes a discussion of the COSO model and how it integrates into an organization for control. Levers of control are also reviewed and applied to the assessment of the efficiency of the organization for processes and strategies.

Chatterjee, S., & Matzler, K. (2019). Simple rules for a network efficiency business model: The case of Vizio. California Management Review, 61(2), 84-103.
This article discusses the business model as unlocking efficiency in a sharing economy. There is strong content of B2B (business-to-business) settings. The authors propose simple rules that managers can apply to build disruptive business models. The article follows a case study of the company Vizio and a go-to-market strategy that resulted in the company being dominant is the flat-panel TV industry.

Guckenbiehl, P., & Corral de Zubielqui, G. (2022). Start-ups’ business model changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Counteracting adversities and pursuing opportunities. International Small Business Journal, 40(2), 150–177.
This article looked at 32 Australian start-up businesses and how their business model changed as a result of the crisis-induced opportunities and adversity that occurred as a result of the pandemic.

Iammarino, S., McCann, P., & Ortega-Argilés, R., (2018). International business, cities and competitiveness: Recent trends and future challenges. Competitiveness Review, 28(3), 236-251.
This article explores this idea of thinking in line with multinationals, locations, and competitiveness over the last five decades. The purpose is to prove that current thinking is based on previous shifts in business. Additional thoughts are that future trends will be driven by diversity, demography, automation, policy, and protection.

Janicijevic, N. (2017). Organizational models as configurations of structure, culture, leadership, control, and change strategies. Economic Annals, 65(213), 67-91.
This article discusses the important control a business model can have within an organization. Diagrams are included that show how models can bring consistency in areas in the business such as leadership, change management, strategy, culture, and processes. The model discussion demonstrates how equal distribution of power can be applied.

Ngayo Fotso, G. M. (2021). Leadership competencies for the 21st century: a review from the Western world literature. European Journal of Training and Development, 45(6/7), 566–587.
This article is a review of the literature of various leadership theories and competencies, and a discussion of which competencies will be needed by the 21st century leader.

Petrucci, T., & Rivera, M. (2018). Leading growth through the digital leader. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12(3), 53-56.
This article covers the insight of new leaders by generations. The millennials are in the workforce, and next will be the iGen. In some cases, they are already in the workforce. Changes and future trends result in faster-paced workplaces and increasingly complex leader tasks with many generations to manage. Suggestions are made that future leadership will include real-time feedback, agile networks of teams, microlearning, artificial intelligence, and a digitally minded leader..

Thomsen, P. (2019). Business model performance: Paving the road comparable data on business models. Journal of Business Models, 7(4), 45-52.
This article covers the concept that 14 of the 19 entrants to the Fortune 500 companies use a business model and contribute their success to the model. Mastering a business model increases competitive advantage and models are talked about more today than ever before. The discussion also included the use of data from business models to advance best practices.

Stalmachova, K., Chinoracky, R., & Strenitzerova, M. (2022). Changes in business models caused by digital transformation and the COVID-19 pandemic and possibilities of their measurement—Case study. Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), 14(1).
This is a case study of how the digital transformation caused by the pandemic changed the business models of a company that operates in the financial sector.

Harvard Business Review. (2019). The explainer: What is a business model? [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C-vGu2mL38
The video provides a quick overview as to what a business model is and how they are used.

Sage. (2019). Small business in action: Innovation [Video]. SAGE Knowledge.
Watch both segmented chapters in the video. Chapter 1 -- The speaker discusses the beginning stages of studying two companies and developing a business model to innovate his own coffee company. Chapter 2 -- This video speaker covers the ideas that emerged as he was studying two different coffee companies and the new business model.

Fiorentino, S., Livingstone, N., McAllister, P., & Cooke, H. (2022). Future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society, 15(3), 597–614.
This is an interesting article that shares the study of businesses in the U.K. and, using a ‘theory of change’ framework looked at the changes that are occurring in in corporate work patterns due to the pandemic.