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Pair Programming and Backup Behavior: Tools to become ultra-agile. How can firms and teams become more agile? And when working under a novel task, how can teams help each other and extract the maximum out of everyone based on their individual strengths? Professor Thomas Kude, University of Bamberg, formerly of ESSEC Business School, and his fellow researchers Sunil Mithas, Muma College of Business, Christoph T. Schmidt, SVP International Technology, and Armin Heinzl, University of Mannheim, shine light on pair programming and backup behavior – two important concepts that teams can adopt to become more agile and more adept at handling new challenges.

Pair Programming and Backup Behaviour: Tools to become ultra-agile

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Prof. Thomas Kude, Bamberg University, explores pair programming and back up behavior – or how to make IT teams tough and agile.

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Negative Publicity in Stigmatized Industry: Is sin a blessing in disguise for CEOs? Can negative publicity and a lower level of reputation offer positive benefits for CEOs in stigmatized industries? Professors Mohamad Sadri, ESSEC Business School, and Caterina Moschieri, IE Business School, explain why the conventional rule that negative publicity is bad for business does not hold true in sin industries.

CEOs and Negative Publicity in Stigmatized Industry: The paradox

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Profs. Mohamad Sadri, ESSEC Business School, and Caterina Moschieri, IE Business School, explore the paradox of negative publicity for CEOs.

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Prof. Karoline Strauss, ESSEC Business School, leads us through the importance of having multiple visions of future selves.

Having Different Visions of Ourselves in the Future is Key

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Prof. Karoline Strauss, ESSEC Business School, leads us through the importance of having multiple visions of future selves.

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AI: Resurgence in the Art of Rhetoric and Composition? Michelle Diaz, ESSEC Business School Winner of the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition, takes a deep dive into the clamour surrounding AI and contends that ChatGPT can be embraced by academia to bring the crucial skills of writing and rhetoric back to the forefront of learning.

AI: Resurgence in the Art of Rhetoric and Composition?

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ESSEC student Michelle Diaz takes a deep dive into AI to contend that it put writing and rhetoric back to the forefront of learning.

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Does Effort Guarantee Performance and Success? While popular culture promotes the idea that effort is the key to success, it's essential to understand the different contexts in which it operates. Research by Professor Fabrice Cavarretta, ESSEC Business School, explores the dual nature of effort as both a cause and a consequence of success to propose an effective mechanism to help boost motivation and pleasure.

Does Effort Guarantee Performance and Success?

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Prof. Fabrice Cavarretta, ESSEC Business School, explores the dual nature of effort in performance and success at work.

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Emerging Markets and Sustainable Investing: The key to a better future? Routledge's latest publication, Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and Profit for a Better World, is making waves with its insightful contributors. Among others, research from Professor Adrian Zicari of ESSEC Business School is featured in this publication.

Emerging Markets and Sustainable Investing: The key to a better future?

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Prof. Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, explores how sustainable investing in emerging markets can benefit society and planet.

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Greening Finance for a Sustainable Future. Responsible finance is crucial for the betterment of our society and planet. Professor Hugues Bouthinon Dumas, ESSEC Business School, has contributed to this field with his research, which is now a part of the recently published book Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and Profit for Better Business, Society and Planet by Routledge.

Greening Finance for a Sustainable Future

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Prof. Hugues Bouthinon Dumas, ESSEC Business School, explores how greening finance is crucial for the betterment of our society and planet.

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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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The Future of Green Jobs. What are green jobs and how can companies and organisations support and nurture them? Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The Future of Green Jobs

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Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO.

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Traceability and Bitcoin vs Sustainability in supply chains: Sophie’s Choice? Debajyoti Biswas, ESSEC Business School, Hamed Jalali, NEOMA Business School, Amir H. Ansaripoor, Curtin Business School, and Pietro De Giovanni, Luiss University, examine whether the benefits of traceability are worth the costs to sustainability.

Traceability vs Sustainability: Sophie’s Choice?

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Debajyoti Biswas, ESSEC Business School, and co-researchers examine whether the benefits of traceability are worth the costs to sustainability

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