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Reaching For Rigor And Relevance: Better Marketing Research For A Better World, Shilpa Madan, Et. Al.
Reaching For Rigor And Relevance: Better Marketing Research For A Better World, Shilpa Madan, Et. Al.
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Over the past several decades, scholars have highlighted the obligations and opportunities for marketing as a discipline to play a role in creating a better world — or risk becoming irrelevant for the largest problems facing consumers and society. This paper provides a framework to enhance the relevance and rigor of research in marketing that not only contributes new knowledge to science, but also makes a positive difference in the world. To that end, we urge authors and reviewers to foster cross-fertilization from different theoretical and methodological silos, bolster robustness through multiple methods, and expand the domain of research to …
Nio's Battery-As-A-Service Strategy, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Lipika Bhattacharya
Nio's Battery-As-A-Service Strategy, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Lipika Bhattacharya
Asian Management Insights
A game changer in the EV industry?
The Sustainability Syndicate: Shared Responsibility In A Trans-Organizational Business Model, Sudhi Seshadri
The Sustainability Syndicate: Shared Responsibility In A Trans-Organizational Business Model, Sudhi Seshadri
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
This paper proposes design principles for the ‘sustainability syndicate’: shared responsibility among diverse stakeholders for sustainability; an agenda for unifying economic and ethical rationales; and plural governance based primarily on markets, contracts and collaborative relationships. The paper suggests a research agenda directed at issues that constrain sustainability syndicates. Syndication's contributions to sustainability build upon its trans-organizational structures for shared responsibility. Syndication works as an insurance cooperative that reduces the financial burden of risk. In addition, members could rent skill sets from other stakeholders, reduce barriers to entry into bigger projects, and improve efficiencies. As underlying sustainability are both economic and …
Sustainability In Clothing Supply Chains: Implications For Marketing, Sudhindra Seshadri
Sustainability In Clothing Supply Chains: Implications For Marketing, Sudhindra Seshadri
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Recommendations for sustainability strategies for business have predominantly taken an individual firm level perspective. Yet, sustainability efforts are by essence collaborative and span firm level boundaries. Multiple stakeholders espousing often divergent goals need to work together over long periods on sustainability collaborations. Well recognized externalities in the firm’s economic existence need to be addressed by multiple stakeholder skill sets and are fraught with high risks and uncertainties. These are conditions ripe for syndication, as financial and corporate syndicates have demonstrated.The rules of syndication cover the structure of membership, setting of goals and objectives, governance, incentives and sharing of rewards and …