Permanent white-collar jobs have spike once again, up 28% in January when compared to the same time last year, while the UK continues to battle a skills crisis. That’s according to the latest Recruitment Trends Snapshot report from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

The data, provided by the global leader in software for the staffing industry, Bullhorn, revealed that dema...

Chief Financial Officers (CFO) play a vital role in successful digital transformation, enabling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to employ new technologies, finds new research from Vlerick Business School.

Digitalisation has changed the business environment dramatically in recent years. Today, every organisation must embrace the potential of new technologies, but which executive member should ...

Quantexa, the global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), has revealed the European findings from the landmark first ever Data in Context study. The independent report is based on interviews with 325 IT and data decision-makers across Financial Services, Insurance and the Public Sector in the UK, France, Netherlands and Spain.

The research shows t...

In a previous article(1) you could already read that it is forbidden to advertise in a way that misleads or may mislead the consumer, unless it concerns exaggerated advertising that should not be taken literally. In this article, we look at another spectrum of prohibited advertising, namely denigrating comparative advertising and badgering.

The Court of Appeal of Antwerp(2) recently had to decide...

Disclosing influencer marketing as advertising is a double-edged sword, according to a new study by researchers from several European universities.

The study, conducted by doctoral candidate Zeynep Karagür of the University of Cologne and her co-authors Jan-Michael Becker (BI Norwegian Business School), Kristina Klein (University of Bremen) and Alexander Edeling (KU Leuven), investigated the eff...

Large corporations have a strong desire to grow despite the pandemic, finds a unique survey led by Pekka Matilla, Professor of Practise at Aalto University Executive Education.

Conducted with OP Financial, and the Nordic Institute of Business and Society (NIBS), a think tank founded by professors at Aalto University, Mattila has published a survey focusing on Finnish large corporations.

The surv...

Short-term CEO incentives - also called bonuses - focused on a company’s sales negatively affect ESG performance, and hinder ESG efforts, according to new research from Vlerick Business School. Remarkably, almost half of Europe’s biggest firms offer these short-term sales incentives to CEOs, therefore ineffectively contributing towards wider ESG goals.

This research was conducted by Professor Xav...

Regulators have just as much of an impact on whether or not as firm is able to disrupt an industry, as the innovative products and services of the firm itself, according to new research from emlyon business school.

There are many firms that innovate and have the potential to become disruptive, however the actions of a regulator largely impact on the possibility of the firm disrupting an industry....

The dynamics linking effort to performance and success have more in common with the process of addiction than you might think, finds new research from ESSEC Business School.

Recent research from Fabrice Cavarretta studying the relationship of effort and performance finds that while we tend to think if we just put in enough effort, we’ll get the results we want, the truth is more complicated than ...