Whether or not a business is doomed to fail can now be predicted by a new model from academics at the University of Cologne, LMU Munich, and ETH Zurich.

The model, presented by Professor Markus Weinmann and his co-authors Christof Naumzik and Professor Stefan Feuerriegel, uses restaurants’ online ratings to detect business failures with an accuracy of over 78 percent.

Using over 64,000 ratings o...

14 December 2021 A poll conducted by SentryBay, the UK-based cybersecurity software company last week has found that 69.1% of professionals with security responsibility believe a rethink is needed to deal with the threat of cybersecurity now that devices and applications have moved outside the corporate network.

The poll, which was conducted on Twitter amongst cybersecurity professionals, aimed t...

The last couple of years has seen fundamental changes in what businesses, consumers, and criminals do online. More and more aspects of our lives were already shifting towards the internet, but this was accelerated by the pandemic while we couldn’t see our loved ones, meet up with friends, or go to work in the office for most of 2020 and start of 2021.

This shift in behaviour has seen a huge incre...

Accountants and accountancy firms are both the perpetrators and the victims of the problems currently facing the sector, finds new research from Nyenrode Business University.

The research, conducted by Marlies de Vries, Director of training programs at the University, investigated the experience of young accountants in the Netherlands between 2011 – 2018, when the image of accountancy began to de...

3D printing could be the key to reducing inventory, and for making supply chains for spare parts more responsive, according to new research from Durham University Business School.

The study, conducted by Dr Atanu Chaudhuri alongside colleagues at Aalborg University in Denmark, investigates how the technology can be used to assist in the production of spare parts for manufacturers across multiple ...

To implement a successful strategy, the key is to make sure your plans add value for the customer as well as are supported by flexible processes and are being executed by the right people, according to new research from Nyenrode Business University.

According to the research, which studied four global companies, 63% of strategies fail, 24% of management is poorly informed and 95% of employees don...

The further into the future a business sets their sights, the more proactive they need to be, reveals new insights from Aalto University Executive Education.

These insights were found by Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen, Mikko Laukkanen, and their colleagues, who discussed how the uncertainties of life can have an impact on businesses.

Dr Tahvanainen (Manager, Innovation Policy at the Finnish Forest Indu...

For some, being promoted can actually lead to ‘managerial blues’, finds new research from NEOMA Business School.

The research was conducted by Assistant Professor Nishani Bourmault at NEOMA in collaboration with Professor Michel Anteby of Boston University, who aimed to investigate why people may experience similar managerial jobs very differently.

While becoming a manager is generally portrayed...

In a business environment where companies must deal with a vast number of external factors which can threaten long-term success, a new report from Vlerick Business School highlights the five capabilities needed for firms to counteract this turbulence through strategic flexibility.

Becoming strategically flexible is not an easy task for companies, and this report looks to simply highlight the capa...