Hello, dear listeners! Today, I continue with the topic of the #threatofentry. As the next driver of this force from the #forces #framework by #Porter, I elaborate on the access to the #distributionchannels. I wish I could provide you with an example of success, but in this episode, I talk about a failed idea. But, we learn from our mistakes, hopef…

Dear listeners I see that the names for the episode become longer ;) The reason is a bit complex #structure of the course of #strategicmanagement. But we'll manage to establish a good understanding of the course. In this episode, I talk about the product #differentiation. The more different your products are from the competitors' products, the hard…

Welcome, dear listeners, Today, I continue elaborating on the #threatofentry as a force in the #5forces framework by Porter. We talk about the #absolutecostadvantage - a tangible, intangible, or human resource that allows firms to easily join the market and become successful. Don't forget to share, comment, subscribe, and enjoy! Best Eugene (Yevgen…

Welcome, dear friends and listeners, Today, we continue elaborating on the topic of #threatofentry - one of the forces in the #5forces framework by #Porter. We talk about the next driver - a factor that can increase or decrease the threat of someone joining your market. We talk about the #economiesofscale. Enjoy the examples, share yours in the com…

Hello and welcome to the next episode of my #management #research #podcast, dear listeners! Today, we start elaborating on the next #force in the #5forces #framework of #porter - the #threatofentry. The threat of entry is driven by several factors. I discuss one of these factors in this episode - the #capitalrequirements. Enjoy, share, subscribe, a…

Welcome, dear listeners! Today, we are talking about the #5forces framework by #porter. One of the forces that shape the market and should influence your success is the #threatofsubstitutes. #substitutes are the #products (or #services) that are different in nature but may offer you a similar result. Think of butter vs margarine - different in natu…

Welcome to the next episode in my Strategic Management series! Today, we talk about two #theories (or views) about how to achieve a #sustained #competitiveadvantage. While the Market-based View (#mbv) focuses on the market and industry analysis, the Resource-based View (#rbv) focuses on the firm's internal #resources and #comeptencies (or #capabili…

Welcome dear listeners! Today, I talk about the three main #drivers of #profit of a #firm. These are the #intensity of #competition, #value for the #customer (and it is not the #price), and the #bargaining power over a customer. Enjoy, share, subscribe, and comment - it does matter! Best Eugene (Yevgen)…

Welcome! Today, I continue elaborating on the topic of #pathdependency. In this episode, I provide you with some examples of path dependencies but also with examples of how you can apply the #theory to make your personal or business life better! Enjoy, share, comment, and subscribe - it does matter! Best Eugene (Yevgen)…

Welcome, dear listeners, In my new episode, I talk about the #pathdependency theory and explain why we use the #QWERTY keyboard. Path dependency is a very powerful, yet a bit deterministic #theory which is of great importance for a good #strategist. Enjoy, subscribe, share, and comment - it does matter! Faithfully Eugene (Yevgen)…

Welcome, dear listeners! Today, I talk about one of the tools for the #environmental #analysis in #strategicmanagement - #pest. PEST stands for #political, #economic, #social (& #cultural), and #technological factors. Although the tool is vague and has plenty of issues (I mention those briefly), it is the best that we have for now. So, apply it wis…

Welcome, dear listeners! Today, I talk about differences in #strategicmanagement for #nonprofit #organisations. Interestingly, some scholars argue that non-profit organisations work in a different environment and, thus, economic mechanisms work for them differently. So, can we apply the knowledge from the field of strategic management or do we need…

Welcome, dear listeners, to the next episode of my #managementresearch #podcast! Today, I briefly talk about #Corporate #Social #Responsibility (#csr) and the reason why this topic is debated. There is no clear view on CSR in any country, but we know that responsible acting is something desired. But why do many fail in pursuing CSR? Or why do we ha…

Welcome, dear friends and listeners! In today's show, I talk about the #stakeholders and a simple way to organise them and #manage them. Based on the two scales - level of interest and level of power - stakeholders can be approached in a structured way. When developing your #strategy, you should always think about whose #interest you are developing…

Welcome, dear listeners, to the next #episode in my #management #research #podcast! Today, I talk about the roles of strategy: - decision-making support, - coordination device, - targeting and motivation, and - animation and orientation. Enjoy and share your thoughts in the comment section below! Best Eugene (Yevgen)…

Welcome, dear listeners, to the next #episode in the #management #research #podcast! Today, I talk about the intended and emergent strategy. These are two opposing poles in the approach to #strategising. Would you make a very precise plan and stick to it (#intendedstrategy) or will you try to remain flexible and grasp any opportunity that emerges o…

Dear friends In my previous episode, I gave examples of strategic moves in #warinukraine. In this episode, I give a definition and provide you with some examples of #strategic moves at an individual's and a firm's level. In the end, I also share with you my vision regarding #tourism #investments in #Tyrol and #Innsbruck that I hold for wrong strate…

Hello, dear listeners, Today's episode will give examples of #strategic #moves in the #active #phase of the #warinukraine. The most active phase of the #war started in 2022, while the war has been going on since 2014. After February 2022, one could trace several strategic moves (it is not the whole strategy, of course), i.e. decisions that shaped t…

Welcome to my new #managementresearch #podcast episode! Today, I discuss #strategy as #positioning and strategy as #direction. Suppose you want to be successful and have motivated personnel. In that case, you have to define your correct #corporate and #business strategy as positioning first - which industry are you competing in and how are you comp…

Hello, dear listeners, in today's #episode, I discuss the difference between the terms "#corporate #strategy" and "#business #strategy". I also give some examples for both. Enjoy, #share, #subscribe, and #comment - it does matter. Best Eugene (Yevgen)By Yevgen Bogodistov

Welcome, dear listeners! In today's #episode, I am talking about the origins of #strategy. Interestingly, the strategy in #business has a lot in common with the strategy in #military. According to some scholars, business took over the ideas, structure, and work organising from those organisations we have been good at since the beginning of mankind.…

Welcome, dear listeners! My students often ask me to give some #examples during our #strategic #management course. I use examples from different fields. Yet, many are now interested in #chess after the new movie “The Queen’s Gambit” (2021) or because chess is associated with #wisdom and #intelligence. At least, about half of the students from my cl…

Welcome, dear listeners, to the next #episode in my new mini-series dedicated to #strategicmanagement! Today, I talk about, what I call, three pillars of a #successful #strategy. The pillars are very simple, but these are exactly the simple things that are hard to follow... In #strategic #management, the planning horizon is so big and the complexit…

Hello and welcome to my new mini-series on Strategic Management! Today, I have an introductory episode where I focus on two types of #thinking - a low level of #construal (#concrete) and a high level of construal (#abstract) thinking. In #strategicmanagement, you mostly need very abstract thinking as your decisions have a time horizon of 3 to 5 yea…

Happy New Year, dear listeners! This episode is just a summary of what we have done together. I also explain why this podcast appeared and the plans for next year. Enjoy, subscribe, and leave your comments! With the best wishes for the new year Eugene (Yevgen)By Yevgen Bogodistov

Welcome, dear listeners, today, I share the next episode of my #management #research #podcast. In this episode, I address one of your suggestions regarding the current topic - #psychological #games by Eric #Berne. In his suggestion, Mr @Despotovic proposed to treat three ego states as three types of identity (i.e., applying the #identitytheory). Al…

Hello and welcome to my podcast, dear friends and guests, Today, I continue with our mini-series on #psychological #games as postulated by Eric #Berne. In this #management #research #podcast episode, I briefly explain how to avoid psychological games, especially if there was an "official call" - the #game has been announced in front of a #team and …

Hello and welcome dear friends In this episode, we continue talking about #psychological #games as suggested by Eric #Berne. When analysing how people interact with each other, Eric Berne discovered that some games can be positive for both parties. In this episode, I provide you with an example of such a #game. Moreover, I briefly discuss whether o…

Welcome, dear listeners, to the next episode of my #management #research #podcast! Today, I present you another #psychological #game suggested by Eric #Berne in his book "Games People Play" - #NIGYSOB. This is an interesting game as I observe it in several #relationships in #business and #family. More about the game in this #episode. Enjoy, #commen…

Hello dear listeners! Today, I give you an #example of a #psychological #game called "Kick Me" in the book of Eric Berne. This game is about #victim #behaviour. It also explains why the #victim - #aggressor #relationships are relatively stable and even tend to get entrenched in people's behaviour and even become a lifestyle. If you know "victims" -…

Welcome to the next episode in my mini-series dedicated to #psychological #games as suggested by worldwide known #psychoanalyst Eric #Berne. In this episode, I briefly explain game dynamics and provide an example of a (as to my experience) trendy psychological game played in the office. This game, as well as many other games, leads to the emotional…

Hello, dear listeners! I am happy to post the next episode in my mini-series on #psychologicalgames as suggested by Eric #Berne. In this #episode, we talk about the #congruent modes of relationships - those that do not cause conflicts. At the end, we also shortly address the two types of #incongruent #relationships - those that usually lead to #con…

Hello and welcome to my next episode in the mini-series dedicated to #psychological #games as postulated by Eric #Berne! In this episode, I discuss the key element in this #theory - three #ego states. Berne argues that in any conversation it is not only person A is talking to person B but at a meta-level one of the ego states of person A communicat…

Hello and welcome, dear listeners! Today, I start a new #podcast mini-series dedicated to the #transactional #analysis as postulated by @Eric Berne. His ideas may help you understand the issues in #communication and prevent #conflicts in your #team or even in your #privatelife. In this episode, I briefly introduce the #scholar. In the next episode,…

Hello dear friends Today, I finalise my #podcast mini-series on #causalmapping - a method to measure how people think. In this #episode, I discuss the #positivism and #constructuvism. The episode is not about the #philosophy of #research but how this #methodology could be #published. I concluded that #causal #mapping may be a good fit for those who…

Hello and welcome! Today, I discuss what to do with the #data you collected with a #causalmap. You will have many distances from each person to all others (like a #correlation table). In our #dataanalysis, we applied #clustering - we clustered people based on their #similarity regarding the #mental #models. Later, you can use this cluster variable …

Hello, dear friends, colleagues, researchers, and students In this episode, I talk about the #practicalsteps of #settingup a #causalmap in a #survey #software, such as @limesurvey, @qualtrics, or similar. After you have developed your theory and created a list of items, you need to know what to do with it and how to implement it in the available su…

Hello and welcome In this episode, I talk about how to #compare #causalmaps of two different people. There is a #formula that you can find in the papers that I list below. In the episode, I explain the logic behind the #measurement. Even though the procedure might look "scary", it is a simple calculation of the distances as you count the #distance …

Hello and welcome to the next episode on my sub-channel "Research Methods"! Indeed, we #analyse not only topics from #managementresearch but also how to conduct this #research. Today, I continue talking about a specific #researchmethod - Causal Mapping. #causalmapping is a method that allows you to depict a #mentalmodel of an individual and even co…

Hello dear friends and listeners It's been a while since I published an episode on #researchmethods. But the time has come! And today, we are going to talk about how to #measure how people think. We can approach this "how people think" via mental models - a network of concepts related to the object or event of interest. What are the first things th…

Hello dear friends and colleagues In this #podcast #episode, I am talking about the topic of #volition. I am finalising our #mini-series on #motivation and volition is a perfect topic for the final episode. Volition is about moving from "#willing" to "#acting". There is a model that we call the #rubicon model. As with the river Rubicon - those who …

Dear listeners In this episode, I give you an example of how to apply the #self-determination #theory of #motivation to situations of high uncertainty such as the running #warfare in #Ukraine. Once, I applied the theory and I think it helped one of the local organisations to better understand how to treat #immigrants running from war. I hope that y…

Dear listeners In the previous episode of my podcast, we started talking about the there factors from the #self-dtermination #theory of #motivation as suggested by @Deci and @Ryan. Today, we continue elaborating on the topic. We talk about #relatedness and #autonomy and how they shape our motivation to walk the extra mile. Have you ever thought abo…

Dear listeners In today's #episode, I start talking about #factors that may shift the #regulatory style of #motivation towards the one closest to #intrinsic motivation. These are competence, autonomy, and relatedness. In this episode, I talk about the feeling of #competence. I show in my example how this factor changes how you perceive a task. Enjo…

Welcome to the next episode of my podcast! Today, I talk about #extrinsicmotivation. Interestingly, @Deci and @Ryan suggested that within #extrinsic #motivation, there can be several different regulations (#regulatorystyles). For instance, being motivated through #rewardandpunishment is not the same as being motivated by helping your parents; yet, …

Hello and welcome to my next #podcast #episode dedicated to the #self-determination #theoryofmotivation! In this episode, we talk about three types of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation. Initially from @Deci and @Ryan, the Self-determination #theory of motivation sheds light on the individual and what drives her to perform better or …

Welcome, dear listeners! In our today's #podcast #episode, we continue talking about #motivation. Once I received an invitation to hold a speech on #warinukraine, where they asked me to explain how #refugees feel when they have to #flee from #war in #Ukraine. I decided to talk about how people feel from the point of view of #Herzberg 's #theoryofmo…

Welcome, dear students, friends, and colleagues, to the next episode of my podcast! Today, I continue talking about the #Hygienethory or the 2-Factor #theoryofmotivation by Herzberg. In his paper in 1974, Herzberg showed that the initially proposed two factors of #dissatisfaction and #motivation are contingent on the type of activity (e.g. assembly…

Hello and welcome In our episode today, we are going to talk about #motivation. The topic of motivation is a bit outdated - in research, we know a lot about motivation. Yet, as #practitioners, we still make mistakes when trying to make our #employees, #managers, or #students walk an extra mile. Today, I talk about the #Maslow pyramid and the, in my…

Hello and welcome, dear listeners! Today, I finalise the mini-series on the Relational Models Theory. I talk about the measurement issues. Usually, we used the questionnaire from the paper of @Haslam and @Fiske in 1999. Yet, we encountered (and keep encountering) issues with the measurement. Recently, @Zakharing and @Bates (2023) made an overview o…