Expert opinions

WBS Associate Professor of Strategic Management Michael Mol's jointly-authored research paper 'Does Strategic Protection of Knowledge Undermine the Effectiveness of External Knowledge Sourcing?' is examined in an article on Knowledge@Wharton.

WBS Professors Graeme Currie and Justin Waring have just completed editing a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, the world's highest citation Social Sciences journal. Their interview on a YouTube video explains the reasons behind this Special Issue.

"It's a cauldron of emotions we're dealing with . . . fundamentally it's all about anxiety and lack of trust." Professor Richard Taffler, WBS Professor of Accounting & Finance, comments on Reuter's international website on the Eurozone debt crisis and how it affects markets.

'The evidence keeps growing that pay for performance is ineffective. It also may induce executives to take company-killing risks. There are other ways to motivate employees that yield better results at lower cost.' WBS Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science Bruno Frey and Professor of Management Science Margit Osterloh write in Harvard Business Review and Singapore's Today Online.

In an article on the latest quarterly business inflation guide from insurer More Than, appearing in the online magazine This is Money, WBS Professor Stephen Roper warns of a tough year ahead for small firms in the UK.

When we choose a car, vote, or make a moral choice, we imagine ourselves driven by deep motivations and desires. But one of the insights of modern behavioural science is that this feeling is almost entirely an illusion. Rather than consulting our 'inner selves', we are, rather desperately, attempting to figure out, there and then, what we should do and feel. Rather than drilling down into some stable bedrock, we cook up a credible-sounding story about our behaviour, on the spot.

Professor Simon Collinson was one of just two speakers invited to address a Policy Breakfast today, organised by the Industry and Parliament Trust (IPT) on the The Future of Government Support for British Industry in the House of Commons. The IPT's function is to build bridges between legislators and the business community.

Dr Jan Stiles, Executive Director of Executive Education at WBS, writes in CEO Today magazine on how recent global financial turbulence has helped to clarify where executive education can add real value.

Dr Julia Kotlarsky, Associate Professor of Information Systems & Management, writes in the 2010 edition of the International Trade Forum on current trends and challenges facing Western businesses considering outsourcing.

Dr Zoe Radnor is Reader in the Operations Management Group at Warwick Business School. She is working over a long timescale with regional and national government and public service bodies on the implementation of 'Lean' and associated techniques in public governance and service sectors.

WBS Professor Wendy Currie recently advised CentreForum, a think tank, on future policy for the National Health Service with regard to its use of IT.

Martin Cave, Professor and Director of the WBS Centre for Management under Regulation, writes in European Voice magazine: "In recent months, coverage of the European Commission's proposed telecoms package has waned – understandably, since discussions have been deadlocked. But your readers, and EU policymakers, need to understand that the need for this legislation is urgent."

Commenting on joint European-wide research on the benefits of outsourcing, Julia Kotlarsky, Associate Professor of Information Systems at Warwick Business School, concludes, "Outsourcers need to work closely with the CIO, CFO and their teams to reduce maintenance budgets and apply them to the proactive, revenue-generating activities the business demands in order to maximise the long-term business value of outsourcing engagements."

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