Andrew Shipilov
Author's details
Name: Andrew Shipilov
Date registered: January 20, 2012
URL: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/personal/ashipilov/
Biography
Andrew Shipilov is an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. His current academic research examines how social networks affect firms’ competitive advantage. At INSEAD, Prof. Shipilov teaches and directs executive education programs on competitive strategy, collaborative strategy and Blue Ocean Strategy. Starting from 2010 he is a director of INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Open Enrollment Program. His clients include Abbott Labs, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Bayer, BNP Paribas and other well known companies.
Prof. Shipilov’s work has been published at the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics as well as in other journals and edited books. His dissertation proposal was recognized as a finalist at the INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and his papers have been published in the Best Papers Proceedings of the Academy of Management. In August 2007 Prof. Shipilov received the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division. Currently, he is an editorial board member of Strategic Organization, Strategic Management Journal and a co-editor of the Special Research Form in the Academy of Management Journal “Relational Pluralism of Individuals, Teams and Organizations”.
Latest posts
- How a Scandinavian Firm can teach The World on how to use Social Media inside their Organizations — October 25, 2012
- Use Social Media to Develop Emotional Capital with Your Employees — September 24, 2012
- Benefit from the networks of your lost employees — March 15, 2012
- Social media improves internal communication! — February 21, 2012
- The impact of social media on industry structure — February 16, 2012
Author's posts listings
When we discuss about European competitiveness, there is often gloom and doom thinking about European non-competitiveness. We believe that such thinking conveys an over-pessimistic picture of Europe’s competences in many aspects of business. In this short text, we want to focus on European managerial competence and to underscore that there are executives in Europe who are exceptionally good at managing both the hard and the soft aspects of management to achieve competitive advantage.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/10/how-a-scandinavian-firm-can-teach-the-world-on-how-to-use-social-media-inside-their-organizations/
Many organizations have started using social media tools internally to interact with their employees. However, the majority of companies have either stayed away from using these tools or failed to see satisfactory results. In fact, in our survey of 1060 global executives, only 30% said that they work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/use-social-media-to-develop-emotional-capital-with-your-employees/
Is losing employees bad for your firm? An intuitive answer would be a straight “yes” because by losing employees, your organisation seemingly loses not only its human capital (i.e. their skills and tacit knowledge accumulated over the years) but also its social capital (i.e.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/03/benefit-from-the-networks-of-your-lost-employees/
This is the final installment of the presentation of our survey results on the impact of social media on the competitive advantage of organizations.
In the survey, we asked about the impact of organizations’ using social media for internal communication (e.g.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/02/social-media-improves-internal-communication/
In the previous post, I discussed some results of a survey where we asked about how companies can use social media to achieve competitive advantage.
In that survey, Prof. Quy Huy and I, also asked participants to tell us how the structure of their industries was affected by the introduction of social media tools.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/02/the-impact-of-social-media-on-industry-structure/
Last year, an INSEAD professor Quy Huy (who also has a separate INSEAD blog), and I collected data on how companies used social media to achieve competitive advantage. We are currently working on a major thought piece using the most useful insights, but given that the journal review process takes a very long time, I thought that I could sharesome results in their general form.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/02/use-social-media-to-connect-to-your-suppliers/
A recent article in International Herald Tribune entitled “Yin and Yang of corporate creativity” describes two approaches to innovation, one of Apple and another of Google. The Google approach is a bottom up, open innovation which is based on rapid experimentation and receiving quick customer feedback.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/innovation-networks-a-la-google-or-a-la-apple/
Let’s continue reviewing basic topics in inter-personal networking. We learned that an individual with open inter-personal network is a person whose friends don’t know each other. This individual is considered to be a broker, because he or she can combine information and knowledge from some of his/her network contacts and create something new and innovative.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/how-to-benefit-from-closed-networks/
