Heightened emotions, such as anger, can play a critical role in triggering risk-seeking behaviour, finds new research by Emlyon Business School.

Firms with exclusive brokerage positions in their collaboration networks outshine their counterparts by an average margin of more than 7 per cent in crisis conditions, according to recent research conducted at ESMT Berlin.

Firms can generate more wealth from innovations than markets alone, reveals new research from UT Austin's McCombs School of Business.

Brands perceived as caring and friendly receive more reports after product incidents. However, instead of vengeful complaints, consumers report more helpful feedback so the brand can fix the problem, according to new research from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Promising tech start-ups all invest heavily in growth and have a global outlook from the outset, according to new research by Vlerick Business School and Deloitte Belgium.

Amid a year of elections and leadership battles and following the airing of the 18th series of BBC’s The Apprentice, you may be forgiven for thinking that arrogance or self-promotion is a pathway to success in business. But new research shows that the opposite is true.