{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Series 2, Episode 19 - Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, with Professor Jake Waddingham, Texas State University","description":"It is now almost 20 years since the first podcast was launched, and if the available statistics are anything to go by, podcasts are definitely having a moment, with a reputed 2.5 million podcasts listed in Apple podcasts.\n\nWhen we think about who listens to podcasts, data from the US indicates that podcast listeners are 68% more likely to have a postgraduate degree, and 45% of podcast listeners have a household income over $250,000.\n\nAnd why do people listen to podcast? Apparently 74% of people listen to podcasts in order to learn new things.\n\nTo discuss podcasts in more detail, and in particular consider how leaders can leverage business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Jake Waddingham.\n\nJake Waddingham is an Assistant Professor of Management at McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. Jakes research explores how organizations and entrepreneurs manage stakeholder perceptions and his research has been published in the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies and Business Horizons amongst others.\n\nJake can be contacted via one of the following sites:\n•\tGoogle scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XFWZXWYAAAAJ\n•\tLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwaddingham/ \n\nThe Business Horizon’s article referenced in the discussion is:Insights on the go: Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance by Jacob A. Waddingham, Miles A. Zachary, David J. Ketchen Jr. It is available to access here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339444655_Insights_on_the_go_Leveraging_business_podcasts_to_enhance_organizational_performance\n\nThe podcast statistics quoted above are from this site: https://nealschaffer.com/podcast-statistics/\n\nThe various podcasts mentioned during the discussion include:\n•\tMasters of Scale with Reid Hoffman – https://mastersofscale.com/\n•\tThe Indicator from Planet Money - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-planet-money\n•\tWorklife with Adam Grant – https://adamgrant.net/podcasts/work-life/\n•\tBusiness Wars with David Brown - https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/\n•\tFreakonomics with Stephen Dubner – https://freakonomics.com/series/freakonomics-radio/ \n•\tEcontalk with Russ Roberts - https://www.econlib.org/econtalk/ \n•\tAxios Sports with Kendall Baker – https://www.axios.com/authors/kbaker","author_name":"Brain for Business"}