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Committed Actors, Institutional Complexity, and Pathways to Compromise: The Emergence of Islamic Banking in Germany J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Renate E. Meyer, Markus A. Höllerer
The formation of the first Islamic bank in Germany in 2015 came with considerable tensions at the interface of the religious logic, on the one hand, and the state logic, on the other. With the Islamic religious logic being novel to the German field of banking and finance, innovative templates were established to deal effectively with the resulting tensions and conflicts. Drawing on qualitative data
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The AI of the Beholder: Intra‐Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Harry Scarbrough, Yaru Chen, Gerardo Patriotta
New technologies are equivocal, triggering sensemaking responses from the individuals who encounter them. As an ‘epistemic technology’ AI poses new challenges to the expertise and jurisdictions of professionals. Such challenges may be interpreted quite differently, however, depending on the specialized role identities which develop within the wider professional domain. We explore the sensemaking responses
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How do New Ventures Thrive in Ecosystem Venturing: The Impacts of Alliance Strategy and Technology Interdependence J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Xiafei Chen, Yi Yang, Jiang Wei
New ventures in an innovation ecosystem can not only receive benefits, but also face challenges. It is important to examine defence mechanisms that new ventures can employ for their healthy development in the innovation ecosystem. Based on resource dependence theory, combining with arguments from innovation ecosystems literature, this paper proposes that new ventures’ technological alliances with core
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Representing, Re‐presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work amongst Museum Employees J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jeremy Aroles, Kevin Morrell, Edward Granter, Yin Liang
Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less is known about the micro‐level skills and choices that help to materialize different representations of the past. We understand these micro‐level skills and choices as a practice: ‘memory work’ – a banner term gathering various activities that provide the scaffolding for a shared past. Seeking to learn
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Underconformity to Female Board Representation Norms J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Fatemeh Askarzadeh, Krista Lewellyn, Stav Fainshmidt, William Q. Judge
Despite mounting societal demands for increased female representation on corporate boards, some firms underconform to institutional expectations, exhibiting significantly lower female board representation than their country peers. We argue that a firm's entrepreneurial orientation is positively viewed by stakeholders, providing its corporate leaders with greater latitude to deviate from governance
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Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Caroline Gatrell
The author teams in this Point‐Counterpoint (PCP) put forward contrasting views regarding the benefits – or otherwise – of using commercially generated corporate ‘big data’ algorithms to inform scholarly research. In this editorial, I reflect on the lines of reasoning for, and against, whether such data offers a reliable means of building new theory. Are academics who refuse to mine and analyse corporately
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Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point-Counterpoint Conversation J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Daniel Muzio, Elena Dalpiaz, Dennis Jancsary, Christine Moser, Stephan Leixnering, Markus Höllerer, Nelson Philips, Martin Kornberger, Renate Meyer
The symbol is one of the key concepts in organization and management scholarship. Yes as indicated by the authors in this debate, it has not been adequately conceptualized and as such it remains rather blunt and opaque. In what is the first systematic conceptual debate on this topic, the authors of this Point-Counterpoint debate seek to address this issue. The respective essays, despite marked differences
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Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Societal Grand Challenges: Systematizing Differences in Scholarly Analysis J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Lea Stadtler, M. May Seitanidi, Helena H. Knight, Jennifer Leigh, Amelia Clarke, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Jill Bogie, Priyanka Brunese, Oda Hustad, Ioannis Krasonikolakis, Eleni Lioliou, Adriane MacDonald, Jonatan Pinkse, Sarita Sehgal
Research on how cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) contribute toward addressing societal grand challenges (SGCs) has burgeoned, yet studies differ significantly in what scholars analyze and how. These differences matter as they influence the reported results. In the absence of a comprehensive framework to expose the analytical choices behind each study and their implications, this diversity challenges
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Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pedro Monteiro
Experts increasingly refine their expertise into specialties as they labour in and around organizations. Yet, previous research assumes that experts are organized in the workplace in ways that passively accommodate or mirror pre‐existing specialties and focuses on organizational structures that codify the content of experts’ knowledge as an encroachment. Drawing on a qualitative field study in an aeronautical
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Prescriptive Theorizing to Tackle Societal Grand Challenges: Promises and Perils J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Christopher Wickert
Descriptive and prescriptive theorizing are two sides of the same coin and fundamentally complementary, if not reciprocal in their relationship. Both have a place in management theorizing, yet this Point-Counterpoint debate takes issue with how they are currently performed in research. The Point makes the case for prescriptive theorizing to help tackle societal grand challenges and meaningfully impact
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Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self-Sustaining Ecosystem J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Paulo Savaget, Pinar Ozcan, Tyrone Pitsis
Creating a long-lasting impact is one of the defining goals of social entrepreneurship. Yet, social entrepreneurs often face a dilemma between sustaining their organization and offering a permanent fix to a social problem. We question the assumption that organizational permanence and growth are intrinsically desirable for social entrepreneurs and propose an alternative, an inductively grounded model
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Voice Work, Upward Influence during Change ‘When Time is of the Essence’ J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Zahira Jaser
This paper explores when and how middle managers (MMs) convey voice to the top during strategic change, when they do not have the time for lengthy persuasive upward influence tactics such as issue-selling. I investigate this phenomenon through a 33-month study of a risk management team in a large bank as it tried to overhaul its risk management systems and culture, after catastrophic money laundering
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How Deep-Level and Surface-Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Guoli Chen, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yen Teik Lee, Daniel Z. Mack
Despite a growing interest in understanding how board diversity shapes firms’ innovation, findings about the impact of board diversity have remained mixed. In this paper, we conceptualize board diversity as two forms – deep-level and surface-level – and find that these two forms of board diversity have opposing effects on a firm's innovation. We also theorize how formal and informal social structures
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Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role-Distancing for Middle Managers J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 S. Gjerde, M. Alvesson
Middle managers often find themselves in a challenging position: They have to impress different audiences in somewhat incompatible ways and represent and enact managerial ideals and expectations that may be detrimental to their work identities. This study explores role distancing as an alluring coping strategy. Role distancing – acts that express separateness between the individual and the enacted
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Here, there and Everywhere: On the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management Research and the Peer-Review Process J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Caroline Gatrell, Daniel Muzio, Corinne Post, Christopher Wickert
This editorial introduces and explains the Journal of Management Studies’ (JMS) new policy on artificial intelligence (AI). We reflect on the use of AI in conducting research and generating journal submissions and what this means for the wider JMS community, including our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. Specifically, we consider how AI-generated research and text could both assist and augment
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Embracing non-Western Contexts in Management Scholarship J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Christopher Wickert, Kristina Potočnik, Shameen Prashantham, Weilei (Stone) Shi, Yuliya Snihur
Management is a global phenomenon. Yet, the vast majority of empirical investigations and theoretical explanations of management, managers and those being managed that are published in leading management journals are based on research that predominantly originates from Western contexts, particularly the USA and the larger European countries. Non-Western contexts, in turn, reside at the periphery of
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Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Mayowa T. Babalola, Moazzam Ali, Shuang Ren, Muhammed Usman, Zhining Wang
The COVID-19 crisis has been associated with existential concerns regarding mortality. These concerns, described as ‘mortality cues’, can influence people's emotions, behaviours, and the quality of leadership in organizations. Using the contingency model of death awareness (CMDA; Grant and Wade-Benzoni, 2009), we provide new evidence on how mortality cues can incite negative and positive leadership
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How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Emilio Marti, David Risi, Eva Schlindwein
We use the concept of means–ends decoupling to examine why companies continue to be major contributors to environmental and social problems despite committing increasingly to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Specifically, we ask: How do companies restrain (versus fail to restrain) means–ends decoupling? We answer this question through a comparative case study of four multinational companies with
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Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Sorin M. S. Krammer, Peter Dahlin, Jonathan P. Doh, Kristina Potočnik
The Journal of Management Studies, founded in 1963, is celebrating its 60th year. Clark et al. (2014) conducted a bibliometric analysis for its 50th anniversary assessing whether the journal had maintained its leading international ranking and sustained its mission to serve as a broad-based management outlet. In this review, we build on and extend their findings by examining trends in the journal over
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Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro-Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 John Paul Stephens, Yossef Srour, Abraham Carmeli
The work relationships between CEOs and Chairpersons are key to the functioning of the firm. This study uses survey and interview data to explore how these work relationships serve as a micro-foundation for an organization's communication climate. Survey data suggested that CEO-Chairperson relationships can be characterized by emotional carrying capacity (ECC; constructively expressing more positive
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Environmental Context and Organizational Aspiration Determination J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lingli Luo, George A. Shinkle
This research develops an attention-based, environment-inclusive model of organizational aspiration determination. The behavioural view embraces that organizations determine aspirations based on three reference points: past aspiration, past performance, and social reference group performance. We build hypotheses to explain how environmental munificence, dynamism, and complexity shape organizational
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Organizations as Algorithms: A New Metaphor for Advancing Management Theory J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Vern L. Glaser, Jennifer Sloan, Joel Gehman
According to the ‘Point’ essay, management research's reliance on corporate data threatens to replace objective theory with profit-biased ‘corporate empiricism’, undermining the scientific and ethical integrity of the field. In this ‘Counterpoint’ essay, we offer a more expansive understanding of big data and algorithmic processing and, by extension, see promising applications to management theory
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Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Renate E. Meyer, Stephan Leixnering, Martin Kornberger, Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Höllerer
In this Counterpoint, we introduce a conceptualization of the symbol that constructively contrasts the ideas presented by Phillips and Moser. We do not see the need to mobilize ideas and vocabularies from evolutionary biology, as they do, but instead propose to return to cultural approaches to the symbol that resonate more deeply and profoundly within our discipline. Specifically, we revisit the work
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Panacea or Dangerous Practice: A Counterpoint to Hanisch's Argument for Prescriptive Theorizing J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Samuel Horner, Joep Cornelissen, Mike Zundel
In this paper we provide a counterpoint to the view that prescriptive theorizing reflects a viable means for enhancing the practical impact of management theorizing towards addressing some of the most pressing societal concerns and grand challenges of our times. To do so, we first contextualize the roots of prescriptive theorizing in management research, arguing that the approach developed by Hanisch
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Prescriptive Theorizing in Management Research: A New Impetus for Addressing Grand Challenges J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Marvin Hanisch
Although management research has a rich tradition of both descriptive and prescriptive theorizing, the latter is often (and erroneously) viewed as unscientific, purely practice-oriented, or simply a corollary of descriptive analysis. Prescriptive theorizing concerns how things should be and how they can be achieved, as opposed to descriptive theorizing, which focuses on why or how things are (interrelated)
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The Biological Basis of the Symbolic: Exploring the Implications of the Co-Evolution of Language, Cognition and Sociality for Management Studies J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nelson Phillips, Christine Moser
In this essay, we approach the question of what it means for something to be symbolic in a different way from the usual answers rooted in philosophy, sociology or anthropology: we argue that the symbolic is, first and foremost, rooted in human biology and human evolution. We discuss how the development of the capability to create and share symbols was a key moment in human evolution that underpins
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How Context Matters in Non-market Strategies: Exploring Variations in Corporate Social Responsibility-Political Activity Relationships J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Dorothee Maria Winkler, Anna Krzeminska
Managing the nexus between societal and political demands represents an important challenge for today's organizations. While non-market strategy research debates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate political activity (CPA), it remains unclear how and why this relationship varies across different contexts. Based on a literature review, we address this question
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How Systemic Crises Uproot and Re-establish Investors’ Acquisition ‘Recipes’: A Temporally Bracketed Qualitative Comparative Analysis J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Jiachen Yang, Michel W. Lander, Roxana Turturea, Pursey Heugens
We contribute to the literature on acquisitions by examining how investors’ cognitive schemata codifying their beliefs concerning the attributes of deal success (‘recipes’) are impacted by systemic crises. Specifically, we examine how and why configurations of attributes signalling deal attractiveness, acquirer competence, and acquirer corporate governance shape investors’ reactions to acquisition
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Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision-Making and the Future of Management Theory J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Dirk Lindebaum, Christine Moser, Gazi Islam
The future of theory in the age of big data and algorithms is a frequent topic in management research. However, with corporate ownership of big data and data processing capabilities designed for profit generation increasing rapidly, we witness a shift from scientific to ‘corporate empiricism’. Building on this debate, our ‘Point’ essay argues that theorizing in management research is at risk now. Unlike
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Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Joel Bothello, Leandro Bonfim
‘Wait – is that it? Are you coming back tomorrow?’ -Interviewee in the township of Delft, South Africa These questions were raised at the end of an interview in 2019, when the first author was conducting research in South Africa on informal economy entrepreneurs. Here was an informant who had just finished recollecting some difficult moments in his life, revealing an implicit expectation that the interview
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Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Matthias Brauer, Louis Vandepoele
Past studies indicate that investors perceive workforce downsizing negatively, as evidenced by negative short-term stock returns around downsizing announcements. Impression management theory suggests that downsizing firms thus attempt to offset investors’ negative impressions by issuing positive news around downsizing announcements, and that firms’ impression offsetting can attenuate investors’ negative
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Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Oyinkansola Odunjo, Andrew Crane, Pierre McDonagh
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has been slow to address the impacts of CSR on stakeholders, especially in terms of the mechanisms explaining how CSR translates into positive stakeholder outcomes. We introduce a new mechanism into this literature – stakeholder existential authenticity (SEA) – that helps explain how stakeholder participation in CSR can enhance stakeholder wellbeing through
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How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Issy Drori, Dovev Lavie
Research on innovation ecosystems has identified their evolution phases but neglected their emergence, which we know little about. We offer inductive theory to explain the emergence of the nanotechnology ecosystem in Israel. Our theory suggests that ineffective bureaucracy, resource constraints, and the conflicting agendas of the government and universities create organizational bottlenecks that impede
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Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Vivek Soundararajan, Garima Sharma
FACING RESISTANCE IN TRANSLATING RESEARCH In March 2019, Vivek was preparing to present a report based on his research on the labour conditions in fashion supply chains in India. This presentation was part of a series of events aimed at engaging stakeholders, including exporters in India who supply to large brands worldwide. However, just two hours before the scheduled event, Vivek received surprising
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The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Qing Gong, Dong Liu, Xiao-Ping Chen, Chunyan Jiang, Guoquan Chen
In this paper, we conceptualize CEO passion for organizational development (CEO POD) as CEOs’ strong inclination to continuously grow and improve their companies, which they find important and fulfilling. We draw from social information processing theory to articulate how and when CEO POD may trickle down to facilitate frontline employees’ creativity. Our research encompasses three studies employing
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Creating Powerful Stories: What Scholars Can Learn from Filmmakers J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Stephan Manning
INTRODUCTION Writing compelling and impactful academic articles is hard. For years, senior scholars and journal editors have urged us to combine rigorous research with vivid writing. Engaging the reader requires narratives that are convincing, reflexive and imaginative. Yet, the reality is that most academic papers are rather formulaic and far from engaging. Sure, we cite each other a lot, but do we
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A Psychological Ownership Perspective on the HR System–LGBT Voice Relationship: The Role of Espousal and Enactment of Inclusion Matters J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yi-Ting Lin, Jo-Tieh Chang
Voice behaviours of invisible sexual minorities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and others whose sexual orientations and/or gender expressions fall outside of heterosexual/cisgender norms (LGBT), have received scant attention in prior research. Based on the psychological ownership (PO) perspective, this study investigates the relationship between the presence of an LGBT-supportive
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Multi-Temporality and the Ghostly: How Communing with Times Past Informs Organizational Futures J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey, Roy Suddaby, Diego M. Coraiola
Despite growing interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi-temporal reality of organizations – how past, present, and future intersect to inform organizational life. In assuming that legacies are bequeathed from past to present, there has been little theorization on how this works practically. We propose that the lexicon of the ghostly can help. We contribute a theory
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Upbeat or Off-the-Mark? How Work Rhythms Affect Strategic Change J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Kathleen A. Stephenson, Joep P. Cornelissen, Svetlana N. Khapova
This study examines how organizational members cope with new work rhythms that are brought about by a strategic organizational change. Based on a two-year qualitative case study of a major strategic change in a research unit at a university that encouraged academics to embody an upbeat, energetic work rhythm, we identify four different modes of engaging with rhythms (syncing, tuning, figuring, and
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The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forestry Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Rajiv Maher, Nicolás Pedemonte-Rojas, Diego Gálvez, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) that address sustainability concerns have grown in importance in recent years. These private governance measures involving market, state and civil society actors aim to resolve disagreements between stakeholders through stakeholder engagement practices. However, our empirical study of the Mapuche conflict in Chile shows how a multi-stakeholder initiative contributed
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Giving it all You've Got: How Daily Self-Sacrifice and Self-Esteem Regulate the Double-Edged Effects of Callings J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Michael E. Clinton, Neil Conway, Jane Sturges, Alison McFarland
Occupational callings are a combination of passion and enjoyment with a sense of duty and destiny. Pursuing a calling is a double-edged sword, sometimes beneficial and sometimes detrimental, but it is unclear why it has contradictory effects. We show how daily self-sacrifice behaviour explains these effects and reveals how workers regulate their callings on a daily basis. We argue that people with
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Tax-Motivated Relocations of Headquarters: The Role of Affinity Bias among Socially-Responsible Blockholders and CEOs J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Arjen H. L. Slangen, Riccardo Valboni, Aleksi Eerola, Thomas Lindner
While socially-responsible large shareholders have been shown to have a substantial impact on corporate leaders’ decisions on social responsibility, prior research remains silent on whether that impact is subject to bias among these two sets of actors. To shed light on this issue, we study the role of socially-responsible blockholders as well as CEOs in the occurrence of tax-motivated international
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Firms’ Response to Slacktivism: When and Why are E-Petitions Effective? J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Ronei Leonel, Kathleen Rehbein, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Elise Perrault
E-petitions have evoked an important debate about the potential for digital activism to pressure firms to change social policies and practices. One prevailing perspective is that slacktivism, a tendency of online supporters to provide only token support, undermines any possible impact. An alternative perspective is that social media dynamics underlying digital activism offer new pathways for social
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Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Russell Fralich, Alireza Ahmadsimab
We examine the imprinting effect of labour market conditions on a CEO's merger wave timing decisions. Based on a sample of 720 CEOs of US-based firms in merger waves between 1995 and 2018, we found that CEOs who started their careers during periods of poor labour market conditions tend to delay merger wave entry, while those who began under better conditions act earlier. We also found that the market
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Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Bastian Kindermann, Anna Hocker, Steffen Strese
Research has shown that impression management helps entrepreneurs access critical resources, but insights into applying concrete impression management techniques in new venture recruitment remain scarce. This knowledge gap represents a challenge for new ventures facing disadvantages in recruitment. We propose self-presentations of entrepreneurial hustle as an effective impression management technique
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Eristic Legitimation of Controversial Managerial Decisions J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu, Gazi Islam
This paper investigates the eristic legitimation of managerial decisions – managerial interactions to win without reasoned persuasion of the counterparty – in the context of career-advancement disputes. This mode of legitimation can be ethically questionable, particularly when powerful managers have the licence for it, while less powerful subordinates may have ‘no other choice’ than reasoned persuasion
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Correction to “A Transaction Cost Perspective of Alliance Portfolio Diversity” J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-11
Penney, C. R. and Combs, J. G. (2020). ‘A Transaction Cost Perspective of Alliance Portfolio Diversity’. Journal of Management Studies, 57, 1073–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12518 Our independent variable was correctly calculated according to the formula presented on page 1086, but our description of the formula was inaccurate. Using bold and strikeout to show corrections, the text following the
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Giving the Benefit of the Doubt: Investigating the Insurance-Like Effect of CSR in Mitigating Negative Employee Reactions to Psychological Contract Breach J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Kenneth De Roeck, Nicolas Raineri, David A. Jones, Sabrina Scheidler
Many studies document employees’ value-creating reactions to perceptions of their organization's corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Unknown, however, is whether perceived CSR can have value-protecting effects by mitigating employees’ negative responses when they believe the organization's other actions harm their interests, as proposed by theory on the insurance-like effect of CSR.
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Growing Institutional Complexity and Field Transition: Towards Constellation Complexity in the German Energy Field J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Stephan Bohn, Ali Aslan Gümüsay
By applying a dynamic approach to field-level institutional complexity, we explore how growing institutional complexity affects fields over time. We examine field transition processes, which are shaped by the number of logics, the nature of their relationships and the shifts in dominance. Focusing on Germany's energy field, our analysis identifies a variety of conflicts that arose among up to seven
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Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Diana Ivanycheva, William S. Schulze, Erik Lundmark, Francesco Chirico
Research in leading entrepreneurship and management journals has tended to conceptualize entrepreneurship as motivated by the goals of wealth, income, or social value creation. This research has thus largely overlooked entrepreneurial motivations such as the desire to engage in particular activities that the entrepreneurs find rewarding or the desire to live in particular locations. The literature
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The Management of Socio-Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio-Political Engagement J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Pei Sun, Jonathan Doh, Tazeeb Rajwani, Timothy Werner, Xiaowei Rose Luo
Socio-political issues and environments are becoming more complex and challenging. In this introduction to the special issue on ‘The Management of Socio-Political Issues and Environments: Organizational and Strategic Perspectives’, we take stock of the burgeoning research on how firms interact with socio-political actors and environments over the last few decades, specifically research on Corporate
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Sea Change? Sensemaking, Firm Reactions, and Community Resilience Following Climate Disasters J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Siri Boe-Lillegraven, Panikos Georgallis, Ans Kolk
Communities around the world face increasing risks of climate disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and droughts. What drives firms’ heterogeneous responses to a climate disaster, and what could be the consequences for community resilience? To address these questions, we theorize how different aspects of sensemaking (sense of place, time, certitude, and loss) affect firm responses. Then, aided by an
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Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research” J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13
Hudson, B. A., Patterson, K. D. W., Roulet, T. J., Helms, W. S. and Elsbach, K. (2022). ‘ Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research’. Journal of Management Studies, 59, 1899–914. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12875 In our introductory essay to the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue on Organizational Stigma, “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas
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Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Emanuele L. M. Bettinazzi, Mario Daniele Amore, Jeffrey J. Reuer
In this paper, we study the relationship between family ownership and corporate alliance intensity. Theoretically, we propose that the tendency of family firms to pursue socioemotional wealth objectives exacerbates the level of information asymmetry they display vis-à-vis other firms, reducing their attractiveness as alliance partners. Based on a panel of US firms, we find that family firms join fewer
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Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Fabrice Lumineau, Chris Long, Sim B. Sitkin, Nicholas Argyres, Gideon Markman
Control and trust issues are at the heart of collaboration in and between organizations. In this introduction to the Special Issue (SI) on the control-trust dynamics, we first propose an integrative framework to take stock of the main themes discussed in both the micro and macro literature. We then contextualize how the papers in this issue flesh out key mechanisms underlying the interplay between
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Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Michael B. Heeley, Jeffrey G. Covin, Sharon F. Matusik
Patented inventions play an important role in generating firm value, with conventional wisdom generally suggesting that dense patent portfolios promote greater value. We challenge the universality of this assumption and argue that the relationship between patent portfolio density and firm value depends on factors reflecting other key invention-related conditions and choices. Specifically, we hypothesize
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Passing the Torch: Exploring how Tradition and Innovation Influence Coopetition among Street Performers J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Blake D. Mathias, Shelby J. Solomon, Haley Hutto
Understanding how and why firms concurrently compete and cooperate with each other represents an important and growing area of study. This research centres on how firms engage in coopetition. However, this does not account for how much of the modern world works – independently. Through an inductive field study of 80 New Orleans street performers, we explore how and why independent creative workers
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Should we be Conservative or Aggressive? SME Managers’ Responses in a Crisis and Long-Term Firm Survival J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ine Paeleman, Tom Vanacker, Shaker A. Zahra
Past research shows that during a crisis, managers of publicly-held firms often adopt a ‘conservative’ approach focused on protecting the existing core of their firms by decreasing investments and hoarding precautionary cash. By doing so, managers decrease firms’ short-term failure rates. However, the literature says little about how managers of private, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) (should)
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Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Ruth V. Aguilera, Alfredo De Massis, Riccardo Fini, Silvio Vismara
We revisit the study of organizational goals, outcomes, and assessment of performance that together define the process leading to ‘success’. We begin by conducting a systematic review of existing research which allows us to develop an integrative framework discussing this large body of work. We then describe contemporary research examples in light of our proposed framework. We close by proposing four
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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms J. Manag. Stud. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Cristina Bettinelli, Alfredo De Massis, Manisha Singal, John Davis
The literature indicates that the board of directors exists to provide resources and strategic direction (service task) and monitor top managers (control task), often tending to overgeneralize board tasks. Using a unique sample of 36 elite family firm directors having served on 615 boards with an aggregate 1447 years’ experience, and integrating interview and secondary data with observations, we capture