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Managerial pedagogy and organizational power dynamics in the context of neoliberal organizational transition Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jette Ernst, Henrik Koll
This paper explores power dynamics and symbolic power struggle in organizational transition in a Scandinavian telecommunications company. Our ethnographic study examines middle-managers’ efforts filling their allotted role as leaders of neoliberal transformation in a competition of force with their subordinates and the trade union. We develop a Bourdieu-inspired conceptualization of managerial pedagogy
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How artificial intelligence will revolutionize management studies: a Savagean perspective Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 P, e, t, e, r, , K, e, s, t, i, n, g
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Role ambiguity as an antecedent to workplace bullying: Hostile work climate and supportive leadership as intermediate factors Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Stefan Blomberg, Michael Rosander, Ståle Valvatne Einarsen
Previous studies have shown role stress to be an important antecedent of workplace bullying. The present study investigated when and how a long-term effect of role ambiguity on exposure to bullying may be present. Based on the work environment hypothesis, we hypothesized that (a) there is a long-term effect of role ambiguity on exposure of bullying, (b) that this relationship is mediated by hostile
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Stakeholder relations as an asset in family firms – Performance effects of changes after PE investment Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Julia A. Pöll, Alexandra Bertschi-Michel, Andreas Hack, Oliver Ahlers, Mike Wright
By building upon instrumental stakeholder theory, we aim to increase academic understanding of how changes in stakeholder relations affect acquisition performance outcomes in a private equity (PE) family firm buyout, during the holding period. With our sample of 134 PE-backed family firm buyouts, we find evidence to suggest that reducing social engagement during the holding period decreases medium-term
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The survival of the fastest: Unveiling the determinants of Unicorns and Gazelles’ early success Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Matteo Cristofaro, Gianpaolo Abatecola, Federico Giannetti, Anastassia Zannoni
This review article examines the factors that contribute to the success of Unicorns and Gazelles in their early life stage. Indeed, despite their unique characteristics and significant impact on the global economy, Unicorns and Gazelles have yet to be thoroughly examined in terms of their (exceptional) survival factors. To bridge this literature gap, we systematically reviewed 66 articles, comparing
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Stewart R.CleggFrameworks of Power(2 nd edition)2023SageLondon377ISBN 978-1-5264-5691-5 Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sibel Ozasir Kacar
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A roadmap for systematically identifying opportunities in geographically bounded ecosystems using patent analytics Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Behrooz Khademi, Hannele Lampela, Gerrit Anton de Waal, Kosmas X. Smyrnios
Context-dependency (involving actors & regions) in spatially bounded ecosystems is a critical challenge that can constrain opportunity exploration for actors, and lead to both financial and reputational damages. The present methodological investigation proposes a novel context-independent roadmap for systematically identifying opportunities (e.g., technological forecasting, strategic planning) in spatially
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS, 2nd Ed, Bernard Burnes, Mark Hughes (Eds.), Routledge (2023), p. 327, Rune Todnem By Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Miladani Binti Arti, Alfian Rosiadi
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Shaping entrepreneurial gender play: Intersubjectivity and performativity among female entrepreneurs Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Gael Bertrand, Adnan Maalaoui, Sascha Kraus, Francesco Schiavone
This paper aims to enrich both the Entrepreneurship as Practice (EAP) and female entrepreneurship literature by advancing the existing insight that gender and entrepreneurship are interconnected practices. It contends that the enactment of entrepreneurship and gender is contextually contingent. To this end, we reinitiate the discourse on situational definition within the EAP framework, employing Butler's
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Debating Business School Legitimacy. Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo, Anders Örtenblad, Riina Koris (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan (2023), ISBN. 978-3-031-12727-4 Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Pierre Batteau
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Innovating as chains of interrelated situations Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Christian A. Mahringer
Even though the practice perspective on innovation acknowledges that ambiguity is a key defining characteristic of innovating, it has rarely been considered conceptually. This paper argues that to fully consider ambiguity, it is necessary to focus on the situations in which those practices are enacted. Building on the work of Lucy Suchman, thus, this paper conceptualizes the innovation process as a
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The liberated firm: An integrative approach involving sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Michèle EL Khoury, Annabelle Jaouen, Sylvie Sammut
Recent research has shown that the liberated firm is associated with better performance and can address the emerging needs in our hypermodern society for autonomy, self-esteem, commitment, and well-being. While research on liberated firms has been increasing, the concept remains widely debated among academics, especially in management and organisational behaviour fields as well as in the press and
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First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Onno Bouwmeester, Maxime Slaats
While normative control practices aim to raise employee motivation and commitment to professional standards in professional service firms, there is much debate on when and for whom such practices remain motivational. Based on interviews with 18 self-employed consultants who left elite consultancies, we find that, for them, normative control practices, such as learning opportunities and social events
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Editorial Board Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-11-17
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Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sven Kunisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Michael Boppel, Kira Choi
We study strategic change as a visible and substantive action by examining the circumstances under which firms launch corporate change programs. Drawing on prior literature and corroborated by insights from interviews with executives, we propose a contingency perspective on the launch of corporate change programs (i.e. that different types of programs are launched under different circumstances). To
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Exploring the ontological origins of dualism: Towards a conjunctive structure of thought in organization studies Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Zara Andreea, Delacour Hélène
Scholars have underscored that the organization studies are afflicted by dualism which impedes new theoretical developments. To overcome dualism which considers all aspects in opposition, we adopt a philosophical approach to explore in depth its origins. We reveal that dualism has ontological origins and emerges from the progressive abandonment of the Aristotelian ontological framework and specifically
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Managing public value conflicts – Institutional strategies and the greening of public pension funds Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Monika Berg, Jan Olsson
Greening public organizations demands the acknowledgment and reconciliation of tensions and conflicts between core values. This is a challenge that public pension funds have come to face as the call for sustainability has reached the finance sector. Building on the value pluralism debate and institutional theory this article provides a theoretical elaboration of strategies for managing value conflict
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Unpacking researchers’ embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Etieno Enang, Harry Sminia, Silvia Gherardi, Ying Zhang
The Baradian optical metaphor of diffraction grounds a methodology at the core of Feminist new materialism. It considers materiality, included the corporeal materiality of the body, as vital and vibrant and thus it may be the entry point for exploring embodiment in sensemaking. Diffraction is put to work to explore embodied sensemaking of researchers by performing a diffractive reading-writing of two
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Beyond the individualised organisation: The role of HRM in the (non)emergence of organisational and leadership practices for impact Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Renato Souza
In this article, I elaborate that human resource management (HRM) prevents the emergence of processual leadership practices in organisations that aim to have a wider positive impact on the common good. The main reason for this is the ideological individualism that permeates HR practices such as leadership development, performance evaluation and talent management. The increasingly complex forms of organising
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Transformational leadership and life satisfaction: The sequential mediation model of organizational trust and proactive behavior Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, Sehrish Ilyas
The accelerating need for sustainable development across the globe has put firms under great pressure to play their role in social sustainability by working on several objectives. Among them, achieving life satisfaction for their employees is at the forefront. The study aims to examine sequential mediating roles of organizational trust and proactive behavior in transformational leadership and life
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Editorial Board Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-09-06
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Decentering sensemaking: The Mann Gulch disaster revisited Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Tommy Jensen, Yashar Mahmud
Despite previous efforts to deal with the ontological split between human subjects and reality, sensemaking has remained human-centered. We argue that human-centered sensemaking risks omitting constitutive elements of reality. To escape the ontological split, we decenter sensemaking and thus extend it in such a way that it allows seemingly unrelated and independent humans and nonhumans to become connected
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Controlling big data? Unfolding the organisational quest for IT-enabled competitive advantage Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Berit Hartmann, Christoph Reuter, Erik Strauss
Situated in the car insurance sector, this study investigates the implementation of a smartphone app interface aimed to realise an IT-enabled competitive advantage by engaging customers whilst simultaneously collecting data for a future transformation of the company’s control systems. Unfolding three dimensions of the performativity of the app, namely codes, visualisations, and narrations, the study
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Let me level with you: Brokerage work in the translation of management concepts Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Marlieke van Grinsven, Stefan Heusinkveld
Translation studies increasingly foreground the significance of local actors as agentic translators. Drawing on a brokerage work perspective, this article seeks to advance our understanding of managerial agents as translators by examining how and why these may vary in their role as intermediary or ‘strategic third’, and how these roles are associated with different patterns of translation. Examining
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Tracing the affective journey of an interorganizational network: Positive and negative cycles of relational energy in a network space Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Johann Fortwengel
While there is a lot of research on emotions at the small group level, we lack an understanding of the role of emotions at the large group level, including in interorganizational relationships. This study contributes to filling this important gap in the literature by studying the emotions in an interorganizational network longitudinally over a period of six years. The data reveal how the network offers
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Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al. Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Steffen Roth
This article is a reply to Foss et al.’s (2022) contribution to the special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Management on The Great Reset of management and organization theory. In their article, the authors make a strong case that “reset thinking” geared towards a more “sustainable” redesign of the global economy promotes extensive state interventionism and cronyism capitalism, and therefore reject
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From organised scepticism to research mission management? Introduction to the Great Reset of management and organization theory Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Steffen Roth, Wojciech Czakon, Wolfgang Amann, Léo-Paul Dana
This introduces the reader to the Great Reset of management and organization theory. Concepts are discussed and six cases are presented, provoking thought, debate, and dialogue for or against a Great Reset of management and organization theory. We conclude that management and organisation theorists might rather study than advocate or co-perform resets great or small that aim at privileging this development
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The mundanity of cost cutting: The value of small wins in affordable housing production Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström
Regardless of the best intentions to address the issue among policy makers, affordable housing remains one of the most underprovided assets in advanced economies, otherwise characterized by an ample supply of product offerings. The paper addressed the question of how affordable housing can be provided on basis of new housing production. The study is premised on the theoretical proposition that excellence
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‘How might we?’: Studying new venture ideation in and through practices Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Mart Nicolai, Neil Aaron Thompson
Recent scholarship focuses on new venture ideation—the process of generating and developing new venture ideas—separately from venture development, as the creation of new ventures begins with new venture ideas. In this study, we ask which practices are being enacted to carry out new venture ideation, and how and why are they constituted by aspiring entrepreneurs. By conducting a video ethnography, we
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What theory is – A late reply to Sutton and Staw 1995 Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Peter Kesting
Theory plays a central role in research in management science, with theoretical contribution an essential measure for evaluating research. However, the many ambiguities regarding the use of the theory concept make judgments imprecise and, to an extent, arbitrary. The discussion of the concept of theory in management science has remarkably little anchoring in the findings of the philosophy of science
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(Re)thinking transcription strategies: Current challenges and future research directions Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Sébastien Point, Yehuda Baruch
Data transcription is often depicted as an essential and critical stage in qualitative research. As most researchers have experienced, it requires significant time and human resource investment. We focus on transcription strategies, a topic typically missing from the methodology discourse. We explore the biases and challenges of each of the transcription strategies. By analysing 434 academic refereed
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Innovation ecosystems as a service: Exploring the dynamics between corporates & start-ups in the context of a corporate coworking space Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Sophia Aumüller-Wagner, Vasiliki Baka
The desire to create innovative organizational spaces has led to various instantiations of innovation ecosystems. Towards this direction, there is a growing interest in establishing corporate innovation ecosystems in the form of ‘corporate coworking spaces’ (CWS). From a relational ontological standpoint, this study builds on the collaborative spaces literature with the aim to investigate the emerging
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete in the name of COVID-19: When a reset leads to misrecognition Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Klaus Brønd Laursen, Lars Esbjerg, Nikolaj Kure
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world in March 2020, it impacted all areas of society. Most conspicuous were the lockdowns that were quickly imposed in many countries along with other restrictions. These interventions into the everyday life of ordinary citizens were, perhaps not surprisingly, often met with resistance by citizens and businesses that felt their rights were being trampled on by
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Inter-organizational routine replication: Evidence from major football championships Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Andrea Furlan, Roberto Grandinetti, Francesco Rentocchini
We study the replication of organizational routines through key employee mobility in the context of major football championships. While discussed in the literature of evolutionary economics and in some management studies, this kind of routine replication lacks systematic empirical evidence. The empirical analysis exploits two related samples assembled from several web sources. Employing a combination
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Between Humboldt and Rockefeller: An organization design approach to hybridity in higher education Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Sascha Albers, Volker Rundshagen, Johanna Vanderstraeten, Markus Raueiser, Lode De Waele
Higher education institutions (HEI) are maneuvering the competing institutional logics of academia and commerce, which provide widely conflicting bases for legitimacy ascriptions. HEI that try to internalize both competing institutional logics become hybrids, addressing the resulting internal tensions and conflicts through efforts of structural separation or blending. Whereas these generic approaches
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What if the supervisor has a different gender? The roles of value fit, identification, and beliefs in gender equality Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Mladen Adamovic, Mathieu Molines
In the past decades, the number of female employees and managers has strongly increased in most developed countries. This demographic development emphasizes the importance to investigate gender dissimilarity between employees and their supervisor and how it can be managed to elicit beneficial gender dissimilarity effects on employees’ attitudes and interpersonal interactions. Past gender dissimilarity
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The more, the merrier: Performance effects of cash over the business cycle Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen, Fredrik Prøsch Hage, Martha Benan Vethe
This paper adds to the recent interest in the link between cash and firm performance, by studying how this relationship varies across boom- and bust cycles. We use data of Norwegian firms from a broad range of sectors in the period 2005–2015, and both replicate and extend previous findings on the relationship between cash and performance over the business cycle. We find that i) cash has a positive
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Agile office work as embodied spatial practice: A spatial perspective on ‘open’ New Work environments Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Andrea Simone Barth, Susanne Blazejewski
An increasing number of companies transform their traditional office spaces into open work environments, often as part of an effort for working relations to evolve away from rigid and hierarchical structures. Contrary to intentions, recent studies show how open office projects tend to re-produce social hierarchy and norms but say only little about how these socio-spatial structures come into being
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A multi-level understanding of trust development in contexts of blurred organizational boundaries: the case of crowdfunding Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Theresia Harrer, Othmar M. Lehner, Christiana Weber
Are trust development processes in settings of blurred organizational boundaries different from those in conventional organizational settings, and if so, how? Taking the crowdfunding campaigns of the Fin-Tech Monzo as examples of settings of blurred organizational boundaries, we analyze how the three main trust forms (individual, organizational, and institutional trust) emerge and interact in the campaigns’
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The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Ingo Pies, Felix Carl Schultz
This paper develops an ordonomic approach to the governance of sustainable business model innovation (SBMI). We clarify the distinctive roles of optimization and governance for the management of sustainable value networks and develop a sustainability cube as a new management tool for the governance of SBMI. Our cube helps management to identify and overcome social dilemmas within value networks, i
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Grandiose branding: World-class aim and its organizational consequences Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi, Kerttu Kettunen, Marjo Siltaoja
Branding has become a strategic tool for university management in competition for students, faculty, and funding. In this study, we explore university branding in its extreme form of grandiose branding and ask How can grandiose branding initiate a process that prompts ethically and morally questionable practices in organizations? Grandiose branding is characterized by an excessive use of superlatives
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Routine dynamics and paradox: A revised research agenda Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Daniel Geiger
This comment reflects on the paper by Rosales et al. (2022) and discusses the role and contribution of paradox theory for our understanding of routine dynamics. Whilst the authors claim that routines serve as rubber bands that enable practitioners to manage the paradoxical relationship between stability and change, in this commentary I want to challenge some of the core assumptions around stability
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At the critical moment: The rhizomatic organization and “Democracy to Come” Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Shih-wei Hsu
In the field of Organization Studies (OS), there has been strong interest in the use of the metaphor of rhizomes as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The merit of the rhizome metaphor is that it offers strong explanatory power in capturing the chaotic, unpredictable, and uncontrollable nature of organizations, which problematizes a managerial reading of organizational process that is
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Bouncing up: The development of women leaders’ resilience Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Stephanie Duchek, Charlotte Foerster, Ianina Scheuch
Although there are preliminary indications that resilience is a key factor for women on their way to top leadership positions, research on this topic is scarce. To narrow this research gap, we applied an exploratory interview study focusing on the development of women leaders’ resilience. We conducted 25 biographical interviews with women in top leadership positions in medium and large companies listed
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TMT conflict, organizational structure, and entrepreneurial orientation: An attention-based view Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Ziyang Zhang, Donghan Wang, Wei Sun
Drawing on the attention-based view, this study investigates the linkage of top management team (TMT) conflict to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and the moderating effect of organizational structure in terms of formalization and centralization on the linkage. It finds that TMT cognitive conflict is positively related to EO, while affective conflict is negatively related to it. Furthermore, formalization
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The pragmatic roots of scientific insight: a culturalist approach to management theory in the view of grand challenges Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Albrecht Fritzsche
Grand challenges, as they are currently discussed in management research, refer to societal problems that affect human affairs comprehensively. Tackling grand challenges must therefore be considered first and foremost as an overarching cultural effort. To understand how management theory fits into this effort, the article drafts a new epistemic approach to theory development. The approach is based
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The impacts of supervisor support, role perception, and emotional exhaustion on the turnover intentions of real estate brokers Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Chun-Chang Lee, Wen-Chih Yeh, Zheng Yu, Ting-Hsuan Tsai
This study investigated the factors affecting turnover tendency of real estate brokers. The impact of individual-level factors (role conflict, role ambiguity, interpersonal conflict, and emotional exhaustion) and organizational-level factors (supervisor support and group trust) on turnover intentions was assessed. A hierarchical linear mediation modeling approach was used. A questionnaire was administered
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Growth and innovation during economic shocks: A case study for characterising growing small firms Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Serdal Temel, Helena Forsman
Why do some firms successfully grow while others are severely affected by economic shocks? Does innovation play any role in this? By adopting a multi-theoretical approach, this study explores the characteristics of firms that grew during the Great Recession (2008–2009). The data were collected from 12 small firms located in Finland, Ireland and the UK. Furthermore, this study elaborates the entrepreneurship
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Mutuality between selves and others in social entrepreneurship: Not a mission impossible? Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Anna Wettermark, Karin Berglund
The social entrepreneurship (SE) discourse habitually casts social entrepreneurs as heroic, creating economic and social value, whereas those whom they strive to assist are portrayed as disadvantaged and in need of interventions. This implies an implicit differentiation between knowing, agentic entrepreneurs and less-knowing, more passive beneficiaries. In this article, we seek to unfold the subtle
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Anchoring the mission: A framework for understanding mission maintenance in professional service firms Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Georg J. Loscher, Stephan Kaiser
Mission maintenance in professional service firms must balance the commercial and professional logics and prevent mission drift. Based on a case study of ‘auditing in action’ in a German professional service firm we argue that mission maintenance results from interactions between the practice and field level. We find that anchors on the field level target individuals’ discretionary choices by balancing
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Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 David Pauleen, Ali Intezari, Wendelin Küpers
Borrowing lessons from Tai Chi Chuan philosophy, principles and practice, this discussion paper examines how management responses to the tumult of daily relational practice can become more balanced. Viewing both management practice and Tai Chi Chuan as embodied and relational processes, Tai Chi concepts of grounding, stillness within movement, and the application of the ‘right’ amount of give and take
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Affinity networks as diversity instruments. Three sociological dilemmas Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Marieke Slootman
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Theorizing as scholarly meaning-making practice: The value of a pragmatist theory of theorizing Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Alexander Styhre
Theorizing is widely recognized as a key activity or process in scholarly research work. In many cases, theorizing is assumed to be part of the scholar’s analytical capacity, but there is a shortage of comprehensive explanations for how theorizing as practice actually generates the intersubjective meaning that is the primary purpose of using theory to describe and explain the empirical material. Drawing
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The economy doesn’t need a reset, and neither does management theory Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Samuele Murtinu
Policymakers, commentators, and academics have called for a Great Reset, a deep-seated overhaul of the organization of the global economy. Some suggest that management theory needs a reset of its own. We argue that Great Reset proponents fail to appreciate the power of markets to bring about desirable social outcomes and are overly sanguine about what governments can do to alleviate alleged market
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Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Ermanno C. Tortia
In connection with the "Great Reset" literature in management and organizational theory, this article discusses human resource sustainability, employment stability, and layoffs in worker cooperatives, a unique organizational form in which employees are members holding residual control rights. Theoretical and empirical contributions show that worker control stabilizes employment better than investor
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The local paradox in grand policy schemes. Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Kristof Van Assche, Robert Greenwood, Monica Gruezmacher
We turn to the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and its continuous reorganization of governance, its series of shocks, ambitions of reinvention and development to analyze the risks associated with Great Reset-style ambitions. We coin the concept of the local paradox: grand schemes need input from and implementation at a local level and this requires local governance to be autonomous,
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All for one and one for all: Encouraging ecosystem citizenship behaviour to strengthen employer branding Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Theresa Eriksson, Anna Näppä, Jeandri Robertson
This research investigates how employer branding can be strengthened by taking a business ecosystem approach that encourages and leverages indirect social exchanges, such as the behaviour of paying it forward. This work is founded on extant literature and exploratory interviews with individuals from firms seeking to strengthen their employer brand by interdependently operating in a business ecosystem
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Psychological ownership and stewardship behavior: The moderating role of agency culture Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Sina K. Feldermann, Martin R.W. Hiebl
This study investigates whether employees’ psychological ownership results in stewardship behavior and whether this relationship is affected by an employee’s perception of the organization’s agency culture. A survey of the financial managers of 129 firms in Germany generally confirms these expectations. In addition, and surprisingly, our findings suggest a negligible effect of an agency culture on
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Narrating strategy in the flow of events – Illusion and disillusion in strategy-making Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jenni Myllykoski,Anniina Rantakari
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Back to the future: ecocentrism, organization studies, and the Anthropocene Scandinavian Journal of Management (IF 3.383) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Marina Dantas de Figueiredo, Fábio Freitas Schilling Marquesan
In this paper, we revisit a moment in the 1990 s when the proposal of ecocentrism as an alternative to anthropocentrism was promising of unprecedented changes in how the field of Organization Studies (OS) should understand the natural environment. Nevertheless, in what seems to be a twist of history, the notion of sustainability became dominant in the OS, and ecocentrism almost got lost in time. Through