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Work and Employment Practices in an Intriguing Sub-Saharan Context: Unpacking Salient Endogenous Traits Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Julius Nyiawung, Adele Smith-Auchmuty, Serge Mandiefe Piabuo
Although cultural beliefs and practices have been shown as essential drivers of organizational employment policies and practices, the role of endogenous traits in managing employees in organizations in Africa has received less attention in research. We address this gap by employing an exploratory qualitative study approach to ascertain how Sub-Saharan African cultural norms and values shape the design
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A Relational Construction of Organizational Risk: Normalizing Versus Problematizing Through Risk Work on Concerns Versus Measures Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Cagri Topal, Robert P Gephart
This study examines a public hearing, in which a company normalizes a high-risk project while a group of residents and landowners problematize it through three types of relational risk work including the construction of concerns versus measures, consultations on concerns and measures, and company approach in addressing concerns with measures. They construct risk meanings in a relational context where
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The Future of Research in an Artificial Intelligence-Driven World Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mukta Kulkarni, Saku Mantere, Eero Vaara, Elmira van den Broek, Stella Pachidi, Vern L. Glaser, Joel Gehman, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Dirk Lindebaum, Lindsey D. Cameron, Hatim A. Rahman, Gazi Islam, Michelle Greenwood
Current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) systems have the capacity to revolutionize the research process for better or worse. On the one hand, AI systems can serve as collaborators as they help streamline and conduct our research. On the other hand, such systems can also become our adversaries when they impoverish our ability to learn as theorists, or when they lead us astray
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Seven Mantras for Board Chair Effectiveness—An Enlightened Approach for the 21st Century Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rita Goyal, Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse, Danielle Talbot
Despite an increasing remit and recognition of the role of the board Chair, resources that effective Chairs of the 21st century deploy remain inadequately explored in the existing literature. This article addresses this gap through the innovative use of 57 face-to-face, elite interviews with board members and provides new insights into the best practices of Chairs of the largest listed companies in
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How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Anette Mikes, Steve New
Kim Stanley Robinson—award-winning science fiction writer—has warned us that our current history is a choice between utopia or catastrophe. In this interview and in the following reflections, we ex...
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Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-Institutional Projects Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Israël Fortin
I studied competing institutional logics in inter-institutional projects in aerospace to understand which logic would prevail when several logics compete in temporary organizing. While competing lo...
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The Mortality of Family Business Leaders: Using a Palliative Care Model to Re-imagine Letting Go Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Nancy Forster-Holt, Susan DeSanto-Madeya, James Davis
The succession literature frames a leader's reluctance to let go as the single largest deterrent to succession planning, and early literature pointed to the stronghold that mortality can have on le...
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Transcendental and Material Silence: A Multimodal Study on Silence in Team Meetings Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Valérie M. Saintot, Miikka J. Lehtonen
Silence in management and organization studies has been predominantly understood as something negative. However, recent examples have highlighted silence as a positive element in learning and organ...
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The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Guilherme Azevedo
What does it mean for an organization “to exist”? Building upon the philosophical notion of ontologies as theories of existence, I outline a theory of organizational ontology supported by the premi...
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Editor's Anonymous: A Safe Place to Think About Journal Provocations Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Kevin W. Rockmann
Since taking the helm of the Academy of Management Discoveries in 2020, I have been struck by many interesting and thoughtful discussions with other editors as to the purpose of our journals, the i...
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Don't Panic: Remaining El Capitan While Navigating Unpreparedness in Response to Extreme Events Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Stefan Gröschl, Jan Lepoutre
Company leaders are frequently confronted with highly uncertain and risky situations for which they are often ill-prepared, and consequently, in which they often panic. Based on an exploratory case...
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Organizational Trust in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Shifts in the Nature, Production, and Targets of Trust Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Fabrice Lumineau, Oliver Schilke, Wenqian Wang
In this essay, we argue that the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution calls for a reexamination of trust patterns within and across organizations. We identify fundamental changes in terms of ...
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Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Paul S. Adler, Amr Adly, Daniel Erian Armanios, Julie Battilana, Zlatko Bodrožić, Stewart Clegg, Gerald F. Davis, Claudine Gartenberg, Mary Ann Glynn, Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Heather A. Haveman, Paul Leonardi, Michael Lounsbury, Anita M. McGahan, Renate Meyer, Nelson Phillips, Kara Sheppard-Jones
To the surprise of many in the West, the fall of the USSR in 1991 did not lead to the adoption of liberal democratic government around the world and the much anticipated “end of history.” In fact, ...
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In the Boardroom: How Do Cognitive Frames Shape American and Dutch Hospitals’ Responses to the Pressure of Adopting Governance Best Practices? Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Agota Szabo, Riku Ruotsalainen
The literature on how organizations respond to institutional pressure has shown that the individual decision-makers’ interpretation of institutional pressure played an important role in developing ...
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It's a Different World: A Dialog on the Attention-Based View in a Post-Chandlerian World Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 William Ocasio, Basak Yakis-Douglas, Dylan Boynton, Tomi Laamanen, Claus Rerup, Eero Vaara, Richard Whittington
In this Dialog, seven scholars consider the theoretical implications and research opportunities a changing environment presents for the Attention-Based View (ABV). With its roots in the 1950s Carne...
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We Are Boiling: Management Scholars Speaking Out on COVID-19 and Social Justice Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Ana María Peredo, Samer Abdelnour, Paul Adler, Bobby Banerjee, Hari Bapuji, Marta Calas, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Rick Colbourne, Alessia Contu, Andrew Crane, Michelle Evans, Paul Hirsch, Arturo E. Osorio, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Linda Smircich, Gabriel Weber
COVID-19 is the most immediate of several crises we face as human beings: crises that expose deeply-rooted matters of social injustice in our societies. Management scholars have not been encouraged...
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A Curated Debate: On Using “Templates” in Qualitative Research Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Denny Gioia, Kevin Corley, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Martha Feldman, Ann Langley, Jane Lê, Karen Golden-Biddle, Karen Locke, Jacqueline Mees-Buss, Rebecca Piekkari, Davide Ravasi, Claus Rerup, Torsten Schmid, David Silverman, Catherine Welch
One of the raging debates in organization study concerns the use of “templates” in qualitative research. This curated debate brings together many of the players in that debate, who make statements ...
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How Buddhist Monks Use Historical Narratives to Delegitimize a Dominant Institutional Logic: The Case of a Korean Buddhist Organizational Field, 1910–1962 Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Hee-Chan Song
Historical narrative studies suggest that history can be strategically manipulated and narrated by current actors to facilitate change. The studies emphasize that history can be used as a source of...
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Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 David Risi, Emilio Marti
Values are pivotal to institutions. Although prior research has mostly highlighted their positive effects, values also have a “dark” side, which we illuminate by looking at cases in which values pe...
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Making Sense of the New PhD Student Experience: Adapting to the First Year of Doctoral Studies Program Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Denny A. Gioia
Individual account of adapting to a doctoral program in management during the pandemic.
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The UN Global Compact and the Ulama (Religious Scholars of Islam): A Missing Voice in Islamic Business Ethics Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Farzad Rafi Khan, Muhammad Osama Nasim Mirza, Tom Vine
Islamic business ethics (IBE) has overlooked a major voice in Islam: the ulama (Islamic religious scholars). To enhance our understanding of Islam and business ethics we argue for this voice's inclusion. We demonstrate these contentions by presenting findings from a qualitative study in which we interviewed 50 ulama in respect of Islam's views on the UN Global Compact. While the current view in IBE
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The Tip of the Iceberg: A Roadmap for Management Research on Tipping Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Simon Pek
Tipping is a complex phenomenon with wide-ranging impacts on workers and organizations. Prior research has made important contributions to our understanding of why tipping happens and what its impacts are. Yet, we still have much to learn about these topics, particularly when it comes to the emergence, evolution, and diffusion of tipping norms, how organizations approach their decision-making about
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Exploring the Process of Policy Overreaction: The COVID-19 Lockdown Decisions Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Taieb Hafsi, Sofiane Baba
Policy overreaction is a common phenomenon, especially in complex and emergency situations where politicians are led to make decisions fast. In these emergency decisions, emotions run generally high and cognitive processes are often impaired. The conditions of policy overreaction are in place as emotions overwhelm decision makers’ rational processes. Drawing on the response patterns of three countries
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Mindful Members: Developing a Mindset for Reliable Performance in Extreme Contexts Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Jori Pascal Kalkman
This paper aims to describe how organizational members develop a mindset that enables mindful operations in extreme contexts. Scholars have been divided over how collective mindfulness can be achieved. The literature on High Reliability Organizations (HROs) argues for heterogeneity through promoting skepticism, diversity, and dissent. Yet, studies on organizing in extreme contexts emphasize cohesion
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Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Aurélie Soetens, Benjamin Huybrechts
This paper examines how organizational ideology can be collectively mobilized to sustain an alternative organizational form—a self-managed cooperative—in resistance to institutional prescriptions perceived as hostile. Based on an ethnographic study of the Venezuelan cooperative Cecosesola, we identify three roles through which ideology enables the reproduction of the alternative form over time: ideology
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Tactics of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Ways of Operating in the Contested Terrain of Green Architecture Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Christian Garmann Johnsen
This study explores the various tactics sustainable entrepreneurs use to meet the challenges associated with creating social and environmental solutions. Although often theorized as market imperfections, in this study, opportunities are considered as situations that allow things to be done differently within social settings. This approach opens up for research into the everyday practice of sustainable
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Assimilation, Integration or Inclusion? A Dialectical Perspective on the Organizational Socialization of Migrants Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Vedran Omanović, Ann Langley
Given the increasing importance of migrations around the world, and the challenges that migrants face in entering the labor market, the process of socialization of migrants into organizations deserves more attention from management scholars. Indeed, societal discourses promoting equality and diversity often appear to be in contradiction with the unequal power relations migrants experience on entering
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A Reflective Entrepreneur: Ashok Vasudevan and the Journey of Tastybite Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Raj K. Shankar, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan
The literature on entrepreneurship acknowledges that entrepreneurs are both thinkers and doers. While scholars have previously explored entrepreneurs’ cognitions and actions, research on entrepreneurs’ reflective practices remains limited. To stimulate greater scholarly attention on exploring entrepreneurs as reflective practitioners, in this ‘Meet the Person’ article we build on two interviews with
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Showing Legitimacy: The Strategic Employment of Visuals in the Legitimation of New Organizations Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Fernando Pinto Santos
Entrepreneurs commonly engage in discursive activities to pursue the legitimacy of their new organizations. Previous studies on this pursuit have essentially been focused on verbal language and there is limited understanding of how other communication modes, such as the visual, offer specific potentials for influencing legitimation audiences. With the contemporary pervasiveness of digital documents
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Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Michela Loi, Alain Fayolle, Marco van Gelderen, Elen Riot, Deema Refai, David Higgins, Radi Haloub, Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse, Erwan Lamy, Caroline Verzat, Fabrice Cavarretta
This work presents a synthesis of a debate regarding taken-for-granted assumptions and challenges in entrepreneurship education, matured after a developmental workshop organized to increase the research salience of the field. From the five contributions selected, three challenges emerge. The first is recognizing that participants’ representations about entrepreneurship play a crucial role in defining
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That's Interesting! A Flawed Article Has Influenced Generations of Management Researchers Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Eric W.K. Tsang
Davis's (1971) article “That's interesting! Towards a phenomenology of sociology and a sociology of phenomenology” is regarded by many management researchers as a classic work and a basis for guiding management studies; in the wake of its publication, an interesting research advocacy gradually emerged. However, from the perspective of scientific research, Davis's core argument that great theories have
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Building Perspective-Taking as an Organizational Capability: A Change Intervention in a Health Care Setting Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Thomas Calvard, Emily Cherlin, Amanda Brewster, Leslie Curry
Perspective-taking, or engaging with the viewpoints of others, has been linked to a range of positive and negative interpersonal outcomes. However, it has only been researched infrequently in organizations, and questions remain about how it might be developed as a multidimensional cooperative process and problem-solving capability more widely. To better understand this, this article presents findings
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Flexible Use of Referents in the Construction of Organizational Identity: A Longitudinal Case Study Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Juha Laurila, Anni Paalumäki
Rapid growth, acquisitions, and diversification are examples of major changes that often result in the need to redefine the distinctive characteristics of the organization in question thereafter. However, a sudden identity presentation that significantly differs from the past lacks credibility among both the organizational members and the organization’s external constituents. We contribute to previous
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“When Henry Met Fritz”: Rules As Organizational Frameworks: For Emergent Strategy Process Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Nicolai J. Foss, Matthew C. McCaffrey, Carmen-Elena Dorobat
Henry Mintzberg’s celebrated critique of the “design school” argued that strategy is the best thought of as adaptive, bottom-up, and based on dispersed knowledge and learning. Yet Mintzberg’s account lacks a clear and comprehensive theoretical underpinning, especially regarding how to guide emergent strategy in dynamic environments, and leverage it to exploit value creation. We provide this foundation
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Postscript for “A Letter to the Male Good Apples” Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-21
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Social Class in Organizations: Entrance, Promotion, and Organizational and Societal Consequences of the Corporate Elite Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Michelle K. Lee, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, Mark S. Mizruchi, Donald A. Palmer, Michael Useem
Organizational theorists studying executives of large corporations have long theorized that top management is dominated by elites of upper social class background. Organizations reflect the class system in the societies they are situated in by advantaging those of higher social class background. If organizations are perpetuating societal inequality by favoring those from higher social class and positioning
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Following up on “A Letter to the Male ‘Good Apples’” Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Ileana Stigliani
Drawing on the Letter to the Male “Good Apples” recently appeared in this section, my letter has a twofold aim: to provoke all the Male “Good Apples” in academia and to offer them an olive branch. As I provide them with a few practical suggestions, I hope to illuminate their way forward to truly “getting it”. It’s time to stop talking a good game and to start playing a better game.
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Inequalities and Institutions that Benefit Good Apples Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-07-10 Charlene Zietsma
I describe three types of inequalities that benefit “good apples” and harm women in Academe: inequality of recognition, inequality of effort required, and inequality in societal institutions around home and career. I then describe three hard things that “good apples” can do, focusing on the institutional level: building awareness, changing structures and adapting social norms.
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Seeing Red and Blue: Political Discrimination at Work Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Lemaro R. Thompson
Workplace political discrimination is a problem that warrants scholarly attention. Recent scholarship has shown that partisans are willing to discriminate against opposing partisans in apolitical settings such as the workplace. Moreover, many countries have no legal protection against political discrimination and social norms often exacerbate it. Like other forms of discrimination, political discrimination
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What Is “This” a Case of? Generative Theorizing for Disruptive Times Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Ann Langley
In this essay, I examine how different strands of process theorizing might be applied to the phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic, offering different answers to the question “What is ‘this’ a case of?” I further argue that the question “What is this a case of?” captures the spirit of intellectual curiosity that can bridge phenomena and theory, making phenomena understandable and theories meaningful
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From the Editors Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Richard Stackman, Pablo Martin de Holan
When a person dies, a universe disappears.
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Historical Narratives and the Defense of Stigmatized Industries Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Andrew Smith, Nicholas D. Wong, Anders Ravn Sørensen, Ian Jones, Diego M. Coraiola
This study examines how managers and entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries use historical narratives to combat stigma. We examine two industries, the private military contractors (PMC) industry in the United States and the cannabis industry in Canada. In recent decades, the representatives of these industries have worked to reduce the level of stigmatization faced by the industries. We show that
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Women Entrepreneur Journeys from Poverty to Emancipation Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Smita K. Trivedi, Antoaneta P. Petkova
This study examines the processes and mechanisms through which entrepreneurship leads to the empowerment and emancipation of women living in poverty. Drawing on the entrepreneuring as emancipation perspective, we identify specific activities through which emancipatory entrepreneuring manifests itself in the context of women’s entrepreneurship in India. We observe that the activities of a social entrepreneur—the
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Resignifying corporate responsibility in performative documentaries Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Martin Fougère
Critical scholars of Corporate Responsibility (CR) argue that one way to make CR good for society would be to demand its full realization in subversive interventions, in line with the critical performativity objective of subversion of managerial discourses and practices. This paper studies CR-oriented performative documentary films, in which the main protagonists problematize business impacts on society
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Sounds of Silence: The Reflexivity, Self-decentralization, and Transformation Dimensions of Silence at Work Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Mai Chi Vu, Ziyun Fan
This article explores silence as a phenomenon and practice in the workplace through a Buddhist-enacted lens where silence is intentionally encouraged. It brings forward a reconsideration of the roles of silence in organizations by proposing emancipatory dimensions of silence—reflexivity, self-decentralization, and transformation. Based on 54 interviews with employees and managers in a Vietnamese telecommunications
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Running Aground: Reflections on Belief, Organizational Culture, Strategy, and Performance Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 W. Glenn Rowe, James O’Brien, Kenneth A. Nason
A Canadian Navy destroyer ran aground more than 45 years ago. I have been thinking about it ever since, while in the Navy, and during my career as a management educator. I also have discussed it with my coauthors. Here is what we believe we can learn from that grounding.
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Educating Incarcerated Professionals: Challenges and Lessons from an Extreme PhD Context Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 William S. Harvey, Navdeep K. Arora
This essay outlines a unique set of challenges that we confronted as a PhD supervisor and candidate, drawing on a research project within a United States Federal Prison. We elicit the challenges that can be faced at different stages before, during, and after fieldwork, and share three lessons for others. First, exploring unique phenomena and processes often requires conducting research in extreme empirical
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From the Editors Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Pablo Martin de Holan, Richard Stackman
Management inquiry in and around organizations has produced quite a few robust and sometimes unappreciated findings. One such finding deals with the notions of decline and renewal. Organizations—and societies, regimes, and even empires—rise and fall as they become less relevant or overstretch their ambitions beyond their resources and capabilities, sometimes through a process of decline in their moral
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Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Andrew Crane, Genevieve LeBaron, Kam Phung, Laya Behbahani, Jean Allain
Despite growing attention from companies and regulators looking to eradicate modern slavery, we know little about how slavery works from a business perspective. We address this gap by empirically examining innovations in the business models of modern slavery, focusing on how the business models of slavery in advanced economies have evolved since slavery was legally abolished. While continuities exist
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What Does Political Context Tell Us? Understanding the Persistence of Ideological Imprints in the Case of Turkish Humor Magazines Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Deniz Öztürk
This study aims to develop a contextualized perspective for understanding the variation in the persistence of founders’ ideological imprints across different periods. We argue for the time-varying influence of political circumstances on ideological imprinting to grasp the consequences of multiple different imprints. Employing a multiple-case study research design that relies heavily on archival data
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A Paradox Approach to Organizational Tensions During the Pandemic Crisis Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-02-06 Simone Carmine,Constantine Andriopoulos,Manto Gotsi,Charmine E. J. Härtel,Anna Krzeminska,Nkosana Mafico,Camille Pradies,Hassan Raza,Tatbeeq Raza-Ullah,Stephanie Schrage,Garima Sharma,Natalie Slawinski,Lea Stadtler,Andrea Tunarosa,Casper Winther-Hansen,Joshua Keller
The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive exogenous shock that reverberated around the world, forcing all types of organizations to change overnight—from the local coffee shop to the international airline. As we try to make sense of the events surrounding the pandemic, one question that has perplexed both scholars and managers alike has been the extent to which this experience is qualitatively different from
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Second Acts and Second Chances: The Bumpy Road to Redemption Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Robert J. Bies, Thomas M. Tripp, Laurie J. Barclay
Throughout history, there are numerous examples of business and government leaders who have fallen from grace only to rise again, and have a “second act” and a “second chance” as a legitimate social actor or leader—that is, they achieved redemption. We explore “the road to redemption” of leaders—when and why it occurs, and what “bumps” prevent it. In our analysis, we conceptualize redemption as a process
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The Lived Experience of Paradox: How Individuals Navigate Tensions during the Pandemic Crisis Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Camille Pradies,Ina Aust,Rebecca Bednarek,Julia Brandl,Simone Carmine,Joe Cheal,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Medhanie Gaim,Anne Keegan,Jane K. Lê,Ella Miron-Spektor,Rikke Kristine Nielsen,Vanessa Pouthier,Garima Sharma,Jennifer L. Sparr,Russ Vince,Joshua Keller
Organizational life has always been filled with tensions, but the COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying this experience in fundamental ways. Across the globe, employees were forced to quickly adjust to working from home, striving to remain productive while adapting to new technologies and workpractices (Lanzolla et al., 2020). Essential employees, such as medical personnel, have been grappling with the desire
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Our Collective Tensions: Paradox Research Community’s Response to COVID-19 Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Joshua Keller, Simone Carmine, Paula Jarzabkowski, Marianne W. Lewis, Camille Pradies, Garima Sharma, Wendy K. Smith, Russ Vince
In this commentary on three articles from dozens of paradox theory scholars on paradox approaches to examining the COVID-19 pandemic and how the COVID-19 pandemic informs paradox theory, the authors involved in coordinating the collection of three papers discuss the process of bringing together scholars from around the world to discuss the pandemic. Four other preeminent paradox theorists offer additional
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A Paradox Approach to Societal Tensions during the Pandemic Crisis Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Garima Sharma,Jean Bartunek,Patrice M. Buzzanell,Simone Carmine,Carsyn Endres,Michael Etter,Gail Fairhurst,Tobias Hahn,Patrick Lê,Xin Li,Vontrese Pamphile,Camille Pradies,Linda L. Putnam,Kimberly Rocheville,Jonathan Schad,Mathew Sheep,Joshua Keller
COVID-19 isn’t going away soon [..] By now we know [. . .] that the novel Coronavirus will be with us for a rather long time. [. . .] In the interest of managing our expectations and governing ourselves accordingly, it might be helpful, for our pandemic state of mind, to envision this predicament—existentially, at least—as a soliton wave: a wave that just keeps rolling and rolling, carrying on under
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A Temporal View on the Academic–Practitioner Gap Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Ard-Pieter de Man, Dave Luvison, Tim de Leeuw
There is consensus about the existence of an academic–practitioner gap in management studies. However, views diverge about the width of the gap and the possibility to bridge it. By introducing diffusion theory into the debate, this article shows the gap is not static, but widens or closes over time. We reconceptualize the academic–practitioner gap as consisting of two different diffusion cycles, one
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A Letter to the Male “Good Apples” about How You May Be Viewed by Your Female Colleagues Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2020-11-11
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Business with Purpose and the Purpose of Business Schools: Re-Imagining Capitalism in a Post Pandemic World: A Conversation with Jay Coen Gilbert, Raymond Miles, Christian Felber, Raj Sisodia, Paul Adler, and Charles Wookey Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Hector Rocha, Michael Pirson, Roy Suddaby
The emergence of innovative business models suggests that the foundational assumptions of competitive capitalism are increasingly in doubt. Business schools, however, appear to be followers rather ...
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Boundaries, roles and identities in an online organization Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Saara Bange, Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Janne Tienari
Understanding what ties precarious workers to online organizations and what makes them drift away is a key issue in today’s digitalized world. In this article, we present a study of a blog portal d...
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Entrepreneurship Education as a First-Person Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry (IF 2.709) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Dimo Dimov, Joseph Pistrui
As entrepreneurship education spreads and aims to transform mindsets, its theories and methods need to be attuned to the first-person perspective of the learner. We provide a map for entrepreneursh...