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EXPRESS: Generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven scholars addressing grand challenges Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Christopher Luederitz, Dror Etzion
In this contribution, we theorize generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven management scholars seeking to address grand challenges through research. We use generativity to suggest engaging diverse actors in pluralistic inquiry to create conditions for future flourishing. Our theorization applies a pragmatist worldview and builds on insights from the multidisciplinary literature on generativity
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EXPRESS: From Impact to Impacting: A Pragmatist Perspective on Tackling Grand Challenges Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Frithjof Eberhard Wegener, Ju Young Lee, Alice Mascena Barbosa, Garima Sharma, Pratima (Tima) Bansal
Scholars have long sought to impact management practice. However, the current conceptualization of impact is grounded in dualisms, separating researchers from managers, means from ends, and thought from action. Such a dualistic understanding of impact hampers researchers' and managers' ability to achieve impact. Nowhere is this issue more acute than in the context of grand challenges, which require
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Research frontiers on the attention-based view of the firm Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 John Joseph, Daniella Laureiro-Martinez, Amit Nigam, William Ocasio, Claus Rerup
The attention-based view (ABV) offers a foundational perspective on strategy and organizing. Despite its significance, questions persist about the relationship between organizational attention and strategic organization. Inspired by the evolving literature on organizational attention, its determinants, and consequences, this special issue aims to advance theory and research in the ABV realm. It includes
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EXPRESS: Epitomizing an Emerging Category: Effects of Entrepreneurial Firms and Influential Stakeholders on the Entrepreneurial Firms’ Status Attainment Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Bo Kyung Kim, Donghoon Shin, Mooweon Rhee
This paper explores the status-attainment process of entrepreneurial firms in emerging categories. Previous literature emphasizes that in emerging categories, being perceived as the exemplars is important to attain status. We emphasize that clear symbolic boundaries around emerging categories can increase the possibility of exemplar perception and argue that entrepreneurial firms and influential stakeholders
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EXPRESS: The Long March: The Quest for Valid Text-Based Indicators of Exploration and Exploitation Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Nazlihan Ugur, Rene Belderbos, Stijn Kelchtermans, Bart Leten
Since March (1991) outlined the importance of balancing exploration and exploitation in organizational learning, the exploration-exploitation paradigm has received substantial attention in the management literature. Recent studies have used computer-aided text analysis (CATA) to construct measures of firms’ inclination towards exploration or exploitation, using the original set of keywords proposed
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EXPRESS: Changing Focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Francois Herve COLLET, Olga Bruyaka, Alex Makarevich, Lucie Baudoin, Ralf Wilden
Status and reputation both play important roles in the evaluation and choice of organizations. Status is used as a heuristic in the first stage of a two-stage process when decision-makers select a subset of status-proximate organizations, and cognitively costlier reputation-based comparisons take place in the second stage within this subset. Existing status research assumes that the relative importance
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The individual makes the difference: How mobile personnel affects organizational status of hiring firms Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Leonard Schmidt, Thijs A Velema, Shin-I Shih
This article examines how executive mobility shapes organizational status. We propose that the status perception of market observers is not only shaped through the lens of status distance between the source and destination firms but also influenced by a novel lens: the mobile individuals’ career characteristics. By testing our hypotheses with a sample of US accounting, consulting, and law firms between
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Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Frank Nagle, Robert Seamans, Steven Tadelis
Transaction cost economics theory explains when it is more efficient for a transaction between two parties to occur across the market or within an organization. How does transaction cost economics apply in the digital economy, which relies on digital transactions? In this article, we consider how digital transactions help us probe the boundary conditions of transaction cost economics and how, despite
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Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Andrew Barron, Philippe Coulombel
We cross-fertilize insights from corporate political activity and open-strategy literature to propose a research agenda on open political strategy—or greater participation and visibility in firms’ actions aimed at shaping public policy. Incorporating ideas from open-strategy research, corporate political activity scholars can upgrade knowledge about firms’ political actions, and ensure their theorizing
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COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 David Etherington, Martin Jones, Luke Telford
Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic and ‘cost of living’ crisis revealed and intensified the United Kingdom’s (UK) socio-spatial inequalities, these crises did not emerge into a vacuum. Long-term trends o...
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A silica/epoxy resin nanocomposite exhibiting high thermal stability and low thermal expansion based on the uniform dispersion of hydrophilic colloidal silica nanospheres Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Mitsuru Tanahashi, Kazuma Hirota
The present study fabricated high-performance silica/epoxy resin nanocomposites having a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion (CTE) and a high glass transition temperature (Tg). This was acc...
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Book Covers and State Translation Programs: A Multimodal Approach to Book Covers in the Panda Books Series Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Binji Zao, Huiyu Zhang, Quangong Feng
In the era of globalization, institutional translation has become increasingly important. The Panda Books Series (PBS) is an exemplar of institutional translation that translates and disseminates C...
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Partners or Providers? An Analysis of Nonprofit Federal Contractor Performance Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Benjamin M. Brunjes
As competition over grant funding increases, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are increasingly likely to enter into contracts with government agencies to ensure funding stability and accomplish organ...
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Experimentally Disentangling Donors’ Perceptions of Government-Supported Nonprofits: Cost-Efficiency, Program Impact, and Shared Services Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 ChiaKo Hung, Yuan Tian, Youlang Zhang
This study advances understanding of the relationship between government support and private donations, by further investigating the mechanisms underlying that relationship and by examining a nonmo...
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Rethinking the Role of Volunteering in the Labor Market Inclusion of Migrants Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Ilona Bontenbal, Francesca Calo, Tom Montgomery, Simone Baglioni
In this article, we critically investigate the role that volunteering can have in the labor market inclusion of migrants. We consider how volunteering can both enhance and hinder inclusion through ...
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Awe Correlates With Resilience to COVID-19 Stressors Independent of Religiosity Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jeanette M. Braswell, Eric C. Prichard
Awe is an emotion defined by an experience of vastness and cognitive accommodation that is unique among other positive emotions in that its cognitive effects are more similar to those of negative e...
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Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David AB Murray
In this paper I explore the transnational journeys of a group of queer HIV positive (HIV+) Caribbean migrants moving between Canada and the Caribbean. I focus on queer orientations and viral status...
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Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Iris Wahring, Laura Mausolf, Nicole Mulas, Shayda Shwan
A well-established finding is that beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories (e.g., Princess Diana was murdered vs. faked her own death) are positively correlated. This is commonly interpreted a...
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Mobile intimacies? Uncertainty, ambivalence and fluidity in the intimate practices of dating app users in Germany and the UK Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Andrea Newerla, Jenny van Hooff
Research on dating app practices has drawn on a dichotomous conception of love and sex, with users viewed as seeking either casual sex or a committed relationship. Drawing on qualitative interview ...
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Substructural damage identification using autoregressive moving average with exogenous inputs model and sparse regularization Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hong Yu, Hongping Zhu, Shun Weng, Wangqing Wen, Aiguo Yan, Xingsheng Yu
Substructuring approaches possess many superiorities over traditional global approaches in damage identification because large-size global structures are replaced by small and manageable substructu...
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Identifying Healthcare Stereotype Threat in Older Gay Men Living with HIV Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Mekiayla C. Singleton, Daniel C. Green, Susan M. Enguidanos
Healthcare stereotype threat (HCST) is defined as “being reduced to group stereotypes within an individual’s healthcare encounter,” leading to experiences of stigma and discrimination. This current...
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Social-Emotional and Behavioral Functioning Profiles and Demographic Factors: A Latent Profile Analysis in Elementary Students Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Ning Jiang, Ruiqin Gao, Christine DiStefano, Jin Liu, Mark Weist, Joni Williams Splett, Colleen A Halliday-Boykins
A growing interest has been given to examining the heterogeneity of children’s health to provide for their particular needs. This study examined subgroups of elementary school children’s social, em...
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Should we trust the university casual academic? A narrative inquiry case study Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Daron Benjamin Loo
This study explores how trust is established by a casual academic working at a Malaysian public university. Narrative data was collected through a series of semi-structured interview with a case pa...
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The Rise and Rise of Lupus Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Luis A. González, Manuel F Ugarte-Gil, Guillermo J Pons-Estel, Graciela S Alarcón
Despite how difficult the early diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is, which is mainly due to the heterogeneity and non-specificity of its clinical manifestations, SLE is currently bei...
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So, entrepreneurship theory—agreements, criticisms and promises [aka our tent, our circus, our next act] Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Richard J Arend
This SO!apBox Forum’s essays relating to the state of entrepreneurship theory are collectively and briefly assessed and summarized by considering their substantive areas of agreement and disagreeme...
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EXPRESS: What’s the Purpose? Meaning Making, Sensemaking, and the (Mis)appropriation of Purpose Beyond Profit Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Matthew Regele
Organizations are increasingly adopting “purposes beyond profit” that combine aspirational social aims with profit goals. Often, however, the social aims seem to be subordinated to profit goals whe...
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EXPRESS: Up in Smoke? The Lingering Influence of History on Community Identity Dynamics Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Matthew CB Lyle, Ashley S Hockensmith, Ian J Walsh
While prior research suggests that novel ventures not yet present in a given geographic community might threaten reflective aspects of community identity (i.e., materiality and rhetoric), it has ye...
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EXPRESS: Emotions and Attentional Engagement in the Attention-Based View of the Firm Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Timo Vuori
This essay integrates emotions into the attention-based view of the firm to enhance the theory’s explanatory power and open a generative path for future research. Organizational structures and comm...
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Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Robert J David, Candace Jones, Grégoire Croidieu
Existing category research tends to divorce categories from place. When considered at all, place is often relegated to the contextual background. We see at least three important elements of place t...
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EXPRESS: Microfoundations of Ecosystems: The Theory-Led Firm and Capability Growth Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Teppo Felin, Nicolai Juul Foss
Our argument is that firm-specific theories are critical for ecosystems. We first highlight how existing research on ecosystems lacks microfoundations and tends to be overly structural. We focus on...
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EXPRESS: Applying a Wide-Angle Lens: De-centering Work Organizations in Organization Studies Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Matthew CB Lyle, Ashley S Hockensmith, Ovidiu C Cocieru
Much of organizational scholarship to-date has rested on the assumption that the organizations at which individuals work are centerpieces of their experiences. In this essay, we argue for a shift i...
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EXPRESS: ‘What may be’: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for Paradox Theory Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Rebecca Bednarek, Wendy K. Smith
Scholars increasingly turn to paradox theory to offer insight into our world’s greatest challenges. Yet to contribute to radical strategy theorizing concerning those challenges and avoid premature ...
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EXPRESS: When Entrepreneurs Become Custodians: Categories’ Place-Based Identity and Collective Coping Response in Extreme Contexts Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Kemal Haşim, Birthe Soppe
We conducted a qualitative study of the category of independent tourism entrepreneurs in the politically contested territory of Northern Cyprus to understand how a collective of entrepreneurs whose...
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EXPRESS: Polyarchy and Project Performance in Open, Distributed Forms of Innovation Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Junyeong Lee, Sangchan Park, Heeseok Lee
Although research on open collaboration for innovation has generally focused on the voluntary participation of individuals who are not strictly governed by formal authority concentrated at higher l...
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EXPRESS: How the Ghosts of Past Experience Haunt Problemistic Search Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Joseph J Cabral, Dinesh N Iyer, Jonathan P O’Brien
The behavioral theory of the firm (BTF) suggests that when performance falls below aspirations, firms engage in problemistic search for solutions to the performance shortfall. In this paper, we con...
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EXPRESS: On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in U.S. specialty coffee, 1974-2016 Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Andrea Tunarosa
Understanding how the construction of a market category occurs is contingent upon a consideration of where it occurs. Yet extant research mostly depicts place as the backdrop against which market a...
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Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Ying Li
This study investigates the power of a community namesake, defined as an organization named after the geographic community, in discouraging potential entrants from entering the local market during ...
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EXPRESS: Typical Products for Outside Audiences: The Role of Typicality When Products Traverse Countries Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sverre Ubisch, Pengfei Wang
While organization theorists have established the importance of typicality, most studies examine situations where producers and audiences dwell within the same category system (e.g., a country, ind...
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EXPRESS: Microfoundations of Sensing Capabilities: From Managerial Cognition to Team Behavior Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Jean-François Harvey
Scanning the environment for information about competitors, technology trends, or customer needs allows firms to sense opportunities and threats, which supports dynamic capabilities and helps firms...
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EXPRESS: Addressing Racism and Islamophobia under the Rules of Colorblindness: When Social Movements Engage in Category Work to Reform the Meanings of Regulatory Categories Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Lisa Buchter
Research at the intersection of social movements and categories has stressed how movements initiate and transform categories that influence the emergence, downfall, and restructuring of markets and...
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EXPRESS: Integration versus Segregation: Newspaper Diversity and Museum Formation in U.S. Local Communities 1872–1976 Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Hongwei Xu
Motivated by general theoretical ideas about the societal consequences of diversity among organizations, I examine how the diversity of organizational forms in a local community shapes the formatio...
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EXPRESS: Looking into the Past: Audience Heterogeneity and the Inconsistency of Market Signals Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Pengfei Wang
Prior literature has emphasized that inconsistency of market signals leads to evaluation penalty. However, limited attention has been paid to the heterogeneity of audiences who deal with inconsiste...
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EXPRESS: Why Embrace a Double-Edged Sword? A Behavioral Theory of Board Political Capital Building Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Renfei Gao, Geoff Martin, Helen Hu, Jane Lu
Firm political connections are widely recognized to have both positive and negative implications, but why do firms build political connections in the first place? Distinct from prior research that ...
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The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Tyler Wry, Jeffrey G York, Theodore L Waldron
In this essay, we argue that it is folly to stake the legitimacy and value of entrepreneurship research on the uniqueness of its theory. A better path is to orient around questions where we are uni...
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EXPRESS: Strategic Interaction and Arenas: A Sociological Perspective on Strategy Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Brayden G King, James M. Jasper
We offer a view of organizational strategy derived from the strategic interaction perspective in sociology. We apply the perspective to the study of nonmarket strategy and social movements – the su...
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EXPRESS: The Short History and Long Future of Research on Market Categories Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Robert J. David, Yoojin Lee
The market categories literature is reaching the adolescent stage. In order to “look forward” and chart the next stages of this literature’s growth, we first need to “look back” at what we have lea...
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The differential categorization of novel products by institutional actors across places: The case of e-cigarettes in the US and the UK Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Thinley Tharchen, Raghu Garud
Adopting a place-based approach to categorization, we explore how and why institutional actors in the US and the UK have categorized e-cigarettes differently, namely as tobacco products in the US a...
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EXPRESS: Swayed by prior interactions? How government contracting acts as a substitute for lobbying activity Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Izuchukwu Mbaraonye, Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov, Jason W Ridge
We argue that because one of the key intentions of lobbying is to develop knowledge about the inner workings of the government, a crucial type of governmental interaction—government contracting—is ...
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Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19 Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Silvia Sanasi, Antonio Ghezzi
The Covid-19 outbreak in 2019 and beyond severely threatened global supply chains and markets. Firms worldwide saw their operations limited by governmental restrictions, compromising the viability ...
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EXPRESS: Routine Dynamics: Toward a critical conversation Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Martha Feldman, Brian T. Pentland
In this essay, we suggest new research directions for the study of routines that intersect with and draw upon conversations about the reproduction of privilege and oppression as a strategic issue i...
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EXPRESS: Strategic Organization in the Digital Age: Rethinking the Concept of Technology Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Samer Faraj, Paul Leonardi
Digital technologies, enabled by data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI), are creating new competitive opportunities. But how does one strategize when the technologies core to organizati...
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Doing safe while doing good: Slack, risk management capabilities, and the reliability of value creation through CSR Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Hao Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
When can corporate social responsibility become a reliable strategic asset? There is a scarcity of both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence investigating the trade-off between the risk and...
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Seeing business like a state: Firms and industries after the digital revolution Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Gerald F Davis, Theodore DeWitt
What we know about firms and industries in the United States has been fundamentally shaped by governmental responses to the Great Depression. Mandates for regular disclosures by public corporations...
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Looking forward, looking back: Strategic organization and the business model concept Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Yuliya Snihur, Kathleen M Eisenhardt
In the past decade, the business model has emerged as a fundamental strategic and organizational concept. In this essay, we first “look back” to synthesize recent research on designing high-perform...
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Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Siobhan O’Mahony, Susan Cohen
Editors and reviewers often issue clarion calls for interesting research with novel theoretical contributions. In response to these calls, scholars often gravitate toward emerging phenomena—novel c...
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EXPRESS: The strategy-identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change. Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Majken Schultz
Grand Challenges have stimulated a search for new solutions at the interplay between fields and disciplines which previously have been separated. In this essay, I argue that a further development o...
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EXPRESS: Context and How It Matters: Mobilizing Spaces for Organizational-Community Sustainable Change Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Jean Bartunek, Julia Balogun
There are growing expectations that organizations should contribute to the sustainability of our planet. These have increased recognition of relationships between organizations and their external c...
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EXPRESS: Orchestrating Ongoing Interaction Flows of Strategy Formation in and between Meetings Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Maria Skov, Toke Bjerregaard, Jesper Rosenberg Hansen
Research has addressed how the practices and organization of strategy meetings shape strategy processes and outcomes. However, how interactive processes run between and feed into meetings—an integr...
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EXPRESS: Stakeholder Theory, Strategy, and Organization: Past, Present and Future Strateg. Organ. (IF 3.506) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Flore Bridoux, J.W. Stoelhorst
We reflect on the past, present, and future of stakeholder theory, focusing on its link to strategy and organization scholarship. Stakeholder theory was originally conceived as a theory of strategi...