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A Summer of Protest: Using Event System Theory To Test an Intersectional Leadership Advantage J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla Stajkovic
Widespread social unrest occurred in the United States in the Summer of 2020. Citizens took to the streets to challenge the prevailing social justice framework. According to event systemstheory, these Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests were high-strength, as they represented novel, critical, and disruptive events. They were also mega-threats as they focused on threats to the social identities of the
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Business Models and Lean Startup J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Christoph Zott, Raphael Amit
We explore the intersection between the lean startup methodology and research on business models. We note that both perspectives are anchored on a systematic approach to needs discovery and highlight the importance of value creation (vs. value appropriation). However, while the lean startup is centered on creating value for customers through discovery of product-market fit, research on business models
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Resilience Within Constraints: An Event Oriented Approach to Crisis Response J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Maria Minniti, Zachary Rodriguez, Trent A. Williams
Scholars have started unpacking how individuals, organizations, and communities interact to build a shared capacity for resilience. This research, however, has not yet examined how the institutional environment influences local responses to crises. This is an important omission since crises do not occur in a vacuum—decisions of actors, at one level, constrain or catalyze the resilience responses of
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A Review of Virtual Impression Management Behaviors and Outcomes J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky
Over the past half century, virtual interactions have become a mainstay of contemporary organizations, whether leveraged for formal job interviews or day-to-day communication. Despite this central role, there is a lack of a holistic understanding of how employees make and manage impressions in these virtual contexts. In this article, we review, organize, and evaluate the state of the growing body of
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Many Roads to Success: Broadening Our Views of Academic Career Paths and Advice J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Beth Livingston, Jamie L. Gloor, A. K. Ward, Allison S. Gabriel, Joanna T. Campbell, Emily Block, Dorothy Carter, Kimberly A. French, Rachel Frieder, Annika Hillebrandt, Jia (Jasmine) Hu, Kristen P. Jones, Dana L. Joseph, Nina M. Junker, Ashley Mandeville, Sarah M. G. Otner, Amanda S. Patel, Samantha Paustian-Underdahl, Manuela Priesemuth, Kristen M. Shockley, Mindy Shoss
Advice is often given to junior scholars in the field of organization science to ostensibly facilitate their career success. In this commentary, we discuss insights from 19 elite scholars (i.e., Fellows and top journal editors) about the advice they received–and, often, did not follow–throughout their careers. We highlight some of the pitfalls from the current, all-too-common, and often singular advice
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Firm Formalization Strategy: The Interaction of Entrepreneurs and Government Officials in the Enforcement of Regulation J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ashenafi Biru, Pia Arenius, Garry Bruton, David Gilbert
This research investigates how entrepreneurs in an early-stage market economy decide their level of compliance with formal rules and finds the manner in which they interact with government officials to operate on a continuum of formality. Focusing on the nonmarket strategy approaches entrepreneurs employ to establish relationships with government officials, we build a model that shows how entrepreneurs
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Governance Failure and Governance Under Failure: Reviewing the Role of Directors in Organizational Misconduct J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Srikanth Paruchuri, Erik A. Hoempler, Amanda P. Cowen, Albert A. Cannella, Peter Inho Nahm
Research on organizational misconduct has mostly evolved independently from the literature on corporate governance. Yet, our survey of research on the role of directors in organizational misconduct contexts yielded more than 110 articles in the last 17 years across the management, accounting, marketing, operations, public relations, and finance literatures, showing that research on the role of corporate
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Reputation-Damaging Events Over a Long Time Horizon: An Event-System Model of Substantive Reputation Repair J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jarrod P. Vassallo, Yeonji Seo, Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari
Current models of substantive reputation repair primarily focus on isolated reputation-damaging events (RDEs) and corresponding responses by firms within short time frames. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that firms encounter numerous RDEs over extended periods while only sporadically and intermittently engaging in top-down substantive repair. To investigate this event-response asynchrony, we adopt
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A Scientific Method for Startups J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Teppo Felin, Alfonso Gambardella, Elena Novelli, Todd Zenger
Recent scholarship has sought to develop a “scientific method” for startups. In this paper we contrast two approaches: lean startup and the theory-based view of startups. The lean startup movement has served an important function in calling for a normative and scientific approach to startups and venture creation. The theory-based view shares this agenda. But there are differences in the underlying
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Breaking News: JOM Wants Your Theory Papers J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sherry M. B. Thatcher, Michael D. Pfarrer, Cynthia E. Devers
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Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sergei Kolomeitsev, Kristie J. N. Moergen, Jason W. Ridge, Dan L. Worrell, Scott Kuban
Government agencies rely on general deterrence to protect the public. Firms utilize lobbying for influence and information purposes. This paper explores the intersection of general deterrence and lobbying by firms while investigating whether general deterrence efforts of regulators are met with a lobbying response. Specifically, we propose that following a competitor firm being sanctioned, the non-sanctioned
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Discursive Legitimation: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Eero Vaara, Ana M. Aranda, Helen Etchanchu
In recent years, we have seen a proliferation of research on discursive legitimation, which has shed light on how legitimacy is established through communication. However, this body of work remains fragmented, and there is a need to synthesize and develop a more comprehensive and in-depth theoretical understanding of this vibrant area of research. This article aims to address this need by providing
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Corporate Scandals as Punctuating Events That Change Human Resource Roles J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Elaine Farndale, Jaap Paauwe, Paul Boselie, Sven Horak
Corporate scandals disrupt the landscape for organizational leaders and employees, providing a burning platform that creates new momentum for change. Here, we explore the implications for the human resources (HR) function as organization-level responses to scandals cannot occur without individual-level changes in employee behaviors—the domain of HR. We apply event systems theorizing to uncover the
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The Social Context of Mistreatment: An Integrative Review J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Shota Kawasaki, Jason D. Shaw
Management scholars have examined various kinds of workplace mistreatment. These investigations and empirical summaries of the literature show that personal experience of mistreatment at work creat...
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Outshined by Creative Stars: A Dual-Pathway Model of Leader Reactions to Employees’ Reputation for Creativity J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Joel B. Carnevale, Lei Huang, Lynne C. Vincent, Lingtao Yu, Wei He
Establishing a reputation for creativity can endow employees with considerable social advantages as others look to them as a source of assistance, inspiration, and guidance. Yet, as leaders often e...
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Rising Every Time We Fall: Organizational Fortitude and Response to Adversities J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Celina Smith, Emanuela Rondi, Alfredo De Massis, Mattias Nordqvist
The role of organizational resilience enabling firms to respond to adversity and survive has become ever more critical in the wake of an increasingly unpredictable external environment. Yet, while ...
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The Effect of Incoming Board Interlocks With Public Firms on Private Firms’ Survival: Large-Scale Evidence From India J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Mirko H. Benischke, Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Rajani Singh
How private firms can overcome their unique governance challenges remains an important but understudied topic. Using novel data on more than 28,000 private firms in India from 1988 to 2017, we exam...
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Event-Oriented Organizational Behavior Research: A Multilevel Review and Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Dong Liu, Frederick P. Morgeson, Jinlong Zhu, Xueqing Fan
A large and growing body of organizational behavior (OB) research has adopted what can be termed an “event-oriented” perspective. Broadly speaking, this stream of research focuses on discrete, chan...
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The Lean Startup as an Actionable Theory of Entrepreneurship J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Steve Blank, Jonathan T. Eckhardt
Academic theories of entrepreneurship and applied theories of entrepreneurship have historically been siloed. In this article, we connect the Lean Startup, a widely used and applied approach toward...
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Strategic Leaders and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Meta-Analytic Review J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Gang Wang, Richard A. Devine, Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro, R. Michael Holmes, Jr.
A large body of literature has focused on strategic leaders’ (i.e., CEOs’, TMT members’, and board directors’) influence on corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, inconsistent findings hav...
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Reinforcing Political Inequality Through Diversity Initiatives: A Field-Level Perspective J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Linda Jakob Sadeh, Johanna Mair
Although diversity initiatives are considered prominent vessels for addressing inequality and despite massive investments in them, inequality inside organizations persists. Assessments of diversity...
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Closing the Revolving Door: What if Board Political Connections Are Permanently Broken? J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Jyun-Ying Fu, Pei Sun
Politically connected firms critically rely on their sociopolitical capital to compete; however, a policy-induced loss of board political connections may pose a serious challenge for focal firms an...
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Loaded Down From Speaking Up: A Resource-Based Examination of Voicer Regret Following Supervisor Delegation J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Daniel W. Newton, Hudson Sessions, Chak Fu Lam, David T. Welsh, Wen Wu
As the target of employee voice, supervisors have been depicted as the driving force behind enacting employee input. In reality, voicing employees often remain key players in the enactment process ...
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The Regulation of Religion by Secular Work Practice: Exploring Muslim Employees’ Performance of Religious Practice J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Koen Van Laer, Caroline Essers
Adopting a practice lens, this study contributes to debates on the reproduction of religious inequalities in the workplace by going beyond the literature's dominant focus on the role of discourse i...
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Hitting the “Grass Ceiling”: Golfing CEOs, Exclusionary Schema, and Career Outcomes for Female Executives J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Lee E. Biggerstaff, Joanna T. Campbell, Bradley A. Goldie
There are many complex reasons for the underrepresentation of women among executive ranks, both on the supply side (that is, women opting out of the executive track or career experiences that put t...
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A Socio-Cognitive Explanation of Organizational Grouping Decisions: Multidivisional Firms and the Formation of Their Divisions J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Metin Sengul, Tieying Yu
We advance a socio-cognitive explanation of the grouping of a firm's activities into distinct divisions, each responsible for a specific set of activities. We argue that categorization creates expe...
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Relieving the Pressure: Team Familiarity Attenuates External Conformity Pressure on Team Member Decisions J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Amanda J. Ferguson, Patrick E. Downes, Rhett Andrew Brymer, Marilla G. Hayman, Adam C. Stoverink
Decisions in organizations are often made by individuals acting as members or representatives of teams, and such decisions may be unduly influenced by the preferences of people outside their teams....
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Employee Incentives and Family Firm Innovation: A Configurational Approach J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Elisa Villani, Christian Linder, Alfredo De Massis, Kimberly A. Eddleston
According to family business theory and practice, family firms often face a paradoxical tension between their anchorage to the past and the need to renew and innovate to remain competitive, which o...
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The Construct of Bottom-Line Mentality: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Mary B. Mawritz, Nazifa N. Zaman
A growing body of research has examined the construct of bottom-line mentality (BLM), which captures a tunnel vision focus on securing bottom-line outcomes to the disregard of competing work priori...
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Strengthening the Theoretical Perspective on Action in Routines Research With the Analytical Philosophy of Agency J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Piotr Tomasz Makowski
This conceptual paper presents the analytical theory of agency (ATA), an overlooked philosophical approach to the concept of action, to develop its theoretical basis in routines research in which t...
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Contextual Inequality in the Performance Costs of Financial Precarity J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Jirs Meuris, Joe Gladstone
A substantial proportion of the workforce experiences financial precarity, which is defined as persistent concern about one's personal financial welfare. Research suggests that financial precarity ...
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The Presenter's Paradox: More Is Not Always Better J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Brian L. Connelly, David J. Ketchen, Yi Shi Zhou
The presenter's paradox is a phenomenon wherein adding low-value information alongside high-value information reduces the overall effectiveness of communication. This is because receivers tend to e...
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Coworker Injustices and Their Delegated Authority: Developing an Indirect Actor Model of Supervisor Justice J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Jeffrey J. Haynie, Hettie A. Richardson, Bryan Fuller, Christopher L. Martin, John Bush
Supervisors directly influence employees’ perceptions of supervisor justice and subsequent supervisor-supportive behaviors by displaying just treatment through ongoing work interactions. Using a tw...
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Cleansing or Licensing? Corporate Social Responsibility Reconciles the Competing Effects of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior on Moral Self-Regulation J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Zhenyu Liao, Kai Chi Yam, Hun Whee Lee, Russell E. Johnson, Pok Man Tang
Although emerging actor-centric research has revealed that performing morally laden behaviors shapes how employees behave subsequently, less is known about what work behaviors may emerge following ...
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Now It Makes More Sense: How Narratives Can Help Atypical Actors Increase Market Appeal J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Donato Cutolo, Simone Ferriani
Extensive research shows that atypical actors who defy established contextual standards and norms are subject to skepticism and face a higher risk of rejection. Indeed, atypical actors combine feat...
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Shareholder Politics: The Influence of Investors’ Political Affiliations on Corporate Social Responsibility J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, James Westphal
Many institutional investors are active political donors, but the impact that their political partisanship has on corporate practices and policies has mostly eluded academic examination. As politic...
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Partnering for Grand Challenges: A Review of Organizational Design Considerations in Public–Private Collaborations J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Gerard George, Thomas J. Fewer, Sergio Lazzarini, Anita M. McGahan, Phanish Puranam
We conduct a theory-guided review of the literatures on public–private partnerships and grand challenges (GCs). We adopt an organization design approach to review and identify constructs in public–...
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Not Like the Rest of Us? How CEO Celebrity Affects Quarterly Earnings Call Language J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Timothy G. Pollock, Roberto Ragozzino, Dane P. Blevins
In this study we explore whether celebrity CEOs use certain types of language that affect stakeholders’ perceptions more than noncelebrity CEOs do during earnings calls. We focus specifically on th...
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Better Safe Than Sorry: CEO Regulatory Focus and Workplace Safety J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Cuili Qian, Pavithra Balaji, Donal Crilly, Yilin Liu
Research shows that CEOs who are sensitive to maximizing gains (promotion focus) engage in more socially oriented initiatives, while CEOs who are sensitive to avoiding losses or harm (prevention fo...
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Not Always Helpful: Linking Intrateam Helping Types to Team Effectiveness From a Role Theory Perspective J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Sang-Hoon Lee, Yihao Liu, Jaclyn Koopmann, Jee Young Seo, Le Zhou, Yangyi Yu
Existing research on intrateam helping has predominantly taken a positive view on its impact on teams, overlooking the potential negative consequences that helping may elicit. To account for diverg...
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The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Andrea Whittle, Eero Vaara, Sally Maitlis
Despite the rapid growth of research on organizational sensemaking and an acknowledgment of the critical role of language in the sensemaking process, the literature on sensemaking and language is f...
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Strategy by Doing and Product-Market Performance: A Contingency View J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Christopher Jung, Mark R. Mallon, Ralf Wilden
The strategy-by-doing perspective argues that firms operating in highly dynamic environments can benefit from taking strategic actions in lieu of advance planning because such actions have learning...
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Disability Severity, Professional Isolation Perceptions, and Career Outcomes: When Does Leader–Member Exchange Quality Matter? J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Brent J Lyons, David C Baldridge, Liu-Qin Yang, Camellia Bryan
Employees with disability-related communication impairment often experience isolation from professional connections that can negatively affect their careers. Management research suggests that havin...
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The Collective Candidate Experience: Theory and Business Unit Consequences J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Lynn A. McFarland, Robert E. Ployhart, William J. Shepherd, Melanie M. Ward
Questions about whether candidate perceptions of recruitment and selection practices “matter” have been raised for decades. This study tackles such questions by developing a new theoretical framewo...
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Antecedents of Organizational Identification: A Review and Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Hannah Weisman, Chia-Huei Wu, Katsuhiko Yoshikawa, Hyun-Jung Lee
Research on the antecedents of organizational identification (OI), individuals’ sense of oneness with the organization, has developed over time with four major categories: organizational characteri...
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Work-Life Flexibility Policies From a Boundary Control and Implementation Perspective: A Review and Research Framework J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Ellen Ernst Kossek, Matthew B. Perrigino, Brenda A. Lautsch
Although management research on work-life flexibility policies has occurred for over 40 years, it is underdeveloped with inconsistent results. We argue that this is due to theorizing that—but not m...
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Corporate Political Activity, Reimagined: Revisiting the Political Marketplace J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Ivana V. Katic, Amy Hillman
We update the literature on corporate attempts to influence political actors, and thereby shape their governmental outcomes. Doing so allows us to recognize where the field has advanced, where it h...
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High Performer Peer Effects: A Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Jonathan L. Hendricks, Matthew L. Call, Elizabeth M. Campbell
For decades, scholars and managers alike have shared a sustained interest in harnessing the talents of high-performing employees primarily due to their disproportionate contributions. An emerging r...
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Corporate Political Connections: A Multidisciplinary Review J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Yifan Wei, Nan Jia, Jean-Philippe Bonardi
Corporate political connections (CPCs)—ties that firms forge with political actors—directly affect firms, political actors, and various stakeholders in societies. This topic has been studied extens...
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The Perverse Consequence of Firms’ Negative Publicity in Stigmatized Industries: CEOs' Board Appointments J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Mohamad Sadri, Caterina Moschieri
This study examines whether and when, in a stigmatized industry, firms’ negative publicity can lead to the appointment of their CEOs to the boards of directors of other firms within that sector. Bu...
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Coworker Narcissism: Employee Emotional and Behavioral Reactions as Moderated by Bottom-Line Mentality and Trait Competitiveness J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Truit W. Gray, Aaron D. Hill, Marcio Lima, Stephanie S. Royce, Alicia A. Smales
We advance research on narcissism in the workplace by examining the effects of coworker narcissistic rivalry on focal employee emotional states and behavioral intentions. We rely on social function...
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Identity-Consistent Self-Image Maintenance Following Leader Abuse: Integrating Self-Presentation and Self-Concept Orientation Perspectives J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Lei Huang, Ted A. Paterson, Siting Wang
Although coping with an abusive boss can be psychologically demanding, those who suffer from leader abuse often stay in these unpleasant relationships, actively managing the way they are viewed in ...
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Unpacking Virtual Work's Dual Effects on Employee Well-Being: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 N. Sharon Hill, Carolyn Axtell, Sumita Raghuram, Niina Nurmi
Virtual work arrangements, whereby dispersed employees interact with each other using technology-mediated communication, can both positively and negatively impact their psychological well-being. Ye...
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Leaders’ Impulsive Versus Strategic Abuse, Goal Realization, and Subsequent Supportive Behaviors: A Self-Regulation Perspective J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Mingyun Huai, Huiwen Lian, Jiing-Lih Farh, Hai-Jiang Wang
Leaders may engage in abusive behaviors due to impulsive or strategic drives, but it is unclear whether impulsive and strategic abuse can be differentiated and if they have distinct outcomes. The c...
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Human Sustainability and Work: A Meta-Synthesis and New Theoretical Framework J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Christopher M. Barnes, David T. Wagner, Kira Schabram, Dorian Boncoeur
How can work be accomplished while sustaining the human capital that enables it? To date, research on this question has been piecemeal and indirect with different literatures and paradigms offering...
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A Multidimensional Framework for Examining the Effects of Social Class on Organizational Behavior J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Stéphane Côté
The role of social class in organizations is a fledgling area of research that is revealing important insights into the causes of organizational behavior and workplace outcomes. To extend pioneerin...
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Networking Fast and Slow: The Role of Speed in Tie Formation J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Julia Brennecke, Gokhan Ertug, Tom Elfring
Growing interest in network dynamics has led to insights about patterns of network change, drivers of tie formation, and the temporal unfolding of the consequences of networks. To this area of inqu...
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Private Equity: Antecedents, Outcomes, Mediators, and Moderators J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Patia J. McGrath, Atul Nerkar
As private equity’s financial heft and influence on the business landscape has intensified, so too has scholarly interest in the phenomenon. We review recent progress in private equity research, wi...
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How Shareholders Impact Stakeholder Interests: A Review and Map for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Mark R. DesJardine, Muhan Zhang, Wei Shi
Research on how shareholders influence the interests of stakeholders has proliferated in recent years, at pace with the active debate on the merits of “stakeholder capitalism.” This research has so...
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Strategic Rhythms: Insights and Research Directions J. Manag. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Pengxiang Zhang, Richard Priem, Donghan Wang, Sali Li
Strategic rhythms concern how managers intentionally organize strategic activities by mapping them to the time continuum in hopes of improving a firm's long-term prospects. We develop a clear conce...