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Socioeconomic Status and Employee Well-Being: An Intersectional and Resource-Based View of Health Inequalities at Work J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Kelly P. Gabriel, Maira E. Ezerins, Christopher C. Rosen, Allison S. Gabriel, Charmi Patel, Grace J. H. Lim
Socioeconomic status (SES)—one’s objective economic and social standing—has the potential to yield critical implications for employee well-being. Despite the vast multidisciplinary literature on the topic, management scholars have historically treated SES as a control variable and have only recently begun to critically examine the role of SES at work. Because of this, relatively little is known about
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Agent-Oriented Impression Management: Who Wins When Firms Publicize Their New CEOs? J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Hyunjung (Elle) Yoon, Daniel L. Gamache, Michael D. Pfarrer, Jason Kiley
In this study, we advance organizational impression management research by focusing on agent-oriented impression management—which reflects attempts to create value for the firm by publicizing individuals or groups who are agents of the firm. Although prevalent in practice, agent-oriented impression management remains unexplored in scholarly research. Specifically, we introduce the concept of new CEO
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The Relationship Between Organizational Authenticity Perceptions and Employees’ Work Performance: Evidence From a Field Experiment J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Liat Eldor
The concept of organizational authenticity—the consistency between an organization’s espoused values and its lived practices—has garnered considerable interest in academic discourse. While the authenticity literature has paid much attention to external stakeholders (e.g., clients), the notion of organizational authenticity perceptions of an important stakeholder—employees—has been understudied. Despite
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Plain Sailing or Choppy Water? Maintaining Interpersonal Trusting Relationships in Times of Uncertainty J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-08 Sian Kelly, Lisa van der Werff, Yseult Freeney
Interpersonal trusting relationships frequently experience relational threats that require both parties to engage actively in trust maintenance efforts. Yet, trust research has tended to focus on trust formation, or trust repair in the case of a violation, and offers us little insight regarding how these more ambiguous threats to trusting relationships are experienced and overcome relationally. To
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Are Family Owners Willing to Risk “Rocking the Boat”? A Blended Socioemotional Wealth-Implicit Theory Framework J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Luis R. Gómez-Mejía, Francesco Chirico, Michael C. Withers, Geoffrey P. Martin, Robert M. Wiseman
We leverage research on socioemotional wealth (SEW) and implicit theories to develop a novel blended SEW-implicit theory framework that explains why some family firms are more risk seeking or more risk averse. According to implicit theory, individuals perceive reality through their interpretative cognitive filters. Those with an entity theory orientation see reality as relatively fixed or uncontrollable
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An Audience Heterogeneity View of Markets: Contributions, Tensions, and Agenda for Future Research J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Kata Isenring, Rodolphe Durand, Tomi Laamanen
Producers’ resource allocation, performance, and survival depend on how market audiences identify, evaluate, and value them. While research has focused on producers’ heterogeneity, it has not consistently addressed audiences’ heterogeneity despite its critical consequences on producers’ decisions and market dynamics. This review integrates three research perspectives—ecological, socio-cognitive, and
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A Review of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Robots Through the Lens of Stakeholder Theory J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Michael J. Matthews, Runkun Su, Lindsey Yonish, Shawn McClean, Joel Koopman, Kai Chi Yam
With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, intelligent machines are affecting the daily lives of multiple organizational stakeholders. However, despite the continued expansion of intelligent machines in society, management scholarship has generally lagged, and current frameworks are under-equipped to offer meaningful guidance regarding the intersection of intelligent machines and organizations
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The Time to Succeed: CEO Appointment Phase Entrainment and Post-Succession Firm Operational Performance J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Diego Villalpando, Robert J. Campbell, Liliana Pérez-Nordtvedt
Given the inevitability of CEO successions and the importance of CEOs to firm performance, a stream of research explores the effects of new CEO appointments on post-succession firm performance. Yet, scholarly findings regarding the performance outcomes provoked by CEO succession are decidedly mixed. We argue that a temporal explanation, particularly one focusing on the dates at which new CEOs are appointed
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Green Innovation Implementation: A Systematic Review and Research Directions J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Xiangru Qin, Birgit Muskat, Véronique Ambrosini, Judith Mair, Ying-Yi Chih
Green innovation is an organizational strategy aimed to address climate crises and create low-carbon growth, yet, its implementation remains a significant challenge. We focus on green innovation implementation (GII) and argue that GII is a distinctive strategic process. Traditional innovation implementation, centered on short-term economic growth, can be problematic as it often decouples nature from
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An Identity Threat Appraisal Framework Explaining Distinct Reactions to Active- and Passive-Aggressive Abusive Supervision J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Yongyi Liang, Tingting Chen, Eric Adom Asante, Ming Yan, Jiayin Deng, Wing Lam
Previous research has predominantly focused on the overt acts of supervisory abuse or has taken a general approach that fails to differentiate between its distinctive forms. Integrating the literature on hot versus cold identity threats and identity threat appraisal, we examine how different forms of abusive supervision influence employee outcomes. We argue that active-aggressive abusive supervision
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Alignment in Mature Ecosystems: An Iterative Process Of Interorganizational Influence J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Lauri Paavola, Annabelle Gawer, Mikko Hänninen
Extant empirical research on ecosystem alignment has offered little insight into how mature ecosystems align their members with a new value proposition. Our longitudinal empirical study of a seven-year hub-driven alignment initiative within the SOK led retail ecosystem in Finland explores how a mature ecosystem hub attempted to enroll its members in a value-proposition updating, ecosystem-wide initiative
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Reenvisioning Family-Supportive Organizations Through a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Perspective: A Review and Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Ellen Ernst Kossek, Hoda Vaziri, Matthew B. Perrigino, Brenda A. Lautsch, Benjamin R. Pratt, Eden B. King
The growing literature on family-supportive organizations (FSOs) examines work–family supports that organizations provide to employees—informal (e.g., perceptions of supervisor and coworker support, climate) and formal (e.g., policies, including those mandated in national contexts). Yet FSO research remains underintegrated with the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) literature, limiting understanding
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The “WEIRDEST” Organizations in the World? Assessing the Lack of Sample Diversity in Organizational Research J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Robin Schimmelpfennig, Christian Elbæk, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Anisha Singh, Quinetta Roberson
Sampling data from organizations and humans associated with those organizations is essential to organizational research. Much of what we know about organizations is based on such work. However, this empirical foundation may be compromised, calling into question the field’s theoretical and empirical findings. Studies often sample data from relatively similar, narrow contexts, so a lack of sample diversity
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Corporate Short-Termism: A Review and Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Margarethe Wiersema, Haeyoung Koo, Weiru Chen, Yu Zhang
Corporate short-termism, defined as a managerial preference for the short term that undermines a firm’s long-term interests, has become a topic of global concern for governments, investors, and business leaders. In recent years, heightened capital market pressures to maximize shareholder value have intensified focus on the issue, raising concerns that the pursuit of short-term shareholder value may
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The Political Consequences of Work: An Integrative Review J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Eva Selenko, Miriam Schilbach, Steven A. Brieger, Anahí Van Hootegem, Hans De Witte
Work experiences and political participation outside work are intrinsically linked. Management scholars have acknowledged the role that organizations play in shaping political behavior from a firm-level perspective, but the specific working conditions and how they translate into employee political participation and attitudes outside work remain poorly understood. This paper offers an interdisciplinary
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The Affective Revolution in Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Conceptual Review and Guidelines for Future Investigation J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Florencio F. Portocarrero, Scott L. Newbert, Maia J. Young, Lily Yuxuan Zhu
Entrepreneurial affect has emerged as a burgeoning area of study, with a wealth of articles demonstrating that affect, broadly conceptualized, plays an important part in entrepreneurial life. While a few affective phenomena, such as passion and positive and negative affect, are primarily driving the affective revolution in entrepreneurship, a wide range of additional forms of affect, from momentary
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The High Cost of Cheap Talk: How Disingenuous Ethical Language Can Reflect Agency Costs J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Stephen J. Smulowitz, Michael D. Pfarrer, Didier Cossin, Hongze (Abraham) Lu
Does the use of a certain type of ethical language indicate that managers are failing to behave in a socially responsible manner? Managers are increasingly using language related to ethics, values, and corporate purpose in their communications with stakeholders. However, while economic models argue that “talk is cheap,” we predict that some ethical language (i.e., cheap talk) can reflect agency costs
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Autistic Applicants’ Job Interview Experiences and Accommodation Preferences: An Intersectional Analysis J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-06 Maira E. Ezerins, Lauren S. Simon, Christopher C. Rosen
Although more organizations are seeking autistic applicants, autistic people remain in an unemployment crisis. This may be due in part to job interviews, which often implicitly evaluate relational and social skills—an area with which many autistic people struggle. To determine how to better support autistic applicants, we conduct a mixed methods study to identify, from their own perspective, the accommodations
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Eyes on the Ball: Activist Campaigns and Management’s Response at the Operational Level J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-29 Razvan Lungeanu, Margarethe Wiersema
More than 45% of the S&P 500 have been the target of activist investors. As a major shareholder in the firms they target, activist investors’ campaigns raise concerns over the firm’s poor performance and pose a threat to management’s control over the firm. Prior research has found that activist campaigns have significant consequences, as management curtails long-term investments, divests businesses
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Being Moral When It Is Counternormative: The Relationship Between the Creative Identity and Moral Objection J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-29 Lynne C. Vincent, Maryam Kouchaki
Relying on the work on creative prototype and role theory, we demonstrate that having a creative identity can lead to moral objection depending on the implication of the act for one’s identity as a creative individual. In a pilot study using a survey of working adults, we find that employees’ creative identities and their intention to object in moral situations are positively and significantly correlated
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Disadvantaged Communities, Sudden Threats, and the Founding of Social Movement Organizations: The Case of Anti-Mafia Organizations J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-27 Heewon Chae, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Pino G. Audia
We examine the contribution of disadvantaged communities to protest and the creation of social movement organizations (SMOs). While some view disadvantaged groups’ dissatisfaction with the status quo as critical, others expect them to be reluctant to initiate collective action because they tolerate grievances that tend to be stable over time. We suggest that sudden threats that stir up the urgency
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Pioneer Learning From Failure: How Competitor Entry and Consumer Reports Improve Learning From Failure Repositories J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-16 David Maslach, Horacio Rousseau, Bruce Lamont
While learning is key for pioneers—firms introducing new products without existing competitors—a lack of competitors limits learning opportunities. To compensate, pioneers in safety-critical industries frequently resort to failure repositories—databases that track failure reports in an industry. However, the sheer volume, inconsistency, and unstructured nature of such failure reports make them difficult
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Coping With Competing Role Expectations: How Do Independent Directors Make Sense of Their Role? J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-16 Jin-ichiro Yamada, Toru Yoshikawa
How do individual independent directors make sense of their director role? We examine this question in the context of competing expectations among key corporate governance actors during the onboarding process of independent directors. This study explores how independent directors navigate these expectations, which stem from both external change agents, such as government agencies and the media, and
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Retirement and Organizations: Advocating Organizational Responsibility for Retirement in Practice and Scholarship J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Valerie Caines, Gokhan Ertug, Prashant Bordia, Deidra J Schleicher
In this editorial we discuss organizations’ role in the process of retirement. We argue that organizations have abdicated their moral obligation to older workers, thereby negatively impacting older workers’ wellbeing and their successful transition to retirement. We also note that organizational studies scholars have not paid adequate attention to that negligence, or its alternatives. We suggest that
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Mirror Versus Substitute: How Institutional Context Affects Individual Motivation for Corporate Social Responsibility J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Anna Jasinenko, Steven A. Brieger, Patrick Haack
The institutional perspective on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has discussed two diametrically opposed hypotheses about how institutional context influences CSR. Whereas the mirror hypothesis suggests that CSR is stronger in institutional contexts with stringent CSR-related regulations, the substitute hypothesis posits that CSR is stronger in weakly regulated contexts. Drawing on the micro-CSR
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Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Steve Sauerwald, Peter Norlander
Companies strive to gain a competitive advantage by recruiting highly qualified employees. One way to achieve this goal is by recruiting foreign workers, frequently through the H-1B visa program. However, immigration has become a contentious political issue in the United States, making it more difficult to recruit foreign workers. We examine how politicians on the board influence recruitment strategies
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An Integrative, Systematic Review of the Situational Judgment Test Literature J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Sven Kepes, Sheila K. Keener, Filip Lievens, Michael A. McDaniel
Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are popular assessment approaches that present scenarios describing situations that one may experience in a job. Due to its long history and cross-disciplinary nature, today’s SJT literature is quite fragmented. In this integrative review, we start by systematically taking stock and synthesizing the SJT literature from the different scientific disciplines via bibliometric
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Emotion Regulation During Hostile Interactions: Optimizing Regulation Profiles for Event Performance and Well-Being J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Robert C. Melloy, Gordon M. Sayre, Alicia A. Grandey
When employees face hostility from others, emotion regulation is needed to perform effectively but can be personally costly. On the basis of current evidence, employees both perform better and avoid well-being costs with engagement-focused regulation (i.e., modifying feelings through deep acting) rather than with disengagement (i.e., modifying or faking expressions through surface acting). Yet, emotion
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Breaking Through? The Divergent Consequences of CEO Political Ideology on Firm Inventiveness J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Andreea N. Kiss, Qianqian Yu, François Neville, Andrew Ward
We draw on upper-echelons literature recognizing the important role of CEOs in firm strategy, including innovation, and research on CEO political ideology and executive discretion to explore the relationship between CEO political ideology and firm breakthrough inventions. We suggest that CEO liberalism is a double-edged sword and is positively associated with firm breakthrough inventions but also less-useful
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Hic Sunt Dracones: On the Risks of Comparing the ITCV With Control Variable Correlations J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Sirio Lonati, Jesper N. Wulff
To examine the robustness of their results against omitted variable bias, management researchers often compare the Impact Threshold of a Confounding Variable (ITCV) with control variable correlations. This paper describes three issues with this approach. First, the ITCV and control variable correlations are measured on mathematically different scales. As a result, their direct comparison is inappropriate
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What Is Risk, Exactly? Reviewing Construct Heterogeneity Across Business Fields and Implications for Entrepreneurship Research J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca, Matthew W. Rutherford, Duygu Phillips, Aaron D. Hill
We conduct two literature reviews to explore what risk is in entrepreneurship and across business fields. The objective of these reviews is to shed light on the heterogeneity of the risk construct. In doing this, we are able to contribute to entrepreneurship research by informing scholars of a wider spectrum of risks in the literature, as well as the implications that adopting different views offers
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Duality of Workload in Teams: A Daily Investigation of Team Workload and Team Functioning J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Yihao Liu, Jaclyn Koopmann, Valeria Alterman, Mo Wang, Songqi Liu, Junqi Shi
While workload has been traditionally studied as a type of challenge stressor with motivational benefits for employees, recent research suggests that the nature of workload is more complex and nuanced than merely eliciting positive reactions. Although this perspective has emerged in the study of workload at the individual level, research on collective workload in teams and the associated team-based
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Managerial Human Capital and External Mobility: A Signaling Perspective J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Muntakim M. Choudhury, Thomas P. Moliterno, Rory Eckardt, Shad S. Morris, Alia Crocker
Managerial human capital is a valuable organizational resource comprising individual-level capacities that draw upon and leverage the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) gained by employees both before and after promotion to managerial positions. While all organizations need strategically valuable managerial human capital, asymmetrical information in external labor markets
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The Journal of Management’s 50th Reflections 2005-2023 J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Micki Kacmar, David Allen, Russell Cropanzano, Deborah E. Rupp, Brian Connelly, Talya N. Bauer, Patrick Wright
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Grammatical Redundancy in Scales: Using the “ConGRe” Process to Create Better Measures J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-23 Leah Alley, Imran Kadolkar, Alisha Gupta, Jose M. Cortina, Kurt P. Winsler
As theoretical models become more complex, there is more pressure to use less time-consuming methods generally, and shorter scales specifically. Although reliability is related to scale length, reliability cutoffs are easily met, even in very short scales, by writing or selecting items that are worded in nearly identical ways, that is, grammatical redundancy. However, grammatical redundancy increases
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Industry Offshoring and Firm Internationalization: Complementarities in External Learning J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-21 Netanel Drori, Daniel S. Andrews, Stav Fainshmidt, Ajai Gaur
We draw upon organizational learning theory to argue that industry offshoring intensity provides knowledge reservoirs for firms to learn about foreign markets. However, learning about foreign markets from other firms’ cross-border input activities is challenging, and a knowledge reservoir embedded in an industry may not be immediately utilizable by all firms. We posit that realizing such external learning
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Dare to Fight? How Activist Hedge Funds’ Hostile Tactics Influence Target Firm Resistance J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Haeyoung Koo, Margarethe Wiersema, K. Francis Park
Hedge fund activism has become an integral part of publicly traded firms, and our paper adopts a behavioral lens to examine how the hostility of tactics employed by activist hedge funds may influence the response of target firms. Drawing on cognitive mechanisms and insights from interviews with investment professionals, we propose that activists’ use of hostile tactics may paradoxically trigger greater
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We Are (Not) on the Same Team: Understanding Asian Americans’ Unique Navigation of Workplace Discrimination J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Christina S. Li, Daniel D. Goering, Huiyao Liao, Qi Zhang
Asian Americans (AsAms) carry unique group identifications that likely impact how they navigate workplace racial discrimination. Yet, extant workplace discrimination research has not thoroughly considered the implications associated with such unique group identifications, especially given the context of American society’s increasingly polarized views of AsAms as outsiders versus insiders. To gain insights
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Developing Problem Representations in Organizations: A Synthesis across Literatures and an Integrative Framework J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Poornika Ananth, Markus Baer, Dirk Deichmann
Organizational research has long suggested that when working with problems that are complex and ill-defined it is imperative for organizational members to understand and represent these problems in order to effectively address them. However, research on the topic has remained fragmented across different organizational literatures resulting in the development and persistence of ambiguities in our understanding
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A Roadmap for Navigating Phenomenon-Based Research in Management J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Fabrice Lumineau, Dejun Tony Kong, Nicky Dries
McNamara and Schleicher have identified four principal paths for contributing to the Journal of Management (JOM): theoretical insights, phenomenon-driven research, research methodologies, and review papers. This editorial focuses on phenomenon-based research, emphasizing its potential for enhancing management knowledge by offering a nuanced understanding of real-world phenomena. Unlike traditional
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Old Habits Die Hard: A Review and Assessment of the Threat-Rigidity Literature J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Matthew J. Mazzei, Jason DeBode, K. Ashley Gangloff, Ruixiang Song
Since its introduction more than four decades ago, threat-rigidity theory has emerged as a popular managerial theory of threat response used in a wide variety of literature streams. The theory explains that individuals, groups, and organizations revert to familiar responses (i.e., rigidity) in navigating threats, even when doing so may not be ideal. Yet, despite its popularity, fidelity to the theory’s
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How and Why Top Executives Influence Innovation: A Review of Mechanisms and a Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-25 David H. Zhu, Zeyu Zhao, Matthew Semadeni
Scholars have shown increasing interest in the relationship between top executives and firm innovation. However, no systematic effort has been made to integrate or synthesize the theoretical mechanisms in this literature. Without such an integrative framework, this field remains fragmented, offering limited guidance for future research. In this study, we integrate and synthesize findings from over
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Mitigating Cognitive Bias to Improve Organizational Decisions: An Integrative Review, Framework, and Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Barbara Fasolo, Claire Heard, Irene Scopelliti
The detrimental influence of cognitive biases on decision-making and organizational performance is well established in management research. However, less attention has been given to bias mitigation interventions for improving organizational decisions. Drawing from the judgment and decision-making (JDM) literature, this paper offers a clear conceptualization of two approaches that mitigate bias via
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This Is an Eventful Era: Exploring Event-Oriented Approaches to Organizational Research J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Frederick P. Morgeson, Dong Liu, Albert A. Cannella, Amy J. Hillman, Scott E. Seibert, Michael L. Tushman
This special issue explores the transformative role of discrete events in fostering changes at different organizational levels, challenging traditional feature-oriented approaches that focus on stable attributes of individuals, groups, and organizations. Joining the growing body of event-oriented research in diverse settings, the nine published articles evoke a novel theoretical lens (i.e., Event System
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A Stakeholder Perspective on Diversity Within Organizations J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Priyanka Dwivedi, Yashodhara Basuthakur, Sridhar Polineni, Srikanth Paruchuri, Aparna Joshi
Research on the influence of internal and external stakeholders on diversity outcomes within organizations has grown in the past decade. Across multiple macro and micro theoretical domains, this body of research has examined various diversity outcomes at different organizational levels. Through an integrative review of literature from management, sociology, psychology, and entrepreneurship, we highlight
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Bridging the Past, or Breaking From It? Leader Continuity Rhetoric and Nontarget Employee Diversity Initiative Support J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Anastasia Kukula, Max Reinwald, Rouven Kanitz, Martin Hoegl
Organizations launch diversity initiatives to promote diversity within their ranks, improve the work experiences of underrepresented groups, and satisfy growing demands for diversity in workplace settings. While typically welcomed by the target group, diversity initiatives can be compromised when employees who are not the initiative’s targets—for example, men in the case of gender diversity initiatives—withhold
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Examining Multiculturals’ and Multilinguals’ Paradoxical Bridging Behaviors in Overcoming Cultural and Language Barriers in Organizations J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Tomke J. Augustin, Markus Pudelko, Bradley Kirkman
Research has identified the usefulness of multicultural and multilingual employees in overcoming cultural and language barriers in international work contexts, but still needs to clarify why and how these employees engage in bridging behavior. Based on in-depth analyses of 154 interviews, we inductively develop a comprehensive model of bridging behaviors with novel and counterintuitive insights. We
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The Importance of Project Status for Career Success: A Network Perspective J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-05 Shihan Li, David Krackhardt, Nynke M. D. Niezink
Employees’ career trajectories in project-based organizations are closely associated with their project participation history. Yet, little is known about what features make a project stand out as a career booster for its participants and who obtains more career benefits than others from working on “hotshot” projects. In this study, we focus on a unique feature of projects—project status—and theorize
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Understanding the Relationships Between Divorce and Work: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Thomas K. Kelemen, Michael J. Matthews, Mark C. Bolino, Allison S. Gabriel, Mahira L. Ganster
Despite the personal, financial, and social implications of divorce for employees, research on the intersection of divorce and work has been mainly conducted across disparate literatures, with limited attention paid within the organizational sciences. In this review, we bring together research on employee divorce across multiple disciplines, including sociology, public health, legal studies, economics
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A Process Study of Evolving Paradoxes and Cross-Sector Goals: A Partnership to Accelerate Global Sustainability J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Amanda Williams, John N. Parker, Steve Kennedy, Gail Whiteman
Cross-sector partnerships formed to address societal challenges are widely advocated and increasingly common. Joint goal setting is an essential phase in the collaborative process that can determine the course of a partnership. Yet, little is known about how cross-sector goals change and evolve because goal alignment between partners is often taken for granted. In this article, we qualitatively investigate
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Institutional Topography: A Review of Subnational Institutions J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Li Dai, Michael A. Hitt, Chunhui Huo, Christine M. Chan
Research on subnational institutions is largely motivated by the observation that formal and informal institutions within countries are unevenly configured over geographical space. Although diverse, this relatively nascent body of work has yet to explicate firm activity across subnational locales that exhibit institutional dissimilarity and isomorphism with both proximate and distant centers of political-economic
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Internal Control Weakness and Corporate Divestitures J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Qiang (John) Li, Songcui Hu, Wei Shi
This study examines the influence of firms’ internal control weakness (ICW) reported under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on their subsequent divestiture decisions and the performance of these decisions. We argue that following ICW disclosure, firms are inclined to pursue corporate divestitures because such divestitures can reduce organizational complexity and help remedy firms’ ICW. We also propose
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Tokens or Trailblazers: Identity Construction of Occupants of New Inclusion-Driven Roles J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Federica Pazzaglia, Karan Sonpar, Mukta Kulkarni, Navya Maheshwari
New roles birthed by organizational inclusion initiatives present an interesting puzzle. On the one hand, they hold the promise to foster inclusion objectives more directly through their formalization in the organizational structure. On the other hand, they tend to be ambiguous as to what occupants are expected to do and how to reconcile this with existing organizational goals and processes. Therefore
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New Horizons for Newcomer Organizational Socialization: A Review, Meta-Analysis, and Future Research Directions J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Talya N. Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, Allison M. Ellis, Donald M. Truxillo, Grant M. Brady, Todd Bodner
The effective socialization of newcomers into organizations is critical for employee and organizational success. As such, ensuring successful onboarding has become even more pivotal for newcomer adjustment, performance, and retention. The literature has seen significant growth and incorporated new theoretical perspectives, such as resource-based approaches since the most recent comprehensive meta-analytic
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Putting the Politics Into Corporate Political Activity: A Variance Decomposition Analysis of Firm–Government Interactions Across Political Contexts J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Rachel Mui, Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov, Aaron D. Hill, Jason Ridge
Despite the wealth of theorizing about the relationship between business and government, research on corporate political activity (CPA) has yet to comprehensively consider how political context (e.g., party ideology and the degree of united or divided party government control) may shift the salience of how CPA materializes across industry-, firm-, and executive-level factors, which can shed light on
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A Configurational Perspective on the Quality of Managers’ Counterfactual Reflections J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Katja Woelfl, David J. Ketchen, Lutz Kaufmann
Counterfactual reflection (CFR)—thinking about “what might have been if”—can enhance learning from experience, but only if the CFR is high-quality. Yet, what shapes differences in CFR quality remains largely unknown. Because managers typically reflect on experiences by concomitantly considering relevant factors and their collective interdependencies, we suggest that CFR quality is causally complex
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Organization Design: Current Insights and Future Research Directions J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 John Joseph, Metin Sengul
We review the research on organization design from 2000 to 2023, inclusive. We identify four major approaches to organization design in the contemporary literature: configuration, control, channelization, and coordination. We discuss the key streams of research that characterize each of these approaches, as well as three emerging areas of research: AI and organizational decision-making, flat organizations
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The Partners of My Partners: Shared Collaborative Experience and Team Performance in Surgical Teams J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Marco Tonellato, Valentina Iacopino, Daniele Mascia, Alessandro Lomi
When teams in organizations are assembled to perform contingent tasks, team members carry with them experiences of prior interaction with partners in different teams. Focal team members share collaborative experiences to the extent that they worked with common external prior partners. Extending current research on team effectiveness, we investigate how shared collaborative experience (SCE) affects
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Signaling Theory: State of the Theory and Its Future J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Brian L. Connelly, S. Trevis Certo, Christopher R. Reutzel, Mark R. DesJardine, Yi Shi Zhou
Signaling theory is about decision-making and communication. It describes scenarios where signalers send observable signals that carry credible information about unobservable qualities. When decision-makers have incomplete or imperfect information, signals can help them make better decisions. The power of a signal, though, lies in its cost, with the best signals being highly costly for low-quality
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Categorizing the Complexity: A Scoping Review of Structures Within Organizations J. Manag. (IF 9.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Maximilian K. Watson, Christopher C. Winchester, Margaret M. Luciano, Stephen E. Humphrey
Structures involve a patterned regularity of interactions and frameworks that guide what individuals work on, with whom, and who influences those decisions. A deeper understanding of structures that exist within organizations has begun to emerge and illuminate new forms of structures (over 100 of them) that drive behavior in organizations. In this scoping review, we organize the fragmented insights