Welcome to the Management Studies Insights Blog
The managementstudiesinsights.com blog provides engaging snapshots about research published in the Journal of Management Studies in a manner that highlights its practical and societal implications. The blog aims to bridge academic scholarship in management studies with scholars across disciplines, practitioners, media and the broader public who are interested in the societal relevance of management studies, and invites for discussion about the impact that management scholarship has beyond academia. The Management Studies Insights Blog is the official blog of the Journal of Management Studies.
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework
What did you study, and why is that important? Business and management research has increasingly focused on how companies can aid peacebuilding. This interdisciplinary research within the field of ‘business and peace’ has generated a diverse body of...
Building Fairness into Personalized Deals at Work: Insights on Implementing I-deals in Organizations
What did we study, and why does it matter? In their pursuit to attract and retain talent in the changing world of work, organizations are increasingly moving away from standardized HR practices toward more individualized approaches. Idiosyncratic deals, or...
Why Groups with Token Levels of Diversity Fail to Get More Diverse Over Time
Research has shown that work groups with a demographically diverse membership (e.g., a mixture of races and genders) are able to translate the variety of perspectives into heightened effectiveness, increased creativity, and better overall performance. Why, then, do...
Change in unexpected places: Can Stock Exchanges Lead the Charge Against Climate Change and Inequality?
Stock exchanges have long been seen as bastions of capitalism, where profits often take precedence over social or environmental concerns. But what if these very institutions, typically associated with short-term gains and money-hungry investors, could become champions...
Why we shouldn’t trust that marketization will stop at what we value
Marketization: a widespread phenomenon that some feel goes against their values ‘Marketization,’ i.e., the spread of market logic through the introduction of ever new market practices, is a pervasive phenomenon in capitalist societies. Education, health...
You’re Fired: How CEO Facial and Vocal Masculinity Influence Boards’ Dismissal Decisions
In corporate boardrooms, decisions often hinge on numbers and performance metrics. Yet, could something as seemingly superficial as a CEO’s facial or vocal features influence their job security? Our study, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies,...
“Unbecoming” a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the US
Summary: As individuals become professionals, they accumulate cultural, social and economic capital valued within their field. Our study, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, investigates the significance of this capital accumulation to how...
How CEOs’ job demands influence how they pursue goals
Summary: How do situational factors influence CEOs’ ways of pursuing goals? To answer this question, our recent study examines CEO regulatory focus, which consists of two motivational orientations—promotion focus (growth-oriented) and prevention focus...
Do companies use long-term carbon targets to defer near-term action on emissions?
(Photo by Tim van der Kuip on Unsplash) Carbon targets—formal, public commitments by companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the future—are now prevalent. Companies also routinely update their carbon targets ostensibly in response to evolving stakeholder...
How a Sense of Calling Fuels a Founder Advantage and Drives Innovation
Many of the world’s most innovative companies have one key attribute in common: longstanding leadership by a founder serving as the CEO. Pioneering firms like Airbnb, Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Facebook, Google, Huawei, IKEA, MercadoLibre, Microsoft, Netflix,...