Photo credit: Brauner Baum Foto  Social enterprises that convincingly put purpose before profit can influence collaborating businesses to act in support of their purpose to a remarkable extent. Businesses do so with enthusiasm if a few conditions are...

Image: www.unsplash.com   How can business schools transform to address the pressing social and ecological challenges of our time? This study, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals that transformation requires more than incremental...

Abstract   Cooperatives promise solidarity and democracy as alternatives to capitalist exploitation, but how do they sustain these ideals in competitive markets? This study, recently publihsed in the Journal of Management Studies dissects Mondragon's...

Summary  Leadership research often focuses on demonstrating the best way to lead, categorising and measuring ‘new’ leadership styles in different situations, countries, or industries. But have we made things unnecessarily complex for managers? Our study,...

Addressing global challenges like waste management, climate change, or labor inequality often requires creating new fields to integrate social and commercial interests. However, nascent fields—marked by conflicting interests and a lack of established norms—pose...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...