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.
The Persistence or Diminishment of Employee Stewardship Behavior: Why Culture and Status Matter More Than You Think
Source: www.unsplash.com What did we study, and why is that important? In an era marked by pressing global challenges—ranging from climate change and economic volatility to social unrest—businesses are increasingly expected to contribute to the public good. At...
Tone over Punchline: Why Humor Tone is More Important than Humor Type for Humor Success at Work
Photo by Direct_Media from Freerange Stock Humor at work is serious business. Research shows that telling jokes can improve workplace relationships, increase how happy people feel at work, and help relieve workplace stress. Unfortunately, scientists have spent far too...
Emotion-less or Emotion-al? Content Moderation on a Digital Health Platform
https://unsplash.com/photos/person-using-macbook-pro-npxXWgQ33ZQ Summary While most discussions treat moderation on platforms as a mechanical rule-enforcement task, we argue that it involves significant emotional work, which in turn shapes the content of...
When Emotions Take Over: Why Performance Appraisals Fail Behind the Scenes
Short Summary This blog uncovers how negative emotions, often hidden behind the formalities of performance appraisals, quietly reshape core organizational routines. Drawing on qualitative data from professional service firms in Jordan, our study reveals how...

Managing for Flourishing: Weaving Organizational Fabrics that Elevate Everyone
[https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/rotgelbe-und-grune-abstrakte-malerei-ULDjeyeQL08] In a time when traditional management often feels mechanistic, competitive, and extractive, a growing movement is reimagining the purpose of organizations. Instead of focusing narrowly on...

What makes mothers decide (not) to become entrepreneurs? Unpacking the role of time and money in parental leave policies
Summary Against the common belief that generous parental leave discourages entrepreneurship, we find that offering more time and monetary resources through parental leave can promote mothers’ entrepreneurship. In our study, published in the Journal of...
Beancounting diversity in business school
In this essay, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, we critically examine how business schools appropriate the social identities of diverse professors. We argue that the practice of beancounting our diversities, often to attract students or secure...
HOOKED ON POSITIVE IDENTITIES? EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF OCCUPATIONAL SELVES
Who are you at work? Organizations and professions want to control who you want to be to ensure your compliance with corporate and professional goals. Both desired and feared identities play a role in regulating elite professionals’ occupational identities. Our paper,...
A bright future for future-making research
Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash Future Making at a Crossroads Future making is “the work of making sense of possible and probable futures, and evaluating, negotiating and giving form to preferred ones” (Whyte, Comi, & Mosca, 2022, p. 2). While future...
The Future of Future Making Research is Uncertain
Future Making? I approached the recent “turn to future making” (Wenzel et al., 2025) with great interest and eager anticipation, as I have a long-held interest both as an educator and researcher. And yet, upon reading the articles that have stimulated the turn I...