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.
How can we improve our understanding of cross-sector partnerships as effective interventions for societal grand challenges?
(Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash) Cross-sector partnership between government, business, and civil society organizations is a well-established approach in practice to tackle societal grand challenges such as climate change, global health issues, and social...
Overconfident CEOs in Dire Straits: Do Overconfident CEOs Help or Hinder Organizational Turnaround?
Introduction Globally, most companies will, at some point in their history, face a turnaround situation in which they experience a severe decline in performance. Such decline tends to have a tremendous impact on a company's resources and poses a substantial challenge...
Navigating Corporate Waters: Decoding the Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Activity Relationships in Diverse Contexts
Source: https://unsplash.com/de/s/fotos/sailing-boat-sailing Today’s firms have a unique challenge if they want to stay competitive. In addition to effective market strategies, they need to navigate their so-called non-market environment to be successful. Firm’s...
CHARTING A COURSE FOR NON-WESTERN RESEARCH: INVESTIGATING BARRIERS AND PATHWAYS
We express our utmost gratitude to the Journal of Management Studies’ general editor and associate editors (Wickert, Potočnik, Prashantham, Shi, and Snihur, 2024) for their diligent work and wholeheartedly support the message conveyed in their article to stimulate...
Outlining new ways in which sustainable investing can influence companies
Most investment firms today engage in sustainable investing, which are investment strategies that consider environmental and social factors. Estimates of the market share of sustainable investing reach as high as 36% of all assets under management. The sharp rise of...
Inauthentic Managerial Explanations That Appear Legitimate
Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/men-megaphone-employees-5794501/ Unfair managerial decisions can be a significant source of discontent among employees. Let us give an illustrative example from the world of football. In the previous season (2022-2023), Leicester...
How Managers Try to Offset the “Downside” of Downsizing
Counter to conventional wisdom, investors react negatively to announcements by firms to downsize their workforce. This begs the question whether and how top managers of downsizing firms try to attenuate the negative investor reaction to preserve investors’ vital...
It’s time for organizations to consider the work rhythms that accompany strategic changes
Have you ever been through an organizational change and felt like there was just "too much on your plate," that you were "juggling too many balls," or that you needed to "level up your game" to keep up? If so, you’re not alone. In our article, recently published in...
Lost in the Middle? Why Middle Management Still Matters!
Summary Where do middle managers fit in modern organizations? We reignite the debate on the merits of middle management. We advance a framework to structure theory and thinking on middle managers along their roles, processes, and behaviors. We argue that middle...
Enabling the emergence of innovation ecosystems
How can innovation ecosystems emerge despite ineffective bureaucracy, resource constraints, and conflicting agendas of government and university agencies? Our study of the Israeli nanotechnology ecosystem, published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals how...