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.
Sibling rivary within business groups?
Strategic change as a response to internal social comparison among business group affiliated firms When do firms initiate strategic changes? The behavior theory of the firm (BTOF) regards strategic change as a response to unsatisfactory performance. Firms detect...
How can managers include and retain employees from all social groups by embedding them in their organizations?
Retaining valuable employees from all social groups is quite challenging, but understanding what keeps diverse employees in their organizations can help. Leaders who want to retain diverse employees should understand that employees from distinct social groups become...
MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION: HOW HUSTLER SELF-PRESENTATIONS CAN HELP FOUNDERS GROW THEIR VENTURES
Winning new employees is of crucial importance for developing young ventures. However, we know little about what founders can do to make a “good” impression in job interviews and attract talented people. We propose self-presenting as an entrepreneurial hustler as an...
Managing the many hats when serving on the firm’s board
Summary More than in the past, contemporary society presents a challenge to juggle multiple roles, identities and functions especially in the domains of work and family. In this post, we summarize the results of our research, published in the Journal of Management...
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies
Summary Our article, published in the Journal of Management Studies, takes stock of what we know about organizational goals and success. We focus on their determinants and outcomes as captured in Figure 1, and propose future areas of fruitful future research. Our...
Psychological breach and the value protection role of CSR
In our article, published in the Journal of Management Studies, we study employees’ reactions to their company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices by focusing on the value protection role, rather than the value creation role, of CSR. We conducted two...
Navigating the Complex Dance of Control and Trust in Modern Organizations
Summary The introductory article to the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue on control-trust dynamics uses a framework that synthesizes micro- and macro- organizational research to elucidate the interplay between control and trust over time. By outlining a...
Mining Makes for Strange Bedfellows: Insights into How State-Controlled Entities View Social Performance in Selecting Partners in the Global Extractive Industries
Gatekeeper to its country’s natural resources, the state often relies on foreign multinationals to exploit oil, gas, and mineral deposits. So, how do state-controlled entities in resource-rich countries choose their foreign partners? Does corporate social performance...
On a modern-day managerial Catch-22: Empathy and human sustainability in the era of AI workplace transformation
The need for empathetic leadership grows exponentially in a post-Covid world of accelerating digital transformation. Managers need to support humans in an increasingly virtual and artificially oversaturated world. Though tempted by the productivity boost of Gen AI,...
Shoulder to Shoulder: Why Does Corporate Socio-Political Engagement Matter?
Managing socio-political issues and environments has become a top concern for corporations in the contemporary world. A glimpse of the daily business press reveals a wide variety of issues that corporations need to tackle: How can multinational enterprises (MNEs)...