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 Do For-Profit Businesses Pursue Social Purpose?
There is rising interest in purposeful organizing, but how do for-profit businesses pursue social purpose? A new study examines how for-profit businesses enact social purpose to advance community inclusion in highly unequal societies. Ever more businesses are...
Why do science-based ventures struggle to adjust their organizational identity when they scale?
Science-based ventures, that is ventures that are trying to commercialize scientific breakthroughs, are crucial drivers of innovation and growth. Yet, many of these ventures fail to deliver on their promise. They fail to scale up and become successful mainstream...
For Epistemic Respect – Against Reviewer 2
Despite the efforts of journals and editors to the contrary, the well-known academic folk-devil, Reviewer 2 continues to make the lives of researchers miserable. Gorgi Krlev and Andre Spicer draw on a recent encounter with reviewer 2 and the subsequent twitterstorm...
Temporal Orientation and Responsible Business
Background Time is a core ingredient in the strategic decisions of managers who must balance short- and long-term goals. Commensurately, the importance placed upon corporate social responsibility (CSR) varies according to the temporal orientation of countries, firms,...
Get Lucky: How and Why Organizations Can Cultivate Serendipity
Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role for individuals and organizations alike. Numerous innovations and inventions such as potato washing machines, Velcro, and Viagra can be traced back to serendipity, and many...
How Does Scientific Argumentation Differ from the Opinion of Scientists? A Response to Siegel (2022)
Recently, the Journal of Management Studies (JMS) has published an interesting debate on the Responsible Research in Business and Management Initiative (RRBM) and the role of our research for the benefit of society, organizations, and workers (Siegel, 2022; Tsui &...
Neutral In-tensions: Struggles in Coaching
Jose, an experienced coach who has long been a pacifist, has found it increasingly difficult to sleep since he was offered to enhance the performance of a military team; he feels extremely conflicted that he is betraying his values while at the same time telling...
Beware: How you justify your actions today shapes how you view “responsibility” tomorrow
How do corporations justify their (tax) conduct? Many businesses faced bankruptcy due to the impact of the global pandemic. Thankfully, government support kept many companies and entire industries afloat. Whilst government support is often expected, especially in...
Meditation versus Service: How does a Buddhist temple manage its organizational identity conflict?
Buddhist temples across Asia The ultimate goal of traditional Buddhist ordainment is liberation (Nibbāna in Pāḷi), typically understood as a solitary path to achieve a spiritual mental state. However, this sacred belief system has been largely challenged owing to the...
Model minority or foreign threat? Unpacking workplace racial violence experienced by Asian American and Asian Canadian professionals and their response during COVID-19
Asian Americans and Asian Canadians (herein, referred to as Asians) in North America have long been viewed as a model minority group that is White or White-adjacent, rarely if ever experiencing racial discrimination. Yet, their actual lived experiences show otherwise...