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.

One Man’s Death Is Another Man’s Bread: The Effect of a CEO’s Sudden Death on Competitors’ Strategic Investments
Research has identified several drivers of competitive actions and responses in firms, but limited attention has been given to how critical events, such as the death of a CEO, can affect competitors' competitive moves. Firms should be aware of the fact that a CEO’s...

What AI Can’t Know? Thinking Through the Future of Professions
Recent advances in AI technologies and foundational models – such as OpenAI’s GPT-X and ChatGPT – have made new inroads into reasoning about complex cases and generating answers, poems, images, and essays. These applications of generative AI have achieved mainstream...

All about that place: stories of entrepreneurship in Ghana
The notion of ‘place’ has gained significant traction in management research in recent years as a better way of understanding why people make certain decisions because of a specific location (e.g., place-sensitive products) but also how policies are better designed to...

Shades of Grey in Legitimacy Perceptions
Have you ever wondered what recreational marijuana, whaling and abortion may have in common? Our paper “Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy” recently published in the Journal of Management Studies provides interesting insights for answering...

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 &...