The “theory always” imperative in management Contemplating the role of theory in management has always been a playing field for the big names of the discipline: Bacharch, Weick, Hambrick, Gioia, Sutton, Suddaby, Langley, or Eisenhardt. No scientist would deny that...

Organizational members often thwart organizational norms through transgressing them, remaking them in new ways, or otherwise working around and through existing norms. Such forms of transgression, which we describe as deviance, have traditionally been examined in a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...