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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.
When and How Middle Managers Can Help Your Company to Bust Silos
Finance thinks that marketing is wasting the budget. Sales won’t talk to engineering. Purchasing believes that the IT department is slacking. It is common wisdom in management science and practice that when teams and departments turn into ‘silos’ they waste resources,...
‘We are all born naked and the rest is Drag’: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Spectacularizes LGBTQ+ Stigma
RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) is a reality TV competition among drag queens hosted by RuPaul Andre Charles, an American drag queen, actor, supermodel, and songwriter. Produced by World of Wonder, the show premiered in February 2009 on Logo, a US cable TV channel geared...
Making interorganizational relationships perform and endure: Creative managerial responses to control and trust in time and across time
Lasting relationships require obtaining a tricky balance of control and trust. Relationships are hard work, be they in organizations, among organizations, or even in the private sphere. Management research provides overwhelming evidence that enduring, prosperous...
Making Lemonade: How Entrepreneurs can Benefit from Stigmatized Locations
Stigma is a label held by a number of people that something is flawed. Many organizations have to deal with and interact with stigma, usually created by a person within the organization doing something illegal or unethical, or due to the nature of the business, such...
Why do executives focus almost exclusively on strategy formulation, but not implementation?
“It’s a pleasant way to view leadership: you stand on the mountaintop, thinking strategically and attempting to inspire your people with visions, while managers do the grunt work. This idea creates a lot of aspirations for leadership, naturally. Who wouldn’t want to...
Rhetoric, Risk, and Investment: Letting the Numbers Speak for Themselves
It is well established that words matter. Yet, we have little knowledge on how language is utilized to frame and how that framing influences investors. Do different types of language affect the perception of risk? Can risk be made to appear more or less acceptable to...
Say less, do more: Actions speak louder than words when promoting ethical conduct
In today’s business environment, progressive companies want their leaders to act ethically and set a viable example that encourages their followers to do the same. In some parts of the world, however, it is often better to let your actions speak for you, rather than...
Is there a basis for trust when Machiavellian behavior can easily be hidden?
The problem: who is worthy of trust when performance is hard to measure, and opportunism is easy to hide? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn noted in The Gulag Archipelago,“the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political...
What Makes Repatriates More Likely to Transfer Knowledge upon Their Return?
Knowledge in multinationals travels not only from but also to headquarters. Expatriation involves employees from the headquarters (HQ) of a multinational company (MNC) undertaking an international assignment in a foreign subsidiary, usually with the aim to develop...
What can we learn about managing MNE-government relations from century-old subsidiaries in Indonesia?
After more than a century of globalization, the key question by management scholars and corporate executives has broadened from how multinational enterprises (MNEs) enter new markets to a focus on how established subsidiaries remain competitive and influential over...