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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.
I did it My Way, But Not Down Each and Every Highway
Chief Executive Officers are frequently caricatured as cocky and narcissistic people who do it all their own way, with regrets too few to mention and no hesitancy in biting off more than they could chew. Yet our new study in the Journal of Management Studies entitled...
Being a global actor: What influences the global identity of organizations?
The global identity of organizations While some organizations present and understand themselves as global citizens, others more strongly understand themselves as national actors. In other words, organizations differ in their global identity that can be understood as...
Cooperative inter-organizational relationships are only temporal! Here is why
To ensure cooperation, parties in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) draw upon both control and trust. However, the relationship between control and trust is not straightforward and is likely to change throughout the IOR. Furthermore, decisions to trust will...
Why individuals with mental illness encounter difficulties navigating the labour market
Mentally ill individuals struggle to navigate the labour market The number of individuals with mental illness is increasing. However, we know little about their workplace experiences and their integration into the labour market. What we do know sketches a pessimistic...
Boys will be boys: Stigma gives firms a social license to pollute
Stigma is known as a serious liability for business. But can it also be an asset? That is the question we set out to answer in new research published in the Journal of Management Studies. To answer this question, we investigated how the market responds to firms...
What can we learn from Platform-based Entrepreneurial Firms’ Scaling up process?
Many platform firms are now operating in ecosystems to deliver complex value propositions to customers. These platforms largely rely on network externality- benefits consumers reap from the use of a platform increase with the number of its users, generativity, loosely...
Are you ready to revise your offshoring decision? Understanding how performance discrepancies and cognitive biases affect decision makers’ re-evaluation of foreign investments
Since the 1990s, offshoring –the movement of firm activities to foreign countries– has emerged as an important strategy implemented by companies to support their competitive advantage. Manufacturing and services have been offshored in search of low costs and/or access...
Kissing up and kicking down: When, why, and how managers do it
Alex, a middle manager working in the HR department who is right on track to the next promotion, dials into the video call with the executive board. Over the last weeks, unbeknownst to anyone, Alex had pushed some high performing subordinates to “finally stop crying...
Rethinking Organizational Purpose: Exploring Individual Perceptions
Organizational purpose has recently gained great popularity in management research and practice. An increasing number of organizations have decided to designate a purpose that goes beyond pure profit maximization and aims to contribute to the common good. Even...
Hunting for New Business Ideas? Use Your Head, As Well As Your Gut!
Many high-profile business leaders claim to rely on their gut feelings, also referred to as intuition. Intuition has three qualities; it is quick, emotionally charged (e.g., we have a good or bad feeling about someone or something) and it is non-conscious (i.e., it’s...