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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.
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...
The Valorising Pitch: How digital startups win and leverage industry analyst attention
ABC, a digital startup from Estonia, was selected as the preferred supplier in a procurement contest for delivering a customer relationship management (CRM) system. The entire team was thrilled about this opportunity as it was the first time they had secured interest...
Which employees help different business units learn from each other?
It has long been established by management science that organizations that are able to combine and integrate employee expertise across organizational unit boundaries have a competitive edge over those organizations where knowledge remains locked in organizational...
Can circular economy replace collapsing global supply chains? A polycentric governance perspective
Almost every aspect of life has changed in some way over the last two years, and the motivation for circular economy (CE) is no exception. Just two years ago, the nascent interest in circular economy was primarily motivated by pressure to reduce natural resource...
How do CEOs create their simple rules? A story about triple insights, pairs of rules, and emotional rollercoasters
Managers distill their experience into simple rules. Top managers distill the lessons they learn into easy to remember simple rules that guide important aspects of their activity. Ray Dalio even wrote a best-selling book titled Principles: Life and Work, in which he...
Why do some multinational firms respond better than others to the hostility of host governments?
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank is the leading venue for settling investment disputes between foreign firms and host governments. According to the ICSID database, the number of cases presented before ICSID has...
Coral not coal! The roles of celebrities in climate change contestation
Celebrities are increasingly important actors in social disputes, with their high public profiles used to amplify political campaigns and businesses using celebrity endorsements to promote their brands and justify their actions. Celebrities are particularly prominent...
How should intermediaries build inclusive markets? It depends on the village
Intermediaries are organizations that make connections and build markets. Intermediaries include not only middlemen, traders, and brokers, but also social intermediaries - non-profit organizations and social enterprises seeking to build more inclusive markets in...