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.
Value creation, appropriation, and distribution: A stakeholder perspective
The challenges our society faces ahead are undeniably substantial and unrelenting. Increasingly, the role of private organizations and businesses has exceeded the one of economic value creation for its shareholders, to include the creation of non-economic value—e.g.,...
Embrace Serendipity For Change
Chance favours the prepared mind only. - Louis Pasteur Why would a team or project incentivised to do X change their ways to do Y? More broadly, how and why would a firm change towards a goal that has no direct incentive to pursue? We asked these questions in a recent...
Innovation Projects Can Reinvent The UN
Research suggests how innovative projects can drive institutional change in large, complex organizations
Innovative projects spearheaded by United Nations (UN) country offices are remodeling the institution and expanding its role. Digital initiatives and initiatives that scaled through headquarters were shown to have the strongest impact, changing ways of working,...
The Dos and Don’ts of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization
Gro Kvåle and Zuzana Murdoch The company we keep is often perceived to say a lot about who we are and what we stand for. Whenever we voluntarily interact with a certain person or organization, this can be interpreted by those around us as a tacit expression of...
Digitalization starts in the minds of decision makers. But how can we capture this in empirical research?
Source: Bradley Pisney (unsplash.com) What was the motivation of the research team? In their individual roles and from their different perspectives all members of our research team are currently investigating digitalization and digital transformation activities of...
How do strategic ventures become legitimate and part of a corporate strategy? Lessons learned from the case of sustainability
Large corporations represent complex and dynamic ecologies in which strategic ventures compete for organizational resources and managerial attention. This creates unique challenges for managers when trying to establish new internal ventures and to make these part a...
Big data technologies for learning and efficiency – do they always generative cooperative dynamics?
Digitalization of interorganizational relationships Societies experience growing levels of connectivity and computing power, which have led to the emergence of a phenomenon broadly referred to as “Industrial Internet” or the “4th Industrial Revolution”. In an attempt...
Spotting Disruptive Opportunities through Competitive Experience
Sean T. Hsu andSusan K. Cohen Disruptive Innovation and the Incumbent Dilemma We have entered an era of continual disruption in which incumbents’ inabilities to successfully appraise disruptive innovations have contributed to their shrinking average lifespan....
Do Family Firms Acquire Differently?
David King, Olimpia Meglio, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Florian Bauer and Alfredo De Massis Family firms and restructuring There is an intuitive appeal that family firms display peculiarities in general and that this also affects their restructuring behavior. Family firms are...
We all want to develop impactful and valuable theories, but what do we mean by ‘theory’?
‘Theory’ is a core element of management and organization studies (MOS) and social science more broadly. It is frequently argued that a key task for scholars is to develop theories that improve our scientific practices and make a difference to organizations and...