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.
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...
Researching (for) desirable futures: How can we theorize what does not exist?
Like many of our colleagues, we came to academia through a combination of intellectual curiosity to understand the world of organizations and management coupled with an ambition to produce knowledge that also shapes this world in a positive way. As we are living...
How Do Digital Platforms Create, Capture, and Distribute Value?
Background: Digital platforms create substantial economic and social value, but they also raise institutional, regulatory, and societal challenges, including data breaches, privacy and safety issues, and concerns over the distribution of value. The benefits and...
What is the role of organizational rituals in the new management context?
Gazi Islam & Roberta Sferrazzo New management ideology and liberated companies Contemporary organizations are encouraging employees to find enjoyment in and through their work, promoting practices and discourse emphasizing employee self-realization, happiness,...
You Speak, I Speak: How managers can encourage employees to raise their voice at the workplace
Thomas Ng, Lorenzo Lucianetti, Dennis Hsu, Frederick Yim & Kelly Sorensen In contemporary organizations, managers and practitioners have been actively promoting their employees to speak out in the workplace, as empirical evidence continues to point out that...