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.
Balancing Variety and Quality Tensions on Multisided Platforms
Image created by OpenAI WALL-E Multisided platforms are integral to the digital economy, connecting product or service providers (generally known as complementors) and consumers or users. These platforms thrive on “cross-side network effects”, where the platform’s...
Leveraging Board Interlocks to Navigate Technological Disruption
Image credit: created with the assistance of DALL-E 2. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries, firms must strategically navigate the opportunities and risks it presents. Our recent study published in the Journal of Management Studies explores...
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts
Navigating Compassion in Emotionally Demanding Contexts How do organizational members balance serving others while protecting themselves from emotionally taxing situations? How do they manage to sustain compassion over time? Navigating the contradictory needs of...
What is the role of timely crisis management? Navigating urgency to act during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary Despite growing awareness of large-scale crises, understanding how organizations construct urgency in prolonged disasters remains limited. Our recent study, published in the Journal of Management Studies, explores the activities of the Robert Koch Institute...
In Defense of Classic Strategy
We were happy when the authors of the Point essay invited us to respond to their call for a new, environmentally based, strategy paradigm. We enjoy lively dialogue and debate and believe that important insights often emerge challenging the conventional wisdom....
Can the field of strategy take on the climate crisis? In Europe, yes; in the US, maybe not
We welcome the chance to continue the dialogue with our colleagues in strategy. Although we think of ourselves primarily as organization theorists, we have at least passing familiarity with the field of strategic management and what it teaches. We share the concerns...
The Bottom Line: The Field of Strategy Must Address the Planetary Crisis
In our essay “Strategy Can No Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy’s Ecological Fallacy” (Bansal et. al., we argue that the field of Strategy has contributed to the planetary crisis, including particularly climate change and loss of...
Jurisdictional Struggles and Innovative Business Templates: The Emergence of Islamic Banking in Germany
Our article examines the market entry process of the first Islamic bank in Germany, particularly its interactions with regulatory agencies and other societal actors. When an organization enters a new market with a novel value proposition and business model, it often...
Can organizations ‘take back’ harm done to nature in the name of profit?
Photo credit: Mari Ovaska ‘Business as usual’ has downsides. When nature gets damaged beyond repair, entire ecosystems collapse. The tragedy of commons is no longer a hypothetical to prevent, but a reality we need to accept. Or change! Our new study...
Navigating Environmental Threats to New Ventures: A Regulatory Fit Approach to Bricolage
In our recent study published in the Journal of Management Studies, we delved into the conditions by which new ventures navigate resource constraints through the strategy of bricolage, particularly when faced with environmental threats. Our research offers a fresh...