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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.
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...
Managing employees or orchestrating workforce ecosystems?
Challenges of finding better ways to work together Interprofessional collaborations are becoming widespread in many professional contexts from healthcare to construction. However, it is unrealistic to think that simply bringing professionals in teams will lead to...
The Buddhist philosophy of “no-self”: How Chinese Buddhist entrepreneurs get access to external resources for their new ventures?
Entrepreneurial resource acquisition Entrepreneurship, the process by which “opportunities to bring into existence ‘future’ goods and services are discovered, created, and exploited”, has long been recognized as a critical driver of economic efficiency and growth,...
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers’ Boundary Work
Managers’ work is largely a process of working across boundaries. In carrying out strategy, and in communicating workers’ needs and know-how, managers must work across hierarchical boundaries in which they represent and translate the experiences of different actors,...
We are family: Understanding how long-lived family firms manage competing economic and non-economic goals
Goals tensions: economic versus noneconomic goals In seeking to make decisions, firm decision-makers in all firms, and family firms in particular, face temporary goal tensions, which cannot be solved, only managed. For instance, family firm decision-makers often...
When and How Middle Managers Can Help Your Company to Bust Silos
Finance thinks that marketing is wasting the budget. Sales won’t talk to engineering. Purchasing believes that the IT department is slacking. It is common wisdom in management science and practice that when teams and departments turn into ‘silos’ they waste resources,...
‘We are all born naked and the rest is Drag’: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Spectacularizes LGBTQ+ Stigma
RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) is a reality TV competition among drag queens hosted by RuPaul Andre Charles, an American drag queen, actor, supermodel, and songwriter. Produced by World of Wonder, the show premiered in February 2009 on Logo, a US cable TV channel geared...
Making interorganizational relationships perform and endure: Creative managerial responses to control and trust in time and across time
Lasting relationships require obtaining a tricky balance of control and trust. Relationships are hard work, be they in organizations, among organizations, or even in the private sphere. Management research provides overwhelming evidence that enduring, prosperous...