Origins of Network Advantages – “Matthew Effect” or “Managerial Design”? Concerning innovation performance, management research is quite clear about one thing: the firm’s network is an important success factor. Networks with advantageous structural attributes help...

How do companies' managers develop their capabilities by leveraging lessons learned from prior experiences? What sources of knowledge do they rely on to make sense of the events the firm experienced? How firms learn from their experience has been the topic of a vast...

Motivation History offers numerous examples of change that seems to appear out of nowhere, often going unnoticed until it has a surprising and significant impact.  Unfortunately, this impact can sometimes be devastating, as in the case of NASA’s tragic Challenger...

In 2018, before the advent of Covid-19, James Bond (aka Daniel Craig), was photographed on a New York street holding his baby daughter close to his body in a baby carrier or ‘papoose’.  Although ‘Agent Bond’ was plainly off duty, sleep deprived and sporting...

Increasingly, organizations open up their strategy processes to include employees that have previously been excluded from strategy making. Crowds, communities but also frontline employees are invited to participate in strategy making to gain new insights and to...

In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding tells a story about a group of boys stranded on a tropical island. It is not a story about collaboration, comradeship and survival in the face of adversity. Instead, Golding’s novel is about the boys’ decent into lawlessness...

Recent research suggests that deep masculine voices may benefit men in leadership positions. However, how this phenomenon plays out at the top of the organization is largely unexplored. In our research, published in the Journal of Management Studies, we find that CEO...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) research has over the past 15 years been transformed from an “embryonic concept” (McWilliam, Siegel & Wright, 2006, p. 15) into a mainstream topic of interest by management and organization scholars, and it is firmly embedded...

Over the past few decades, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become increasingly important for organizations competing in a global marketplace and they are considered as one of firms’ key strategic decisions. Yet, most M&As fail and often greatly. In our...

As companies increasingly rely on flatter and leaner structures, emerging as an informal leader on a team is often a gateway for ascending the corporate ladder. Given these wide-ranging effects, we examined how social class affects a critical process in today's...