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.
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...
The Digital Platform Paradox: How Digital Platforms are Driving Change in the Service Sector
The Digital Transformation of Services The service sector was for long expected to withstand a digital transformation. Relatively high entry barriers, such as regulation, education, and the local nature of many service businesses, were supposed to protect services...
Would you grant a business loan to an aggressive woman?
Business consultants today advice women to act like men when they apply for business resources, but does it really work? Our historical study follows men and women as they applied for business resources and the resource providers who responded to their applications,...
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
After a near-death beating by the police in Los Angeles, California, in 1991 that sparked riots in which 63 people were killed and over 2000 injured, Rodney King famously asked, ‘Can’t we all just get along?’. This unfortunate incident occurred 25 years after the U.S....
Are There Limits To Diversification In Emerging Economies? – Yes and No!
Shaleen Gopal, K S Manikandan, J Ramachandran What is the puzzle? There is a broad consensus that unrelated diversification is value destructive in developed economies and profitable in economies with poorly developed institutions. However, the picture is...