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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.
Post-Acquisition Integration: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick?
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...
Your Social Class in Childhood Can Influence Your Chances of Being Seen as a Leader
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...
Why Adopting Local Practices Doesn’t Always Help MNEs Overcome their Liability of Foreignness
Facing a Liability of Foreignness: Is Blending in Enough? Many foreign MNEs abroad face a disadvantage – a liability of foreignness (LOF) – vis-à-vis their local equivalents. This often comes from the additional challenges of transferring and adapting what works well...
From who to what: Overcoming the conundrum of digital platform ecosystem emergence when no one knows who you are
The challenge facing incipient digital platform ecosystems The success and proliferation of digital platforms like Uber and Amazon are increasingly inspiring entrepreneurs to build new ventures on similar lines. Despite the prominent success stories, there exists a...
Value creation, appropriation, and distribution: A stakeholder perspective
The challenges our society faces ahead are undeniably substantial and unrelenting. Increasingly, the role of private organizations and businesses has exceeded the one of economic value creation for its shareholders, to include the creation of non-economic value—e.g.,...
Embrace Serendipity For Change
Chance favours the prepared mind only. - Louis Pasteur Why would a team or project incentivised to do X change their ways to do Y? More broadly, how and why would a firm change towards a goal that has no direct incentive to pursue? We asked these questions in a recent...
Innovation Projects Can Reinvent The UN
Research suggests how innovative projects can drive institutional change in large, complex organizations
Innovative projects spearheaded by United Nations (UN) country offices are remodeling the institution and expanding its role. Digital initiatives and initiatives that scaled through headquarters were shown to have the strongest impact, changing ways of working,...
The Dos and Don’ts of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization
Gro Kvåle and Zuzana Murdoch The company we keep is often perceived to say a lot about who we are and what we stand for. Whenever we voluntarily interact with a certain person or organization, this can be interpreted by those around us as a tacit expression of...
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...