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.
Who Should Take Over When The CEO-Owner Of A Business Suddenly Dies
Summary When the CEO-owner of a privately held small or medium size enterprise (SME) suddenly dies, who should take over? This new study, published in the Journal of Management Studies, sought to answer this question by exploring how different types of...
Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Theoretical Foundations, Integrative Review, and Research Agenda
Summary: Entrepreneurs face the unique challenge of simultaneously imagining future-focused opportunities while bringing (i.e., identifying, deploying, and orchestrating) resources into use. Our study, recently publish in Journal of Management Studies,...
When A Political Sinner Does a Good Deed: The Role of Government Officials’ Stigma Anxiety in Granting Political Access
Introduction In our recent study published in the Journal of Management Studies, we explore the intriguing question of how government officials interpret Corporate Social Responisbility (CSR) activities, which represent a crucial form of corporate political...
How a Social Enterprise Can Influence Businesses to Borrow its Purpose
Photo credit: Brauner Baum Foto Social enterprises that convincingly put purpose before profit can influence collaborating businesses to act in support of their purpose to a remarkable extent. Businesses do so with enthusiasm if a few conditions are...
Transforming Management Education: Building Pathways for a Civic Future
Image: www.unsplash.com How can business schools transform to address the pressing social and ecological challenges of our time? This study, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals that transformation requires more than incremental...
The Cooperative Paradox: Solidarity in a Competitive World
Abstract Cooperatives promise solidarity and democracy as alternatives to capitalist exploitation, but how do they sustain these ideals in competitive markets? This study, recently publihsed in the Journal of Management Studies dissects Mondragon's...
Is there one best way to lead or have we overcomplicated what makes leaders effective?
Summary Leadership research often focuses on demonstrating the best way to lead, categorising and measuring ‘new’ leadership styles in different situations, countries, or industries. But have we made things unnecessarily complex for managers? Our study,...
Social Enterprise Referents: Organizing Nascent Fields for Societal Change
Addressing global challenges like waste management, climate change, or labor inequality often requires creating new fields to integrate social and commercial interests. However, nascent fields—marked by conflicting interests and a lack of established norms—pose...
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework
What did you study, and why is that important? Business and management research has increasingly focused on how companies can aid peacebuilding. This interdisciplinary research within the field of ‘business and peace’ has generated a diverse body of...
Building Fairness into Personalized Deals at Work: Insights on Implementing I-deals in Organizations
What did we study, and why does it matter? In their pursuit to attract and retain talent in the changing world of work, organizations are increasingly moving away from standardized HR practices toward more individualized approaches. Idiosyncratic deals, or...