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.
Striking the Balance: How Falling Short Impacts Accounting Performance Goals and Analysts’ Earnings Expectations
Summary Managers are under increasing pressure to beat analysts' earnings estimates, which have personal implications for managerial careers, stock-based pay, and reputations. Analysts' earnings forecasts represent a critical benchmark that differs from prior...
Unveiling the Divine Impact: How CEOs’ Pre-Career Religious Exposure Shapes Corporate Tax Avoidance
Our recent study, published in the Journal of Management Studies, explores how CEOs’ pre-career exposure to religion influences corporate tax avoidance. We found that CEOs who attended religious universities are more likely to pay higher taxes, influenced by values of...
The Power of Team Learning: How to Foster Success and Innovation in Teams
Many organizations use teams with the goal of improving performance beyond what individuals can achieve. To reach such synergy, teams need to engage in team learning, the process of working together to enhance collective knowledge. However, learning is difficult to...
Total Cultural Capital
With more and more people migrating across borders, it is very important to study the effects of migration for people and organizations. For instance, emerging economy citizens have been migrating to various parts of the world in search of economic opportunities, a...
Will universal basic income cause employees to leave work?
It’s often assumed that paying people an unconditional living wage (i.e. Basic Income; BI) will result in mass dropout from the work force as people chose to stay home and play video games instead of contributing to society. In my recent study, published in the...
Why Are Some Minorities More Disadvantaged Than Others?
In our study, recently published at Journal of Management Studies, we draw on the concept of ‘category distance’ to understand why some minority groups may be more (dis)advantaged than others in their career advancements in organizations. We define ‘category distance’...
Humorous Resources: An Elixir for a Wounded Workplace?
A free, effective, research-backed, and universal tool is at the disposal of global leaders seeking to engage their workforce and drive performance– humor. But do we dare laugh about work? Humor is a complex phenomenon that engages various brain regions and key...
Unveiling the Unseen Forces in Corporate Relocations: A Closer Look at Shareholder Influence
Summary In our recent publication in the Journal of Management Studies, we investigate the intriguing dynamics behind corporate decisions to relocate headquarters across borders for tax benefits. While these moves can be financially beneficial for corporations, they...
Growing complexity as a trigger and driver of fundamental transformation processes
We are curious about how growing institutional complexity affects societal transformation processes such as sustainability or digital transformation. In our article, published in the Journal of Management Studies, we shed light on how the emergence of new...
Unveiling CEO Succession Gender Shift: Impact on Strategic Change and Performance
CEO succession with gender change is not always disruptive to firm performance but depends on the context. Summary How does CEO succession involve a change of CEO gender matter? The transition of CEOs from a male CEO to a female CEO, and vice versa, has garnered...