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.
Inauthentic Managerial Explanations That Appear Legitimate
Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/men-megaphone-employees-5794501/ Unfair managerial decisions can be a significant source of discontent among employees. Let us give an illustrative example from the world of football. In the previous season (2022-2023), Leicester...
How Managers Try to Offset the “Downside” of Downsizing
Counter to conventional wisdom, investors react negatively to announcements by firms to downsize their workforce. This begs the question whether and how top managers of downsizing firms try to attenuate the negative investor reaction to preserve investors’ vital...
It’s time for organizations to consider the work rhythms that accompany strategic changes
Have you ever been through an organizational change and felt like there was just "too much on your plate," that you were "juggling too many balls," or that you needed to "level up your game" to keep up? If so, you’re not alone. In our article, recently published in...
Lost in the Middle? Why Middle Management Still Matters!
Summary Where do middle managers fit in modern organizations? We reignite the debate on the merits of middle management. We advance a framework to structure theory and thinking on middle managers along their roles, processes, and behaviors. We argue that middle...
Enabling the emergence of innovation ecosystems
How can innovation ecosystems emerge despite ineffective bureaucracy, resource constraints, and conflicting agendas of government and university agencies? Our study of the Israeli nanotechnology ecosystem, published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals how...
Sibling rivary within business groups?
Strategic change as a response to internal social comparison among business group affiliated firms When do firms initiate strategic changes? The behavior theory of the firm (BTOF) regards strategic change as a response to unsatisfactory performance. Firms detect...
How can managers include and retain employees from all social groups by embedding them in their organizations?
Retaining valuable employees from all social groups is quite challenging, but understanding what keeps diverse employees in their organizations can help. Leaders who want to retain diverse employees should understand that employees from distinct social groups become...
MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION: HOW HUSTLER SELF-PRESENTATIONS CAN HELP FOUNDERS GROW THEIR VENTURES
Winning new employees is of crucial importance for developing young ventures. However, we know little about what founders can do to make a “good” impression in job interviews and attract talented people. We propose self-presenting as an entrepreneurial hustler as an...
Managing the many hats when serving on the firm’s board
Summary More than in the past, contemporary society presents a challenge to juggle multiple roles, identities and functions especially in the domains of work and family. In this post, we summarize the results of our research, published in the Journal of Management...
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies
Summary Our article, published in the Journal of Management Studies, takes stock of what we know about organizational goals and success. We focus on their determinants and outcomes as captured in Figure 1, and propose future areas of fruitful future research. Our...