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Extending Your Network Advantage Abroad: The Power of Common Partners in Market Entry
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/photo-of-outer-space-Q1p7bh3SHj Summary Our study, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, examines how firm status transfers, or, more plainly, how a firm's high network status in one market leads...
With or Without You: Family and Career-Work in a Demanding and Precarious Profession
For decades, the relationship between family life and professional careers has been studied through the lens of stability—long hours justified by steady employment, spouses who let their own careers take a backseat to support the other’s ambitions, and the financial...
Frame Overlapping in Moral Markets: The Case of an ‘Open, Free, and Neutral’ Telecommunications Network
Social Movements and Moral Markets Social movements have long exerted considerable pressure on companies, consumers, and investors so that they integrate social and environmental issues into their agendas. Beyond this, they have also played an active role in...
Organizational soundscapes and the sonicity of voices: The power of the ‘sounds’ that carry ‘words’
Summary Organizations are soundscapes – reverberating with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This...
A Mother’s Work Is Never Done: On Being a Mother in Academia
Summary Our essay is a call for recognition of the physical and emotional toll of motherhood on women in academia. Drawing on our experiences as Mothers–Professors–Researchers, we demonstrate how maternal bodies are experienced as being out of place in...
Are Quarterbacks Smarter than CEOs? Pass Choices Say Yes
Summary In our paper, published in Journal of Management Studies, we show that quarterbacks make tradeoffs between multiple goals that are intelligent and effective for winning the game. This contrasts with much of the research in business firms, which suggests...
The Unintended Consequences of South Africa’s “Rhino War”: When Good Intentions Go Awry
The "Rhino War": A Complex Crisis For over a decade, in the heart of South Africa's wilderness, a battle rages on. This is the "rhino war," a cautionary tale that reveals how even the noblest of intentions can lead to unexpected consequences. By studying how...
Lay theories of expertise: Revealing the roots of expert recognition
Image from https://www.pexels.com Summary Lay theories of expertise are beliefs about the meaning of expertise. Our research, published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals that there are several differing beliefs about expertise in the population, and that...
Navigating extreme events: Understanding migrant journeys across Europe
Source: SOS by Ann Hirsch & Jeremy Angier Summary Sensebreaking - the breakdown in prevailing meanings and assumptions experienced by an individual - is often conceptualized as a prelude to sensemaking, or sensegiving. Extant research has rarely focused on...
Contredanse: How Business Groups Subtly Protect Their Reputation After a Scandal
Note: An example of negative image spillovers within a business group is the VW Group and its Dieselgate scandal. When one company has a scandal, other companies in the same business group tend to suffer as a consequence. How can those other companies, which do not...