Blog Posts
What makes mothers decide (not) to become entrepreneurs? Unpacking the role of time and money in parental leave policies
Summary Against the common belief that generous parental leave discourages entrepreneurship, we find that offering more time and monetary resources through parental leave can promote mothers’ entrepreneurship. In our study, published in the Journal of...
Beancounting diversity in business school
In this essay, recently published in the Journal of Management Studies, we critically examine how business schools appropriate the social identities of diverse professors. We argue that the practice of beancounting our diversities, often to attract students or secure...
HOOKED ON POSITIVE IDENTITIES? EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF OCCUPATIONAL SELVES
Who are you at work? Organizations and professions want to control who you want to be to ensure your compliance with corporate and professional goals. Both desired and feared identities play a role in regulating elite professionals’ occupational identities. Our paper,...
A bright future for future-making research
Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash Future Making at a Crossroads Future making is “the work of making sense of possible and probable futures, and evaluating, negotiating and giving form to preferred ones” (Whyte, Comi, & Mosca, 2022, p. 2). While future...
The Future of Future Making Research is Uncertain
Future Making? I approached the recent “turn to future making” (Wenzel et al., 2025) with great interest and eager anticipation, as I have a long-held interest both as an educator and researcher. And yet, upon reading the articles that have stimulated the turn I...
A Practice-based Future for Research on Future-making
Pic source: https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/mann-im-schwarz-weissen-langarmhemd-mz5I5In8zxE We’re living in an era where conversations about the future are more pertinent than ever. As we grapple with climate change, disruptive technologies, and complex societal...
Leadership Meta-Talk: Why Words Often Outshine Deeds
If you have ever attended a leadership seminar, listened to a CEO’s speech, or simply chatted about leadership during a coffee break, you have likely encountered an impressive amount of leadership meta-talk. Managers’ leadership meta-talk is the widespread way they...
When Diverse Knowledge Backgrounds Are Not Enough for Team Innovation: The Hidden Cost of Status Inequality
Summary Our recent study that was published in the Journal of Management Studies, entitled “Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity-Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality-Based Knowledge Diversity,” challenges a common...
Contending with Perceived Legitimacy Tensions: Impact Investing from the Perspective of Non-Western Entrepreneurs
Impact investing is often promoted as a tool for alleviating poverty by leveraging private investment and market-based approaches to complement the limited funds made available from the public sector, foundations, and development assistance programs. Early research on...
Why Do Rival Firms Join Forces? A New Study Unpacks the Power of Business Collective Action
In today’s competitive markets, it may seem surprising that rival companies would choose to collaborate—but they do, and often with significant impact. Business collective action (BCA)—the coordinated efforts of competing firms to pursue shared interests—has become a...