Summary War is not just a battlefield event; it profoundly impacts organizations, societies, and individuals, demanding new ways of organizing and managing. In our recent article published in the Journal of Management Studies, we explore war as a phenomenon in...
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Can HR Drive Ethics? The Role of Social Responsibility in Workplace Integrity
Summary Discover how socially responsible HRM transforms workplace ethics. Our study reveals that integrating ethical principles into HR policies fosters moral awareness, builds trust, and cultivates ethical leadership. This comprehensive approach not only...

Unlock AI’s Full Potential: Why Most Companies Fail and How You Can Succeed
What did you study, and why is that important? Do you want your company to adopt and fully leverage AI tools and stay ahead of competitors? The answer is almost always yes. But the real question is: how can you, as a leader, ensure that your managers and...
Messing Up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review
SUMMARY Visuals have the potential to further open our understanding of organizational life to its complex messiness. However, this potential is not always fully realized in visual management studies. Through a problematizing review of the existing research...
Climate Change Adaptation: Why Organizations Need to Look Beyond Mitigation
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash. Climate change is no longer a distant threat. Its catastrophic effects are already occurring, unavoidable, and in many cases irreversible. While most research attention has been directed toward mitigation...
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...