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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How does violence come to define the factory floors in Bangladesh that produce clothing for Western consumers? More importantly, why has such brutality become normalised and who stands to gain from it? In my recent article, published in the Journal of Management...
Image source: https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/wassertropfchen-auf-spinnennetz-in-nahaufnahmen-LpMx4HQqOHo While many believe management research rarely influences real-world practice, our research published in the Journal of Management Studies reveals that...