Photo by Direct_Media from Freerange Stock Humor at work is serious business. Research shows that telling jokes can improve workplace relationships, increase how happy people feel at work, and help relieve workplace stress. Unfortunately, scientists have spent far too...
https://unsplash.com/photos/person-using-macbook-pro-npxXWgQ33ZQ Summary While most discussions treat moderation on platforms as a mechanical rule-enforcement task, we argue that it involves significant emotional work, which in turn shapes the content of...
Short Summary This blog uncovers how negative emotions, often hidden behind the formalities of performance appraisals, quietly reshape core organizational routines. Drawing on qualitative data from professional service firms in Jordan, our study reveals how...
[https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/rotgelbe-und-grune-abstrakte-malerei-ULDjeyeQL08] In a time when traditional management often feels mechanistic, competitive, and extractive, a growing movement is reimagining the purpose of organizations. Instead of focusing narrowly on...
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...
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...
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...