Academic research shows that family firms – the most prevalent type of business organization around the world – make decisions about acquisitions differently. Some aspects of such distinct acquisition behavior have been identified clearly. For instance, family firms...
Management Insights
Why Should Employers Value the Insider Activists within their Walls?
Scholars often analyze how activists need to conceal their own political ideals and agendas in their workplace: gender equality consultants feel compelled to hide their feminist perspectives to clients, sustainability professionals distance themselves from their...
Explaining the enduring illusion of gender equality in entrepreneurship: Who plays the game and at what cost?
The belief in gender equality in entrepreneurship seems appealing, but the reality often falls short. Women starting or growing their businesses are disadvantaged in the male-dominated game of entrepreneurship. How is such a belief sustained? Our recent paper...
How Do Companies Respond to Public Attention?
In a recent article in Journal of Management Studies, we sought to understand how public attention affects company behavior. We wanted to know, in particular, whether companies in the public eye are more transparent and complete in their environmental disclosures....
Being Part of the Team Matters for Leaders: How Leader Identity Threat Hurts Leaders and the Teams They Lead
Summary: Do leaders care whether they are viewed by team members as being part of the team? Our findings suggest that leader identities are threatened when followers do not view them as a prototypical member of the team, particularly when the team’s views are...
Ignite Excellence: Turbocharge Performance with Revolutionary Reflection Techniques in Pursuit of Stretch Goals
Summary: Unleash the hidden power of reflection strategies to catapult performance in the competitive corporate arena. This illuminating exploration delves into the synergistic dance between audacious stretch goals and two dynamic types of reflection—counterfactual...
“Passionate” Prescription During COVID-19: Can Work and Non-Work Passion Improve Life Satisfaction Amid the Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way we work and live. Those working from home struggled to navigate blurred boundaries between their work and personal lives, while others had to cope with being furloughed or permanently unemployed. Given these...
CEO Political Ideology and CEO-Employee Pay Disparity
Background CEO-employee pay disparity, or the extent to which a CEO is paid more than a typical employee in a firm, is a highly contentious issue. On the one hand, because CEOs have valuable experiences and strong qualifications, they enjoy relatively high bargaining...
Can markets proposing morally superior products grow without losing their soul? If so, how?
Markets focused on products and services with an explicit social or environmental added-value, such as fair trade, microfinance or organic farming, naturally seek to grow and attract new participants. Yet, doing so may jeopardize the market’s founding moral mission...
How to avoid “blah blah blah” in management theory?
The “theory always” imperative in management Contemplating the role of theory in management has always been a playing field for the big names of the discipline: Bacharch, Weick, Hambrick, Gioia, Sutton, Suddaby, Langley, or Eisenhardt. No scientist would deny that...