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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Summary In our paper, published in Journal of Management Studies, we show that quarterbacks make tradeoffs between multiple goals that are intelligent and effective for winning the game. This contrasts with much of the research in business firms, which suggests...
The "Rhino War": A Complex Crisis For over a decade, in the heart of South Africa's wilderness, a battle rages on. This is the "rhino war," a cautionary tale that reveals how even the noblest of intentions can lead to unexpected consequences. By studying how...
Image from https://www.pexels.com Summary Lay theories of expertise are beliefs about the meaning of expertise. Our research, published in the Journal of Management Studies, reveals that there are several differing beliefs about expertise in the population, and that...
Source: SOS by Ann Hirsch & Jeremy Angier Summary Sensebreaking - the breakdown in prevailing meanings and assumptions experienced by an individual - is often conceptualized as a prelude to sensemaking, or sensegiving. Extant research has rarely focused on...