Why the person-organization fit matters for business model innovation Product life cycles shorten, novel technologies surface, profit margins melt, and existing businesses are jeopardized by digitalization. These changing business environments pressure organizations...
New technology deployment gives start to different changes in organizations and disrupts existing practices – for better and for worse. The dynamics of control and trust are not immune to these changes. Our study focuses on the unintended consequences of new...
Threatened by announcements such as “When Machines Replace Middle Management” (Forbes, 2015) and “Data is the new middle management” (WSJ, 2015), middle managers have experienced considerable uncertainty during the last decade. Impending role envelopment can have...
Digital platforms are complex algorithmic structures connecting dispersed buyers and sellers of services. On platforms such as Guru or Upwork, for instance, customers can search for logo designers or IT developers through algorithms, which provide suggestions about...
Rising temperatures, declining biodiversity, and worsening wildfires, droughts and floods are the tip of a sustainability problems iceberg. These challenges are rooted in complex interrelations between social, economic and ecological systems. Solving them requires...
Many researchers agree that HR practices can improve employee and organizational performance. The reason is simple: if an organization hires the right people, trains them, and allows employees to decide how they want to do their jobs, we can expect a happier and more...
The ability of organizations to effectively respond to crises is predicated on preparation and planning that draws on past experiences and blueprints for how to address crises. However, sometimes organizations experience crises that are unlike anything they have seen...
In 2003, Chevron’s socially responsible initiative for community development within the Niger Delta of Nigeria turned into a crisis, where violent protests against the corporation by local community not only destroyed the infrastructure that Chevron had invested but...
As researchers who are interested in how organisations and institutions change, recent events drew our attention to the role of place and space in shaping these changes. Climate change-induced flooding, heatwaves, wildfires and droughts altered local landscapes in...
Researchers and practitioners have mixed opinions to what extent middle managers (MMs) can help or hinder the implementation of their top management’s agenda. Could it be that MMs in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can play a significant role when it comes to the...