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...
Note: An example of negative image spillovers within a business group is the VW Group and its Dieselgate scandal. When one company has a scandal, other companies in the same business group tend to suffer as a consequence. How can those other companies, which do not...
The evolution of the planetary boundaries framework. Licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Credit: Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Based on Richardson et al. 2023, Steffen et al. 2015, and Rockström et al. 2009)....
Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/landscape-photography-of-mountain-GygPFmXGD1o Summary Many grand challenges of our time – climate change, environmental pollution, poverty, and natural resource scarcity – center around managing transnational common-pool...
Photo credit: UHH/Esfandiari In our increasingly interconnected world, the challenges we face—be they social, environmental, or economic—are often too complex for any one sector to tackle alone. This is why cross-sector partnerships, which bring together the diverse...