The JMS Insights Blog is the official blog of the Journal of Management Studies. It aims to bridge academic scholarship in management studies with scholars across disciplines, practitioners, media and the broader public who are interested in the societal relevance of management studies.
It provides engaging snapshots of research published in the Journal of Management Studies in a manner that highlights its practical and societal implications, and invites discussion about the impact that management scholarship has beyond academia.
Researchers and practitioners have mixed opinions to what extent middle managers (MMs) can help or… Read More »How to boost exploration and exploitation in an SME’s product development: the unexpected power of capable middle managers
Internationalizing firms from emerging countries often face legitimacy deficits and often adopt standards and norms… Read More »CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Public policies (increasingly) affect firm activities and outcomes, making governments one of their most critical… Read More »What CSR means to policymakers and how this effects firms’ political access
Abortion services in the United States represent perhaps one of the clearest examples of a… Read More »What can we learn from abortion clinic closures about managing stigmatization?
It’s there on your to do list. That task. The one you know you have… Read More »But I don’t want to do it! How individuals internalise their motivation for uninteresting work tasks.
Why Trust Matters in Teams Entities (e.g., organizations, teams, or individuals) involved in ongoing exchange… Read More »Workgroup Hazing: When Trust-building Efforts Put the Team at Risk
While most firms do not grow, a small number of firms maintain and even accelerate… Read More »Speed and Scaling: An Investigation of Accelerated Firm Growth
Chief Executive Officers are frequently caricatured as cocky and narcissistic people who do it all… Read More »I did it My Way, But Not Down Each and Every Highway
The global identity of organizations While some organizations present and understand themselves as global citizens,… Read More »Being a global actor: What influences the global identity of organizations?
To ensure cooperation, parties in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) draw upon both control and trust. However,… Read More »Cooperative inter-organizational relationships are only temporal! Here is why
Mentally ill individuals struggle to navigate the labour market The number of individuals with mental… Read More »Why individuals with mental illness encounter difficulties navigating the labour market
Stigma is known as a serious liability for business. But can it also be an… Read More »Boys will be boys: Stigma gives firms a social license to pollute
Many platform firms are now operating in ecosystems to deliver complex value propositions to customers.… Read More »What can we learn from Platform-based Entrepreneurial Firms’ Scaling up process?
Since the 1990s, offshoring –the movement of firm activities to foreign countries– has emerged as… Read More »Are you ready to revise your offshoring decision? Understanding how performance discrepancies and cognitive biases affect decision makers’ re-evaluation of foreign investments
Alex, a middle manager working in the HR department who is right on track to… Read More »Kissing up and kicking down: When, why, and how managers do it
Organizational purpose has recently gained great popularity in management research and practice. An increasing number… Read More »Rethinking Organizational Purpose: Exploring Individual Perceptions
Many high-profile business leaders claim to rely on their gut feelings, also referred to as… Read More »Hunting for New Business Ideas? Use Your Head, As Well As Your Gut!
Challenges of finding better ways to work together Interprofessional collaborations are becoming widespread in many… Read More »Managing employees or orchestrating workforce ecosystems?
Entrepreneurial resource acquisition Entrepreneurship, the process by which “opportunities to bring into existence ‘future’ goods… Read More »The Buddhist philosophy of “no-self”: How Chinese Buddhist entrepreneurs get access to external resources for their new ventures?
Managers’ work is largely a process of working across boundaries. In carrying out strategy, and… Read More »Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers’ Boundary Work