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.
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
Goals tensions: economic versus noneconomic goals In seeking to make decisions, firm decision-makers in all… Read More »We are family: Understanding how long-lived family firms manage competing economic and non-economic goals
Finance thinks that marketing is wasting the budget. Sales won’t talk to engineering. Purchasing believes… Read More »When and How Middle Managers Can Help Your Company to Bust Silos
RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) is a reality TV competition among drag queens hosted by RuPaul… Read More »‘We are all born naked and the rest is Drag’: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Spectacularizes LGBTQ+ Stigma
Lasting relationships require obtaining a tricky balance of control and trust. Relationships are hard work,… Read More »Making interorganizational relationships perform and endure: Creative managerial responses to control and trust in time and across time
Stigma is a label held by a number of people that something is flawed. Many… Read More »Making Lemonade: How Entrepreneurs can Benefit from Stigmatized Locations
“It’s a pleasant way to view leadership: you stand on the mountaintop, thinking strategically and… Read More »Why do executives focus almost exclusively on strategy formulation, but not implementation?
It is well established that words matter. Yet, we have little knowledge on how language… Read More »Rhetoric, Risk, and Investment: Letting the Numbers Speak for Themselves
In today’s business environment, progressive companies want their leaders to act ethically and set a… Read More »Say less, do more: Actions speak louder than words when promoting ethical conduct
The problem: who is worthy of trust when performance is hard to measure, and opportunism… Read More »Is there a basis for trust when Machiavellian behavior can easily be hidden?
Knowledge in multinationals travels not only from but also to headquarters. Expatriation involves employees from… Read More »What Makes Repatriates More Likely to Transfer Knowledge upon Their Return?
After more than a century of globalization, the key question by management scholars and corporate… Read More »What can we learn about managing MNE-government relations from century-old subsidiaries in Indonesia?
ABC, a digital startup from Estonia, was selected as the preferred supplier in a procurement… Read More »The Valorising Pitch: How digital startups win and leverage industry analyst attention
It has long been established by management science that organizations that are able to combine… Read More »Which employees help different business units learn from each other?
