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.
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?
Almost every aspect of life has changed in some way over the last two years,… Read More »Can circular economy replace collapsing global supply chains? A polycentric governance perspective
Managers distill their experience into simple rules. Top managers distill the lessons they learn into… Read More »How do CEOs create their simple rules? A story about triple insights, pairs of rules, and emotional rollercoasters
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank is the… Read More »Why do some multinational firms respond better than others to the hostility of host governments?
Celebrities are increasingly important actors in social disputes, with their high public profiles used to… Read More »Coral not coal! The roles of celebrities in climate change contestation
Intermediaries are organizations that make connections and build markets. Intermediaries include not only middlemen, traders,… Read More »How should intermediaries build inclusive markets? It depends on the village
Firms in many industries are currently struggling to adapt their procurement processes. With the supply… Read More »How Should Firms Deploy Dynamic Capabilities?
The continued institutional reproduction of inequality is a matter of growing concern in vast parts… Read More »Why inequality persists: How institutions and organizations reproduce inequality