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Summary Despite growing global recognition that countries must transition to a low-carbon economy, greenhouse gas… Read More »Carbon Populism and Representative Politics: Why fossil fuel firms speaking for ‘the people’ is a bad idea
This paper examines how organizational crises shape job seekers’ perceptions of multinational enterprises and explores… Read More »Recruitment in Times of Crisis: The Impact of Negative Signals and CSR on Job Seekers’ Attraction to Multinational Enterprises
In this editorial, the authors examine how management scholars can more effectively develop rigorous and… Read More »Crafting Interdisciplinary Research: Four Cornerstone Practices for Management Scholars
In this paper, authors examine how the search for meaning at work can unintentionally contribute… Read More »Why Do I Do What I Do? How Searching for Meaning at Work Can Facilitate the Spread of Unethical Conduct through Organizations
How can history help us better understand today’s deglobalization challenges? This paper introduces the Special… Read More »Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization’s Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses
Why this question matters AI is often framed as a race for productivity and innovation.… Read More »Curse or Blessing? How AI Adoption Shapes Employee Job Satisfaction
Set against the backdrop of the interwar deglobalization period, this paper explores how technological knowledge… Read More »Knowledge Will Always Get through: Inventors, International Networks, and Flows of Technological Knowledge between Britain and the United States in the Interwar Deglobalization Period
This paper brings relational inequality theory into conversation with the institutional logics perspective to examine… Read More »Institutional Logics and Relational Inequality in UK Surgery: Demographic Dominance and the Uneven Governance of Careers
This paper examines how microfinance remains viable even when loans are used for household needs… Read More »Two Sides of the Same Coin: Sustaining Loan-Use Ambiguity in Microfinance through Harmonizing Practices
Summary Ideas such as lean management, digital transformation, and agile organizing have travelled widely across organizations. Expert consultants are… Read More »Who Drives Management Ideas? The Power of Role Ecologies
In the contemporary business world, “purpose” has become the ultimate buzzword. We are often told that… Read More »Repurposing for Responsibility: When Moral Aspirations Meet Organizational Reality
In this paper authors examine how different sources of legitimation shape renewable energy adoption by… Read More »The Interactive Impact of Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Values on Technology Adoption: Renewable Energy in the EU
Bruton et al. (2025) invited us to a Point/Counterpoint debate about management and organizational scholarship (MOS) in various institutional contexts. The Point’s primary thesis was that MOS is misguided because it reflects a U.S.-centric capitalist bias. It then presented four “varieties of… Read More »We Don’t Need a Socialist Perspective on Entrepreneurship
This paper examines how digital technology can help bridge knowledge capability gaps in interfirm knowledge… Read More »Bridging Knowledge Capability Gaps: Digital Technology Offsetting in Interfirm Knowledge Transfer
This paper examines how directors’ board leadership roles and committee responsibilities shape governance effectiveness. The… Read More »The Effect of Board Leadership Roles and Committee Responsibilities on Governance Effectiveness
Diverse teams are widely employed by organizations to increase creativity and innovation through bringing in… Read More »Does a Diverse Team Equal a Creative Team?
In this essay published in the Journal of Management Studies, I defend a ‘Joyful Scholarship’ to inspire change… Read More »Reclaiming Pleasure to Inspire Change in Academia
How do firms respond when performance falls below expectations? This paper examines how different forms… Read More »Different Aspirations, Different Directions: A Behavioural Perspective on Negative Performance Discrepancy and Problemistic Search
Summary When entrepreneurs try to get their foot in the door of a major corporation, whom… Read More »Whom Should Entrepreneurs Approach for Acquisitions? Beware the Middle-Status Freeze
How do CEOs respond when media criticism puts executive pay under the spotlight? This paper… Read More »Parenthood and CEO Responses to Media Criticism on Pay