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Why Microfinance Works – Even When It Doesn’t Create Entrepreneurs

11 August 2026 11 August 2026 Jacob Vermeire, Miguel Meuleman and Jan Lepoutre

Summary Microfinance is often celebrated for encouraging entrepreneurship. Yet millions of borrowers use these loans to meet pressing needs. We demonstrate how borrowers and...Continue reading→

My Child Started a Business. Have I lost My Successor?

4 August 2026 29 June 2026 Philipp Sieger, Jasper Brinkerink, Massimo Bau, Johan Karlsson and Alfredo De Massis

Summary Family business owners aspiring to eventually pass on their business to one or more of their children often worry...Continue reading→

Beyond Resilience: The Privilege of Composure Under Geopolitical Tension

31 July 2026 29 July 2026 JMS

By Omid Aliasghar When personal crisis strikes, academic life carries on around it: deadlines, meetings,...Continue reading→

Bifurcation Bias in Executive Compensation and Family Firm Performance: The Role of Normative Context

30 July 2026 29 July 2026 JMS

Bifurcation bias, the preferential treatment of family managers over non-family managers, is widespread in family...Continue reading→

When CEOs Speak Up, CSR Makes the Difference

28 July 2026 23 June 2026 Lambert Zixin Li and Sarah A. Soule

Short summary CEO activism is increasingly common, but it often triggers backlash in polarized environments....Continue reading→

Complementary or Substitutive Environmental Governance? ISO 14001 and Environmental Stringency for Emission Reduction

23 July 2026 29 July 2026 JMS

Contrary to the dominant view that public and private governance are substitutes, this paper proposes...Continue reading→

Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems

22 July 2026 29 July 2026 JMS

An ethnographic study of a humanitarian organization and their work in refugee crises reveals how...Continue reading→

Beyond Validity Cues: How Categorical Fit Shapes Legitimacy Judgments

21 July 2026 21 July 2026 Julia Thaler, Martin Sievert, Sonia Siraz and Alexander Pinz

Why do people perceive some organizations as legitimate while others performing similar tasks struggle to...Continue reading→

Navigating Resource Tensions During Diversification in Ecosystems: Strategic Leadership Across Organizational Levels

17 July 2026 13 July 2026 JMS

Ecosystem diversification develops new interdependencies in a bid to extend joint value creation. Strategic leaders...Continue reading→

The Power of State Capitalism: Political Regime Shifts and Divergent Outcomes in SOE Performance

16 July 2026 13 July 2026 JMS

Government intervention in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the consequences for firm performance, are a source...Continue reading→