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Although the literature on corruption is extensive, it is also fragmented, with inconsistencies and inconclusive findings that limit theoretical and practical advancements. Scholars have called for multi‐factor, multi‐level frameworks that integrate macro, micro and longitudinal aspects to provide a more cohesive understanding of corruption's persistence and mitigation. This study addresses these calls

Ever since the rise of the Internet, digitalization has been increasingly shaping firms’ business processes and models. The rapid rise of digital technologies has perhaps even changed some of the fundamentals of strategy, including strategic decision‐making, cognition, discourse and practices. However, limited effort has been made to structure the strategy‐oriented academic discourse in the digitalization

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Strategy research usually assumes that displays of weakness are disadvantageous for firms. In this study, we challenge this assumption. We propose that deliberate displays of weakness can help firms preserve stakeholder approval when taking controversial decisions. To test this proposition, we examine the use and effectiveness of organizational supplication in the context of workforce downsizing. Building

This perspective article focuses on blockchain platforms as new forms of organization and governance within the decision-making centralization/decentralization continuum. It aims to address the following research questions: How does the context of blockchain and community-based governance creates new theoretical challenges regarding the traditional centralization/decentralization debate in corporate

Scholars conduct systematic literature reviews to summarize knowledge and identify gaps in understanding. Machine learning can assist researchers in carrying out these studies. This paper introduces a machine learning toolkit that employs Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing methods to extract textual features and categorize academic papers. The toolkit comprises two algorithms that enable

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Content analysis has enabled organizational scholars to study constructs and relationships that were previously unattainable at scale. One particular area of focus has been on sentiment analysis, which scholars have implemented to examine myriad relationships pertinent to organizational research. This article addresses certain limitations in sentiment analysis. More specifically, we bring attention

Online data are constantly growing, providing a wide range of opportunities to explore social phenomena. Large Language Models (LLMs) capture the inherent structure, contextual meaning, and nuance of human language and are the base for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms. In this article, we describe a method to assist qualitative researchers in the theorization process by

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Summary Decision-making on sustainability investment faces two challenges. First, appraisal methods are based on a narrow view of shareholder value and require extensions to support decisions that involve valuable outcomes for society. Second, the consequences of climate change are uncertain. However, firms have real options to adapt, which helps them realize the energy transition. An extended net

Mounting information processing demands in contemporary organizations spotlight the need to better understand how to maintain and improve performance without increasing cognitive load. Research in organizational behavior suggests that primed goals provide performance benefits similar to assigned goals but with little cost to attention. Yet, some research in social psychology suggests that any form

Leader emergence is a critical organizational phenomenon, influenced by various individual attributes. One such attribute—often overlooked by scholars and practitioners—is physical attractiveness. This study provides a comprehensive meta-analysis of the beauty bias and its relationship to leader emergence. We first review implicit leadership and status generalization theories as the dominant frameworks

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In an era of increasing digitalization, automation and fast production, craft has experienced a significant revival. Producers and consumers, by interacting at individual, dyadic and group levels, influence the craft market with positive and negative connotations. This generates a complex and dynamic environment, where multiple meanings and values intersect. To fully understand this environment, it

Existing research assumes that supervisors invariably feel bad after engaging in abusive behaviors. We challenge this assumption by proposing that supervisors’ motives of abusive supervision shape their post-abuse experiences. Drawing on the social interactionist theory of aggression and theories of self-regulation, we suggest that instrumental (or goal-driven) abusive behaviors provide a temporary

Academic spin‐offs (ASOs), a distinct form of hybrid venture, operate at the intersection of economic (business) and non‐economic (academic) logics. Although traditional literature often portrays these logics as inherently conflicting, emphasizing the trade‐offs ASOs must manage, recent empirical findings challenge this view, suggesting that integrating academic and business logics can be beneficial

The view that a business unit can better compete against product-market rivals if granted funding from its parent firm’s internal capital market (ICM) has lost traction within strategy, despite conflicting evidence. We develop a theory to explain when funding from a parent firm’s ICM should enable a business unit to more effectively capture value (i.e., profit) from its investment opportunities under

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While extant acquisition literature explores how intentional signaling between the acquiring and target firms can influence acquisition outcomes, we examine how unintentional information revealed through prior actions taken long before an acquisition is contemplated – specifically patent citation patterns between the firms – influences acquisition outcomes. We argue that targets can screen patent citation

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Over time, environmental pressures may push organizations to engage in strategic actions that diverge from their foundational identity claims. In such circumstances, organizations experience tensions between pressures for authenticity on the one hand, and pressures for adaptiveness on the other. Such pressures are likely to be of particular importance for organizations that have historically laid claim

Insufficient effort responding (IER) presents a significant challenge in management research, potentially leading to flawed inferences. This review critically examines IER practices in 17 leading management journals from 2012 to 2023, highlighting inconsistencies in screening methods, cutoffs, and reporting. We find that IER screening is more prevalent in studies using online paid samples, experimental

The internationalization of emerging market firms (EMFs) has attracted substantial research attention. Yet, how EMFs engage in diversification and innovation during internationalization remains underexplored. Drawing insights from a geographic relational perspective, we perform a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of EMFs. Our findings suggest that EMFs can choose from multiple

We conducted a systematic literature review on international knowledge transfer (IKT) via international entrepreneurship (IE), synthesising fragmented research that employs various conceptualisations, methodological approaches and theoretical lenses. Based on a review of 40 articles, we inductively developed an analytical framework comprising four key elements: international knowledge, international

Large-scale, mission-critical initiatives are increasingly deployed through major programs or assemblies of projects that span and situate across sectors, industries, and/or geographies. To better track risk propagation within major programs, this article reconceptualizes them as temporary ecosystems or interlinked organizations whose project-based interdependencies last until the program’s conclusion

The ability of employees to move between firms of their own volition is a defining characteristic that distinguishes human capital from other resources. This review bridges previously isolated research communities by synthesizing knowledge on “employee mobility barriers”—mechanisms that restrict employee movement and help firms maintain human capital-based competitive advantages. We introduce a typology

This paper presents an integrative review of empirical research (2000–2023) on cognitive biases that affect decision makers in established organizations as they make strategic decisions. We examine patterns in the measures, antecedents, and outcomes of two broad categories of biases: systematic biases that operate similarly across individuals (e.g., overconfidence, escalation of commitment, loss aversion

Crowdfunding is a relatively nascent, rapidly growing phenomenon whereby individuals or ventures pursue funding from a potentially large number of backers via the Internet. This rapidly emerging literature invites a variety of conceptual lenses and offers significant potential to advance theoretical understanding of important organizational activities, such as how entrepreneurs and organizations are

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The increasing institutionalization of corporate purpose by appointing Chief Purpose Officers (CPOs) signifies a pivotal transition in corporate priorities, emphasizing the imperative of purpose-driven management. The literature highlights the crucial relationship between strategy and purpose, where strategy embeds purpose within organizational frameworks and purpose guides strategic decision-making

Organizations rely on employees to report problems that hinder organizational effectiveness and on supervisors to resolve those problems. Although prohibitive voice is generally thought to help organizations avoid costly and tragic outcomes, the voice literature has also demonstrated that supervisors respond more negatively to prohibitive voice than promotive voice. This tension motivates our inquiry

Why do so many responsible business initiatives fail? While earlier studies have stressed the lack of commitment, we know little about the ways in which prosocial firms seek to secure the requisite resources to accomplish such practices. This study investigates how the management of multiple resource dependencies impacts the (non)accomplishment of a firm’s aspired responsible practices. A granular

While many boards adopt technology committees to support firm innovation, the impact of such committees is largely unexplored. We draw on agency and resource dependence theories to suggest that technology committees can improve firm innovation (patenting and new product introductions). We further hypothesize that relevant committee expertise (technology and executive expertise) enhances the effectiveness

Human resource (HR) practices hold great promise in fostering employee trust, and insights into how HR practices relate to employee trust are critical to evidence-informed management. However, extant research findings are fragmented and dispersed across disciplines and use a confusing plethora of concepts, limiting insights. To address these problems, we conducted a systematic review to offer a more

International business research emphasizes the importance of geopolitics to multinational enterprise (MNE) strategic decision‐making. Yet, insights and evidence are dispersed across levels of analysis and disciplinary perspectives, making it difficult to determine how exactly MNEs respond to geopolitics. Leveraging a sample of 97 papers from journals in strategy, international business and management

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Waiting to evaluate one section of a paper (e.g., the Methods) until you have decided whether another section (e.g., the front end) passes muster is analogous to “multiple hurdle” systems in personnel selection. This usually creates a suboptimal weighting scheme in which the part of the system that represents the first hurdle is overvalued. I explain why “multiple hurdle” reviewing is counterproductive

Academy of Management Review, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 189-192, April 2025.

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This study examines the performance consequences of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) successions, focusing on the types of board chairs and firm ownership structures. While CEO successions can bring adaptation benefits and performance gains through strategic realignment, they can also cause disruption costs and performance losses by disturbing stakeholder relationships. We examine how the presence of

Summary Mega infrastructure projects in liberal democracies often encounter significant cost overruns and delays. These challenges arise from tensions between mandated stakeholder engagement and shareholder-focused decision making. Legal frameworks require broad stakeholder involvement, yet investors prioritize cost efficiency, frequently omitting collaboration expenses from initial budgets. This misalignment

We extend the business group (BG) literature by combining the knowledge-based perspective and the dynamic capabilities view to explain the benefits of group affiliation. In the BG context, group affiliates can use not only their own firm-level knowledge-based assets (KBAs), but also group-level KBAs. While prior research examines the efficiencies of BG affiliation by comparing BG affiliates to non-affiliated

This paper reviews the transformative role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Human Resource (HR) management, from a practice perspective, highlighting both opportunities and challenges and laying out a use-inspired future research agenda. This scoping review is grounded in insights from a unique Summit held in Spring 2024, which brought together HR academic scholars with dozens of Fortune

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This review examines the integration of institutional theory with social and environmental efforts in management (i.e., regarding sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and environmental, social, and governance objectives). By analyzing 720 studies published between 1997 and 2023, we develop a multi-level model that maps the antecedents of different actors (e.g., industries, organizations

Internal development project organizations are likely to have a pre-defined internal goal to optimize the use of internal resources while joint development project organizations tend to have a flexible goal to take advantage of diverse external resources. In this situation, the managerial direction multiplicity of project managers (i.e., convergent or multi-faceted directions) reflected in their organizational

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Attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) theory proposes that “the people make the place” and has served as a foundation for many areas of organizational research. In this review, we take stock of the ASA literature to identify what we know and what we need to know about ASA processes and their effects on organizations. Based on a review of over 6,000 articles that cited ASA, we identified 321 studies

While extensive research has examined the relationship between human resource management systems and organizational performance, the impact of organizational-level training—defined as the quantity and quality of training that an organization provides to its employees—remains less understood. In this article, we conducted a meta-analysis of the relationship between organizational-level training and