M@n@gementPub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2024.5277
Margot Leclair, Cédric Dalmasso
{"title":"Understanding Creative Entrepreneurs’ Work Practices: The Varying Conversation between Artistic and Economic Rationales","authors":"Margot Leclair, Cédric Dalmasso","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2024.5277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2024.5277","url":null,"abstract":"Research on creative organizations often questions how artistic practices can be squared within the rational decision-making of economic thinking. This paper examines how the relational language, or conversation, between artistic and economic rationales unfolds for creative entrepreneurs. Through ethnographic work with a designer-entrepreneur, this paper presents a fine-grained analysis of the conversation the designer cultivates between artistic and economic rationales through work practices. We contribute to the literature about artistic and economic rationales at work, and more specifically to the concept of conversation. First, we show that high levels of conversing make way for low levels of conversing and vice versa. In the studio, the designer’s engagement with either rationale varies as the creative process progresses. Second, on a more global dynamic, we demonstrate the conversation is continuous. It relies on its variations, which ensure the balance between rationales in the long run. We also contribute to the field of creative entrepreneurship research. We identify here one type of creative entrepreneur, with what we call a ‘small is beautiful’ attitude. Far from the mythical figure of the entrepreneur, this unconventional entrepreneur aims for sustainable use of creative resources rather than growth at all costs.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"33 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139611882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.6050
Boris Collet, É. Rémy, B. Cléret
{"title":"Le rôle des dynamiques conjointes dans l’évolution des catégories de marchés alternatives. Une approche sociohistorique des musiques indépendantes","authors":"Boris Collet, É. Rémy, B. Cléret","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.6050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.6050","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article contribue à la compréhension des processus de catégorisation des marchés alternatifs. Plus spécifiquement, il analyse l’évolution de la catégorie des musiques indépendantes qui se caractérise comme catégorie floue par son instabilité et comme catégorie alternative par les rapports de force qu’elle entretient avec la catégorie dominante de la musique mainstream. À partir d’une approche sociohistorique, nous montrons comment les dynamiques externes telles que les jeux de frontières d’une part et les dynamiques internes telles que les tensions autour des représentations de la catégorie d’autre part, agissent sur la définition et l’évolution de la catégorie de marché des musiques indépendantes. Nos résultats permettent de souligner l’action conjointe de ces dynamiques dans l’émergence et l’évolution des catégories alternatives. Ils mettent en évidence l’intérêt d’examiner simultanément ces multiples dynamiques et leurs relations pour l’étude des catégories de marché. Notre article révèle également les enjeux stratégiques et idéologiques du rapport entre l’alternatif et le mainstream qui constitue un élément clé de la structuration et de l’évolution de nombreux autres secteurs","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"1 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138996468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.8104
Nour Kanaan, Julie Mayer
{"title":"Revealing the Spatiality of Crises: Lessons from Failures of Boundary Work in a Cross-Border Crisis","authors":"Nour Kanaan, Julie Mayer","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.8104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.8104","url":null,"abstract":"Our societies are facing the rise of cross-border crises, which transcend established territorial demarcations. Managing cross-border crises raises challenges of spatiality, as actors need to coordinate within an unexpected, temporary space of action, shaped by multiple overlapping boundaries. However, little is known about how actors deal with the spatial ambiguity of cross-border crises. To answer this question, this article builds on a qualitative case study of the 1999 Mont-Blanc Tunnel fire. It adopts a boundary work perspective, focusing on the intentional shaping of boundaries, as an antecedent to coordination. We introduce a conceptual distinction between the notions of ‘borders’ and ‘boundaries’ to better account for the multiscalar nature of cross-border boundary work. By unfolding the spatiality of the crisis process, our analysis highlights the failures of boundary work in the Mont-Blanc Tunnel fire case. We find that boundary work cannot happen until borders and boundaries are explicitly revealed and acknowledged. Our study contributes to cross-border crises literature in both management and public administration fields by revealing the interdependencies of borders and boundaries as an implicit driver of the crisis process. We also extend the boundary work perspective by introducing ‘boundary revelation’ as a condition to unfold boundary work in a crisis situation.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"18 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138999983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.5237
Amandine Maus, Sylvie Sammut
{"title":"If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone; If You Want to Go Far, Go Together. In Favor of a Partnership Approach to Directors of Incubators’ Dynamic Managerial Capabilities","authors":"Amandine Maus, Sylvie Sammut","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.5237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.5237","url":null,"abstract":"On the cusp of the 2000s, the incubation industry had started to become competitive after 20 years of stability. The question of adapting incubators to this turbulent environment was now on the table. In this context, the aim of this article is to better understand the role of directors of incubators during the transformation process of their organizations. The concept of dynamic managerial capabilities is used as a means of responding to this gap. The capabilities of the directors of incubators were studied during a longitudinal multiple case study. The main contribution of this research is the partnership relationship built up by these actors to transform their organizations. The foundations of the directors’ dynamic managerial capabilities (cognition, human, and social capital) are then combined with the cognition, human, and social capital of their partners to seize opportunities: new incubation models that had been the subject of resistance to change within incubators.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"47 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139000363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.6722
Émilie Ruiz, Rémy Guichardaz, Kim-Marlène Le
{"title":"C’est la ‘Fête du slip’! When a Weak Field Mandate Event Tries to Change an Organizational Field","authors":"Émilie Ruiz, Rémy Guichardaz, Kim-Marlène Le","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.6722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.6722","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on field-configuring events draws a contrast between ‘strong field mandate’ events, which play a dominant role in a field, and the ‘weak field mandate’ events held at the periphery. Irrespective of their type, three levers have been identified that enable field-configuring events to configure the field in which they occur: legitimacy, conformity to the rules and norms in force in the field, and power. Since, by their nature, weak field events do not have access to these levers, an essential question arises concerning how weak field mandate events can attempt to modify an organizational field. The study of ‘La Fête du slip’, an alternative pornography festival, identifies three actions that are undertaken in an effort to access these levers: (1) contributing to the emergence and structuring of the alternative pornography subfield, (2) driving communities (of practice, as well as epistemic), and (3) opening up to alternative events within the field as well as to other related and institutional fields outside the field. This work contributes to the literature by discussing actions that allow weak field events to access configurative levers in an attempt to change an organizational field.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"42 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139000424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.8232
Daniel S. Lacerda, Rita De Cássia T. Santos
{"title":"The Role of Social Network Platforms for Discursive Legitimation: Unveiling Neoliberalism Behind the Discourse on Public Universities","authors":"Daniel S. Lacerda, Rita De Cássia T. Santos","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.8232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.8232","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the discursive dispute for the (de)legitimation of public universities in Brazil and demonstrates how the interactions on social network platforms privilege discursive strategies that shift the debate from technical to identarian argumentative topos. Using the sociocognitive approach by Teun van Dijk, our analysis focuses on meanings that reside in the sociopolitical context of the message and constitute the context model manipulated by the information architecture of social media platforms. Understanding this dynamic was important to reveal how the commodification of education and disinvestment in higher education (HE) were and continue to be legitimatized, and also to explain why managerial attempts of public organizations to gain legitimacy through engagement and participation on social media have achieved modest results despite the growing importance of social media for legitimation.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"312 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138996571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.7748
Lise Justesen, Ursula Plesner
{"title":"Visibility Management: New Managerial Work in Digitalized Organizations","authors":"Lise Justesen, Ursula Plesner","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.7748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.7748","url":null,"abstract":"Visibility management is becoming an important task in organizations as work is increasingly made visible by digital technologies, but the consequences of increased visibility for management are still underexplored. Based on a qualitative study in heavily digitalized public organizations, the paper investigates managers’ experiences with visibility and control. New concerns arise relating to the risk of employee prying, increase in visualizations of workflow deviations, and the explosion in performance indications. These concerns entail new types of managerial work that we refer to as visibility management, consisting of technological mediation work, relation work, and compensation work. By identifying these types of work, the study challenges the assumption that more visibility, understood as increased ease of access to information, automatically eases control tasks for managers. The paper offers a vocabulary that can help practitioners describe and better understand new types of otherwise often invisible managerial work in digitalized organizations.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.7762
Alexandre Azoulay
{"title":"‘Breaking the Mirror’ to Face Digital Convergence: The Role of Selective Mirroring in the Trade-Off between Value Creation and Capture Mechanisms","authors":"Alexandre Azoulay","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.7762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.7762","url":null,"abstract":"This research questions the mirroring hypothesis in the context of digital convergence. The mirroring hypothesis suggests that the organization of innovation activities tends to mirror the technical architecture of products. When the architecture is modular, such mirroring optimizes the management of innovation activities. But it can also limit the ability of incumbent firms to adapt to technological discontinuities. Digital convergence is a source of discontinuities that transform the conditions of value creation and capture within industries. It leads to new complementarities that push incumbents to collaborate with firms coming from other industries within emerging ecosystems. How does the mirroring between product architecture and organization evolve in the face of the new challenges of value creation and capture brought by digital convergence? This question is addressed through a qualitative case study of the organization of innovation activities between Renault and its partners in the field of embedded automotive electronics. The results show that the automaker ‘breaks the mirror’ through a strategy of selective mirroring that allows it to collaborate with new complementors and to reconfigure its mechanisms of value creation and capture.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.8135
Naeem Ashraf, Waqar Wadho, Subhan Shahid
{"title":"Faultlines in Family SMEs: The U-Shape Effect of Family Control on Innovativeness and Performance","authors":"Naeem Ashraf, Waqar Wadho, Subhan Shahid","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.8135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.8135","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on innovation have yielded contradictory results regarding the influence of family control, giving rise to competing perspectives that either emphasize the stewardship role of family managers or the agency problems that their presence creates. Recent research integrates both perspectives, theorizing an inverted U-shaped relationship between family control and innovativeness. However, scholars typically focus on the family agenda, neglecting the dynamics of family–non-family members, particularly in SMEs, which may also influence innovation and performance. Drawing from faultline theory and based on the Spanish Innovation Survey panel data, the present paper examines family control’s direct U-shape effect on firm innovativeness and its indirect effect on firm performance. By demonstrating a U-shaped relationship between family control and firm innovativeness, we highlight the relevance of ‘faultlines’ between family – non-family organizational members.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M@n@gementPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.2023.4719
Amélie Villéger
{"title":"Couple’s Entrepreneurship: Who Loves Me Follows Me","authors":"Amélie Villéger","doi":"10.37725/mgmt.2023.4719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2023.4719","url":null,"abstract":"By mobilizing the theoretical field of decision-making and the empirical study of 15 cases, this article highlights and analyzes the recurrence of conjugal interactions leading to the decision to undertake as a couple. The results show that the spouse who initiates the project becomes the ‘leader’, while the other positions himself, more or less voluntarily, as a ‘follower’. This decision-making configuration induces a renunciation on the part of the follower, a follower who remains, still today, overwhelmingly the woman. The discussion considers the potential impact of this specific decision-making process on the future governance of the company, in terms of the distribution of roles and powers, the satisfaction of spouses, but also the choice of partner. The movement of the reflexive cursor in a period prior to the copreneurial installation enriches the field of research, almost unexplored, of the decision to undertake as a couple, opens the way to the study of problems of copreneurship through the innovative prism of events that have occurred before its implementation and offers practitioners new keys to understanding the complex dynamics within which they evolve.","PeriodicalId":155066,"journal":{"name":"M@n@gement","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}