Behrooz Khademi , Hannele Lampela , Gerrit Anton de Waal , Kosmas X. Smyrnios
{"title":"A roadmap for systematically identifying opportunities in geographically bounded ecosystems using patent analytics","authors":"Behrooz Khademi , Hannele Lampela , Gerrit Anton de Waal , Kosmas X. Smyrnios","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2024.101320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2024.101320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Context-dependency (involving actors & regions) in spatially bounded ecosystems is a critical challenge that can constrain opportunity exploration for actors, and lead to both financial and reputational damages. The present methodological investigation proposes a novel context-independent roadmap for systematically identifying opportunities (e.g., technological forecasting, strategic planning) in spatially bounded ecosystems using the PatentsView database and analytics techniques. The Nordic low-emissions energy technologies<span><sup>9</sup></span> are employed as a case in point to unravel operationalization processes associated with the proposed roadmap. The novelty of the proposed tool’s practical application provides actors of spatially bounded ecosystems with significant benefits with respect to resource saving, strategic planning, investment, and promulgation of innovation policy instruments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522124000010/pdfft?md5=c11021831527c0da0197f74b080ab993&pid=1-s2.0-S0956522124000010-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139694034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Miladani Binti Arti , Alfian Rosiadi","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101319","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138683139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M.S. Gustavo Sánchez , Francisco Valenzuela , Matías Sanfuentes
{"title":"In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company","authors":"M.S. Gustavo Sánchez , Francisco Valenzuela , Matías Sanfuentes","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a component of post-bureaucratic governance, career self-management provides the hegemonic meanings that make professional advancement intelligible. However, several studies have shown that neither post-bureaucracy nor career self-management are coherent discursive formations. We tackle such tension by qualitatively mapping career management discourse at a privatized utilities company in Chile. Drawing on Glynos and Howarth’s Logics of Critical Explanation framework, we explain how the discourse of career self-management gains traction through the prompting of rationalities, and more decisively, affects, against but also in reliance of the traditional bureaucratic meanings. By highlighting the role played by ideology and fantasy in the (re)production of the post-bureaucratic discourse, we provide insight into the symbolic and affective dimensions that help realize, but also make hollow, post-bureaucratic professional ideals at the contemporary workplace.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138577465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire , Gael Bertrand , Adnan Maalaoui , Sascha Kraus , Francesco Schiavone
{"title":"Shaping entrepreneurial gender play: Intersubjectivity and performativity among female entrepreneurs","authors":"Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire , Gael Bertrand , Adnan Maalaoui , Sascha Kraus , Francesco Schiavone","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to enrich both the Entrepreneurship as Practice (EAP) and female entrepreneurship literature by advancing the existing insight that gender and entrepreneurship are interconnected practices. It contends that the enactment of entrepreneurship and gender is contextually contingent. To this end, we reinitiate the discourse on situational definition within the EAP framework, employing Butler's performativity and intersubjectivity concepts. We posit that the interplay of gender and entrepreneurial endeavors yields distinct practices influenced by the individual's identity and social affiliation within intersubjective and performative processes. A participatory ethnographic study spanning three years, conducted within a women-centric technology incubator, exposes the incubation process as a hub of interactions facilitated by intersubjectivity. It functions both as an educational medium for \"praxis\" and as a catalyst driving progressive performativity, distinctively expressed by each female entrepreneur contingent upon their individual attributes. This research enriches the EAP literature by revealing divergent gender enactments across industries and individuals. Furthermore, it augments female entrepreneurship literature by enhancing our understanding of how women, irrespective of contextual variables, effectively cultivate micro ventures through practical engagement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095652212300057X/pdfft?md5=3fb5abc82d533c2ce04046f822042a4b&pid=1-s2.0-S095652212300057X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138475443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michèle EL Khoury , Annabelle Jaouen , Sylvie Sammut
{"title":"The liberated firm: An integrative approach involving sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization","authors":"Michèle EL Khoury , Annabelle Jaouen , Sylvie Sammut","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101312","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent research has shown that the liberated firm is associated with better performance and can address the emerging needs in our hypermodern society for autonomy, self-esteem, commitment, and well-being. While research on liberated firms has been increasing, the concept remains widely debated among academics, especially in management and organisational behaviour fields as well as in the press and on social media. The coexistence of related notions (sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization) accentuates the need for a theoretical framework. This research aims to fill this gap. Specifically, we conduct a systematic literature review and comparative analysis. We therefore demonstrate that the concept of the liberated firm integrates the five other notions (as modalities or different stages of liberation); that is, it presents the highest degree of humanist values and operates at the highest corporate level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138436917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovating as chains of interrelated situations","authors":"Christian A. Mahringer","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101314","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Even though the practice perspective on innovation acknowledges that ambiguity is a key defining characteristic of innovating, it has rarely been considered conceptually. This paper argues that to fully consider ambiguity, it is necessary to focus on the situations in which those practices are enacted. Building on the work of Lucy Suchman, thus, this paper conceptualizes the innovation process as a chain of interrelated situations. Each situation is (partially) ambiguous at first and requires actors to define it. The paper elaborates on two mechanisms—focusing on matters of concern and drawing on formal procedures—that may be utilized to achieve this. The paper contributes to prior research by (a) shedding new light on the barriers to innovation, (b) reframing the meaning of ‘context’ in innovation research, and (c) emphasizing the role of ‘the mundane’ in innovating.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522123000556/pdfft?md5=304b27bf3f59ecdf4b4852f22c7451b9&pid=1-s2.0-S0956522123000556-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138436916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies","authors":"Onno Bouwmeester , Maxime Slaats","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While normative control practices aim to raise employee motivation and commitment to professional standards in professional service firms, there is much debate on when and for whom such practices remain motivational. Based on interviews with 18 self-employed consultants who left elite consultancies, we find that, for them, normative control practices, such as learning opportunities and social events, lose appeal over time. This paper contributes to the literature on normative control by conceptualising how consequences, like lack of autonomy, reduced learning and growing work-life conflict, increasingly undermine the motivational impact of normative control practices during a consultant career. Self-employment can help consultants avoid these unwelcome effects because independence solves autonomy issues and improves their work-life balance. Mapping this underexplored but very common move from employment to self-employment in the consulting industry introduces the concept of occupational careers to the debate on boundaryless careers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522123000544/pdfft?md5=b61a7dc37906f0f3ecbbf08da3a744bf&pid=1-s2.0-S0956522123000544-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138430547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sven Kunisch , Julian Birkinshaw , Michael Boppel , Kira Choi
{"title":"Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change","authors":"Sven Kunisch , Julian Birkinshaw , Michael Boppel , Kira Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101297","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study strategic change as a visible and substantive action by examining the circumstances under which firms launch <em>corporate change programs</em>. Drawing on prior literature and corroborated by insights from interviews with executives, we propose a contingency perspective on the launch of <em>corporate change programs</em> (i.e. that different types of programs are launched under different circumstances). To do so, we combine arguments for three general motives for launching a corporate change program with two distinct types of corporate change programs. More specifically, we argue that firms are more likely to launch growth-oriented programs when the market situation is buoyant, when they have prior experience, and when they are underperforming. Furthermore, we argue that firms are more likely to launch efficiency-oriented programs when there is a new CEO, when they are underperforming, and when they are facing high levels of organizational complexity. To test our hypotheses regarding the motives for launching programs, we conducted a large-scale empirical study. Using hand-collected data for the European financial services and insurance industry over a ten-year period, we found support for our predictions. We discuss the implications of these findings for strategic change research<em>.</em></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the ontological origins of dualism: Towards a conjunctive structure of thought in organization studies","authors":"Zara Andreea , Delacour Hélène","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars have underscored that the organization studies are afflicted by dualism which impedes new theoretical developments. To overcome dualism which considers all aspects in opposition, we adopt a philosophical approach to explore in depth its origins. We reveal that dualism has ontological origins and emerges from the progressive abandonment of the Aristotelian ontological framework and specifically his conceptualization of the four primary causes that are bound together in pairs by a reciprocal and total causality. Based on this observation, we then argue the need to scrutinize not only our epistemology and methods, but first and foremost, our ontological assumptions as they shape our structure of thought. We suggest two complementary ways to help us make these assumptions explicit and thus enable us to expand organization studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}