Mikkel Holck Pedersen, Tobias Christian Rahbek, Adam Buttenschøn Yar, Rasmus Koss Hartmann
{"title":"Ideology, incompetence and reflexivity in a university incubator","authors":"Mikkel Holck Pedersen, Tobias Christian Rahbek, Adam Buttenschøn Yar, Rasmus Koss Hartmann","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurship is surrounded by ideology, but how is this ideology transmitted within the context of university incubators? Prior research suggests both a model of direct and unreflexive ideological transmission and one emphasizing reflexivity and reinterpretation. Based primarily on 25 interviews with student entrepreneurs and employees in DreamLab, a student incubator in a Scandinavian university, we find that unreflexive transmission dominates student entrepreneurs’ initial experiences with the incubator, as employees promote the incubator and entrepreneurial ideology to students. Student entrepreneurs entering the incubator do not question the ideology, but often use it to promote the incubator to other students. However, three distinct types of “incompetence experience” can prompt students to reflect on both the incubator and the entrepreneurial ideology. Following an incompetence experience, student entrepreneurs distance themselves from the incubator and engage either in ideology problematization or in ideology affirmation. These findings extend current conceptions of how entrepreneurial ideology diffuses within higher education and raise questions about the role of incubators within universities and the entrepreneurial process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101399"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262570","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}
Jonas Söderlund , Iben Sandal Stjerne , Vedran Zerjav
{"title":"An identity work theory of temporary organizations: On tensions and temporalities","authors":"Jonas Söderlund , Iben Sandal Stjerne , Vedran Zerjav","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current literature on temporary organizations has paid scant attention to identity and identity work. That oversight amounts to a missed opportunity hindering cross-fertilization between research on temporary organizing and the wider field of organization studies. This paper addresses this missed opportunity by proposing a set of defining elements of an identity work theory of temporary organizations. Underlying our suggested theorization is a belief that temporary organizations are strongly associated with specific temporal tensions, which have implications for the nature and process of identity work. The paper develops this argument and discusses temporal tensions along three dimensions: (1) <em>emergent futures</em>, (2) <em>indeterminate pasts</em>, and (3) <em>liminal presents</em> of temporary organizations. We argue that temporal tensions trigger active and ongoing processes of identity work, which are necessary to build and maintain the temporary organization’s identity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262631","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}
Monica Lindgren , Johann Packendorff , Karin Berglund
{"title":"Tensions and vulnerabilities in projectified selves: Exploring gender and projectification in neoliberal academic cultures","authors":"Monica Lindgren , Johann Packendorff , Karin Berglund","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we explore the multiple facets of academic projectified selves, i.e. how academics relate to the culture of projectification in neoliberal society, crafting themselves and their careers. We focus our inquiry on the highly gendered character of projectified selves and uncover differences in how the subject position of the projectified self is invoked in academic work, as well as the tensions inherent in such identity work. Through a qualitative interview study involving senior lecturers, both women and men, in a social science discipline across five Swedish universities, we identify three variations of the academic projectified self. We find that they navigate tensions between individual liberties and organisational limitations; that they experience recognition as transitory and unreliable; and that attachment to work is often located in ‘micro-spaces’ rather than in work as a whole. The analysis emphasises the vulnerability of the academic projectified self – in constant need of achievements, projects, and reputation-building initiatives – and how projectification perpetuates gendered inequalities. The article concludes with a discussion on how the notion of the projectified self can be employed in future emancipatory project studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262574","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":"Home and host legitimacy signaling: Evidence from Chinese IPOs in the US","authors":"Sakdipon Juasrikul , Sean Yim , Richie L. Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study simultaneously examines the effect of home and host legitimacy in collective individuals, via boards of directors and at the organizational level, on IPO underpricing in the context of Chinese IPO firms raising capital in US markets. Drawing from organizational legitimacy and signaling theory, our central premise is that foreign IPOs have the incentive to obtain host legitimacy to overcome the liability of foreignness and require home legitimacy to deliver a signal of quality to potential investors. Results reveal that home and host legitimacy dampens IPO underpricing, which benefits the IPO firm. Finally, the presence of both home and host legitimacies further reduces IPO underpricing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101400"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262571","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}
Juliana R. Baltazar , Joao J. Ferreira , Mathew Hughes
{"title":"What do we know about strategic approaches to family businesses succession? A systematic review and future agenda","authors":"Juliana R. Baltazar , Joao J. Ferreira , Mathew Hughes","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on family-owned businesses has recently gained increased attention. Given the absence of any comprehensive review of the strategic approaches to succession in family firms, a systematic review of research to date was performed. Six main approaches emerged from the 122 studies reviewed: (i) Strategic planning, (ii) Knowledge transfer, (iii) Innovation and internationalization, (iv) Family and business vision, (v) Business exit, and (vi) Governance strategy. This study provides an integrative framework of the strategic approaches adopted by family companies during their succession processes and gaps existing in this area, suggesting a future research agenda.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101396"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262567","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}
Lavagnon A. Ika , Jonas Söderlund , Jeffrey K. Pinto
{"title":"It’s time to take time seriously in the theory of temporary organizations","authors":"Lavagnon A. Ika , Jonas Söderlund , Jeffrey K. Pinto","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Time is at the heart of the theory of temporary organizations yet its implications are not well-developed, as the theory remains wedded to a narrow view of time. Different conceptualizations of time are pursued in isolation or framed as either-or choices, thereby lacking synthesis across the literature. To rectify this problem, we analyze the literature on temporary organizations and identify three prevailing streams of research on time as: a <em>scarce resource</em>, <em>temporal structures</em>, and <em>processual flow</em>. Accordingly, we augment extant theory with a combination of clock time, event time, and process time. We demonstrate how this time-based theory of temporary organizations offers new cross-fertilizations between either-or conceptualizations of time and cues for temporal theorizing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262630","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":"Hybridity is in the ‘Soul’ of temporary supply chains: Towards understanding its influence on collaboration","authors":"Aline Rodrigues Fernandes , Juliana Bonomi Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Temporary Supply Chains (TSCs) are hybrid entities that require collaborative activities among multiple temporary and enduring organizational actors to deliver interdependent and time-limited tasks. Hybridity brings challenges and tensions that can hinder collaboration and the accomplishment of TSCs’ goals. This conceptual paper explores how hybridity influences collaboration by building bridges between the Temporary Organizing (TO) and the Supply Chain Management (SCM) fields of knowledge. Our contributions to the TO literature are threefold. Firstly, we identify and explain key aspects determining how hybridity occurs: task recurrence, operational centrality, and TSC duration. Secondly, taking a paradox lens, we extend current understanding of collaboration difficulties in temporary organizations with collaboration strategies that address paradoxical tensions from a supply chain management perspective. Thirdly, through an interdisciplinary approach, we propose research avenues that place hybridity at the core of analysis to investigate multiple inter-organizational issues in temporary organizing. This paper also has implications for practice, as the insights generated can support organizational actors in developing alternatives to enable collaboration and achieve TSCs’ goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262629","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":"Antecedents to verbal reward salience","authors":"Sven Siverbo","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this research is to examine when verbal rewards are salient among personnel in workplaces, with a specific interest in how this relates to the behavior of superior managers. The study investigates several antecedents to verbal reward salience using a cross-sectional survey (n = 483). The findings indicate that verbal rewards tend to be more salient for personnel when their manager frequently provides them, when rewards are accompanied by specific attributes, when they are performance-contingent, and when personnel find the rewards attractive. While the study does not provide information about causality, the results are largely consistent with a conceptual model suggesting that certain managerial practices could potentially be linked to personnel perceiving verbal rewards as incentives. A subgroup analysis suggests that managerial practices related to verbal rewards differ in their association with verbal reward salience between the private and public sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101401"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262572","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}
Constantin Bremer, Anna Rylander Eklund, Maria Elmquist
{"title":"Making sense in “less-hierarchical” forms of organizing","authors":"Constantin Bremer, Anna Rylander Eklund, Maria Elmquist","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101398","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101398","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research suggests that, if removed, managerial hierarchy needs to be replaced with “something else”. This paper applies a sensemaking perspective to explore how managerial hierarchy can be replaced. Based on a longitudinal case study of an organization designed to avoid managerial hierarchy, we demonstrate how the lack of hierarchy opened up a sensemaking gap around the autonomy–alignment tension which was addressed in different ways over time. Our case shows how the organization gradually reverted to the hierarchical structures it initially intended to oppose. We argue that a sensemaking perspective can explain the rationale to this development and propose that less-hierarchical organizations need a broad range of context-specific, alternative sensemaking devices connecting to local experience to effectively guide action.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101398"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144262569","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":"Digital information in temporary organizations","authors":"Jennifer Whyte , Ali Eshraghi","doi":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101419","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scaman.2025.101419","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital information is intrinsic to contemporary organizing but under-theorized in the literature on temporary organizations. Contributing to taking stock and moving forward from 30 years of research on temporary organizations, we unpack theoretically how these organizations are now shaped by and shaping their use of digital information. Like more permanent organizations, temporary organizations access their digital information through information systems provided by global companies, and structure that information using standardized forms and workflows. Yet, two salient and distinctive features of how temporary organizations use digital information are: first, they use diverse types of digital information that pre-exist before, are generated in and persist after temporary organizing; and second, digital information is transferred and used across multiple systems in these processes of organizing and as an output of the organization. We discuss implications for virtualization, algorithmic content generation and surveillance in temporary organizations, and identify opportunities for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47759,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Management","volume":"41 2","pages":"Article 101419"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143860521","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}