Andrea Carlo Maria Sottini , Ivan Zupic , Alessandro Giudici
{"title":"Social entrepreneurship and social innovation: A bibliometric review and research agenda","authors":"Andrea Carlo Maria Sottini , Ivan Zupic , Alessandro Giudici","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the increasing focus on scientific maturity in social entrepreneurship (SE) and social innovation (SI), scholars still place a greater focus on defining theoretical boundaries than on the commonalities and complementarities between these phenomena. We address this gap by investigating when, how, and to what extent SE and SI are interrelated via a bibliometric analysis of the intersection of the SE and SI theoretical domains that combines cocitation analysis, historiography, and bibliographic coupling. Building on these results, we advance the theoretical debate by introducing a novel framework, documenting that while the SI process can occur beyond social enterprises’ boundaries, SE can contribute to creating, enabling, and scaling SI solutions. Moreover, we document historical convergence in a new trend accompanying the increase in SI research under the SE umbrella. This leads to a research agenda that can prompt the cross-pollination of these theories, fostering a novel theoretical construct through this combination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 2","pages":"Pages 182-193"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140760197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meysam Salimi , Maria Laura Frigotto , Enrico Zaninotto , Massimiliano Vatiero
{"title":"The fast-track ascent to the top: The role of human capital in European listed firms","authors":"Meysam Salimi , Maria Laura Frigotto , Enrico Zaninotto , Massimiliano Vatiero","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on human capital theory<span><span>, this study examines the role of different components of human capital—education (level and type), tenure, and career variety (functional, industry, firm, and country variety)—in the rapid or “fast-track” career ascent of individuals to their first top management position (highest level of organisational hierarchy) as chief executive officer (CEO) or non-CEO Senior Manager (SM). Using a retrospective approach to the career trajectories of over 7500 CEOs and non-CEO SMs s in European listed firms, we show the commonalities and differences in the composition of </span>human capital in the career progressions of both groups. The results reveal that the human capital that accelerates CEOs’ careers include an MBA degree and long tenure, especially when combined with firm variety. In contrast, for non-CEO SMs, a high level of education and low functional variety accelerated their career ascent. For non-CEO SMs, tenure has a negative effect that is alleviated by career variety. By explicating the components of human capital, we suggest that many forms of career variety, such as experience acquired across countries, industries, or firms, are not valued in a fast-track career, and hardly create valuable human capital for top positions. Our study paves the way for exploring the composition of human capital not only for different organisational roles, but also for different hierarchical levels.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 2","pages":"Pages 194-210"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management","authors":"Ewa Sońta-Drączkowska , Marzenna Cichosz , Patrycja Klimas , Tomasz Pilewicz","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aimed to systematically review the extensive literature on user innovation co-creation and connect the findings to the project management domain. It focused specifically on new product development, offering a domain-based systematic review of methods, tools, and user types involved in the co-creation process. Analyzing a total of 266 articles, the authors synthesize the types of users and methods discussed in the domain of user innovation, aligning them across the new product development cycle and specific phases of co-innovation. Additionally, the authors formulate research questions and propositions that may inspire the project management domain. This study provides insights into innovation-oriented, exploratory project management and enhances the configuration approach to project management. From a practical perspective, it provides a comprehensive overview of methods that can enrich a managerial toolkit for leading innovative projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 2","pages":"Pages 321-339"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141713982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is humility in leadership a promoter of employee voice? A moderated mediation model","authors":"Evangelia Siachou , Ranjan Chaudhuri , Sheshadri Chatterjee , Demetris Vrontis , Minas Kastanakis , Markella Barouta","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>In this study, we provide a better understanding of the role of leader humility in employee voice by examining simultaneously the mediating role of intention to share knowledge and the moderating role of organizational tenure.</div></div><div><h3>Design/methodology</h3><div>We developed and tested a mediated moderation model. The study hypotheses were tested with partial least squares structural equation modeling techniques.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Results from 309 medical representatives supported the study hypotheses, indicating that leader humility is related to employee voice via intention to share knowledge, and this relationship is stronger for shorter-tenured employees than for longer-tenured ones. The study also provides implications for both theory and practice.</div></div><div><h3>Practical implications</h3><div>The study provides empirical evidence in support of the positive effect of leader humility on employee voice. Therefore, we suggest that executive administration should pay particular attention to promoting humility in leadership to appropriately manage extra-role behavior such as employee voice.</div></div><div><h3>Originality</h3><div>Recently, leader humility has attracted scholarly attention in organization studies. It is considered a key antecedent of employees’ extra-role behavior and a contextual factor that is associated with many positive employee and organizational outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 2","pages":"Pages 233-245"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139813073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Strobl, Anabel Fernández-Mesa, Ivan Miroshnychenko, Peren Özturan, Pawel Korzynski
{"title":"Publishing quantitative research in EMJ: Some editorial guidelines and recommendations","authors":"Andreas Strobl, Anabel Fernández-Mesa, Ivan Miroshnychenko, Peren Özturan, Pawel Korzynski","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 2-9"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On refugee integration as organizing processes—Action nets, agency, and power","authors":"Andreas Diedrich","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There has been growing interest recently in the role of organizations in supporting the integration of refugees into the receiving country's labor market and society. In much of this literature, organizations are conceptualized as stable entities and instruments designed to achieve specific collective objectives. While the formal aspects of organization cannot be ignored, the present excessive focus on them inhibits a more profound understanding of the intricacies of the everyday organizing of refugee integration, much of which takes place in between, outside, across, and despite organizations. This paper aims to review emerging approaches in the study of organizing critically, with particular focus on European management and organization studies. It seeks to demonstrate the value of these approaches in exploring and understanding the efforts to integrate refugees into European labor markets and societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 10-16"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building an agreement in a farming cooperative governance: A Sociology of conventions approach","authors":"Svetlana Serdyukov , François Grima","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how a board of directors and management team establish an agreement under an agricultural cooperative governance structure. We carried out a case study of an agricultural cooperative based in France, the board members and management team of which were interviewed and observed for over four years regarding their ability to create and maintain an agreement in the governance of the cooperative. Building on the theory of conventions, our findings indicate that board members' and managers' hybridity constitutes the basis for establishing a compromise and developing a trusting relationship between board members and managers. Furthermore, we highlighted the chairperson's crucial role in building, negotiating, and permanently repairing cohesion between these two bodies. Our study contributes to a more holistic understanding of the relationship between the board and management by explaining how previous experiences in different “worlds” (e.g., farming, cooperative, commercial) create hybrid individuals and how this facilitates agreement between actors with different dominant logics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 89-100"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Linder , Christian Lechner , Elisa Villani
{"title":"Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective","authors":"Christian Linder , Christian Lechner , Elisa Villani","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Teams and timing are considered decisive for firm survival. We investigate the impact on firm survival of entrepreneurial team composition, in terms of diversity, and the speed of entering markets. Unlike research analysing the effects of low or high diversity, our research understands new venture teams as configurations of multiple, concurrent dimensions of diversity by untangling it in variety, separation, and disparity. By identifying distinct survival and failure configurations, we demonstrate that team variety is functional for firm survival if challenged by separation or disparity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 74-88"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139638789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We were working together, apart”: Shifting fundamentals of pandemic disrupted coworking environments","authors":"Marko Orel , Manuel Mayerhoffer , Zuzana Chytkova","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the alterations of the coworking space model due to the disruptive nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on changes in users' well-being, productivity, and engagement in community-driven activities. Employing in-depth interviews, participant observations, and autoethnographic self-observations, the study explores the transition from a community-based work environment reliant on users' proximity to a hybrid workspace, where digitalised interactions complement users' physical presence. The findings reveal that although the digitalisation of coworking processes does not necessarily yield positive outcomes for users, implementing effective virtual environments can provide greater flexibility, maintain the interplay between well-being and productivity, and connect entrepreneurial ecosystems across regional and national boundaries. The paper’s main contribution is thus the exploration of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on coworking space dynamics and the transition towards a hybrid model that combines digital and physical presence to sustain community-oriented atmospheres and further support users' well-being and productivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 30-41"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139071967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frederik J. Riar , Shanshan Qian , Chao Miao , Bart J. Debicki , Franz W. Kellermanns
{"title":"Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research","authors":"Frederik J. Riar , Shanshan Qian , Chao Miao , Bart J. Debicki , Franz W. Kellermanns","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurial passion has gained increasing scholarly attention in recent years. The various constructs and contexts that have been studied present a need for the entrepreneurial passion literature to be effectively analyzed. Using meta-analytic techniques, we systematically review constructs that have been investigated as antecedents and outcomes of entrepreneurial passion and its inherent domains (i.e., passion for inventing, founding, and developing). Our results, based on a sample of 54 studies containing 332 effect sizes, provide empirical insights into the impact of individual-level antecedents (e.g., age, gender, human capital, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial alertness), firm-level antecedents (e.g., firm age, firm size), and macro-level antecedents (e.g., environmental dynamism) on entrepreneurial passion and its domains. Furthermore, our results show the implications of entrepreneurial passion and its domains for individual-level outcomes (e.g., entrepreneurial intention, opportunity recognition) and firm-level outcomes (e.g., firm performance). We also conduct post-hoc meta-analyses regarding team-level entrepreneurial passion and build theory around the entrepreneurial passion construct to inform future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"Pages 42-58"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135714690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}