Susanne Arvidsson , Brigitte Eierle , Sven Hartlieb
{"title":"Job satisfaction and investment efficiency – Evidence from crowdsourced employer reviews","authors":"Susanne Arvidsson , Brigitte Eierle , Sven Hartlieb","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the effect of job satisfaction on investment efficiency. To operationalize job satisfaction empirically, we employ a novel measure based on crowdsourced employer reviews. Considering the as yet under-researched and less regulated private firm setting, in which internal characteristics such as employee satisfaction should play a more important role for corporate actions, we find that our measure for job satisfaction has a positive impact on investment efficiency. High job satisfaction seems to alleviate problems related to moral hazard and adverse selection resulting from information asymmetries, which ultimately improves corporate investment efficiency. We further show that high job satisfaction reduces particularly the likelihood of underinvestment, where profitable investment projects are not carried out. Our study demonstrates the importance of cultivating a positive workplace environment with contented employees, which does benefit fundamental corporate actions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 266-280"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43419540","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":"The effect of mixing stakeholder value and profit on cooperation: You can't have your cake and eat it too","authors":"Katinka J.P. Quintelier , Marlene Vock","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Increasingly, for-profit firms commit to creating value for stakeholders. But what are the consequences of mixing stakeholder value and profit? In this article, we draw on insights into moral psychology to explain that a firm's commitments to stakeholder value and to profit both influence individual stakeholders' cooperation, albeit in opposite directions. We predict that mixed firms – committed to both stakeholder value and profit – are perceived as less other-regarding, and, therefore, elicit less cooperation, than stakeholder-oriented firms – balancing the interests of a broad range of stakeholders. In two series of vignette experiments, we find that this is the case for mixed firms switching between profit and stakeholder value, <em>and</em> for mixed firms simultaneously increasing profit and stakeholder value. By investigating mixed firms, this article expands the descriptive scope of stakeholder theory. By applying knowledge from moral psychology, and experimental methods, this work advances the micro-foundations of stakeholder theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 255-265"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322001761/pdfft?md5=35d2d717d808173d3d445c07ac6b4c71&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322001761-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45417318","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":"The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)","authors":"Hervé Laroche","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Academic journals are also organizations. As such, they are subject to institutional forces and environmental changes, to which they have to respond. They also have an internal life of their own, marked by people, events, choices. As the editor-in-chief of the <em>European Management Journal</em> (EMJ) from 2006 to 2012, I had the opportunity to witness and face drastic changes in the scientific publishing industry (digitalization) and in the way research and researchers are evaluated (mostly through articles in peer-reviewed journals). This article narrates and analyzes how the EMJ responded to these changes. Understanding these processes can be of interest for today's EMJ readers and contributors. Beyond the EMJ case, it also sheds light on the contemporary academic world in Business and Management Studies and, by illustrating its past, invites us to reflect on its future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 149-153"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139412060","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":"Culture, value commitments, and supervisors’ ethics: Exploring a multilevel mediation model","authors":"Kristine Velasquez Tuliao","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Significant research provides evidence of social and individual factors that influence ethics. However, consideration of the cultural assimilation process that simultaneously emphasizes the roles of national-level and individual-level values is scarce. Building on the arguments of Merton's anomie theory (1938, 1968), this study considered a multilevel mediation model to investigate the direct effects of cultural values on supervisors' ethics as well as the indirect effects through value commitments. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was employed to perform a centered within context with the reintroduction of the subtracted means at Level-2 (CWC(M)) mediation analysis on the data of 9813 supervisors across 30 countries. The study's findings contribute to Merton's anomie theory by deliberating on the importance of the assimilation of society's cultural values as reflected by individual value commitments in shaping supervisors' ethicality. Considering that some results opposed the propositions of Merton's anomie theory, this paper offered arguments that complement them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 211-223"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46419968","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":"“When things aren't going well at home and at work, it is hard”: What can companies do about domestic violence?","authors":"Olga Lelebina , Séverine Lemière","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Domestic violence has considerable professional repercussions. Abusive partners isolate victims, damage their self-confidence, belittle them, instill doubt, and create an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear. Such mechanisms of domination, control, and isolation could have consequences for the professional lives of the victims, including absenteeism, decreased performance, and errors. These professional consequences can further isolate the victims because organizational actors, often unaware of or not understanding the domestic violence the victims are experiencing, can hold them accountable for poor work outcomes. This paper reports on action research conducted at EDF, a large French electricity company, and sheds light on the role of the employer in supporting victims of domestic violence, particularly by proposing a set of social and human resources practices that could help the victims escape from abusive situations. However, while it is important for organizations to undertake initiatives in addressing the cases of domestic violence, such involvement remains voluntary and depends on the goodwill of employing organizations. That is what some labor unions wish to change by advocating new professional rights for victims of domestic violence at national levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 154-160"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531509","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":"Idea championing as a missing link between idea generation and team innovation implementation: A situated emergence approach","authors":"Matej Černe , Robert Kaše , Miha Škerlavaj","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine idea championing as a key intermediary process of the idea journey linking idea generation and idea implementation in teams. Building upon multilevel framework of emergence we theorize about how compositional and compilational emergence of idea generation along with idea championing behaviors translate team members’ creative ideas into team-level innovative solutions. We adopt a two-study research design including a two-wave two-source field study (309 employees nested into 92 teams with direct supervisors) and an experimental study (423 students nested into 79 teams) to test our conceptual model. The results of field study show that team innovation process featuring strong compilational (selected actor-maximum) idea generating followed by compilational idea championing leads to best team-level innovative solutions. Using a sociometric approach as a part of an experimental study, we further show that individuals exhibiting the strongest idea generating activity are also significantly more likely the ones engaging in most intense idea championing behavior. While having team members exhibiting such exceptional behaviors is relatively more effective in an unstructured team innovation setup, structured idea journey setups result in better team-level innovative solutions, when idea championing behaviors are more equally distributed among team members. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 233-244"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322001256/pdfft?md5=4b7c722994fd90d0bca7dfca78d1f262&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322001256-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45481560","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}
Paola Bellis , Roberto Verganti , Daniel Trabucchi
{"title":"Let's move on! How pair collaboration activates resilience toward innovation crises","authors":"Paola Bellis , Roberto Verganti , Daniel Trabucchi","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores how resilience is activated in pairs fostering innovation. On the one hand, a growing body of literature affirms pairs as a form of collaboration adept at instigating and developing breakthrough innovations. On the other hand, innovation inevitably entails failures and setbacks requiring resilience to thrive. As such, numerous scholars call for investigating how resilience works at different level of analysis in organizations: while much has been said at the individual and organizational levels, the literature is mostly silent on how resilience is activated and emerges through social connections. Therefore, this study explores how resilience emerges, and how it is nurtured and sustained in pairs facing innovation crises. Our multiple case study using data from ten innovation pairs in different industries shows that a pair's intimate environment enables resilience, and this intimacy activates two dynamics. First, it facilitates compassionate witnessing, the creation of cohesiveness within the pair, and mutual engagement to move forward. Second, it enables relational redundancy with actors both within and outside the pair's reference group, which is crucial to understanding who to trust and which direction to pursue. From a theoretical perspective, this study contributes to the literature on resilience and pairs. From a managerial perspective, our study suggests relying on pairs as a possible form of collaboration to nurture resilience in innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 186-199"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44073952","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":"Resilience on an emotional rollercoaster: Refugee entrepreneurship under adversity","authors":"Tenzin Yeshi, Aki Harima, Jörg Freiling","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The political turmoil, civil war, economic crisis, and breakdown of the political systems in the Middle East and many African countries led to the global refugee crisis in 2015. Since then, policymakers and academics have recognized the entrepreneurial potential of refugees. Compared to migrants, due to forced displacement, refugees face significant adversities, such as psychological trauma and substantial institutional barriers. Consequently, refugee entrepreneurs need to develop and maintain a high degree of resilience to pursue an entrepreneurial path despite adversities. However, previous studies have treated resilience as a mere personal trait of refugees, neglecting its multi-layered, dynamic aspect. Against this background, this study examines how refugee entrepreneurs' resilience emerges and develops, and it analyzes the factors that influence the maintenance of their resilience. Based on 52 interviews with refugee entrepreneurs in Germany, this study finds that the fragile, unstable nature of refugees' resilience depends on various factors at the individual, relational, and institutional levels during venture development. Based on the findings, we theorize the dynamic process view of refugee entrepreneurs’ resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 173-185"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46981669","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":"Walking interviews in organizational research","authors":"Karen Bilsland, Sabina Siebert","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this paper is to discuss the benefits of walking interviews in organizational research. We discuss five specific strengths of walking interviews and compare them to sit-down interviews and shadowing. Cognisant of the importance of place within which research is conducted, we analyze the walking interview method of collecting research material, and we put forward socio-spatial methodology for application in organizational research. The key theme running through this paper is that the place where research takes place matters; it matters when the focus of research is on materiality of organizations, but it also yields insights into other (place-sensitive) organizational phenomena. We identify five strengths of walking interviews: co-creation of meaning, reversal of power between interviewer and interviewee, places as prompts, the interview as a sensory experience, and insights into emotions. We discuss limitations of walking interviews, as well as strategies for mitigating these limitations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 161-172"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237323000506/pdfft?md5=be444f2011607d5f5e5c059463aedd90&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237323000506-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135519358","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":"Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract","authors":"Ala Arvidsson, Lisa Melander","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how firms can identify, access, and capitalize on viable innovation in the high technology supply market during the pre-contractual phase of relationships. The industrial landscape is changing rapidly due to technological advancements like automation and electrification, leading traditional industries to explore new avenues for knowledge and partner selection. However, identifying, assessing, and trusting suppliers with whom firms can enter a relationship is a complex task. Therefore, the study adopts the absorptive capacity perspective for conceptualizing the supplier selection process, focusing on the pre-contractual phase. Based on two in-depth case studies in the automotive industry, we find that supplier selection can be assisted with higher levels of engagement, coordination, and alignment internally with different firm stakeholders and externally with the larger supply market. This study illustrates that new actors bring disruptive innovation into the automotive industry, and the knowledge is absorbed during supplier selection, facilitated by fostering higher levels of engagement, coordination, and alignment both internally among various stakeholders within the firm and externally within the broader supply market. This study significantly advances the understanding of supplier selection practices in the context of high technology innovation. The theoretical contributions made through our empirical investigations enhance the knowledge base on sourcing strategies, shed light on the complexities of supplier selection, and offer practical implications for firms aiming to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of technological advancements.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205364","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}