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{"title":"Establishing a Contribution: Calibration, Contextualization, Construction and Creation","authors":"Barak S. Aharonson, Felix F. Arndt, Pawan Budhwar, Yu-Yu Chang, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Ana Cristina Costa, John G. Cullen, Kevin Daniels, Paul P. Momtaz, Clare Rigg, Martyna Śliwa, Silvio Vismara, Riikka Sarala, Shuang Ren, Paul Hibbert","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12910","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Riikka Sarala, Shuang Ren and Paul Hibbert</p><p>When we commissioned this editorial symposium we had two principal aims. The first was to provide guidance for authors who are new to the journal and those with more experience who are seeking to develop impactful contributions to our field. The second aim was to showcase the experience and insights of the team of associate editors at the <i>British Journal of Management</i> (<i>BJM</i>): all of the team are pivotal in the journal's mission and work hard to help authors make the most of their research.</p><p>With our twin aims in mind, we gave the team a broad remit. They were free to approach the task of offering guidance from their own standpoint and with their own choice of focus within <i>BJM</i>’s field. We also encouraged our colleagues to work in the way that they found most productive: independently, with other <i>BJM</i> associate editors or with colleagues from within their own networks. While other commitments and the heavy burdens of academic life meant that some of our colleagues could not participate in this symposium (but will hopefully be able to take part in further editorials), eight of the team took part, along with some collaborators. They covered a wide range of themes from <i>BJM</i>’s broad and inclusive take on the field of business, management and organization studies: a perspective on upper echelon decision-making and digital transformation (Arndt, Chang and Aharonson); a balanced view of artificial intelligence (Chowdhury and Budhwar); a standard-setting survey of trends in organizational behaviour (Costa and Daniels); a generative ‘take’ on religion in the workplace (Cullen); emerging directions in research on fintech and digital finance (Momtaz and Vismara); opportunities for new research in the management, knowledge and education space (Rigg); and a wayfinding view of equality, diversity and inclusivity research and practice (Śliwa). If you are developing your research in any of those areas, you will find the advice invaluable.</p><p>Taken as a whole, our colleagues' work proved to be diverse, instructive and generative. Reflecting on their contributions and themes allowed us to construct the framework for guidance shown in Figure 1.</p><p>As you can see in the figure, the contributions from our editorial team members helped to show that there are two key aspects of the journal's terrain: the <i>foundations</i>, a set of principles and standards that show how to construct rigorous research in the field; and the <i>frontiers</i>, the emerging debates that allow the field to be extended – or for unmapped territory to be charted. The contributions also showed that there are two ways of engaging with these aspects of the terrain: through <i>exemplifying</i>, which roots guidance in key principles and particular exemplars in the journal's recent articles to show standards; and through <i>exploring</i>, which finds new opportunities through uncovering and characterizing a","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"481-499"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762328","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 Changing Role of Human Resource Management as a Driver of Innovation in New Organizational Forms","authors":"Andrew R. Timming,&nbsp;Di Fan,&nbsp;Yipeng Liu,&nbsp;Vikas Kumar,&nbsp;Heidi Neck","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12908","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The role of human resource management (HRM) in pro-actively driving business innovation has been tenuous at best in the past. Most innovations have happened in spite of, rather than because of, HRM. But the artificial intelligence revolution through which we are currently living marks an alignment between technological innovation and process innovation, the likes of which has never been seen before. The incorporation of new technologies into the practice of HRM is likely to lead to a new paradigm in ‘people management’, broadly construed. We explain how this new paradigm will emerge against the backdrop of the three papers included in this Special Issue on new organizational forms, business model innovation and HRM.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"500-510"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762057","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":"Business Model Innovation through AI Adaptation: The Role of Strategic Human Resources Management","authors":"Sanjit K. Roy,&nbsp;Bidit L. Dey,&nbsp;David M. Brown,&nbsp;Aman Abid,&nbsp;Chrysostomos Apostolidis,&nbsp;Michael Christofi,&nbsp;Shlomo Tarba","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12894","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While artificial intelligence (AI) requires business model innovation, it simultaneously poses persistent operational, regulatory and strategic challenges, highlighting the importance of researching AI adaptation to appropriate organizational value. AI adaptation is not monolithic, and its nature and consequent value appropriation processes may vary due to external factors and an organization's strategic approach to innovation and resource management. Accordingly, a taxonomy of AI adaptation and its link with value appropriation can yield a theoretical understanding and practical implications of why and how organizations vary in leveraging strategic human resource management to shape business innovation led by AI adaptation. In this paper, we address this issue by applying adaptive structuration theory and conducting interviews with top management personnel from 51 companies based in India. Based on our findings, we develop a novel taxonomy of AI adaptation (exploitive, exploratory, emancipatory and expedient), structured within a 2 × 2 matrix and a robust model of value appropriation within a dynamic business environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"546-559"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12894","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762346","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":"Correction to “Institutional Investor Heterogeneity and Corporate Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12886","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ataullah, A., H. Le and G. Wood (2022). ‘Institutional investor heterogeneity and corporate response to the Covid-19 pandemic’, <i>British Journal of Management</i>, <b>33</b>, pp. 634–656. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12601</p><p>The shading was omitted from Figure 2 in the final print form. Below is the correct version of Figure 2 (along with changes in the y-axis from 0 to 1), with the shaded areas demarcating confidence intervals.</p><p></p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 1","pages":"477-478"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115737","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":"Labour Unemployment Insurance and Pension Asset Allocations","authors":"Yina Liang,&nbsp;Paraskevi Vicky Kiosse,&nbsp;Monika Tarsalewska","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12881","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the effect of unemployment risk on pension investment decisions of defined benefit pension plans. In particular, we examine whether unemployment insurance benefits affect pension investment risk. Using fixed-effects and difference-in-difference analyses, we find evidence that firms take higher pension investment risk by investing more heavily in equities after unemployment insurance benefit increases. These results are consistent with the notion that firms undertake more risk when the costs of unemployment decrease. The findings are robust to a number of sensitivity tests, including a falsification test to examine the timing of the relationship between the riskiness of the pension portfolio and unemployment insurance benefits, a 3-year window, alternative matching methods and removing firms that operate in geographically dispersed industries. Additional analyses suggests that the findings are more pronounced for firms with skilled labour and high labour intensity, while they are less pronounced when the risk of layoffs is high, in less competitive industries and highly unionized firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"930-945"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12881","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762129","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":"Common Institutional Ownership and Corporate Carbon Emissions","authors":"Ji Qiang,&nbsp;Lei Lei,&nbsp;Geoffrey Wood,&nbsp;Dayong Zhang","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12878","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There has been a growing interest in comparative work exploring when and why firms embark on green paths. It has been concluded that in national contexts where inter-firm ties are stronger, progress has been stronger. In turn, this raises questions about the impact of inter-firm ties within, rather than between, national contexts, and in settings where progress towards renewables has been uneven and contested. Accordingly, we explore how common institutional ownership may foster collaboration among firms within the same industry against climate change. Using a sample of US-listed firms from 2006 to 2019, we obtain robust evidence that firms with industrial peers that are owned by the same institutional investors have lower carbon emissions. In addition, we find that a threshold exists for which the impact on carbon emissions holds only when firms are commonly connected with a substantial number of peers. The existence of this threshold suggests potential free-riding issues and highlights the beneficial role of investors in promoting cross-industry collaboration. Overall, our results highlight the role played by institutional investors in tackling climate issues, with important implications for both climate- and antitrust-related regulations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"910-929"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12878","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762134","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":"Supplier Involvement and Firm Financial Performance: Bringing Strategic Fit to the Fore","authors":"Yue Zhao,&nbsp;Dasol Sim,&nbsp;Yannick Thams,&nbsp;Ronaldo Parente","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12877","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While supplier involvement is largely considered an industry best practice, its financial performance implications are far from clear and remain equivocal. These disparate findings led us to shift the conversation to exploring the strategic conditions that may enhance the value of the practice. We do so by drawing on the strategic fit perspective, an underexplored perspective in supplier involvement research. We argue that the value of supplier involvement is shaped by the task priority associated with a firm's strategic orientation. Accounting for the multidimensional nature of strategic fit, we further investigate whether strategic fit is likely to be impacted by a firm's level of market competition. Using a longitudinal survey of automotive manufacturers in Brazil, we demonstrate that supplier involvement fits well with a low-cost strategy as opposed to a differentiation strategy. However, the degree of fit varies across levels of market competition. The study's overarching contribution is that it develops a theory of how strategic factors interact to impact the financial performance implications of supplier involvement, stressing the significance of strategic fit as the underlying mechanism.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"850-866"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762038","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":"International High-Tech SMEs Amid Geopolitical Pressures","authors":"Evis Sinani,&nbsp;Flladina Zilja","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12875","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the wake of increased geopolitical tensions, we investigate the impact of geopolitical risk on the investments of international high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Prior research on SME internationalization has primarily emphasized the importance of home and host-country institutions and political risk, with limited attention given to geopolitical risk as a distinct contextual factor. Drawing on international relations literature, we posit that geopolitical risk, captured by diplomatic relations between home and host countries, creates political legitimacy concerns for international high-tech SMEs, discouraging their international investments. This effect is contingent on SME innovation (through patents) and the scope of international diversification. Analysing data from international high-tech SMEs and their subsidiaries for the period 2009–2022, we find consistent evidence for our hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"867-884"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12875","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762295","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":"Do Titans Deliver the ESG Promise? Societal Recognition and Responsible Corporate Decisions","authors":"Hisham Farag,&nbsp;Santosh Koirala,&nbsp;Di Luo,&nbsp;Sandeep Rao","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12876","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Distinguished societal recognition can influence corporate decision-makers to act responsibly. We exploit this unique sociological attribute of UK firm board members and examine the impact of honorary titles on the firm's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performances. Using the peerage and honorific titles of board members of public UK firms from 2002 to 2020, we demonstrate that firms wherein board members have a title of honour are associated with higher ESG performance. We also document a positive contagion effect of titleholders on other board members, which contributes to firms’ ESG performance. Our findings align with theories of resource dependence, upper echelons and peer effects postulations and highlight the importance of societal recognition in shaping corporate decisions towards sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"885-909"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762236","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":"All that Glitters is Not Gold! Could M&As Post-Bank Reforms be Just a Tool for Balance Sheet Embellishment?","authors":"Doriana Cucinelli,&nbsp;Federica Ielasi,&nbsp;Simona Zambelli","doi":"10.1111/1467-8551.12874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12874","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates whether the surge of mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As) that occurred in Italy after the enactment, in 2016, of a new reform of credit cooperative banks (CCBs) ultimately improved their performance. Worldwide, CCBs have proved to play a crucial role in spurring local economic development. With the adoption of a dataset composed of 594 Italian banks and 3933 bank-year observations from 2008 to 2020, our results show a positive and significant impact of the 2016 reform on M&amp;As among CCBs. However, contrary to the expectations of regulators, our results highlight a puzzling deterioration in bank stability of the CCBs involved in M&amp;As, with no relevant improvement in capitalization and profitability, reinforcing the view that bigger is not always better, at least in the context of CCBs. Our evidence sheds light on the perils underlying a massive consolidation process of local banking industries, calling for a regulatory recalibration and further research investigating the impact of different growth models capable of preserving the diversity and unique characteristics of banks, rather than pursuing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ model.</p>","PeriodicalId":48342,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Management","volume":"36 2","pages":"828-849"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8551.12874","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143762131","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}