Jochem T. Hummel, Hans Berends, Philipp Tuertscher
{"title":"From Boundary Objects to Boundary Infrastructure: A Process Study of Collaboration between Big Science and Big Business","authors":"Jochem T. Hummel, Hans Berends, Philipp Tuertscher","doi":"10.1111/joms.13118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13118","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a novel boundary infrastructure for large‐scale interorganizational collaboration presents a challenge that is ill‐understood: how can individual boundary objects, which do not suffice for large‐scale collaboration and might even engender conflict, be developed into a coherent boundary infrastructure that facilitates the crossing of multiple boundaries? In a longitudinal study, we investigated how Helix Nebula – a collaboration among Europe's big science and big business organizations – developed a cloud computing infrastructure for scientific research. Our findings show that the process involves two recursive mechanisms. The scaffolding of boundary objects helps organizations to iteratively create various technical and organizational objects that support each other's development. The reconfiguring of coalitions involves organizations constantly rearranging into subgroups, which enables them to accommodate their differences and common needs. Our study contributes a process model of how organizations develop boundary objects into a coherent boundary infrastructure and shines light on the role of scaffolding and the political dynamics of coalitions as a driving force for large‐scale interorganizational collaboration.","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141528944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information - Notes for Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/joms.12950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12950","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"61 5","pages":"2297-2301"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joms.12950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?","authors":"Christopher Wickert, Daniel Muzio","doi":"10.1111/joms.13114","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joms.13114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To effectively tackle climate change, the strategic management enterprise needs to fundamentally reinvent itself. In their <i>Point</i>, Bansal, Durand, Kreutzer, Kunisch and McGahan forcefully argue for such a turnaround and outline a ‘new strategy’ paradigm that integrates the constraints of planetary boundaries and Earth systems not as an afterthought, but as the basis of inquiry. This, however, doesn't come without fierce contestation, as shown by the <i>Counterpoint</i> by Foss and Klein and the further <i>Counterpoint</i> by Davis and DeWitt. In this introduction to the <i>Point-Counterpoint</i> debate on strategic management and climate change, we argue that this contestation is largely due to what we call three <i>epistemic fault lines</i> that cut through how strategy scholars understand climate change, devise possible solutions, and assume the relationship between theories and reality. We specify these fault lines and connect them to important avenues for future research that expand the strategic management conversation about climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"62 2","pages":"954-964"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joms.13114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nina Hampl, Werner H. Hoffmann, Tobias Knoll, Jeffrey J. Reuer
{"title":"Alliance Re-Evaluation in the Context of Outside Partnering Opportunities: Decision Heuristics and the Impact of Environmental Uncertainty","authors":"Nina Hampl, Werner H. Hoffmann, Tobias Knoll, Jeffrey J. Reuer","doi":"10.1111/joms.13090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joms.13090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Empirical evidence shows that firms engaging in alliance re-evaluation are able to increase their alliances’ performance. However, extant literature largely treats alliance re-evaluation as a ‘black box’. In this paper, we develop a conceptual model of alliance re-evaluation to gain better insight on this important phase of the alliance lifecycle. Further, in a decision experiment, we study alliance managers’ heuristics applied to the decision of whether to pursue an outside partnering opportunity during the course of an alliance re-evaluation. Our results show that in their decision heuristics alliance managers rate value creation-related partner characteristics more highly than commitment-related partner characteristics. However, the importance of commitment-related characteristics is contingent on the level and dimension of uncertainty present in the managers’ environment. Thus, our findings call for a more nuanced perspective on environmental uncertainty in alliance re-evaluation decision making. Implications for research on alliances and managerial heuristics are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"134-172"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joms.13090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141198107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts","authors":"Elizabeth Lim","doi":"10.1111/joms.13111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13111","url":null,"abstract":"Research commonly assumes that performance gap relative to aspirations (manifested in the difference between a firm's actual ROA and its prior ROA as a referent) exerts a similar influence on organizational change as the performance gap relative to analysts’ earnings forecasts (reflected in the difference between a firm's actual earnings and earnings forecasts as a referent). However, these distinct types of referents from different sources are conceptually unique and operate differently, which could give rise to dissimilar behaviours. Because corporate performance information can emanate internally from agency‐driven firms and externally from financial analysts, we examine both in a unified framework. To facilitate a deeper understanding of these relationships, we investigate how alternate income streams from business unit (BU) performance at a lower level in the organizational structure moderate the way corporate managers remedy corporate performance shortfalls at a higher level. Our study contributes to the behavioural theory by examining distinct influences of corporate performance goals derived from internally‐ versus externally imposed referents and their interactions with BU performance on new market entry activities. Empirical evidence from a sample of multiunit firms publicly listed in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector over the period 1998–2016 supported the hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice","authors":"Jason D. Shaw","doi":"10.1111/joms.13112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13112","url":null,"abstract":"Self‐determination theory (SDT) continues to be among the most popular need‐based theories of motivation in psychology and the organizational sciences. In their interesting and wide‐ranging work, Gagné and Hewett (2024, this issue) contrast the assumptions and presumed mechanisms of SDT with the restrictive assumptions of agency theory. They also offer several suggestions for implementing SDT principles in practice, business school curricula, and public policy. In this counterpoint, I highlight areas of agreement with the authors, but also offer thoughts on SDT limitations and blind spots. My conclusion is a large‐scale adoption of SDT – to the exclusion or minimization of other views – would not be advisable. I base this conclusion on the logic that needs vary in importance across individuals and needs are broader than those encompassed by SDT. Moreover, scholars and practitioners should embrace the notion that factors beyond the needs in SDT (e.g., values, fairness, quasi‐rational calculations, and rewards) also play important roles in determining motivation.","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141190878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivating People to Work: The Value Behind Diverse Assumptions","authors":"Hannes Leroy","doi":"10.1111/joms.13109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13109","url":null,"abstract":"Agency theory and self‐determination theory have contrasting assumptions about what motivates human beings and, accordingly, suggest differing methods of motivating others – from extrinsic rewards aimed at controlling agency to facilitating human agentic behaviour. These different assumptions are consequential – organizations and societies would look wildly different with the adoption of the one or other perspectives, with important implications for human welfare and wellbeing. The introduction to this <jats:italic>Point</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Counterpoint</jats:italic> (PCP) calls on prominent scholars in both perspectives to clarify as well as question their assumptions about human motivation. An invitation to take a step back and clarify one's beliefs with precision, elucidating both the ideas and the data they are based on. At the same time, this PCP constitutes an invitation to explore how one's own personal preferences or values might be guiding their own (selection of) research and argumentation. We hope such internal reflection and external dialogue moves the conversation from us‐versus‐them to shared passion, from contradictory to paradoxical, and from stalemates to practical solutions that are sufficiently integrative to address today's complex societal challenges.","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141190996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Road Less Travelled: Sabbaticals as Pathways for Engagement and Impact","authors":"Thomas J. Fewer","doi":"10.1111/joms.13110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141198108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Rodolphe Durand, Markus Kreutzer, Sven Kunisch, Anita M. McGahan
{"title":"Strategy Can No Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy's Ecological Fallacy","authors":"Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Rodolphe Durand, Markus Kreutzer, Sven Kunisch, Anita M. McGahan","doi":"10.1111/joms.13088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joms.13088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The field of Strategy has its origins in Business Policy, which emphasized how firms could pursue important social aims that individuals and governments could not pursue otherwise. This emphasis shifted in the 1970s as the field turned towards economics for insights. Strategy scholars began to address how market- and industry-level considerations, such as performance, price, and competition, were pursued by firms. By applying macro-level principles and assumptions analogically to a more micro-level of analysis, strategy scholars inadvertently committed what statisticians call an ecological fallacy. Educators and scholars in the field of Strategy started to accept the constructive consequences of growth, not only for the economy, but for every firm, without considering the implications for society and the natural environment. In so doing, Strategy scholarship inadvertently undermined its very ambition to advance social aims. Our <i>Point</i> advocates for reconsideration of the field's foundations so as to remediate the ecological fallacy and to address the climate and biodiversity crises. The goal is to offer a brighter and more relevant future for our discipline.</p>","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"62 2","pages":"965-985"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joms.13088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140962480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea","authors":"Hyemi Shin, Jean‐Pascal Gond","doi":"10.1111/joms.13082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13082","url":null,"abstract":"The loose spatial and temporal coordination of national and transnational governmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies enables multinational corporations (MNCs) to externalize irresponsible behaviours. Political CSR (PCSR) and ‘government and CSR’ studies show how governmental authority shapes CSR at the domestic <jats:italic>and</jats:italic> transnational levels but provide only limited insights into how to govern MNCs <jats:italic>across</jats:italic> levels and <jats:italic>over time</jats:italic>. Combining the concept of orchestration with insights from power transition theory, we theorize cross‐level governmental orchestration as power‐imbued, dynamic, and involving multiple modes of orchestration. Through an analysis of how the South Korean state has deployed CSR domestic and transnational strategies over 30 years, we induce three configurations of cross‐level governmental orchestration, blending coercive, directive, delegative and facilitative modes of orchestration, and identify the mechanisms behind Korea's transition from one configuration to another. Our results: (1) contribute to PCSR and ‘government and CSR’ studies by conceptualizing a systemic and dynamic view of cross‐level orchestration of governmental CSR strategies; (2) advance transnational governance studies by consolidating orchestration theories and considering coercive power, and (3) add to power transition theory by explaining how regulatory capacity‐building enables shifts of cross‐level orchestration configurations.","PeriodicalId":48445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Studies","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140934109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}