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The Strength of Showing Weakness: Organizational Supplication and Investor Reactions to Workforce Downsizing 展示弱点的力量：组织恳求和投资者对裁员的反应

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251339412

Matthias Brauer, Louis Vandepoele

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Improving Human Sustainability at Work by Focusing on Cognitive Load of Task Performance 通过关注任务表现的认知负荷来提高人类在工作中的可持续性

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251334560

Kayla S. Stajkovic, Alexander D. Stajkovic

{"title":"Improving Human Sustainability at Work by Focusing on Cognitive Load of Task Performance","authors":"Kayla S. Stajkovic, Alexander D. Stajkovic","doi":"10.1177/01492063251334560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251334560","url":null,"abstract":"Mounting information processing demands in contemporary organizations spotlight the need to better understand how to maintain and improve performance without increasing cognitive load. Research in organizational behavior suggests that primed goals provide performance benefits similar to assigned goals but with little cost to attention. Yet, some research in social psychology suggests that any form of goal use, including primed goals, usurps attention. To reconcile these viewpoints, we examined the relationships among assigned and primed goals, performance, and demands on attention (measured as cognitive load) in three experiments. Experiment 1 (n = 233) showed that when a primed goal is aligned with an assigned goal, performance improved without increasing cognitive load. In contrast, Experiment 2 (n = 515) demonstrated that when a primed goal is misaligned with an assigned goal, performance worsened and cognitive load increased. Study 3, a quasi-field experiment with 315 working professionals, added internal and external validities to the prior experiments. We also examined task novelty and complexity as boundary conditions. For novel tasks (Experiments 1 and 2), when perceptions of task complexity increased, the positive effect of an aligned primed goal diminished. However, for a well-practiced task (Experiment 3), increased task complexity did not diminish the positive effect of aligned goals.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979376","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}

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The Beauty Bias and Leader Emergence: A Theoretical Integration, Extension, and Meta-Analysis 美貌偏见与领导者涌现：理论整合、外延与元分析

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251330199

Stephen H. Courtright, Gary R. Thurgood, Huiyao Liao, Timothy J. Morgan, Jiexin Wang

{"title":"The Beauty Bias and Leader Emergence: A Theoretical Integration, Extension, and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Stephen H. Courtright, Gary R. Thurgood, Huiyao Liao, Timothy J. Morgan, Jiexin Wang","doi":"10.1177/01492063251330199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251330199","url":null,"abstract":"Leader emergence is a critical organizational phenomenon, influenced by various individual attributes. One such attribute—often overlooked by scholars and practitioners—is physical attractiveness. This study provides a comprehensive meta-analysis of the beauty bias and its relationship to leader emergence. We first review implicit leadership and status generalization theories as the dominant frameworks explaining this bias. Next, we assess the magnitude of the physical attractiveness–leader emergence relationship and test the “beauty is beastly” effect by evaluating leader gender as a moderator. We also identify two key mechanisms—perceived warmth and perceived competence—that explain this relationship. Additionally, we explore the robustness of the beauty bias across different contexts, including observer characteristics, leadership roles, and national culture. Our findings confirm that physical attractiveness is significantly related to leader emergence, primarily through perceptions of warmth, but also through perceptions of competence. This relationship holds equally for male and female leaders and is stronger in informal leadership contexts. It is slightly more pronounced among college students than full-time employees and in collectivist rather than individualistic national cultures, yet remains equally strong across executive and non-executive leadership roles. Overall, our findings highlight the strength and consistency of the physical attractiveness–leader emergence relationship, underscoring the need for organizations to mitigate the beauty bias from influencing decisions around leader emergence.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143945746","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}

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Short-Term Fulfillment: How Supervisors’ Motives for Abusive Behaviors Influence Need Satisfaction and Daily Outcomes 短期成就感：主管虐待行为动机如何影响需求满足和日常结果

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251331910

Szu-Han (Joanna) Lin, Emily C. Poulton, Russell E. Johnson

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Capturing Value From Investment Opportunities Under Product-Market Competition: When Do Internal Capital Markets Matter? 产品市场竞争下的投资机会价值获取：内部资本市场何时起作用？

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251333791

Afonso Almeida Costa, Javier Gimeno

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Insufficient Effort Responding in Management Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions 管理研究中的努力不足：批判性回顾与未来方向

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251330268

Jason L. Huang, Zhonghao Wang, Ran Huang, Dongyuan Wu, Huijie Shi

{"title":"Insufficient Effort Responding in Management Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions","authors":"Jason L. Huang, Zhonghao Wang, Ran Huang, Dongyuan Wu, Huijie Shi","doi":"10.1177/01492063251330268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251330268","url":null,"abstract":"Insufficient effort responding (IER) presents a significant challenge in management research, potentially leading to flawed inferences. This review critically examines IER practices in 17 leading management journals from 2012 to 2023, highlighting inconsistencies in screening methods, cutoffs, and reporting. We find that IER screening is more prevalent in studies using online paid samples, experimental tasks, and computerized data collection. However, researchers’ IER-related practices, specifically the use of multiple detection methods, predicted IER removal rate above and beyond these study characteristics. Our review revealed that, despite increasing awareness, IER detection and reporting remain unstandardized, with varied practices across studies. While attention checks are frequently used, details about their implementation are often inadequately reported, and multiple detection methods, though recommended, are inconsistently applied. Variability in cutoffs and reliance on single-item checks raise concerns about the risk of retaining IER cases or mistakenly excluding attentive respondents. Our assessment of the impact of IER removal suggests that while it generally improves reliability and model fit, its effect can vary widely across measures and studies. We call on methodologists to resolve existing inconsistencies by developing clearer, empirically derived guidelines for IER detection and removal. We urge researchers to adopt more comprehensive and transparent reporting practices to enhance replicability and methodological rigor, with a flowchart to guide research design and method communication. This review underscores the need for a more systematic approach to IER mitigation in management research to enhance data quality and research validity.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893471","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}

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Behind Emerging Market Firms’ Internationalization, Diversification, and Innovation: A Geographic Relational Approach 新兴市场企业国际化、多元化与创新背后的地理关系分析

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251332551

Xiaoming He, Di Fan, Xinli Huang, Mike W. Peng

{"title":"Behind Emerging Market Firms’ Internationalization, Diversification, and Innovation: A Geographic Relational Approach","authors":"Xiaoming He, Di Fan, Xinli Huang, Mike W. Peng","doi":"10.1177/01492063251332551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251332551","url":null,"abstract":"The internationalization of emerging market firms (EMFs) has attracted substantial research attention. Yet, how EMFs engage in diversification and innovation during internationalization remains underexplored. Drawing insights from a geographic relational perspective, we perform a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of EMFs. Our findings suggest that EMFs can choose from multiple equifinal internationalization pathways to capture growth opportunities in diversification and/or innovation. These new insights emphasize that achieving diversification or innovation requires a combination of organizational contextuality, international path dependence, and geographic practice attributes. We further develop a taxonomy of five EMFs’ geographic relational configurations for diversification and/or innovation: entrenching specialist, niche explorer, global adapter, transnational agent, and strategic aspirant. Overall, by unleashing the power of configurational analysis, this paper reveals what is behind the intriguing internationalization of EMFs with a focus on diversification and innovation.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884267","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}

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Employee Mobility Barriers: An Integrative Review Across Careers, Human Resources, and Strategic Management Research 员工流动障碍：跨职业、人力资源和战略管理研究的综合回顾

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251331002

Lauren E. Aydinliyim, Deepak Somaya

{"title":"Employee Mobility Barriers: An Integrative Review Across Careers, Human Resources, and Strategic Management Research","authors":"Lauren E. Aydinliyim, Deepak Somaya","doi":"10.1177/01492063251331002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251331002","url":null,"abstract":"The ability of employees to move between firms of their own volition is a defining characteristic that distinguishes human capital from other resources. This review bridges previously isolated research communities by synthesizing knowledge on “employee mobility barriers”—mechanisms that restrict employee movement and help firms maintain human capital-based competitive advantages. We introduce a typology of ten categories of employee mobility barriers, differentiated by level of analysis (individual, organizational, societal) and degree of firm control, to organize the disparate literature on this topic. Building on this foundation, we propose an architecture of strategic modes that characterizes firm responses to employee mobility barriers based on the level of firm control (high vs. low) and the level at which barriers operate (individual vs. organizational). This framework offers a theoretical lens for understanding how firms navigate these barriers through proactive and reactive strategies, highlighting implications for decision-making, centralization, and delegation. Our review examines the dual nature of employee mobility as both an opportunity and a challenge for firms and individuals, with implications across three primary domains: individual careers, human capital/human resource management (HC/HRM), and strategic management. We propose a portfolio perspective for future research to explore whether different mobility barriers act as complements or substitutes. Additionally, we consider the relational benefits of employee mobility and suggest directions for further inquiry. By integrating our typology and the architecture of strategic modes, this review advances theoretical and practical understanding of employee mobility barriers, reflecting recent developments and setting the stage for future research.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875880","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}

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Crowdfunding: A Theory-Centered Review and Roadmap of the Multidisciplinary Literature 众筹：以理论为中心的多学科文献回顾与路线图

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251328267

Stephanie B. Escudero, Aaron H. Anglin, Thomas H. Allison, Marcus T. Wolfe

{"title":"Crowdfunding: A Theory-Centered Review and Roadmap of the Multidisciplinary Literature","authors":"Stephanie B. Escudero, Aaron H. Anglin, Thomas H. Allison, Marcus T. Wolfe","doi":"10.1177/01492063251328267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251328267","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdfunding is a relatively nascent, rapidly growing phenomenon whereby individuals or ventures pursue funding from a potentially large number of backers via the Internet. This rapidly emerging literature invites a variety of conceptual lenses and offers significant potential to advance theoretical understanding of important organizational activities, such as how entrepreneurs and organizations are evaluated by external stakeholders or how the crowdfunding process shapes the strategic decisions of emerging organizations. Our integrative review seeks to discover how the extant body of crowdfunding research challenges, extends, and contributes to the theoretical understanding of management and organizational phenomena and how these insights might drive further theoretical advancement. To do so, we inductively identify ten dominant topics that span the crowdfunding landscape across disciplines (268 articles) and synthesize the major findings within each topic based on relevant theoretical concepts. In doing so, we highlight how each topic area has applied and advanced various organizational theories. We then leverage the ten topics to articulate opportunities for future research uncovered by our review that provide potential contributions to theories germane to the management literature and to guide the next decade of crowdfunding research.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143872810","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}

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Aligning the Stars: How Technology Committees and Relevant Resources Drive Firm Innovation 群星齐整：技术委员会和相关资源如何推动企业创新

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/01492063251330200

Brent B. Clark, Karen A. Schnatterly, Felipe Calvano, John P. Berns, Cynthia E. Devers, K. Ashley Gangloff

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