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The High Cost of Cheap Talk: How Disingenuous Ethical Language Can Reflect Agency Costs 廉价话语的高成本：虚伪的道德语言如何反映代理成本

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241305037

Stephen J. Smulowitz, Michael D. Pfarrer, Didier Cossin, Hongze (Abraham) Lu

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Autistic Applicants’ Job Interview Experiences and Accommodation Preferences: An Intersectional Analysis 自闭症申请人的求职面试经历与住宿偏好：一个交叉分析

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241308214

Maira E. Ezerins, Lauren S. Simon, Christopher C. Rosen

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Eyes on the Ball: Activist Campaigns and Management’s Response at the Operational Level 关注球：活动家运动和管理层在业务层面的反应

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241305053

Razvan Lungeanu, Margarethe Wiersema

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Being Moral When It Is Counternormative: The Relationship Between the Creative Identity and Moral Objection 反规范时的道德：创造性认同与道德反对的关系

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241305569

Lynne C. Vincent, Maryam Kouchaki

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Disadvantaged Communities, Sudden Threats, and the Founding of Social Movement Organizations: The Case of Anti-Mafia Organizations 弱势社区、突发威胁与社会运动组织的建立——以反黑手党组织为例

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241299401

Heewon Chae, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Pino G. Audia

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Coping With Competing Role Expectations: How Do Independent Directors Make Sense of Their Role? 应对相互竞争的角色期望：独立董事如何理解自己的角色？

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241304376

Jin-ichiro Yamada, Toru Yoshikawa

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Pioneer Learning From Failure: How Competitor Entry and Consumer Reports Improve Learning From Failure Repositories 从失败中学习的先锋：竞争者进入和消费者报告如何改进从失败中学习的资料库

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241303059

David Maslach, Horacio Rousseau, Bruce Lamont

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Retirement and Organizations: Advocating Organizational Responsibility for Retirement in Practice and Scholarship 退休与组织：在实践与学术中倡导退休的组织责任

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241303064

Valerie Caines, Gokhan Ertug, Prashant Bordia, Deidra J Schleicher

{"title":"Retirement and Organizations: Advocating Organizational Responsibility for Retirement in Practice and Scholarship","authors":"Valerie Caines, Gokhan Ertug, Prashant Bordia, Deidra J Schleicher","doi":"10.1177/01492063241303064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241303064","url":null,"abstract":"In this editorial we discuss organizations’ role in the process of retirement. We argue that organizations have abdicated their moral obligation to older workers, thereby negatively impacting older workers’ wellbeing and their successful transition to retirement. We also note that organizational studies scholars have not paid adequate attention to that negligence, or its alternatives. We suggest that, among other reasons, this oversight can be a result of the comparatively privileged socioeconomic positions of faculty in business schools vis-à-vis older workers in many other occupations, as well as to a discord between traditional human capital and human resource management theories and modern retirement practices. Organizations exert significant influence on how and when workers retire, in ways that are related both to their treatment of older workers and their failure to provide adequate retirement support. These place the onus unduly on individuals to manage their own retirement while simultaneously restricting their control over retirement decisions. We call for renewed research attention to organizations’ role in retirement planning and decisions in pursuit of a more inclusive and socially responsible organizational approach to workforce aging and retirement.","PeriodicalId":54212,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810152","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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Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers 政治董事和外国工人的招聘

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241300311

Steve Sauerwald, Peter Norlander

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Mirror Versus Substitute: How Institutional Context Affects Individual Motivation for Corporate Social Responsibility 镜像与替代：制度背景如何影响个人的企业社会责任动机

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Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/01492063241299403

Anna Jasinenko, Steven A. Brieger, Patrick Haack

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