Showing papers in "British Journal of Management in 2022"
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine whether and under which conditions a policy tool, mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, enforced by constituents positively triggers firms to make substantive environmental responses.
Abstract: Drawing on the institutional view of legitimacy theory, we examine whether and under which conditions a policy tool, mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, enforced by constituents positively triggers firms to make substantive environmental responses. Using China's 2008 CSR reporting policy as a quasi-natural experiment and the difference-in-differences estimation approach, the results reveal that after implementation of this policy, mandatory CSR reporting firms show substantially higher green innovation performance than non-CSR reporting firms. We further find that this effect is stronger for firms located in areas with high environmental enforcement intensity, for state-owned enterprises and for those with higher levels of media coverage. Moreover, we make a nuanced investigation on whether the media coverage is laden with a negative or positive tone, and find that both negative and positive coverage strengthen the relationship between mandatory CSR disclosure and green innovation.
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TL;DR: In this article , the potential impact of the Ukraine-Russia war on the EU energy market and businesses is analyzed, and the risks spilling from disruptions in energy supply from Russia, rising energy prices and the prospects for the EU remains to be highly dependent on Russia's energy supply, with the war serving as a catalyser for speeding up Europe's greening transition.
Abstract: This paper analyses the potential impact of the Ukraine–Russia war on the EU energy market and businesses. It explores the risks spilling from disruptions in energy supply from Russia, rising energy prices and the prospects for the EU, which remains to be highly dependent on Russia's energy supply, with the war serving as a catalyser for speeding up Europe's greening transition.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how academics experienced working from home during the unprecedented circumstances imposed by the first UK lockdown and social distancing measures, and found that a working arrangement commonly termed "flexible" can actually reduce flexibility in a context of mandatory implementation, accompanied by the removal of instrumental and emotional support structures such as childcare and face-to-face (physical) social gatherings.
Abstract: Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic altered the ways academics work and live by creating a context during the spring of 2020 when working from home was largely mandatory and where, for cohabiting workers, the home as workplace was simultaneously occupied by all household members during working hours (and beyond). Using a multi‐method qualitative approach, we examine how academics experienced working from home during the unprecedented circumstances imposed by the first UK lockdown and social distancing measures. Our findings show that a working arrangement commonly termed ‘flexible’ – working from home – can actually reduce flexibility in a context of mandatory implementation, accompanied by the removal of instrumental and emotional support structures such as childcare and face‐to‐face (physical) social gatherings. Intensified workloads, increased employer monitoring, social disconnection and blurred boundaries between work and personal life collectively generate the reduction of employees’ perceived flexibility‐ability. Experiences may be particularly negative for those with low flexibility‐willingness, whose pre‐pandemic preference was to separate work and home as much as possible. Employee efforts to assert agency in this context include establishing ‘micro‐borders’ and using time‐based strategies to create ‘controlled integration’. We discuss implications for border theory and outline directions for future research.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between institutional ownership and GHG emissions and found that institutional ownership is associated with less GHG emission, and that a one standard deviation increase in the proportion of institutional ownership reduces carbon emissions by 1.02 metric tons.
Abstract: Motivated by the growing attention on climate change and the ethical role that board characteristics and ownership may play in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this paper investigates the relationship between institutional ownership and GHG emissions. Using an extensive dataset from the UK and the USA, we show that institutional ownership is associated with less GHG emissions – a one standard deviation increase in the proportion of institutional ownership reduces carbon emissions by 1.02 metric tons. Our findings are robust when using alternative measures, econometric specifications and several approaches to address endogeneity. Further, we find no evidence for a stronger effect in the UK compared with the USA, as expected from our discussion of the governance contexts in the two countries. We also test the possible channel (i.e. exit and selection) through which institutional investors affect GHG emissions. In a set of additional analyses, we show that litigation risk and board gender diversity moderate the relationship between institutional ownership and GHG emissions. Finally, we also document a positive effect of the stewardship codes on the relationship between institutional ownership and GHG emissions. Our findings make significant theoretical and regulatory contributions.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the association between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental collaboration with suppliers by accounting for the degree of employees' work engagement and market environment complexity as stakeholder-oriented moderators of this relationship.
Abstract: Revisiting stakeholder theory as a potential theory of the firm giving rise to expectations about organizing, we analyze when and under what circumstances entrepreneurially oriented firms increase their environmental collaboration with suppliers. Specifically, we investigate the association between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental collaboration with suppliers by accounting for the degree of employees’ work engagement and market environment complexity as stakeholder-oriented moderators of this relationship. We test our hypotheses using multi-level analyses on 249 managers nested in 66 multinational companies (MNCs) in Turkey. We find that entrepreneurial orientation positively impacts environmental collaboration with suppliers. A high level of work engagement (as an organizing principle favouring a stakeholder focus) and a low level of market environment complexity (as an organizing principle favouring the customer as an instrumental stakeholder) moderate this linkage. We enrich the debate on entrepreneurial orientation, strategy, and environmental sustainability by providing logic rooted in stakeholder theory of the conditions under which MNCs’ entrepreneurial orientation in emerging markets prioritizes and privileges environmental collaboration with suppliers.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the incremental value relevance of the international harmonization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and found that migrating to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines destroys firm value.
Abstract: Thousands of organizations worldwide currently use the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards to report on sustainability information. We use data from 39 countries over the 2010–2018 period to examine the incremental value relevance of the international harmonization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. A propensity score matching–difference in differences (PSM-DID) research design was used to avoid selection bias and endogeneity concerns. We find that migrating to the GRI guidelines destroys firm value. This relationship is stronger for firms with poor CSR performance, which suggests that market players, particularly institutional investors, consider GRI migration as a cost driver – at least in the short term. The introduction of other potentially confounding institutional factors highlights the effectiveness of the negative relationship between firm value and GRI migration for countries with more opaque financial markets and less sustainable business environments. Our findings have several implications for policymakers, academics and practitioners in understanding both the motivations and the consequences of CSR harmonization reporting on financial markets.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined stakeholder green pressures as antecedents of eco-product innovation and new product performance in firms operating in resource-constrained countries, and they found that the positive effects of green pressures on new product innovation are serially mediated by environmental sustainability orientation and ecoproduct innovation.
Abstract: Despite the burgeoning literature on stakeholder green pressure, research is scarce on how it influences eco-product innovation and new product performance. This article examines stakeholder green pressures as antecedents of eco-product innovation and new product performance in firms operating in resource-constrained countries. Using data gathered from surveys in Vietnam (N = 183) and Ghana (N = 217), we find that the positive effects of stakeholder green pressures on new product performance are serially mediated by environmental sustainability orientation and eco-product innovation. Our findings contribute to ongoing efforts to clarify the mechanisms channelling stakeholder pressures into new product performance in resource-constrained environments.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of environmental and social activities on global banking stability in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that ES activities increase firm-level social capital and establish a stakeholder-centred culture within a bank, strengthening social trust and public confidence in the bank's risk oversight.
Abstract: This study examines the effect of environmental and social (ES) activities on global banking stability in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of 244 commercial banks across 52 countries from 2002 to 2020, we provide evidence that during the global health crisis, banks with higher levels of ES activities are more financially stable (i.e. lower credit and liquidity risk exposures). Drawing on social capital and stakeholder theories, we find that ES activities increase firm-level social capital and establish a stakeholder-centred culture within a bank, strengthening social trust and public confidence in the bank's risk oversight. Accordingly, ES activities constrain excessive and aggressive bank risk-taking during turbulent times when short-termism prevails. Our additional analysis reveals that investors value such beneficial effects of ES activities. The findings offer new insights into the increasingly significant roles of social capital creation and stakeholder-centred culture in maintaining banks' financial stability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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TL;DR: In this article , the relationship between customer mindset metrics (CMMs) and consumer spending has been extensively investigated at the consumer and firm level, but little is known about it at the national level, nor about how it differs between countries.
Abstract: The relationship between customer mindset metrics (CMMs) and consumer spending has been extensively investigated at the consumer and firm level, but little is known about it at the national level, nor about how it differs between countries. Drawing on five pub- licly available datasets gathered in 10 European countries over 20 years, our study traces the connections between three CMMs – customer satisfaction, perceived service qual- ity and loyalty intentions – and consumer spending, as well as examining the moderating cross-country effects of culture, socioeconomic factors, economic structure and political– economic elements. The results show that the CMMs significantly influence consumer spending in all the countries studied, with the effects most pronounced in societies with relatively low education levels, a dominant service sector, fewer barriers to business and international trade and a foundation of survival values rather than self-expressive values. Our findings suggest that CMMs can be used to boost not just business performance but also economic growth, and therefore have significant implications for policymakers as well as practitioners and companies.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors provide insights into how emerging market Indian SMEs' organizational designs and top management teams (TMTs) have led to differential COVID•19 crisis response strategies.
Abstract: Abstract The unique challenges posed by COVID‐19 call for new insights into how firms respond to multiheaded and multistage evolving global crises. Whilst prior research acknowledges the potential role flexible organizational designs and top management teams (TMTs) have for crisis management, these bodies of literature have evolved separately with limited cross‐fertilization. In this study, we seek to provide a contextualized explanation of research phenomena by drawing upon multiple layers of context – namely the environment, TMT and organisational context. Our findings provide vital insights into how emerging market Indian SMEs’ organizational designs and TMT configurations led to differential COVID‐19 crisis response strategies. We develop a typology that identifies four strategic responses and illustrate that not all emerging market SMEs are vulnerable at the time of crisis. Our findings extend knowledge on how emerging market SMEs can navigate external shocks such as those caused by COVID‐19. In particular, our research has implications for policymakers and emerging market firms seeking to understand and implement effective organizational designs and policies that can weather the current COVID‐19 pandemic, as well as future multiheaded and multistage black swan crises.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined how top-down communication and employee voice relate to horizontal solidarity behavior (SB) in small and medium-sized enterprises under crisis and found that the relationship between topdown employee communication and horizontal SB is mediated by employee voice.
Abstract: Solidarity behaviour (SB) among employees is important in building a sense of community in organizations, particularly within a crisis context where adverse working conditions prevail. However, we have limited knowledge concerning how SB develops. Using the lens of social exchange theory, this study examines how top-down communication and employee voice relate to horizontal (employee to emplCoyee) SB. We conducted two comprehensive studies during the Greek economic crisis and found that the relationship between top-down employee communication and horizontal SB is mediated by employee voice. The paper extends our existing knowledge in the fields of management and human resource management by advancing our understanding of horizontal SB, highlighting the role of top-down employee communication as an effective human resource practice and delineating the role of employee voice in fostering workplace camaraderie in small and medium-sized enterprises under crisis.
TL;DR: In this paper , a positive relation between firm-specific investor sentiment and the value of cash is found, and the positive relation is robust to alternative measures of change in cash, different cash regimes, FSIS measured by order imbalance, news sentiment and tone of earnings conference call transcripts.
Abstract: We document a positive relation between firm-specific investor sentiment (FSIS) and the value of cash. We also show that FSIS has a stronger positive effect on the value of cash than the value of other types of assets, suggesting that our finding is not a simple reflection of firm-level overvaluation. Our finding is robust to alternative measures of change in cash, different cash regimes, FSIS measured by order imbalance, news sentiment and the tone of earnings conference call transcripts and controlling for market-wide sentiment, institutional monitoring, corporate governance and endogeneity. Cross-sectional analyses suggest that the positive relation between FSIS and the value of cash is stronger for firms with better future growth opportunities, larger investment, more innovation activities, higher information asymmetry and more liquid stocks. Overall, our paper sheds light on the important role of FSIS in corporate outcomes.
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TL;DR: Recently, the US and its allies have mobilized long-standing international institutions to sanction Russia and repel its war in Ukraine as discussed by the authors , which is likely to change the world order, with long-term effects on the birth, survival and growth of international new ventures.
Abstract: Recently, the US and its allies have mobilized long-standing international institutions to sanction Russia and repel its war in Ukraine. This mobilization is likely to change the world order, with long-term effects on the birth, survival and growth of international new ventures. However, these effects will vary across different regions of the world.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore how reshoring influences the resilience and sustainability of a focal firm's supply network and find that indirect (sub-tier) foreign suppliers positively influence the network's resilience, with this impact being negatively moderated by their degree centrality, that is, the number of ties a node possesses.
Abstract: Extending the notion that reshoring can have a significant impact on a firm's supply network owing to the associated location decisions, we explore how reshoring influences the resilience and sustainability of a focal firm's supply network. While reshoring is triggered by aspects related to both the home (domestic) and the host (foreign) country, frequently more favourable aspects in the home country lead to the reshoring decision. To investigate these dynamics, we construct two large-scale networks consisting of 2066 and 1283 firms, respectively, capturing the supply networks of Apple and Jaguar Land Rover. Both networks have been experiencing the reshoring of previously foreign suppliers to domestic locations. Our investigation captures the network dynamics created by this relocation of tier 1 suppliers for the overall supply chain network, that is, also for higher-tier/sub-tier suppliers. The results reveal, contrary to our expectations, that indirect (sub-tier) foreign suppliers positively influence the network's resilience, with this impact, however, being negatively moderated by their degree centrality, that is, the number of ties a node possesses. In addition, existing indirect (sub-tier) domestic suppliers do not have a significant influence on the resilience of the network. No evidence was found for the impact of reshoring on sustainability. Overall, our study contributes to the reshoring literature by delineating its influence on both the resilience and the sustainability of a focal firm's supply chain network.
TL;DR: The impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only caused a retreat of foreign banks from mainland Russia, but also ended the international ambitions of the largest Russian banks in Europe and beyond as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: Western allies have imposed restrictive measures on Russian banks and threatened harsher sanctions on the finance sector since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. However, this did not impede sanctioned banks reporting record profits, nor deter Russia from invading Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Although the sanctions’ full effectiveness remains in question, the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only caused a retreat of foreign banks from mainland Russia, but also ended the international ambitions of the largest Russian banks in Europe and beyond.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify authenticity-building, which is the constellation of past and present activities through which organizations channel efforts to be authentic in their concern for employees, and highlight the complexity of organizational endeavour for mutuality and show how mutuality need not be compromised during external shocks.
Abstract: Employee wellbeing activities constitute a space for organizations to realize a shared agenda with employees, and therefore a means to pursue mutuality. The pursuit of mutuality draws on assumptions of reciprocity in social exchange theory (SET) but is dynamic and put under pressure by external shocks. The first UK COVID-19 lockdown provided the setting to explore how organizations addressed employee wellbeing concerns under conditions of crisis. Using qualitative data from five organizations, we identify authenticity-building, which is the constellation of past and present activities through which organizations channel efforts to be authentic in their concern for employees. Attributions of authenticity emerge as fundamental to authenticity-building, while authenticity work (the organization noticing, understanding and acting on shifts in interests) is enabled by dialogic processes. Authenticity-building shifts the quality of the exchange relationship to allow for mutual benefits and is therefore a vital and dynamic component of mutuality. Our findings contribute to the mutuality literature by providing a theoretically embedded extension of SET and show how organizations may become more (or less) authentic within the context of the employment relationship. We highlight the complexity of organizational endeavour for mutuality and show how mutuality need not be compromised during external shocks. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors provide an extended conceptualization of sustainable development goal (SDG) perceptions from local consumers, and assess this scale in relation to the reliability and validity of consumer perception of SDG antecedents and consequences in reshoring contexts from three industries, with the help of six studies.
Abstract: Our humble gratitude goes out to our editors and the anonymous reviewers who contributed to the improvement of this paper.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused drastic disruptions to many multinational companies' (MNCs') supply chain management, pushing them to relocate their manufacturing activities to their home countries, a phenomenon known as reshoring. Grounded in moral psychology theory and the resource-based view (RBV), the aims of this research are to provide an extended conceptualization of sustainable development goal (SDG) perceptions from local consumers, develop a scale, and assess this scale in relation to the reliability and validity of consumer perception of SDG antecedents and consequences in reshoring contexts from three industries, with the help of six studies. We conceptualise these perceptions on the basis of seven components (i.e. society/community wellbeing, affordable and clean energy consumption, economic growth, responsible consumption, responsible production, sustainable industrialization and innovation and gender equality). Using data from three distinct industries and a sample of 1075 reshoring MNC customers, we also determine how local consumers perceive and react to reshoring initiatives geared towards achieving SDGs and advocacy. The findings offer relevant implications for both the management and research of SDGs in a reshoring context at a scale level, which we describe in the form of future research directions.
TL;DR: In this paper , the impact of supplier instability on CSR performance throughout the firm lifecycle was investigated using a large panel dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2018, and the authors found that the relationship between supplier instability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance varies throughout a firm's lifecycle.
Abstract: Managing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the supply chain context requires companies to consider complex issues embedded in their supply chains, one of which is the complexity caused by unstable suppliers. However, prior studies have focused primarily on how supplier instability affects a firm's operational or financial performance. Grounded in social systems theory, we aim to enrich this body of literature by investigating the impact of supplier instability on CSR performance throughout the firm lifecycle. Using a large panel dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2018, we find that the relationship between supplier instability and CSR performance varies throughout a firm's lifecycle. At the growth and maturity stages, supplier instability can negatively affect a firm's external and internal CSR performance, respectively. At the decline stage, this negative relationship is insignificant. Further, we unravel the moderating effects of different complexity reduction practices. This paper has significant implications for both research and practice in the increasingly important domain of CSR management in supply chains.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss the interdisciplinary implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on themes that include management theory, banking, energy, culture, psychology and international entrepreneurship and innovation.
Abstract: The Russia–Ukraine war requires management scholars to reflect on the interconnectedness of research themes across countries, and across management disciplines. This paper introduces the papers in this mini special section and discusses the interdisciplinary implications of the Russia–Ukraine war on themes that include – but are not limited to – management theory, banking, energy, culture, psychology and international entrepreneurship and innovation.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the differential effects of entrepreneurial passion (EP) on prod- uct innovation intensity (PII) through mediating mechanisms of exploration and exploitation activities.
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the differential effects of entrepreneurial passion (EP) on prod- uct innovation intensity (PII) through the mediating mechanisms of exploration and exploitation activities. Using time-lagged data from 260 new ventures from Ghana, we ex- amine the direct relationships between the three domains of EP (i.e
TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed that the concern to preserve socio-emotional wealth preservation can contribute to family firms' alliance success being dependent on the leverage of alliance management capability (AMC).
Abstract: Socio-emotional wealth preservation (SEW-P) can create a dilemma for family firms when seeking to establish strategic alliance: how to manage the need to establish strategic alliances aimed at obtaining complementary network-based resources (the economic dimension) with the fear that such a move may jeopardize family control and domination (the SEW dimension). To address this dilemma (also labelled as a ‘mixed gamble’), we theorized that the concern to preserve SEW (i.e. SEW-P) can contribute to family firms’ alliance success being dependent on the leverage of alliance management capability (AMC). We also propose that SEW-P can act as an organizational cognitive enabler for AMC. Yet the positive association between SEW-P and AMC will become stronger when family firms operate in a politically unstable environment. We tested these hypotheses using a unique dataset collected from 302 family firms operating in a politically unstable environment (the Libyan context), and the analysis lends support to our model and predictions. Overall, the study advances the alliance theories and family business literature by adding new insights that explain the effect of non-financial priorities of family firms, and related contingencies, in predicting alliance success.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated how voluntary employee green behavior associates with the employee outcome of affective commitment, which especially impacts the psychological relationships that employees develop with their organisations, and found that VEGB was positively associated with affective commitments, as enabled by three mediating mechanisms that enhanced the sense of warm glow and moral credit for employees while protecting them against emotional exhaustion.
Abstract: In the workplace, discretionary pro-environmental actions made by employees are referred to as voluntary employee green behaviour (VEGB). This is increasingly recognised as a contribution to both the environmental and the financial sustainability of the organisation. However, the implications of VEGB beyond its original environmental domain largely remain underspecified, thus constraining the theoretical development of the field and advocacy for organisations in practice. This study thus investigates how VEGB associates with the employee outcome of affective commitment, which especially impacts the psychological relationships that employees develop with their organisations. Drawing on two studies, we found that VEGB was positively associated with affective commitment, as enabled by three mediating mechanisms that enhanced the sense of warm glow and moral credit for employees while protecting them against emotional exhaustion. Moreover, we found that perceived organisational support for the environment served as a boundary condition for VEGB and its mediation by moral credit and emotional exhaustion. Implications for theory and practice are discussed in the paper.
TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic disruptor on customer service logistics and lockdown shopping channel preferences were investigated in a UK online panel-structured questionnaire survey (n = 603).
Abstract: Covid-19 has changed consumer behaviour, probably forever. Initial consumer stockpiling led to stockouts, threat and uncertainty for consumers. To overcome shortages, consumers expanded their use of channels and many consumers started buying online for the first time. In this paper, we aim to address important research gaps related to consumer behaviour during the pandemic and especially stockpiling. Our paper starts by presenting the findings of our pre-study, which used social media to elicit or confirm potential constructs for our quantitative models. These constructs complemented the protection motivations theory to explain stockpiling behaviour, forming the basis for study 1, the stockpiling preparation stage and study 2, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic disruptor on customer service logistics and lockdown shopping channel preferences. For studies 1 and 2 we gathered data via a UK online panel-structured questionnaire survey (n = 603). Results confirm that consumer-driven changes to supply chains emanate largely from consumer uncertainty. Lockdown restrictions led to consumers feeling socially excluded, but enhanced consumers' positive attitudes towards shopping online and increased consumers' altruism. In response, consumers stockpiled by visiting physical stores and/or ordering online. Lockdown restrictions led to feelings of social exclusion but, importantly, stockpiling helped to minimize consumer anxiety and fear and even increase wellbeing.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used WBES data for Indian firms and found that there is no significant difference in male-and female-owned firms in terms of their perceptions about accessing finance.
Abstract: Do firms with majority female ownership differ from firms with minority female ownership or male-owned firms in terms of perceived constraints on accessing finance? Using World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data for Indian firms, our results show that there is no significant difference in male- and female-owned firms in terms of their perceptions about accessing finance. Yet, this is true only for firms with minority female ownership (less than 50%). Firms with majority female ownership do perceive more constraints on accessing finance relative to firms with minority female ownership or zero female ownership. Based on demand- and supply-side factors relating to business inexperience, weaker networking, and lender perceptions, as suggested by signalling and gender congruity theories, the results imply that majority-female-owned firms need to negotiate more for financing access, as they need to display positive signals for those investors who might possess stereotypical and gendered beliefs about the abilities of entrepreneurs. We also find that in relation to funding sources being one's own retained earnings or money from family and friends or advances from clients, majority-female-owned firms do not perceive financial barriers differently from male-owned firms or firms with minority female ownership.
TL;DR: The authors argue that conflicting perspectives from scholars across management subfields preclude a comprehensive understanding of the Russia-Ukraine war and argue for the need to develop programmatic theories that provide better explanations and predictions and guide empirical research.
Abstract: We invoke the parable of “the blind men [sic] and the elephant” to argue that conflicting perspectives from scholars across management subfields preclude a comprehensive understanding of the Russia–Ukraine war. To address this problem, we argue for the need to develop programmatic theories that provide better explanations and predictions and guide empirical research by adopting multilevel and multimethod approaches. A group of management scholars attended a confer-ence and discussed the Russia – Ukraine war. One of them issued a challenge by saying, “this is an awful thing going on. But, fortunately, we have done research that allows us to understand the situation.” The others agreed. So, they decided to offer explanations using management theories. The first one to speak up was an organizational behavior scholar. “Of course,” she said, “it’s all about leadership. Putin’s behavior is explained by research on political maturity and con-firms the notion that politics will challenge assump-tions of rationality. Further, his actions, and those of Russia, are also explained by theories on how incentives permeate from the individual to the collective.” Another researcher disagreed with what the first one said. Instead, she offered her own explanation: “You need to think bigger – this is a problem of resources, agency, and transaction cost economics. Russia seeks to maximize the political-military strategic value of the region through reintegration and control.” After a heated discussion, a third researcher chimed in: “To truly understand what is going on, we need to conduct qualitative research including in-depth interviews with policy-makers, in-the-field observations, and criti-cal comparisons to similar historical events.
TL;DR: In this paper , a link between aggregate organizational resilience capabilities and managerial risk perception aspects during a major global crisis is established, where managers within both authority-based and consensus-based organizational structures utilize risk-capture heuristics and enact actions related to effective communications, albeit at different information costs.
Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to establish a link between aggregate organizational resilience capabilities and managerial risk perception aspects during a major global crisis. We argue that a multi‐theory perspective, dynamic capability at an organizational level and enactment theory at a managerial level allow us to better understand how the sensemaking process within managerial risk perception assists organizational resilience. We draw from in‐depth interviews with 40 managers across the UK's food industry, which has been able to display resilience during the pandemic. In sensing supply chain risks (SCRs), managers within both authority‐based and consensus‐based organizational structures utilize risk‐capture heuristics and enact actions related to effective communications, albeit at different information costs. In seizing, we found that managers adhere to distinct heuristics that are idiosyncratic to their organizational structures. Through limited horizontal communication channels, authority‐based structures adhere to rudimentary how‐to heuristics, whereas consensus‐based structures use obtainable how‐to heuristics. We contribute to the organizational resilience and dynamic capabilities literature by identifying assessment as an additional step prior to transforming, which depicts a retention process to inform future judgements. Our study presents a novel framework of organizational resilience to SCRs during equivocal environments, by providing a nuanced understanding of the construction of dynamic capabilities through sensemaking.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the impact of home schooling and care for children while performing paid work at home, in order to limit Covid-19 transmission in the UK during the 2011 Asian flu pandemic.
Abstract: This paper explores the impact of the ?mobilization? of employed mothers by the UK government to home-school and care for children while performing paid work at home, in order to limit Covid-19 transmission. Drawing upon actor network theory (ANT), we extend John Law's (1994) concept ?modes of ordering? (or strategic shifts in response to change when power relations are unequal) to illuminate how employed mothers? networks were re-ordered. In this netnography, we observe how they re-ordered personal and local networks to combine home-working, home-schooling and childcare. We learn how, when mothers? usual networks broke down, they employed three novel modes of re-ordering: retentive, retrogressive and reformative. These modes capture the complex relationships between work and family ? an area of concern that has previously received limited attention in relation to actor networks. Our findings reveal the gendered nature of the mandatory imposition of home-working during the pandemic. Through developing Law's modes of ordering, we demonstrate the potential of ANT to understand the impact on mothers of home-working and highlight important practical contributions for organizations and governments.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors apply an escalation of commitment perspective to understand the war in Ukraine beyond disturbing headlines and shocking images, and consider important historical developments and cultural influences that help explain the current state of affairs.
Abstract: The war that has been unfolding in Ukraine over the past several months is one of the latest global disasters. In an attempt to understand the war beyond disturbing headlines and shocking images, I apply an escalation of commitment perspective. I consider important historical developments and cultural influences that help explain the current state of affairs.