Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Management in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a systematic procedure to review the literature on universities-industry collaboration (UIC) and identified five key aspects, which underpinned the theory of UIC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a grounded model that explains the process of trust granting in the context of client-consultant relationships, by acknowledging the process nature of trust as a leap of faith resulting from socio-cognitive (-emotional) interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Nordic Nature Shop presents the purchase and use of green outdoor products as a way to carry out outdoor practices while simultaneously protecting a fragile outdoors and thereby enabling consumers to be good both in and to nature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of gender on networking and bootstrapping behavior of entrepreneurs in the early stages of business start-up in the context of deprived communities in a developed economy is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for an explicit acknowledgement of the link between wisdom and learning in management education, arguing that an intellectual understanding of wisdom alone is inadequate and adopting a phenomenological perspective, present reasons for the teaching of embodied wisdom.

TL;DR: This study combines the institutional logic perspective with sensemaking to demonstrate how nurses create new patterns and routines in organisational work, and indicates that contradicting logics create incongruous events that nurses attempt to clarify through sensemaking.

TL;DR: The authors argue that direct engagement in practice is complicated and messy and that these challenges should not be prohibitive for engaged action, rather, they provide an integral feature of direct engagement and transformation which requires a new sensibility for theorizing that enhances possibilities for action.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential effect of transformational leadership and the core job characteristics as deterrents of workplace harassment and found that a transformational leader facilitates autonomy and provides employees with the resources of independence and power.

TL;DR: This paper used an explorative approach and qualitative data from product development in two world-leading Nordic firms to study tangible antecedents of organizational capabilities development, with implications for explaining the competitiveness of firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multilevel framework was used to explore the impact of group-level trust on individual-level outcomes, including job satisfaction, affective commitment, job security, service motivation, and work engagement.

TL;DR: The concept of hegemonic ambiguity as discussed by the authors was proposed to capture this and point at some basic problems associated with it, and argue for a more reflexive approach in relation to the signifier.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role played by shared vision in the effects of internal resources (absorptive capacity) and external resources (network positioning) on the innovation of firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate severe conflict resolution processes in three buyer-supplier relationships through qualitative inquiry, and find a common resolution pattern across the cases, where severe conflict first propels the key actors into a vacuum stage characterised by avoidance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present survey evidence about managerial views on how the processes of globalization affect managers' strategic decisions regarding a firm's international and product market scope, and assess whether managerial behaviors are consistent with theoretical predictions and whether managerial decisions about firm scope were consistent with the findings of recent empirical research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate organizational narratives of change at a Canadian community college to show how individuals make sense of the change process, and highlight the importance of narrative practices of legitimation in sensemaking around organizational change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the roles of traditional mechanisms for corporate performance and highlight the positive influence of the traditional mechanisms, with the exception of state ownership, on ROA or Tobin's q.

TL;DR: This article developed a dynamic model of organizational entrainment to environmental changes that emphasizes the importance of a cyclical time perspective for firms' long-term adaptation and provided an integrative framework on organizational entraining and absorptive capacity that allows researchers to delineate when and how fast organizations adapt to external changes depending on their time perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether employment social environment mediates the relationship between HR value and employee's intention to leave and found that HR values found to be a key factor for establishment of ESE and ESE play a major role on employee's intentions to leave.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the responses of management scholars to the rigor-relevance gap and find evidence for the existence of competing logics: researchers do not base applied research on their basic research, and they tend to publish applied research in later periods of their careers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of organizational structure and organizational form on counterproductive work behavior (CWB) has been examined and it was shown that participation in decisions and formal standardization are negatively related to CWB, whereas punishment is positively associated with CWB.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of rules in mafias, in particular in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the American La Cosa Nascimento, is analyzed.

TL;DR: The paper suggests the concepts of strategic intent and shared identity to represent the two dimensions of the network dynamics to deepen the understanding of network dynamics in business nets in the context of the manufacturing industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors account for health initiatives for employees, competitive sports initiatives for corporate executives, and workability initiatives for functionally disabled individuals, on the basis of which they propose a workability framework for functionally impaired individuals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of experience feedback on team coordination were investigated in the French Air Force Aerobatic Team (AFAT) and it was shown that experience feedback enables coordination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for a better understanding of an organization's sources of history as well as how history is rhetorically constructed in order to generate sustained competitive advantages.

TL;DR: This article identifies how a reliability-seeking organization can respond flexibly to disruptive events and explores the conditions under which this form of redundancy can be effective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how compartmentalization in multi-professional teams in healthcare, inhibits productive interaction and the role of team leadership in the institutionalization of professional identity protective routines used in these units as they affect teamwork.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors uncover, understand, and make sense of career experiences of ethnic diverse employees in a professional service firm in the Netherlands, unraveling ethnic identity construction through analyzing accounts of individual sensemaking, interaction, and institutional practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the theoretical proposition that subjective trust and perceived risk in supplier-manufacturer relationships impact on exchange performance through mediating effects of four relational rents sources: asset specificity, knowledge-sharing routines, resource-capabilities complementarity and effective governance.