Paddling Against the Tide: The Micro-Level Strategies Entrepreneurs Employ to Resist Endemic Corruption in Tanzania: https://lnkd.in/ednY7-5e By Neema M Komba, Dean A Shepherd and Joakim Wincent Where corruption is widespread, do businesses really just succumb to it to survive? Or is there another way to operate and survive? This article highlights the motivations and the creative strategies entrepreneurs use to resist widespread corruption, answering the burning question of if, when and how entrepreneurs can resist endemic corruption.#Yestheycan #corruption #resistance #strategy #anticorruption #ethics #entrepreneurship

The Effectiveness of Verbal Mimicry in Activist Hedge Fund Campaigns https://lnkd.in/eKb8yN6m By Matthias Brauer and Philipp Binder Activist hedge fund investors have gained their reputations as 'titans' and 'barbarians at the gate' by pressuring executives and boards of target firms to meet their demands. In this article, we demonstrate how targeted executives and board members can use different types of verbal mimicry to keep these activists 'at the gate'.

Don’t Waste My Time! The Development and Validation of the Wasted Time Perceptions Scale https://lnkd.in/eiqi5NvX By Brian C. Holtz, Crystal M. Harold, Harshad Puranik, & Kristian Gardner Ever feel like your time is being wasted at work? You're not alone. In this article, we explore what it means to have your time wasted by others at work, develop a measure to understand this experience, and examine what happens when others (e.g., your boss, colleagues) waste your time. We find that wasted time triggers a host of negative outcomes including frustration and counterproductive behaviors. We offer suggestions for managers on how to prevent people from wasting each other's time and what to do when it happens.

An Attractiveness Bias? How Women Entrepreneurs’ Physical Appearance Affects Men Investors (https://lnkd.in/d-Jxi8S6) By Robert Schreiber, Manuel Hess, Dietmar Grichnik, Dean A. Shepherd, Philippe N. Tobler, Joakim Wincent Securing initial funding for entrepreneurs is challenging, particularly for women. Our research aimed to understand the disparities in this gender funding gap. We identified physical attractiveness as a significant bias influencing decision-making. Our study delved into the cognitive and physiological factors that contribute to these biases.

Ecological Examination of Mortality Rate in an Infant Industry: The Roles of Legitimacy and Illegitimacy https://lnkd.in/dWsEMvEt By Stan Xiao Li, Xiaotao Yao, and Jie Yang The bicycle-sharing industry was once the golden child of venture capital in China, attracting more than 17 billion dollars in investments in 2017 alone. But in just a few months, more than half of the bicycle-sharing startups exited the business. How did this VC-backed "infant" industry lose its momentum? We delve into how legitimacy and illegitimacy influence startup success and failure in this rapidly evolving industry.

JOM Special Call for Qualitative research proposals Join Journal of Management (JOM) Guest Editors, Tima Bansal and Kevin Corley, and JOM Editor-in-Chief, Cindy Devers in a virtual meeting about JOM’s Special Call on Qualitative research.   Tima, Kevin, and Cindy will provide an overview of the Special Call and answer participants’ questions. The Special Call invites scholars to submit proposals for qualitative research papers to JOM by January 15, 2025. The background for this Special Call is discussed in an editorial written by Bansal, Corley, and Devers (2024).    The meeting will take place at 10 am Eastern Time on August 22, 2024. You can register for the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/ebZfbjNh   If you have questions but are unable to join the discussion, a fact sheet of questions and answers will be posted on the JOM website after the meeting.

Join Journal of Management (JOM) Guest Editors, Tima Bansal and Kevin Corley, and JOM Editor-in-Chief, Cindy Devers in a virtual meeting about JOM’s Special Call on Qualitative research.   Tima, Kevin, and Cindy will provide an overview of the Special Call and answer participants’ questions. The Special Call invites scholars to submit proposals for qualitative research papers to JOM by January 15, 2025. The background for this Special Call is discussed in an editorial written by Bansal, Corley, and Devers (2024).    The meeting will take place at 10 am Eastern Time on August 22, 2024. You can register for the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/ebZfbjNh   If you have questions but are unable to join the discussion, a fact sheet of questions and answers will be posted on the JOM website after the meeting.

Losing Their Religion: Organizational Identity Hybridization of British Political Parties 1950–2015 https://lnkd.in/ekm2JixF By Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Filippo Carlo Wezel, Soorjith I Karthikeyan, and Vitaliano Barberio How do organizations develop hybrid identities? We investigate this in a longitudinal study of the identity shifts of the British political parties (link to study) where we show that identity hybridization was enabled by institutional change, and the use of two different identity change strategies by the parties. Apart from providing a better understanding of the dynamics of political parties, we provide one of the few studies of hybridization of existing identities and illustrate the link between institutional and identity change.

Understanding Knowledge Sharing From an Identity-Based Motivational Perspective https://lnkd.in/eJAyFw29 By Anne Burmeister, Yifan Song, Mo Wang, and Andreas Hirschi How can we unlock employees’ knowledge potential by getting employees to share their valuable knowledge at work? Our research suggests that we don’t need to make employees share their knowledge, instead we should appeal to and support an employee's inner driving forces to share knowledge (i.e., their knowledge sharing identity). We experimentally tested a minimal effort, low cost, and easy-to-use online knowledge sharing intervention that organizations can administer to facilitate knowledge sharing. Unlock the knowledge potential of your workforce now!

Strategic Alliance Governance through Termination Provisions: Safeguard and Incentive, Flexibility and Commitment https://lnkd.in/eXZ9GJ7F By Marvin Hanisch Do you want to commit to a partner or retain the flexibility to change your mind later on? If you want the option to unilaterally end a strategic alliance, you need to agree on a contractual termination right. But who gets this right, when, and for what situations? To find out, click the article link and explore insights from a detailed analysis of 1,576 biopharmaceutical alliance agreements.