Journal of Management Studies

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Volume 54, month 12, 2017

Reconceptualising Hierarchies: The Disaggregation and Dispersion of Headquarters in Multinational Corporations pp. 1121-1143

Phillip C. Nell, Philip Kappen and Tomi Laamanen

MNE Headquarters Disaggregation: The Formation Antecedents of Regional Management Centers pp. 1144-1169

Andreas P. J. Schotter, Maximilian Stallkamp and Brian C. Pinkham

Firm Bosses or Helpful Neighbours? The Ambiguity and Co-Construction of MNE Regional Management Mandates pp. 1170-1205

Eva A. Alfoldi, Sara L. McGaughey and L. Jeremy Clegg

Explaining Mandate Loss of Regional Headquarters: The Difference between Full and Partial Loss pp. 1206-1240

Perttu Kähäri, Iiris Saittakari, Rebecca Piekkari and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen

Disaggregating the Corporate Headquarters: Investor Reactions to Inversion Announcements by US Firms pp. 1241-1270

Arjen H. L. Slangen, Marc Baaij and Riccardo Valboni

Global Cities, Connectivity, and the Location Choice of MNC Regional Headquarters pp. 1271-1302

Rene Belderbos, Helen S. Du and Anthony Goerzen

Volume 54, month 11, 2017

Rethinking ‘Top‐Down’ and ‘Bottom‐Up’ Roles of Top and Middle Managers in Organizational Change: Implications for Employee Support pp. 961-985

Mariano L. M. Heyden, Sebastian P. L. Fourné, Bastiaan A. S. Koene, Renate Werkman and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari

Toward a Framework of Leader Character in Organizations pp. 986-1018

Mary M. Crossan, Alyson Byrne, Gerard H. Seijts, Mark Reno, Lucas Monzani and Jeffrey Gandz

Riding off into the Sunset: Organizational Sensegiving, Shareholder Sensemaking, and Reactions to CEO Retirement pp. 1019-1049

Hansin Bilgili, Joanna Tochman Campbell, Alan E. Ellstrand and Jonathan L. Johnson

When Elites Forget Their Duties: The Double‐Edged Sword of Prestigious Directors on Boards pp. 1050-1078

Jana Oehmichen, Daniel Braun, Michael Wolff and Toru Yoshikawa

Who's the Boss at the Top? A Micro‐Level Analysis of Director Expertise, Status and Conformity Within Boards pp. 1079-1110

Dennis B. Veltrop, Eric Molleman, Reggy B. H. Hooghiemstra and Hans van Ees

Rana Plaza Fieldwork and Academic Anxiety: Some Reflections pp. 1111-1117

Rashedur Chowdhury

Volume 54, month 09, 2017

Public-Private Collaboration, Hybridity and Social Value: Towards New Theoretical Perspectives pp. 763-792

Bertrand Quelin, Ilze Kivleniece and Sergio Lazzarini

From Animosity to Affinity: The Interplay of Competing Logics and Interdependence in Cross-Sector Partnerships pp. 793-822

Naeem Ashraf, Alireza Ahmadsimab and Jonatan Pinkse

Reconciling Conflicting Policy Objectives in Public Contracting: The Enabling Role of Capabilities pp. 823-853

Sandro Cabral

Alliances between Firms and Non-profits: A Multiple and Behavioural Agency Approach pp. 854-875

M. Rivera-Santos, C. Rufín and U. Wassmer

Understanding Value Creation in Public-Private Partnerships: A Comparative Case Study pp. 876-905

Elisa Villani, Luciano Greco and Nelson Phillips

Social Value Creation and Relational Coordination in Public-Private Collaborations pp. 906-928

Nigel D. Caldwell, Kurt Roehrich and Gerard George

Social Value Creation in Inter-Organizational Collaborations in the Not-for-Profit Sector – Give and Take from a Dyadic Perspective pp. 929-956

Christiana Weber, Kathrin Weidner, Arne Kroeger and James Wallace

Volume 54, month 07, 2017

Attention to Fairness versus Profits: The Determinants of Satisficing Pricing pp. 583-612

Brian T. McCann and George A. Shinkle

Reconsidering the ‘Symmetry’ Between Institutionalization and Professionalization: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Managers pp. 613-646

David Risi and Christopher Wickert

Seizing the Ethical High Ground: Ethical Reputation Building in Corrupt Environments pp. 647-675

S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, S. Venkataraman and William S. Harvey

Maintaining Moral Legitimacy through Worlds and Words: An Explanation of Firms' Investment in Sustainability Certification pp. 676-710

Melanie Richards, Thomas Zellweger and Jean-Pascal Gond

The Mind and Heart of Resonance: The Role of Cognition and Emotions in Frame Effectiveness pp. 711-738

Simona Giorgi

The Rise of Alternative Currencies in Post-Capitalism pp. 739-746

Boyd Cohen

Crafting Papers for Publication: Novelty and Convention in Academic Writing pp. 747-759

Gerardo Patriotta

Volume 54, month 06, 2017

Boundary Spanning in Global Organizations pp. 403-421

Andreas P. J. Schotter, Ram Mudambi, Yves L. Doz and Ajai Gaur

Boundary Spanning Activities of Corporate HQ Executives Insights from a Longitudinal Study pp. 422-454

Julian Birkinshaw, Tina C. Ambos and Cyril Bouquet

Boundary Capabilities in MNCs: Knowledge Transformation for Creative Solution Development pp. 455-482

Esther Tippmann, Pamela Sharkey Scott and Andrew Parker

How Does Performance Feedback Affect Boundary Spanning in Multinational Corporations? Insights from Technology Scouts pp. 483-510

Thomas Klueter and Felipe Monteiro

The Scaffolding Activities of International Returnee Executives: A Learning Based Perspective of Global Boundary Spanning pp. 511-539

Michael J.D. Roberts and Paul W. Beamish

‘Am I Still One of Them?’: Bicultural Immigrant Managers Navigating Social Identity Threats When Spanning Global Boundaries pp. 540-577

Aimée A. Kane and Natalia Levina

Volume 54, month 05, 2017

An Institutional Configurational Approach to Cross-National Diversity in Corporate Governance pp. 261-303

Ilir Haxhi and Ruth V. Aguilera

Which Resources Matter How and Where? A Meta-Analysis on Firms’ Foreign Establishment Mode Choice pp. 304-339

Hendrik Klier, Christian Schwens, Florian B. Zapkau and Desislava Dikova

The Foundations of International Business: Cross-Border Investment Activity and the Balance between Market-Power and Efficiency Effects pp. 340-365

Joseph Clougherty, Jin Uk Kim, Bradley R. Skousen and Florian Szücs

Theoretical Progress in Management Studies and the Role of Qualitative Research pp. 366-367

Bill Harley and Dries Faems

Preserving Theoretical Divergence in Management Research: Why the Explanatory Potential of Qualitative Research Should Be Harnessed Rather than Suppressed pp. 368-383

Joep P. Cornelissen

Making Great Theories pp. 384-390

Patrick M. Wright

The Death and Rebirth (?) of International Business Research pp. 391-397

Andrew Delios

Volume 54, month 03, 2017

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Managing Complexity within and Across Organizational Boundaries pp. 129-131

Penny Dick, Dries Faems and Bill Harley

Don't Simplify, Complexify: From Disjunctive to Conjunctive Theorizing in Organization and Management Studies pp. 132-153

Haridimos Tsoukas

Navigating Institutional Complexity: The Production of Risk Culture in the Financial Sector pp. 154-181

Tommaso Palermo, Michael Power and Simon Ashby

Reducing Complexity by Creating Complexity: A Systems Theory Perspective on How Organizations Respond to Their Environments pp. 182-208

Anselm Schneider, Christopher Wickert and Emilio Marti

Are Managers Motivated to Explore in the Face of a New Technological Change? The Role of Regulatory Focus, Fit, and Complexity of Decision‐Making pp. 209-237

Saeedeh Ahmadi, Saeed Khanagha, Luca Berchicci and Justin J. P. Jansen

Volume 54, month 01, 2017

Sociometric Status and Peer Control Attempts: A Multiple Status Hierarchies Approach pp. 1-31

Maurits C. de Klepper, Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Ed Sleebos and Filip Agneessens

“I Am My Body”. Physical Selves of Police Officers in a Changing Institution pp. 32-57

David Courpasson and Vanessa Monties

CEO Succession Origin and Firm Performance: A Multilevel Study pp. 58-87

Dimitrios Georgakakis and Winfried Ruigrok

Pay for Talk: How the Use of Shareholder-Value Language Affects CEO Compensation pp. 88-117

Taekjin Shin and Jihae You

‘We're Sorry to Hear You've Been Unwell…’ Personal Reflections on Health and Well-being in the Workplace pp. 118-124

Andrea Prothero

Volume 53, month 12, 2016

Entry and Technological Performance in New Technology Domains: Technological Opportunities, Technology Competition and Technological Relatedness pp. 1257-1291

Bart Leten, Rene Belderbos and Bart Van Looy

Taking a Second Look in a Warped Crystal Ball: Explaining the Accuracy of Revised Forecasts pp. 1292-1319

Violetta Bacon-Gerasymenko, Russell Coff and Rodolphe Durand

‘Who Knows What?’ in New Venture Teams: Transactive Memory Systems as a Micro-Foundation of Entrepreneurial Orientation pp. 1320-1347

Ye Dai, Philip Roundy, Jay I. Chok, Fangsheng Ding and Gukdo Byun

Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analytic Evaluation and Extension pp. 1348-1380

Stav Fainshmidt, Amir Pezeshkan, M. Lance Frazier, Anil Nair and Edward Markowski

Biggart's Lament I am inspired by Lockhart's Lament in which he decries the transformation of mathematics from a creative art to a skill that is formulaic and trivial. Thanks to Tom Beamish, Gina Dokko, Richard Williams and the JMS-Says editors for their comments on an earlier draft., or Getting Out of the Theory Cave Plato has an allegory in which he has Socrates describe a cave in which prisoners are chained to a wall their entire lives. All that they can see are shadows made by a fire behind them and they debate endlessly the shadows’ meanings. The prisoners believe that the shadows are reality and even when given evidence of another reality they stay in the relative comfort of their small and known world pp. 1381-1387

Nicole Woolsey Biggart

Volume 53, month 11, 2016

The Distinctive Identity of the Journal of Management Studies pp. 1109-1112

Dries Faems, Igor Filatotchev, Bill Harley and Donald Siegel

Strategic Choices at Entry and Relative Survival Advantage of Cooperatives versus Corporations in the US Bio-Ethanol Industry, 1978-2015 pp. 1113-1140

Christophe Boone and Serden Özcan

Consistency Matters! How and When Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Employees’ Organizational Identification? pp. 1141-1168

Kenneth De Roeck, Assâad El Akremi and Valérie Swaen

Walking and Talking Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications of Firm Size and Organizational Cost pp. 1169-1196

Christopher Wickert, Andreas Georg Scherer and Laura J. Spence

Stakeholder Relationship Bonds pp. 1197-1222

Douglas A. Bosse and Richard Coughlan

Researching Corporate Social Responsibility Communication: Themes, Opportunities and Challenges pp. 1223-1252

Andrew Crane and Sarah Glozer

Volume 53, month 09, 2016

A Socio-Psychological Perspective on Team Ambidexterity: The Contingency Role of Supportive Leadership Behaviours pp. 939-965

Justin J. P. Jansen, Konstantinos C. Kostopoulos, Oli R. Mihalache and Alexandros Papalexandris

When Passion Fades: Disentangling the Temporal Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Passion for Founding pp. 966-995

Veroniek Collewaert, Frederik Anseel, Michiel Crommelinck, Alain De Beuckelaer and Jacob Vermeire

How CEOs and TMTs Build Adaptive Capacity in Small Entrepreneurial Firms pp. 996-1018

Yair Friedman, Abraham Carmeli and Asher Tishler

The Social-Cognitive Underpinnings of Employees’ Ambidextrous Behaviour and the Supportive Role of Group Managers’ Leadership pp. 1019-1044

Olli-Pekka Kauppila and Michiel P. Tempelaar

The Scope and Scale of MNE Strategies: In Commemoration of Alan Rugman's Contribution to International Business Research pp. 1045-1050

The Editors

Global, Local, or Regional? The Locus of MNE Strategies pp. 1051-1075

Alain Verbeke and Christian Geisler Asmussen

A Global Value Chain Analysis of the ‘Regional Strategy’ Perspective pp. 1076-1093

Ram Mudambi and Jonas Puck

Looking Away? Civilized Indifference and the Carnal Relationships of the Contemporary Workplace pp. 1094-1100

David Courpasson

Volume 53, month 07, 2016

Entrepreneurship as a Platform for Pursuing Multiple Goals: A Special Issue on Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship pp. 673-694

Gideon D. Markman, Michael Russo, G. T. Lumpkin, P. Devereaux (Dev) Jennings and Johanna Mair

Exploring Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives pp. 695-737

Jeffrey G. York, Isobel O'Neil and Saras D. Sarasvathy

Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How A Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding Success pp. 738-767

Goran Calic and Elaine Mosakowski

When Stakeholder Representation Leads to Faultlines. A Study of Board Service Performance in Social Enterprises pp. 768-793

Saskia Crucke and Mirjam Knockaert

Selling Issues with Solutions: Igniting Social Intrapreneurship in for-Profit Organizations pp. 794-820

Elisa Alt and Justin B. Craig

How Social Entrepreneurs Facilitate the Adoption of New Industry Practices We thank guest editor Gideon Markman and the reviewers for their exceptional guidance during the review process. We also thank Jeff McMullen and Chad Navis for their helpful comments on previous versions of the manuscript pp. 821-845

Theodore L. Waldron, Greg Fisher and Michael Pfarrer

Social Enterprise Emergence from Social Movement Activism: The Fairphone Case pp. 846-877

Ona Akemu, Gail Whiteman and Steve Kennedy

Intergenerational Fairness and the Crowding Out Effects of Well-Intended Environmental Policies pp. 878-910

Richard Hunt and Bret R. Fund

Why Firms Delay Reaching True Sustainability pp. 911-935

Anton Shevchenko, Moren Lévesque and Mark Pagell

Volume 53, month 06, 2016

Market Timing and Internationalization Decisions: A Contingency Perspective pp. 497-519

Lin Yuan, Xiaolin Qian and Nitin Pangarkar

Expressive Shareholder Democracy: A Multilevel Study of Shareholder Dissent in 15 Western European Countries pp. 520-551

Steve Sauerwald, J. (Hans) Van Oosterhout and Marc Van Essen

Institutional Regime, Opportunity Space and Organizational Path Constitution: Case Studies of the Conversion of Military Firms in China pp. 552-579

Runtian Jing and Mary Benner

Institutions and Foreign Subsidiary Growth in Transition Economies: The Role of Intangible Assets and Capabilities pp. 580-607

Mario Kafouros and Murod Aliyev

Social Entrepreneurship as a Norm? pp. 608-609

The Editors

Understanding the Social Role of Entrepreneurship pp. 610-629

Shaker A. Zahra and Mike Wright

Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization? pp. 630-662

Jeffery S. McMullen and Benjamin J. Warnick

Why the Assholes are Winning: Money Trumps All pp. 663-669

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Volume 53, month 05, 2016

Managing for Political Corporate Social Responsibility: New Challenges and Directions for PCSR 2.0 pp. 273-298

Andreas Georg Scherer, Andreas Rasche, Guido Palazzo and André Spicer

Taming Wicked Problems: The Role of Framing in the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 299-329

Juliane Reinecke and Shaz Ansari

To Frack or Not to Frack? The Interaction of Justification and Power in a Sustainability Controversy pp. 330-363

Jean-Pascal Gond, Luciano Barin Cruz, Emmanuel Raufflet and Mathieu Charron

The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability pp. 364-401

David Levy, Juliane Reinecke and Stephan Manning

Strategies of Legitimacy Through Social Media: The Networked Strategy pp. 402-432

Itziar Castelló, Michael Etter and Finn Årup Nielsen

Delinking Legitimacies: A Pluriversal Perspective on Political CSR pp. 433-462

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes

Business Statesman or Shareholder Advocate? CEO Responsible Leadership Styles and the Micro-Foundations of Political CSR pp. 463-493

Thomas Maak, Nicola M. Pless and Christian Voegtlin

Volume 53, month 03, 2016

Toward a Dynamic Theory of Intermediate Conformity pp. 131-160

Guilhem Bascle

Effects of Information Technology Capabilities on Strategic Alliances: Implications for the Resource-Based View pp. 161-183

Constantinos S. Lioukas, Jeffrey J. Reuer and Maurizio Zollo

Workgroup Climates and Employees’ Counterproductive Work Behaviours: A Social-Cognitive Perspective pp. 184-209

Grégoire Bollmann and Franciska Krings

Beyond Prototypes: Drivers of Market Categorization in Functional Foods and Nanotechnology pp. 210-237

Nina Granqvist and Tiina Ritvala

Introducing JMSSays pp. 238-243

Rick Delbridge, Roy Suddaby and Bill Harley

The Essay as an Endangered Species: Should We Care? pp. 244-249

Yiannis Gabriel

Volume 53, month 01, 2016

The MNE as a Challenge to Institutional Theory: Key Concepts, Recent Developments and Empirical Evidence pp. 1-11

Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Richard Deeg and Royston Greenwood

Comparative Institutional Analysis and Institutional Complexity pp. 12-27

Christina L. Ahmadjian

Unpacking the Institutional Complexity in Adoption of CSR Practices in Multinational Enterprises pp. 28-54

Valentina Marano and Tatiana Kostova

Cultivating Foreignness: How Organizations Maintain and Leverage Minority Identities pp. 55-88

Jesper Edman

Global Professional Service Firms and the Challenge of Institutional Complexity: ‘Field Relocation' as a Response Strategy pp. 89-124

James Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio