Pub Date : 2024-03-02DOI: 10.1177/14761270241239137
Christopher Luederitz, Dror Etzion
In this contribution, we theorize generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven management scholars seeking to address grand challenges through research. We use generativity to suggest engaging diverse actors in pluralistic inquiry to create conditions for future flourishing. Our theorization applies a pragmatist worldview and builds on insights from the multidisciplinary literature on generativity to envisage researchers as agents of care, collective learning, and transformative change. We synthesize four tenets for researchers seeking both academic and real-world impact. These tenets can support researchers addressing grand challenges by guiding their efforts to diversify inputs, distribute agency, conduct experiments, and pursue prospective impacts. We illustrate generativity in action by drawing on our experience in a transdisciplinary research project on small- and medium-sized enterprises taking climate action in Canada. We show how the four tenets foster generativity to promote an inclusive understanding of grand challenges and a bias toward action, thereby providing an optimistic stance toward addressing issues of social concern.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-02DOI: 10.1177/14761270241238915
Frithjof Eberhard Wegener, Ju Young Lee, Alice Mascena Barbosa, Garima Sharma, Pratima (Tima) Bansal
Scholars have long sought to impact management practice. However, the current conceptualization of impact is grounded in dualisms, separating researchers from managers, means from ends, and thought from action. Such a dualistic understanding of impact hampers researchers' and managers' ability to achieve impact. Nowhere is this issue more acute than in the context of grand challenges, which require researchers and managers to work together closely. As a way forward, we propose a pragmatist perspective on impact, where impact is not seen as a one-time, unidirectional event, but rather as a relational and recursive process. By overcoming dualisms in traditional approaches to impact, pragmatist impacting can help advance progress on grand challenges and our current understanding of cocreation. In this paper, we illustrate pragmatist impacting and reflect on its opportunities and challenges through our experience at Innovation North, an innovation lab that brought together researchers and managers to cocreate a systems innovation process.
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Since March (1991) outlined the importance of balancing exploration and exploitation in organizational learning, the exploration-exploitation paradigm has received substantial attention in the management literature. Recent studies have used computer-aided text analysis (CATA) to construct measures of firms’ inclination towards exploration or exploitation, using the original set of keywords proposed by March. We propose a structured series of tests to assess the validity of CATA-based measures and demonstrate that the approach used in prior studies is unlikely to deliver valid indicators. We show that an alternative approach, which relies on a larger library of keywords including synonyms of the March keywords and selects only those keywords that are informative and that pass validity tests, delivers valid CATA indicators – both for unstructured (news articles) and structured text bases (annual reports). Our study contributes to the literature on construct validity and has broader implications for the development of CATA-based indicators in strategy and organization research.Keywords: exploration, exploitation, ambidexterity, content analysis, computer-aided text analysis (CATA), firm performance
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Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1177/14761270241231088
Bo Kyung Kim, Donghoon Shin, Mooweon Rhee
This paper explores the status-attainment process of entrepreneurial firms in emerging categories. Previous literature emphasizes that in emerging categories, being perceived as the exemplars is important to attain status. We emphasize that clear symbolic boundaries around emerging categories can increase the possibility of exemplar perception and argue that entrepreneurial firms and influential stakeholders of existing categories can affect the status-attainment process by changing such perception. Specifically, contrast and distinctiveness rhetorical claims employed by entrepreneurial firms and negative responses from influential stakeholders differently affect status by delineating symbolic boundaries around the emerging category to varying degrees. We find support for our arguments among Korean online newspapers. The utilization of contrast claims compared to print media or receiving conciliations from print media’s influential stakeholders increased the status of online newspapers, measured by news-source citations. However, distinctiveness claims compared to other online newspapers negatively affect status, albeit mitigated by negative responses from influential stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1177/14761270241229698
Francois Herve COLLET, Olga Bruyaka, Alex Makarevich, Lucie Baudoin, Ralf Wilden
Status and reputation both play important roles in the evaluation and choice of organizations. Status is used as a heuristic in the first stage of a two-stage process when decision-makers select a subset of status-proximate organizations, and cognitively costlier reputation-based comparisons take place in the second stage within this subset. Existing status research assumes that the relative importance of different dimensions of reputation in the second stage is not contingent on the status of the organization that is being evaluated. We argue that this assumption is not warranted. Evidence suggests that high status is associated with a focus on gains and opportunities while low status is associated with a focus on downside risks. Similarly, some dimensions of reputation are associated more with upside opportunities while other dimensions of reputation are associated more with downside risks. Consequently, we argue that the emphasis on reputation dimensions associated with upside opportunities relative to dimensions of reputation associated with downside risks is contingent on status, which provides the evaluation frame. We test our hypothesis and provide empirical evidence consistent with our predictions using a sample of 411,530 U.S. applicants to MBA programs.
在评估和选择组织时，地位和声誉都起着重要作用。在两阶段过程的第一阶段，地位被用作一种启发式方法，即决策者选择地位相近的组织子集，而在第二阶段，则在该子集内进行认知成本更高的声誉比较。现有的地位研究假定，第二阶段中不同声誉维度的相对重要性并不取决于被评估组织的地位。我们认为这种假设是没有道理的。有证据表明，地位高的组织注重收益和机遇，而地位低的组织则注重负面风险。同样，声誉的某些维度更多地与上行机会相关，而声誉的其他维度则更多地与下行风险相关。因此，我们认为，相对于与下行风险相关的声誉维度，对与上行机遇相关的声誉维度的重视程度取决于提供评价框架的地位。我们使用 411,530 位美国 MBA 项目申请人的样本对我们的假设进行了检验，并提供了与我们的预测相一致的经验证据。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1177/14761270241227149
Andrew Barron, Philippe Coulombel
We cross-fertilize insights from corporate political activity (CPA) and open-strategy literatures to propose a research agenda on open political strategy – or greater participation and visibility in firms’ actions aimed at shaping public policy. Incorporating ideas from open-strategy research, CPA scholars can upgrade knowledge about firms’ political actions, and ensure their theorizing keeps pace with contemporary practice. Considering the specificities of CPA, open-strategy scholars can extend the boundaries of their field, and generate fresh insights into how firms open up strategy in contexts previously unexplored. Through a more critical reading of open political strategy, we also raise broader questions – addressing its repercussions for broader society – that should chime more generally with scholars of strategy and organization, especially those interested in firms’ strategic responses to institutional pressures, and the ‘dark sides’ of strategizing and organizing.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1177/14761270231218096
Karynne Turner, Feray Adiguzel, J. Sidhu
The narcissism of chief executive officers (CEOs) is attracting much research interest because of its potential effects on the strategic decisions, financial performance, and competitive standing of firms. This article addresses a significant gap in the literature by analyzing the effect of CEO narcissism on security analysts’ stock recommendations (ASR). As financial-market intermediaries between firms and investors, analysts are an important corporate-governance actor, whose stock recommendations are consequential for the market value of a firm. Drawing on the idea of observers’ implicit leadership theories, we argue that greater CEO narcissism will predict lower ASR because narcissistic CEOs’ penchant for risk taking will lead analysts to categorize them as ineffective leaders. We argue further that signals of corporate inertia conveyed by the age, size, and reputation of firms will positively moderate the CEO narcissism – ASR relationship, because analysts will expect inertia to be offset by narcissistic CEOs’ risk taking, a dynamic likely to improve firm performance. U.S. panel data provides support for the theorized CEO narcissism – ASR relationship and indicates significant moderation effects of the reputation and size of firms. The article discusses the study’s contributions and implications for research and practice.
首席执行官（CEO）的自恋对企业的战略决策、财务业绩和竞争地位具有潜在影响，因此备受研究关注。本文通过分析首席执行官自恋对证券分析师股票推荐（ASR）的影响，填补了这一研究领域的空白。作为公司和投资者之间的金融市场中介，分析师是公司治理的重要参与者，他们的股票推荐对公司的市场价值具有重要影响。借鉴观察者的隐性领导理论，我们认为，CEO 越自恋，ASR 越低，因为自恋的 CEO 越喜欢冒险，分析师就会把他们归类为低效的领导者。我们进一步认为，企业的年龄、规模和声誉所传达的企业惰性信号将积极缓和首席执行官自恋与 ASR 之间的关系，因为分析师会预期惰性会被自恋型首席执行官的冒险行为所抵消，而这种惰性可能会提高企业绩效。美国面板数据为理论上的 CEO 自恋与 ASR 关系提供了支持，并表明公司声誉和规模具有显著的调节作用。文章讨论了该研究的贡献以及对研究和实践的影响。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1177/14761270231218094
P. Jarzabkowski, R. Bednarek, Konstantinos Chalkias, Eugenia Cacciatori, Mustafa Kavas, Elisabeth Krull, Rhianna Gallagher-Rodgers
The grand challenges society faces compel strategy and organization scholars to engage meaningfully with practice and contribute towards solution development. As global complexities escalate, the importance of addressing these challenges intensifies. While the notion of ‘impact’ in organization theory remains elusive, a recent surge in scholarly work highlights the tensions and challenges associated with conducting impact-driven research. In this essay, we reflect on our 15-year program of research into financial responses to disasters, illustrating the process of doing impact through activities of ‘translating, ‘co-creating’, and ‘performing’. We show how these activities fostered the emergence of new research questions, new collaborations, and novel impacts. Based on our journey, we generate four reflexive insights. Firstly, translating, co-creating, and performing are an iterative, rather than sequential, process in which these activities partly overlap and build cumulatively on each other. Secondly, a flexible yet robust impact object is crucial. Thirdly, while co-creation is indispensable, it is also, often, contentious. Lastly, impactful research necessitates humility, courage, and persistence.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/14761270231215685
Kathrin Sele, Christian Mahringer, Anja Danner-Schröder, Thomas Grisold, Birgit Renzl
Adopting a flat ontology, we discuss how phenomena of societal concern are connected to organizational routines. We conceptualize grand challenges as large patterns of actions to overcome the micro-macro divide prevalent in existing research. We introduce spatial, temporal, and agentic relations as three interrelated aspects of scale that are of particular interest and demonstrate how social phenomena may be approached through these relations. Focusing on the situated enactment of routines allows us to identify weakening and strengthening between actors and their actions as important processes that reflect the continuous patterning of grand challenges. We contribute to the literature by highlighting the consequentiality of mundane actions and by questioning the dominant approach to change in research on grand challenges. Our insights offer several practical implications for intervening on grand challenges.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1177/14761270231214429
Jesper N. Wulff, Luke Taylor
In management research, fixed alpha levels in statistical testing are ubiquitous. However, in highly powered studies, they can lead to Lindley’s paradox, a situation where the null hypothesis is rejected despite evidence in the test actually supporting it. We propose a sample-size-dependent alpha level that combines the benefits of both frequentist and Bayesian statistics, enabling strict hypothesis testing with known error rates while also quantifying the evidence for a hypothesis. We offer actionable guidelines of how to implement the sample-size-dependent alpha in practice and provide an R-package and web app to implement our method for regression models. By using this approach, researchers can avoid mindless defaults and instead justify alpha as a function of sample size, thus improving the reliability of statistical analysis in management research.
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