Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231189546
Bermet Talasbek kyzy, Talant Asan uulu, Urmat Ryskulov
This case study examines the entrepreneurial journey of Ubai Matkasymov and his company, Matkasym. Started as a small shop in a bazaar in Kyrgyzstan, the company grew rapidly to become within six years the country’s leading manufacturer of goods made from metal sheets. Three key transition events that led to the company’s success are highlighted: tapping into the digital television switch by adoption of reverse engineering, establishing a relative distinction with the large Safe City Project and dominating the supply of key goods during COVID-19. Based on his decision-making patterns during times of uncertainty, a comment is made on Matkasymov’s entrepreneurial characteristics, such as his clear vision, curiosity and risk-taking. The study provides insights into how an entrepreneur with a venturesome approach can seize opportunities to build a competitive advantage and transform a small business into a successful manufacturing enterprise.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231182727
Shahid Latif, Safrul Izani Mohd. Salleh, M. A. Ghani, B. Ahmad
This study intends to explore the change process in developing management accounting systems to ensure economic sustainability under the theoretical underpinnings of dynamic capabilities. A single case study design has been incorporated to explore the change process at a sportswear manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in Sialkot, Pakistan. The rationale for choosing this case site is that this firm has undergone a recent change in the form of developing and using management accounting systems to address economic sustainability concerns. Data were collected via interviews and documents. We conducted 10 interviews and reviewed some internal documents to comprehend the change process. Due to the involvement of multiple organizational actors, the study finds that dynamic capabilities are reflected collaboratively. Due to the collaborative nature of interactions among organizational actors, sensing, seizing and transformation capabilities were termed collaborative dynamic capabilities. Under these dynamic capabilities, the case firm has successfully implemented the change process by developing management accounting systems. The CEO also arranged two training sessions for the workers to facilitate the change process. Furthermore, replacement and production innovation decisions were taken to reflect the change process by bringing change to the existing resource base. This research has contributed theoretically by addressing recent calls to comprehend the change process in the form of management accounting systems to address economic sustainability in the context of SMEs.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231154656
Maria Järlström, Essi Saru, Aino Pekkarinen
Despite an increase in research on sustainable human resource management (HRM) and its practice, this relatively new research approach still lacks unified concepts and practices. We argue that more qualitative research is needed to discover the practical relevance of sustainability thinking in HRM. In this comparative case study of three Finnish companies, we aim to increase the understanding of this phenomenon by using a practice-based model of sustainable HRM as a theoretical foundation. We investigate why and how the companies implement sustainable HRM and what kinds of results they have achieved. We identify not only similarities but also differences among the companies. Therefore, our study contributes to the practice-based model of sustainable HRM by presenting the outcomes of the implemented HRM practices, as well as the importance of contextual issues. Our study enriches the sustainable HRM discussion by stressing the organizational context, content and process elements, thereby indirectly lending support to the ‘soft’ HRM model, which is more developmental and employee oriented. The results support the idea that the employer, society and employees can benefit from sustainable HRM in the long term. The positive outcomes of sustainable HRM include employee wellbeing related issues, such as long careers, low turnover, low absence rate and late retirements.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231163936
Jatta Pitkänen, H. Lehtimäki, Ari Jokinen
While the role of projects in sustainability change is widely recognized, the understanding of project managers’ behaviour in sustainability projects is limited. We examine project champions who act without hierarchical and authoritative power as environmental leaders and drive sustainability-related changes in the mindsets of actors and in city administration. Based on longitudinal action research, we elaborate on the practices and characteristics of project champions in initiating and advancing the circular economy in a city organization. Our study contributes to the intersection of research on project champions and environmental leaders by increasing the understanding of the ways through which champions develop their potency to promote sustainability in the course of the project.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231154646
Shabnam A. Shaikh, Anna-Maija Lämsä, Suvi Heikkinen
The need for collaborative leadership to advance knowledge sharing, novel ideas, inclusion and employee engagement has increased in modern organizations, with the aim being to make organizations more effective and responsible. Yet, an interesting question arises about how this kind of leadership model, which is arguably of Western origin, is understood and whether it can be applied in sociocultural contexts where top-down leadership tends to be exercised. This study addresses this question and explores the meaning of collaborative leadership from a cultural viewpoint in Pakistan, where collaborative relationships across hierarchical levels are not common. The applicability of collaborative leadership in the study context is also highlighted. The qualitative instrumental case study was conducted in a higher education institution in Pakistan, where the data were gathered with the help of open-ended interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Two central themes were explored: the tradition of leadership collaboration and the exclusion of some groups from collaboration. The study shows that the traditional cultural attribute called Otaq lays a foundation for understanding collaborative leadership in the study context. Similarly, it was discovered that several cultural features place limits on specific people’s opportunities to participate in leadership collaboration. Cultural features and how they are linked to the inclusion of the studied organization members in collaborative leadership efforts are highlighted. It is concluded that more contextually sensitive knowledge about collaborative leadership activities is needed in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231164518
Anna-Maija Lämsä, Suvi Heikkinen, Raminta Pučėtaitė
One of the most significant expectations faced by managers today is to succeed in integrating sustainability into an organization’s functions (Ajmal et al., 2018). The goal of this special issue is to raise interest into topics related to social sustainability in the functions of leadership and human resource management (HRM). More specifically, knowledge and understanding are produced of the social and human dimensions of organizational life in different organizational and socio-cultural settings. The theme of this special issue is still rather new and dispersed in both management research and management practice. Therefore, we present several significant perspectives that we believe are of relevance to learning more about social sustainability, leadership and HRM. The case studies in this issue provide in-depth, rich and multiple information about various real-life events and phenomena in the context of the theme.
当今管理者面临的最重要的期望之一是成功地将可持续性融入组织职能（Ajmal et al.，2018）。本期特刊的目的是提高人们对领导和人力资源管理职能中的社会可持续性相关主题的兴趣。更具体地说，知识和理解是在不同的组织和社会文化环境中产生的组织生活的社会和人的层面。这期特刊的主题在管理研究和管理实践中仍然相当新颖和分散。因此，我们提出了几个重要的观点，我们认为这些观点与更多地了解社会可持续性、领导力和人力资源管理有关。本期的案例研究提供了关于主题背景下各种现实生活事件和现象的深入、丰富和多样的信息。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779231155057
Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, M. Valkjärvi, Riikka Franzén, Sari Liikala, J. Tähtinen, Kati Suomi, Jaana Jeminen
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to the voluntary integration of social and environmental concerns into companies’ operations. This qualitative case study investigates microentrepreneurs’ values and business activities related to CSR, particularly the elements of social responsibility (SR) via the responsible leadership (RL) approach. We investigate how entrepreneurs perceive the concept of SR, how SR is related to values and through which leadership activities they plan to implement SR. The case is a CSR training programme with 30 Finnish microentrepreneurs as attendants. The results show that entrepreneurs perceive SR on two levels: philosophical and practice-oriented levels. At the philosophical level, RL is being truthful to one’s own values and taking a long-term, holistic view, and the practical SR includes customer focus, staff equality, or community and network activity. Being true to one’s personal values and having a holistic long-term view of SR are the ground-building elements guiding leadership decisions in microenterprises. The practical level of RL is not limited to the microenterprise but, rather, extends to, for example, customers and business partners. The theoretical contribution to the RL literature is that the groundwork for SR in microenterprises is based on strategically sustainable businesses that are in line with entrepreneurs’ values but also simultaneously pursue a greater, more long-term purpose than a short-term profit-seeking. This study adds to the RL literature, indicating that, regardless of their owner-centricity and the focus on practically relevant leadership activities in the here and now, microenterprises pursue larger impacts on the community by adopting a holistic, future-oriented view. Although microenterprises are owner-centric and individual motivations play a significant role in RL, this study shows that, in socially and economically sustainable microenterprises, entrepreneurs’ personal values are integrated with those of the customers.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-25DOI: 10.1177/22779779231154648
Akram Hatami, Jan Hermes, A. Keränen, Pauliina Ulkuniemi
In this article, we apply a distributed perspective on leadership to the study of co-responsibility and social sustainability in corporate volunteering. An approach to leadership as a distributed and collective phenomenon, in which leadership is shared, is highlighted as a method of developing a more responsible and people-focused approach to sustainability. Co-responsibility highlights the transition from individual to co-created responsibility, influenced by different actors and offering a wider approach to responsibility. The present qualitative study employs two corporate volunteering cases from Finland as an empirical context for distributing leadership. As a result, the study suggests three transitions in organizational life and leadership, including transition in values, organizing, and dynamism. The study contributes to the discussion of social sustainability by demonstrating how several transitions in terms of leadership are necessary to enable an emerging sense of co-responsibility in companies which is argued as the key to companies’ social sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1177/22779779231154647
Mukhammadyusuf Shaymardanov, Suvi Heikkinen, Anna-Maija Lämsä
This article carries out a literature review of research on social networks regarding women’s careers in the context of organizations and management for the period of 1970–2021. Our focus is on the conceptualization of social networks, understanding gender, and identification of the network effects that are important for women’s careers. The study enables us to create a comprehensive foundation of research knowledge conducted over several decades and build a profound base of suggestions for further research. Our analysis shows that the field has widened to include individual, organizational, and social environment viewpoints. The research on women’s social networks has evolved from establishing the field, to individualistic understanding, to accounting for sociocultural dynamics. The approach to gender has evolved from gender comparison to gender particularity and then contextualizing gender. Our suggestions for future research avenues include incorporating environmental aspects, virtual social networking, diversity, and leadership perspectives to improve women’s inclusion in social network research.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.24203/ajbm.v10i6.7102
Alexander T C, Anandanatarajan K., Rajan J
This paper presentation is an attempt to understand the challenges and issues in protecting livelihood assets in relation to forest gathering of tribal communities in Kerala. The concept of protection of livelihood assets is one of the core concept of livelihood recovery processes necessitated basically in the event of calamities and other adverse events. The guidance note published by the UNDP on recovery processes is a detailed document on this topic. Forest gathering in Kerala is slowly dying out and is in a stage warranting immediate intervention for revival as if it is affected by adverse events. This study is therefore concentrated on identifying the livelihood assets based on Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), which is a tool developed based on Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) formulated by Chambers & Conway, in 1991. The assets thus identified, in the broad classes of Human, Social, Natural Physical and Financial assets, are Skilled Human resources, Aboriginal Knowledge and Gathering Skills, Tribal Cooperatives and other self-help groups, Forest resources, Forest Dwelling Rights, other related Infrastructure Facilities and Cash Assistances. Each of this assets are discussed primarily based on hands-on experience and exposure of the paper presenter as an official associated with the operations of tribal cooperative sector in Kerala for a period of 5 years and wherever necessary historical data, related literatures and governmental reports are relied. Based on the discussions, reviews, and analysis of data, this paper put forth its findings and conclusions to the intended audience for necessary remedial steps and future studies.
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