Pub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1177/00187267251335859
Daniel Fisher, Daisy Chung
Frontline workers who occupy public-facing, non-managerial roles are critical to the ongoing sociotechnical accomplishment of safety in complex systems, yet their role is often overlooked in relation to organizational safety programs, protocols, and training. In this paper, we examine how frontline workers make judgments about potential hazards during routine work and how they respond to organizational directives that contravene their expertise. Drawing on interviews with train drivers working for private franchises in the United Kingdom, our findings show how frontline workers’ safety culture and unique embodied knowledge constitute their epistemic authority which ultimately supports robust safety voice and listening in a complex sociotechnical system. We show how train drivers are subject to extensive organizational controls that are meant to realize safety, but that in practice these controls are insufficient for responding to the incidents that occur on the tracks. These findings offer insight into how frontline workers draw on occupational authority to uphold a societal mandate for safety.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1177/00187267251332465
Lusi Wu, Matthew B Perrigino, Hongzhi Chen
Despite resource-based theories espousing the virtues of supervisory family support (SFS), we question the definitiveness of an oversimplified assumption that receiving SFS is a beneficial, positive experience. We develop a model based on appraisal theories of emotion, with results from two experimental studies and a multi-wave survey study supporting our notion of the need for a more balanced view. First, SFS is positively linked to employees’ feelings of gratitude (a positive emotion) and indebtedness (a negative emotion). Second, gratitude mediates the link between SFS and approach job crafting. Yet—arguing that a key feature of SFS is that it empowers employees to temporarily disengage or withdraw from some work-related tasks—we also find that indebtedness mediates the link between SFS and avoidance job crafting. Third, considering employees’ work-family conflict (WFC) as a contextual factor that moderates the effects of SFS, we find that WFC conditions the indirect effect of SFS on avoidance job crafting via indebtedness. With these insights, our balanced view of SFS offers a more comprehensive assessment of employees’ lived experiences associated with the receipt of SFS.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-19DOI: 10.1177/00187267251327955
Mariano LM Heyden, Heidi M Wechtler, Sebastiaan van Doorn
We examine the reproduction of executive age profiles across chief executive officer (CEO) succession episodes. Counter to the trend of the general workforce becoming more age-diverse, executives appear to have become more age homogenous and increasingly older at appointment. This is despite increasing frequency of CEO succession episodes, which represent opportunities for demographic change at the top. Combining insights from upper echelons theory, homosocial reproduction theory, and executive succession research, we examine age homophily as an underexamined response to appease some of the disruptiveness surrounding CEO succession episodes. Exploiting CEO succession as a theoretical context for change and an empirical identification strategy, we construct a sample of 391 successions in 297 Standard and Poor’s 500 index companies from 2000 to 2020 and apply a hierarchical linear modeling specification to test hypotheses. We find general support for the notion that age profiles of departing CEOs and incumbent top management teams (TMTs) tend to be reproduced across succession episodes. However, some intriguing patterns emerge when accounting for the origin of the incoming CEO. Notably, some of these general tendencies may be reinforced under outsider CEO successors—counter to the usual expectation for upheaval prompted by outside CEO appointments. We discuss implications for theory and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1177/00187267251332075
Jakob Stollberger, Smriti Anand, Penny Dick
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of scientific knowledge production since the latest iterations of generative AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, or Gemini) became widely available. Given AI has rapidly evolved since the initial release of ChatGPT in 2022, researching how AI’s capabilities impact organizations and how researchers make use of AI tools can be likened to a moving target. In this editorial essay, we explore the implications of the introduction of AI in the context of academic research, both as the subject of investigation (i.e., research on AI) and as a research tool to facilitate academic writing, data generation, or the peer review process (i.e., research with AI). Specifically, concerning research on AI, we consider issues around clarity regarding both existing definitions and concepts in the AI literature and how these are influenced by the rapid technological evolution of AI’s capabilities. In regard to research with AI, we reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of the use of AI as a research tool and discuss the Human Relations AI Usage Policy . Overall, our aim is not to be overly prescriptive on how to conduct research on and with AI but to encourage authors to reflect on how to best capture AI as a moving target in the context of their research endeavors.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1177/00187267251324848
Wen Wu, Dan Ni, Christopher M. Barnes, Shaoxue Wu, Xianting Peng, Xiaoke Cheng, Zhuyan Yu
Many employees spend a significant portion of their workday commuting to and from work, albeit with considerable day-to-day variability in those commutes. Based on the time-scarcity perspective, scholars have reached a consensus that time spent commuting is generally draining for employees. This raises an important question: Do all employees have negative reactions to longer commuting times? Challenging this view, we use a temporally based chronotype fit perspective to argue that time spent commuting is less fatiguing for some people compared to others. We propose that at the within-person level, morning (evening) commuting time negatively relates to work (family) role performance via fatigue at work (home). The chronotype moderates the within-individual effects of time spent commuting on fatigue and performance at work and home. The harmful effects of time spent commuting on fatigue and performance are attenuated for persons with a biological preference for evening activity. These effects stand in contrast to previous research that predicted workplace advantages for those individuals with a biological preference for morning activity. We also propose the spillover effects of fatigue at work on fatigue at home and of work role performance on family role performance. Two experience sampling method surveys largely support our hypotheses.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-30DOI: 10.1177/00187267251328865
Claire Champenois, Dimo Dimov, Silvia Gherardi, Daniel Hjorth, Neil Aaron Thompson
As the boundaries of ‘work’ extend to include work that adapts to or brings about new organization, social value and alternative futures, it intersects with entrepreneurship studies in intriguing yet under-developed ways. This special issue focuses on developing this intersection by advancing process and practice theory research on entrepreneuring. Entrepreneuring is a concept that captures the processuality and relationality of entrepreneurship, and its emancipatory potential, that occurs amidst existing organizational conditions of work. Entrepreneuring thus poses hitherto missing questions relating to how new forms of work are actually enacted in concrete practices, the tensions from which it emerges and that it triggers, the ambivalence it conveys, and the metamorphoses it goes through. In turn, entrepreneuring conceives of work as fluid and permeated by open-ended possibility, providing space for scholars of entrepreneurship, work and organization to come together to ‘imagining-with’ practitioners alternative political, social, technological and ecological futures that have yet to come into being. The articles in this special issue illuminate the various processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work and provide novel conceptualizations, vocabularies and methodologies that can advance this budding but increasingly important domain of research and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1177/00187267251322053
Emil Husted, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Sara Dahlman
This article reorients Critical Management Studies (CMS) literature on alternative organization by proposing a processual perspective that relies on Foucault’s concept of ‘critique’ and Mathiesen’s notion of ‘the unfinished’. Rejecting the predefined and normative conception of alternativity that guides much CMS literature, we suggest viewing alternatives as constituted through ever-changing processes of making and breaking dominant orders. This perspective moves the study of alternatives forward by allowing researchers to discover alternativity in unexpected places and appreciate the constitutive intertwinement of ‘the alternative’ and ‘the mainstream’. Most importantly, however, it helps us study the organizational evolution of alternatives and their ongoing struggle to remain deviant. We demonstrate the analytical utility of our approach through a comparative study of two political parties: Independents for Frome (IfF) in the UK and Alternativet in Denmark. Building on this analysis, we explore how and why one organization appears to be thriving while the other seems moribund. We further outline three ‘liberating tactics’ that alternatives may use to remain unfinished and thus alternative: reiteration, compartmentalization, and alliancing. In conclusion, we discuss what it might mean to study alternatives in a processual manner and point to future avenues of research.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1177/00187267251317444
Hussain Tariq, Abdul Karim Khan, Wayne A Hochwarter, Michael Muchiri, Mayowa T Babalola
Can an employee rationalize their supervisory abuse to the point where sabotaging customers seems justified? Drawing from the social information processing theory perspective, we introduce three distinct types of supervisor–supervisee dyadic cognitive influences (i.e. attention-shifting, role-sending, and role-modeling mechanisms) to explain the trickle-out effects of abusive supervision on customers. We hypothesized that an abused employee’s perception of acceptability of norm violations, role ambiguity, and role-modeling influence mediates the effects of abusive supervision on customer-directed sabotage. Furthermore, we developed a process-moderated mediation model to explain how different levels of psychological and physical proximity shape these effects. Across two studies in distinct face-to-face service contexts, we found that the perceived acceptability of norm violations (Study 2), role ambiguity (Study 1 and Study 2), and role-modeling influence (Study 1 and Study 2) trickle out the effects of abusive supervision on customers. Interestingly, these trickle-out effects via role ambiguity and role-modeling influence are intensified when employees are psychologically close to their supervisor but physically distant from customers, but under these moderation mediation conditions, the trickle-out effect via perceived acceptability of norm violations has been weakened. Our findings offer new insights into how abusive behaviors ripple through service organizations, affecting not just internal dynamics but external customer relations as well.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1177/00187267241312636
Emma Bell
The practice turn creates possibilities for more relational approaches to entrepreneuring that challenge anthropocentric logics which exclude naturalized others, including animals, plants and ecologies, from consideration. This article uses feminist materialism to develop a more-than-human understanding of entrepreneurship, drawing empirically on qualitative data collected from a study of artisanal bakeries. I show how practices of craft, that rely on embodied proximity to materials and care(ful) making, require bakers to engage affirmatively with and become relationally dependent upon the microorganisms needed to make bread. The heterogeneous elements of artisanal bread making become connected and acquire agency through fermentation, which alerts bakers to invisible life forces they do not control and must treat with care. Through empirical insights of proximity, connections and collective agitation, fermentation offers a transversal metaphor for thinking differently about what entrepreneurial bodies can do. The article contributes to understanding craft entrepreneuring as a vital, self-organizing, emergent process of meeting with and extending care to others. By drawing attention to the more-than-human relations of artisanal bread making, it demonstrates the ethical possibilities of an entrepreneuring that remains open, attentive and curious towards others and the capacities of matter, as a basis for collective future-making.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/00187267251318960
Anna Wettermark, Karin Berglund
Entrepreneurship is often understood as acting boldly on the market, broadcasting one’s endeavours in persuasive success stories. We, in contrast, seek to understand less flamboyant entrepreneurial practices by examining the creativity and innovations pursued by a gendered and marginalized professional group in the public sector. Through an ethnographic study of hospital pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic, we seek to understand how pharmacists ‘do’ entrepreneuring at work, what practices they engage in, and how they act creatively, sometimes breaking with role expectations, and seldom receiving recognition for what they are doing. In the article, we refer to this as silent entrepreneuring – a form of entrepreneuring that simultaneously complies with and refuses entrepreneurial ideals. By adopting two contrasting but complementary analytical positions, we examine the often unspoken activities of pharmacists and how they form practices that both support and contradict each other. We conclude by suggesting that the concept of silent entrepreneuring enables a broadened understanding of organizational entrepreneurship that calls for greater sensitivity towards the different forms that entrepreneuring may take.
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