Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce it will partner with the University of New South Wales, Australia (UNSW) to publish its journal The Economic and Labour Relations Review (the ELRR) from 2023.
As the largest economic conflict in modern history, the United States (U.S.)-China trade war highlights the growing strategic competition between the two countries and will likely have profound implications for geopolitics and the global economy.
We asked the Editors of five Cambridge Management journals to select recently published articles covering topics they felt will be hotly debated, discussed and researched in 2021.Settle…
Since multinational enterprises (MNEs) orchestrate 80-90 percent of global trade through complex value chains, policies governing the conditions of these MNEs’ direct investment profoundly influence how countries integrate into transnational economic networks, the development trajectory of those economies, and the overall structure of the global economy.…
The Management and Organization Review (MOR) Resilience Forum The Covid pandemic had almost instantaneously attracted attention to national, institutional, organizations and individual capabilities of resilience.…
Some people stay with their current employer because they have to, they need the money. Others stay because they feel they ought to, the company needs them and it’s the right thing to do.…
The biggest lesson we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic is that we need to avoid the polarized extremes of either tight coupling or full de-coupling in favor of loose coupling as a new form of globalization with a proper balance between localization and globalization to manage the paradox of global interdependence.…
One of the many crises the world faces today is the climate emergency. Greenhouse gas emissions are destabilizing the global climate, and mitigating this change requires ambitious economic plans to which polluters need to comply.…
As the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent success in containing it, China’s response to the pandemic has drawn worldwide attention.…
While the coordination of business activities through interpersonal ties and networks has been researched in management and organization studies, using informal networks for managing and organizing in an international context is a rather new research field.…
‘Generative resilience’ distinctively involves the imagination of the new in response to the unimagined – indeed a difficult operation, calling for particular forms of thinking, not only for particular structures.…
On June 30th the Higher Education website initially launched with a small selection of 80 online textbooks, with more titles due to be added throughout the following months.…
How do societies and organizations manifest resilience in a crisis, and why are some more resilient than others? This question animates the Management and Organization Review’s Resilience Forum.…
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
About the author: Edward B. Barbier is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Colorado State University and a Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.…
Onna van den Broek & Adam William Chalmers “The 2019 David P. Baron Award has been awarded to Adam William Chalmers and Onna Malou van den Broek for their article “Financial volatility and public scrutiny as institutional determinants of financial industry firms’ CSR” (Volume 21, Issue 2)” The 2007 global financial crisis substantially changed the nature of the relationship between financial industry firms and society.…
India’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem is recognised as one of the largest in the world, with global integration in terms of technology, financing, human capital, and administration.…
This special issue of Business History Review uses medieval, 19th century and 20th century examples to show that the union of entrepreneurship and philanthropy has a long history.
The last decade has seen a remarkable opening of new job opportunities for people who are neurodiverse – a subset of the general population that historically has experienced un- and underemployment rates as high as 85–90%.…
The international context of business has shifted markedly in recent years, with globalization under US hegemony giving way to the twin forces of de-globalization and a growing Sino-American rivalry.…
Today almost every adult in Sweden has a digital BankID, issued by banks for the purpose of ensuring safe payments. However, a BankID is also a pre¬requisite for contacts with for example municipal schools, and the public healthcare system.…
Co-creation is not a new idea. For years companies have been seeking advice from their customers about how they can improve their products and services, either by asking directly, by quietly listening, or by learning from data.…
Guanxi is one of the most popular topics in Chinese and Western scholarship concerning social ties in China. However, several problems in research on guanxi persist, and multiple debates are still ongoing without much consensus in sight.…
This special issue aims to advance the quality, diversity and understanding of qualitative research methods in management in the context of emerging markets (EMs).…
Imagine a business culture that could exist—but doesn’t (at least, not yet). If you could design that culture, what would it look like?…
Due to globalization, organizations are increasingly operating in multicultural and multinational contexts. In 21st century, the metaphor of a ‘flat world’ comprehensively represents the contemporary business world.…
Corporate codes have increased extensively over the last three decades, significantly, as a response to the legal requirements that were developed in response to financial and business scandals.…
It is sometimes right to let others do wrong. Sweatshops provide a potential example of particular ethical significance. The argument for this, in brief, runs as follows.…
While historical institutionalism gives priority to structure over agency, institutions have never developed and operated without the intervention of interested groups.[1]…
Organizations have to strive in an uncertain and challenging environment, that is a fact. Then, why some organizations not only survive but emerge stronger, whereas others do not?…
Recently there has been growing attention internationally around potential job automation, and the future of work. This is because of advances in technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and algorithms etc.…
‘No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.’ (Voltaire) ‘Uncertainty is the normal state.’ (Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) Voltaire’s comment reflects a view apparently held by many others.…
For several decades, individuals and communities affected by climate change – as well as the lawyers, advocates and civil society organizations who represent them – have been using litigation as a strategic tool to hold corporations accountable for climate change-related human rights harms.…
This special issue in Business History Review on Business and the Environment seeks to promote new approaches in business history designed to explore of the role of business in both creating and addressing the mounting environmental crisis that has become apparent over the last half century.
Most of the research that is currently in ‘leading’ journals ignores the really important issues that confront our world. As an example, consider what is probably the most important problem now facing our species.…
Jenn and I sat across from each other at a wooden table in a light filled café in central Oklahoma, discussing yet another incidence of sexual assault on a college campus.…
The importance of maternity and childcare entitlements has been widely acknowledged by both scholars and policy-makers: evidence shows that well paid, non-transferable and flexible provisions with respect to maternity and child care-giving mitigate the “baby penalty” women face in the labour market and help in reducing gender inequalities both in the household and at the workplace.…
In the last two decades, leading business schools in China have established U.S.-style tenure systems to reward scholars who can publish in respectable international journals according to a journal list. A more “progressive” practice of many business schools is to attach a price tag to journals according to their ranking in the journal list and offer monetary rewards to scholars who publish in these journals. Science, then, has a price.
Regulations and regulatory change are a political process that is the product of the interaction between politicians, bureaucrats, the general public and interest groups.…
David Teece in his concluding article “China and the Reshaping of the Auto Industry: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective” examines the Chinese automakers, in competition with foreign car companies, through the four paradigm shifts that are ongoing in the industry: vehicles are becoming electric, autonomous, connected and offer mobility as a service.…
Addressing climate change effectively requires making low-carbon technologies competitive against existing fossil-fuel based energy technologies. Bargaining over policies to promote clean energy is often as a domestic issue, pitting interest groups against each another as they vie to shape national polices.…
In 2011, I published an article titled “From Foe to Friend? Business, the Tipping Point and U.S. Climate Politics” in the journal Business & Politics.…
We presented a novel approach to studying international business alliances by initiating a new conversation in an interdisciplinary context: political science, international relations and management.…
Since the rise of regulation as a tool used by governments to intervene in different policy sectors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, countries around the word have established sector regulatory agencies to perform that task.…
Sven Steinmo states in his book Taxation and Democracy, “Governments need money. Modern Governments need lots of money.” This is no less true today than it was twenty-five years ago when he wrote it.…
The Dialogue, Debate and Discussion Forum on Tesla and the Global Automotive Industry The Tesla Forum on global automotive industry presents the possibility that China may be on the verge of becoming a global disruptor in an automotive industry. …
by Andrew H. Van de Ven, Univ. of Minnesota, USA, avandeve@umn.edu Alan D. Meyer, School of Business, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, ameyer@uoregon.edu…
It’s become common in late 2018 to hear that the United States and China are locking themselves into an Artificial Intelligence ‘arms race’.…
Management studies are under scrutiny as to their status as a science (see “The Critique of Empirical Social Science: New Policies at Management and Organization Review”).…
Some of the United States’ most eminent arms manufacturers had their start in the middle of the nineteenth century. These were also the years that American industry began to surpass Europe’s, and that Americans’ belief in their right to “civilize” the continent became known as “Manifest Destiny.”…
Networks of regulators are a well-established feature of the European Union system of governance. For a long time, the academic debate emphasised that networks were created in order to ensure a degree of convergence in regulatory policies across the EU, given the absence of supranational Euro-regulators.…
A seismic shift is going on in finance still largely unnoticed by the public. People and institutions are increasingly investing their money into index tracker funds instead of actively managed mutual funds.…
Professor Andrew Van de Ven looks forward to his new role as Deputy Editor for Engaged Indigenous Scholarship at Management and Organizational Review Professor Andrew Van de Ven (University of Minnesota) has joined Management and Organization Review as Deputy Editor for Engaged Indigenous Scholarship. …
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Business and Politics in 2018. In the past year, we’ve published a number of outstanding articles on topics as diverse as financial regulation, dark money in elections, additive manufacturing, the oil industry behavior in Nigeria, the impact of data completion for development, and corporate social responsibility in India.…
A two-day paper development workshop organised by the journal Management and Organization Review (MOR) took place at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on 17th and 18th January 2018.…
Our last issue of JMO for 2017 was running a bit late but this special issue on Indigenous Entrepreneurship is well worth the wait.…
Several recent developments highlight the precarious relationship between international investment law (“IIL”), the law that protects foreign corporations (and other foreign investors) when they enter a new state, and international human rights law (“IHRL”), particularly the human rights of communities and individuals affected by foreign businesses.…
Mental health considerations and remediation in cases of corporate-related human rights harm Reflecting on the theme of “Realizing Access to Remedy” at the upcoming UN Annual Forum, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights asserts that Pillar III of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) is losing the epithet ‘forgotten pillar.’…
The right to effective remedy – the ‘third pillar’ of the United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPS) – is already a fundamental human right.…
Doing business in the Global South can be a risky proposition. Unfortunately, no matter how much planning a company does in advance of launching an investment, unforeseen challenges such as competing land claims or other investment-related disputes or trends can occur, causing negative impact on the operation.…
Operational level grievance mechanisms are part of the UN General Principles’ access to remedy pillar, yet their role has been called into question by some sectors of civil society.…
Pillar three of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) on access to remedy has increasingly been referred to as the “forgotten pillar”.…
Now that the new academic year has arrived, many Ph.D. students will be going on the job market for the first time.…
A new study published in MRS Energy & Sustainability investigates why so many of these American battery materials startups are failing under the current venture capital funding model.
Sean Vanatta’s article Citibank, Credit Cards, and the Local Politics of National Consumer Finance, 1968–1991, published in Business History Review, is the winner of the 2016 Henrietta Larson Article Award.…
Below is a blog based on Kevin Farnsworth’s Journal of Social Policy article. A longer, fully-referenced version can be found at: http://www.corporate-welfare-watch.org.uk/…
This blog post is based on the author’s paper Building Reputation through Third-Party Endorsement: Fair Trade in British Chocolate, published in Business History Review.…
Welfare states support vulnerable citizens by means of different types of social policy. Examples include unemployment and pension benefits, and social assistance schemes.…
Management has always been an eclectic area to research and practice. It collects and draws together theories and practices from sociology through to anthropology and even engineering.…
This is the abstract for a new Review Essay published in Business History Review by Angus Burgin entitled ‘Larry Neal and Jeffrey G.…
The notion of ‘small is beautiful’ has been a catchcry since British economist; Ernst Schumacher first published his book with this title back in 1973.…
Journal of Management & Organization (JMO) has always aimed to provide global perspective on management and organization of benefit to scholars, educators, students, practitioners, policy-makers and consultants.…
If there is one thing I have learned about teaching business and human rights for 20 years--most recently at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, California--and before that as a case writer at Harvard Business School, it is the importance of making the business case for human rights.
Based on an article written in Journal of Management & Organization Over the past few years, the Indian economy is witnessing an annual growth rate of 7–10% and its industrial sectors are expanding at a very fast pace in response to the increased liberalization and privatization.…
Blog post based on an article in Journal of Management & Organization Some years ago a Masters graduate rang me up to discuss the merger between her State Department and a related State Department.…
Post written by Maria Luisa Farnese, Roberta Fida and Stefano Livi based on an article in Journal of Management & Organization Increasingly dynamic, and sometimes unpredictable, environments compel companies to adapt quickly to changing rules and market demands.…
Blog post written by André de Waal, Béatrice van der Heijden, Christopher Selvarajah and Denny Meyer Based on an article in Journal of Management & Organization National cultures have a strong influence on the performance of organizations and should be taken into account when studying the traits of High Performing Managers (HPMs).…
How have you found your first 18 months as Editor of JMO? Genuinely enjoyable. It is a great honour and responsibility to lead the development of JMO into a truly global journal with growing impact, building on the founding work of the previous editors. …
A recent literature has found that married couples share risks only partially. When the labour income of one spouse decreases (e.g.…
Blog post based on a focal article from the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology There is an increasingly prevalent perception that there are differences among generations and that these differences are creating unprecedented challenges for modern organizations.…
Based on an article in the latest issue of Management and Organization Review ‘Globalization’ has become the buzzword of the last two decades.…
Until recently, the U.S. legal academy has taken a relatively narrow approach to to business and human rights scholarship...
Blog post based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy In his book What Money Can’t Buy, Michael Sandel argues compellingly that we should be paying more attention to the moral limits of markets.…
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is losing steam. Many – perhaps too many? – corporations have embraced it, but too often they seem to look at it merely as a new source for growth and profits or as an act of charity, rather than as a philosophy that transforms the way they do business.…
Editor-in-Chief Arie Y. Lewin answers our questions… Question: For those who may be new to the journal, what makes it stand out in the landscape of management journals?…
Based on an article in the latest issue of Journal of Management & Organization Despite global recommendations and a plethora of academic research suggesting that companies should take workplace bullying seriously, the education sector in New Zealand are failing to take responsibility for the welfare of their employees and mentors, a new study has shown.…
Based on an article in the latest issue of Journal of Management & Organization One of the most challenging and unresolved problems in the field of strategic management is the high rate of organisational strategies that fail, with some authors estimating a rate of failure of approximately 80 to 90%.…
Recent well-publicised cases of corporate wrongdoing have placed ethical business firmly on the public agenda. Not surprisingly academic scholarship in this area is growing, with business ethics and corporate social responsibility taught as core modules by thousands of business schools worldwide as well as featuring on philosophy, law and IR courses.…
Interview from the last issue of the IACMR Monthly Briefing As of 2015 Management and Organization Review will be published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) The 2013 Journal Citation Report has released that Management and Organization Review’s 2013 Impact Factor is 3.227, placing MOR’s ranking at No.…
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
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