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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

The More, the Merrier? Membership Expansion and Incumbents' Boundary Work Divergence in the Platformization of Belgian Philanthropy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract When actors emerge on the periphery of a field, incumbents either engage in protective boundary work to enforce the field's membership criteria, or opt for membership expansion by adapting these criteria to accommodate peripheral actors. Less explored is the divergence configuration where a minority of incumbents pursue expansion whereas the ...
Benjamin Huybrechts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

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