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The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2509-2577, September 2026.
Abstract We extend the mixed gamble perspective to explain how family‐controlled firms frame and evaluate the difficult trade‐off between potential gains and losses in financial wealth (FW) and socioemotional wealth (SEW) when pursuing portfolio‐level strategic initiatives, as captured by competitive aggressiveness and complexity.
Jaeyoung Cho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2927-2964, September 2026.
Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2861-2893, September 2026.
Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
wiley   +1 more source

Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 3165-3203, September 2026.
Abstract We use role congruity theory to examine how differing role expectations surrounding entrepreneur gender and race shape the influence of social responsibility rhetoric used in crowdfunding pitches. To do so, we develop a novel content‐analytic measure of social responsibility rhetoric using the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini (KLD) dimensions of ...
Aaron H. Anglin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 3780-3814, September 2026.
Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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