British Journal of Management

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Does Leaders’ Mindfulness Benefit Followers? A Meta-analytic Review and Research Agenda" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to James N. Donald (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Helena Nguyen (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to James Conigrave (La Trobe University) 🎉Congratulation to Anya Johnson (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Dr. Inmaculada Adarves-Yorno (University of Exeter Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Ryan Cheng (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Anya Bedi (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Kevin B. Lowe (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Jessica L. Lyons (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Emma K. Devine (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Georg B. Tamm (The University of Sydney Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Richard M. Ryan (Australian Catholic University) What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 Within leadership research, mindfulness is increasingly viewed as being critical for leadership effectiveness. Central to leadership is the ability to support, motivate, and engage followers – that is, the capacity to have influence. Mindfulness has been proposed as a valuable enabler of effective leadership influence. 🌟 In this study, the authors synthesize a growing body of research on mindfulness in leadership contexts by reviewing how and under what conditions mindful leaders influence their followers. 🌟 The authors meta-analysed two associations: leaders’ mindfulness and leadership behaviours directed towards followers; and leaders’ mindfulness and follower outcomes (i.e., well-being, performance and leader–follower relations). 🌟 Based on a pool of 109 studies with 396 effect sizes and 19,887 participants, the authors found that leaders with higher mindfulness engage in more follower-centred leadership behaviours, such as more transformational and authentic leadership (r = 0.39 [0.22, 0.54]), and as a result have better relations with followers (r = 0.33 [0.25, 0.40]), and have followers with better well-being (r = 0.33 [0.25, 0.41]) and performance (r = 0.35 [0.29, 0.41]). 🌟 Longitudinal and emerging intervention evidence corroborates this pattern of findings. 🌟 Key contributions of this review are critically evaluating the quality of existing studies and outlining a research agenda to advance this field. #Mindfulness #Followers #MetaanalyticReview #ResearchAgenda Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/ep54w4DG

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Does Customization Promote Innovation? Evidence From Knowledge-intensive Business Service Firms" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Panos Desyllas (University of Bath) 🎉Congratulation to Hsing-Fen Lee (Royal Holloway, University of London) 🎉Congratulation to Ian Miles (The University of Manchester) 🎉Congratulation to Marcela Miozzo (King's College London) What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 The relationship between customization and innovation remains unclear in existing research. Customization requires firms to gain in-depth knowledge of clients and the product attributes they need, and such knowledge is typically seen as vital for successful innovation. However, close attention to current clients' requirements may limit awareness of broader market needs and innovation opportunities. 🌟 This study develops hypotheses about the customization–innovation link on the basis of an attention-based perspective on innovation. 🌟 The authors test our predictions using data from an original survey of UK and US knowledge-intensive business services firms, and employing a novel measure of customization (capturing the degree of customization as displayed through firms’ portfolio of services). 🌟 The results reveal a clear positive association between a firm's service customization and its innovative activity. This relationship, however, is weakened as the firm's intensity of collaboration with current clients increases – unless the firm has also developed deliberate learning processes. 🌟 The authors advance understanding of how customization can spark innovation, by showing that while firms must understand current clients' needs, they should remain mindful of broader market opportunities and develop deliberate learning practices to transform client-specific knowledge into innovation for the wider market. #Customization #Innovation Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/ePnvew3m

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Integrating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Management Education: An Empathy Framework" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Tana Cristina Licsandru (Queen Mary University of London) 🎉Congratulation to Carlo Mari (University of Molise) 🎉Congratulation to Dr Eva Kipnis (University of Bradford) 🎉Congratulation to Dr. Cristina Galalae (The Open University Business School) 🎉Congratulation to Emma Johnson (The University of Sheffield) 🎉Congratulation to Samantha N. N. Cross (Babson College) 🎉Congratulation to Prof. Charles Chi Cui (University of Westminster) 🎉Congratulation to Shauna Kearney (Birmingham City University) 🎉Congratulation to Veronica Martin Ruiz, PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 🎉Congratulation to Lizette Vorster Larsen (Aarhus University), Irem Yoruk, PhD (California State University, Los Angeles) What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 Are future managers well equipped to drive the transformation towards more inclusive and just societies? This paper presents the perspectives of business school students on integrating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles into management education. 🌟 The authors engage students as participants, co-researchers and consultants in a student voice-informed, multi-method qualitative study taking place in the United Kingdom (East and West Midlands, South East and West and North regions) and in the United States (Midwest region), focusing on marketing as a case discipline. Findings illuminate student critiques of the prevalent normative coverage of DEI, to the detriment of applied knowledge and action-oriented learning. 🌟 The authors draw on the concept of empathy as a foundational lens for understanding and conceptualizing student expectations and develop a theoretical framework for holistically integrating DEI into management education. 🌟 Their framework offers a theoretical understanding of shortcomings in current DEI learning in business schools and advances empathy as integral to both DEI and responsible management education. It proposes a novel direction for pedagogical innovations addressing social justice broadly and DEI specifically and showcases the value of student-voice-informed methodologies in education research for curriculum change. #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #ManagementEducation #EmpathyFramework #EDI Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/eFU28ige

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Dynamic Capabilities for Circular Economy Innovations towards Net Zero: Acqua & Sole Case Study" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Beatrice Re - Università di Pavia! 🎉Congratulation to Giovanna Magnani - Università di Pavia! 🎉Congratulation to Pietro Previtali - Università di Pavia! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 Circular economy innovations can support firms’ transition towards the ‘net-zero target’, one of the key objectives that firms ought to pursue to face climate change. 🌟 Dynamic capabilities are deemed pivotal to enhance circular economy innovations; however, little is known about which ones – and how – can contribute to reaching such objectives. 🌟 Through an in-depth and longitudinal case study of an innovative circular firm in the agricultural industry, and the adoption of a multi-level approach, the authors unpack a set of novel dynamic capabilities activated at different organizational levels: market anticipation, close collaboration with research centres, talent acquisition, development of creative thinking, internal collaboration and exchange of ideas, and decision-making and leadership skills. 🌟 These capabilities make the organization flexible, forward-looking, and able to sense and seize opportunities to reach sustainable goals continuously. 🌟 The authors contribute to management studies on dynamic capabilities and circular economy innovations by introducing a multi-level framework showing how dynamic capabilities at each organizational level and their interactions drive circular innovations. #DynamicCapabilities #CircularEconomy #Innovations #NetZero #Acqua #SoleCaseStudy Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/eY6Qufg8

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Market Reactions to Cryptocurrency Regulation: Risk, Return and the Role of Enforcement Quality" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Douglas Cumming - School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology! 🎉Congratulation to Johannes Fuchs - Technical University of Munich School of Management! 🎉Congratulation to Paul P. Momtaz - Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 The authors explore the risk–return trade-off in international regulation of cryptocurrency markets using a unique sample of regulations implemented between July 2018 and April 2023. 🌟 Various regulation types have reduced risk in cryptocurrency markets while having differential impacts on raw and risk-adjusted returns. 🌟 Given the legal challenges for national jurisdictions in regulating international markets, the authors develop a digital asset regulatory strength index (DARSI) and study the impacts of national regulatory enforcement quality on the risk and return effects of cryptocurrency regulations. 🌟 The authors find that strong enforcement quality, measured based on the strength of formal institutions, amplified the regulations' intended effects. The amplification effect is more pronounced for regulations announced by a financial regulator and for more liquid tokens. 🌟Consistent with the view that normative compliance-seeking facilitates the adoption of norms, the authors also find that cultural uncertainty avoidance amplifies regulations' intended effects. #MarketReactions #CryptocurrencyRegulation #Risk #Return #EnforcementQuality Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/en3Xb9sY

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "A Green Light to Executive Pay: Institutional Monitors and Pay Sensitivity to Carbon Performance" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Danial Hemmings - Bangor Business School - Ysgol Busnes Bangor, Bangor University! 🎉Congratulation to Lynn Hodgkinson - Bangor Business School - Ysgol Busnes Bangor, Bangor University! 🎉Congratulation to Gwion Williams - Bangor Business School - Ysgol Busnes Bangor, Bangor University! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 The authors test for relations among executive compensation premia and firm carbon performance under varying degrees of institutional investor monitoring. 🌟 Using US data for 2010–2023 (15,836 firm-years), the authors find that low carbon emissions firms remunerate more excessively than high emitters, indicating greater rent extraction. 🌟 Excess pay to carbon performance sensitivity relates non-linearly to institutional investors’ ownership. 🌟 Although outside monitors initially discipline against overcompensating managers, carbon performance leads to more excessive pay when powerful institutional blockholders hold a controlling stake. 🌟 Drawing on agency and institutional perspectives, the authors assert that pressure on US firms and financial institutions to decarbonize has benefitted managers of low emitting firms with a relatively stronger hand in pay bargaining. #GreenLight #ExecutivePay #InstitutionalMonitors #PaySensitivity #CarbonPerformance Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/e6SfX279

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Managing Brand Assets Internally: Turning Employees Into an Integral Source of Brand Equity" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Kalliopi Chatzipanagiotou - University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow! 🎉Congratulation to George Christodoulides - American University of Sharjah! 🎉Congratulation to Spiros Gounaris - University of Strathclyde Business School! 🎉Congratulation to Dr Afroditi Dalakoura - Glasgow Caledonian University! 🎉Congratulation to Achilleas Boukis - University of Birmingham! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 The brand is often the most prized asset a company owns. While this intangible asset may be examined from different stakeholders’ perspectives, most research on brand equity has focused primarily on customers and the firm, thus often neglecting the importance of employees. 🌟 This research draws on three studies to advance a dynamic model, which appreciates the complexity of employee-based brand equity (EBBE) by focusing on its development process and outcomes. 🌟 Study 1, based on 21 interviews with employees and the pertinent literature, proposes that EBBE consists of four sequential and interdependent blocks: brand-building, brand assimilation, brand affinity and brand enactment. 🌟 Study 2 uses survey data from 420 employees and leverages the advantages of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to support the EBBE development model and its propositions, demonstrating its effects on key outcomes such as employee performance and customer feedback. 🌟 Finally, Study 3 validates the EBBE model and its dynamic nature on a new sample of US employees and resampled datasets based on employment duration to validate its structural power, dynamic nature and explanatory capacity. 🌟 This is the first research to examine EBBE as a complex, dynamic process, shedding light on its development and guiding organizations in managing brands by emphasizing employees as key stakeholders. #BrandAssets #BrandEquity Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/eNHbe386

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "Shareholder Activism on Climate Issues: The Role of Framing and Stakeholder Systems" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Carine GIRARD-GUERRAUD - Audencia Business School! 🎉Congratulation to Yves Rannou - Clermont School of Business! 🎉Congratulation to Sabrina Alioui - Université Clermont Auvergne! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 Shareholder activism is a key driver of corporate change. Although it has become a prominent organizational phenomenon, most research has only looked at the relationships between activists and firms, providing a limited understanding of the overall process and its actors. 🌟 This study takes a more comprehensive system-level approach of shareholder activism, examining the connections between shareholder activists, firms and stakeholders. 🌟 In the context of European shareholder activism on climate issues, the authors explore how shareholder activists collaborate with stakeholder systems, including organizational stakeholders, stewardship and climate experts to frame and align their collective actions within coalitions. 🌟 The authors conceptualize shareholder activism as a dynamic process structured around three mutually inclusive frames: disclosure-seeking, financial materiality and double materiality. The disclosure-seeking frame is motivational, whereas the financial and the double materiality frames are diagnostic and prognostic, respectively. 🌟 Their findings show that collective actions of shareholder activists produce ripple effects between frames at the systems level. 🌟 They observe a clear shift towards the financial and double materiality frames, indicating a growing alignment between financial interests and environmental impact. These results support the need for a broader system-level view of shareholder activism that can be applied to other environmental issues. #ShareholderActivism #ClimateIssues #StakeholderSystems Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/gAdbrg_t

🌟 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their latest publication in the British Journal of Management (BJM), British Academy of Management. The paper is titled: "The Agency Costs of Side-by-side Management: Evidence from the Hedge Fund and Private Equity Industry" 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulation to Hyung-Kyu Choi - Sungkyunkwan University! 🎉Congratulation to Douglas Cumming - Stevens Institute of Technology! 🎉Congratulation to Qingjie Du - University of Birmingham! 🎉Congratulation to Jay Hyun Lee - Apollo Management Korea! What’s fascinating? 🤔 🌟 This paper examines the impact of the simultaneous management of private equity on hedge fund performance. 🌟 The authors derive theoretical predictions based on bounded rationality theory and agency theory. 🌟 They first examine the firm characteristics driving the side-by-side decision. They show that the ‘side-by-side’ managed hedge funds underperform their peers. The underperformance is more pronounced when the side-by-side managed funds have different styles, when they perform worse in the previous year and when they are younger and have a smaller size. 🌟 Overall, their results suggest that side-by-side management distracts firm-level fund managers’ time and attention, weakens advising and monitoring and distorts the fund performance. Diversification beyond expertise may not always benefit investors. #AgencyCosts #SidebysideManagement #HedgeFund #PrivateEquityIndustry Read more and cite the paper: https://lnkd.in/endU8kbV