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View article: Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences
Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences Open
Traditional management practices have long prioritized organizational performance and financial growth, primarily serving shareholder interests. However, escalating societal and environmental challenges – such as climate change, human righ…
View article: Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations Open
This article introduces the special issue on occupations and memory in organizations. To foster increasing collaboration from scholars from both fields, we offer a general argument connecting memory and occupations on two levels. At the so…
View article: Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation Open
Achieving system‐level change for climate transitions is needed, and incremental efforts are widely considered insufficient. Drawing on neo‐Schumpeterian, cultural‐institutionalist, and post‐structuralist theories, this Point‐Counterpoint …
View article: From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services Open
In this editorial, we consider how technology, globalization, and organizational changes have led to professional services being delivered increasingly at a distance. We argue that the impacts of these changes are felt at individual, organ…
View article: Advancing Research on the Future of Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Advancing Research on the Future of Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open
Technological developments – particularly related to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and digitalization – are disrupting the workplace in unprecedented ways, particularly in professional and knowledge‐intensive sectors. Sch…
View article: What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change? Open
To effectively tackle climate change, the strategic management enterprise needs to fundamentally reinvent itself. In their Point , Bansal, Durand, Kreutzer, Kunisch and McGahan forcefully argue for such a turnaround and outline a ‘new stra…
View article: Failed Professionalization and Management Consultancy’s Image Problem - a UK Perspective
Failed Professionalization and Management Consultancy’s Image Problem - a UK Perspective Open
This article reflects on the disproportionate academic and media attacks that management consultancy seems to attract and links this to the failure of developing strong professional institutions on the example of comparable professions suc…
View article: Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation Open
The symbol is one of the key concepts in organization and management scholarship. Yet as indicated by the authors in this debate, it has not been adequately conceptualized and as such it remains rather blunt and opaque. In what is the firs…
View article: Here, There and Everywhere: On the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management Research and the Peer‐Review Process
Here, There and Everywhere: On the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management Research and the Peer‐Review Process Open
This editorial introduces and explains the Journal of Management Studies’ (JMS) new policy on artificial intelligence (AI) . We reflect on the use of AI in conducting research and generating journal submissions and what this means for the …
View article: Theory‐Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management
Theory‐Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management Open
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View article: Organizational dominance and the rise of corporate professionalism: The case of management consultancy in the UK
Organizational dominance and the rise of corporate professionalism: The case of management consultancy in the UK Open
While recent debates about the professions have noted the pervasive influence of organizations, less is known about how this plays out at the macro or occupational level. In this paper, we address this concern, focusing on corporate profes…
View article: Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 2016
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 2016 Open
This article provides new insights into the intersection of gender and ethnic inequalities in the solicitors’ profession. Using administrative records spanning the entire population of practising solicitors in England and Wales, we analyse…
View article: Professions and inequality: Challenges, controversies, and opportunities
Professions and inequality: Challenges, controversies, and opportunities Open
On the basis of the EGOS 2021 sub-plenary on ‘Professions and Inequality: Challenges, Controversies, and Opportunities’, the presenters and panellists wrote four short essays on the relationship between inequality as a grand challenge and …
View article: The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States
The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States Open
Opinion is divided on how far and in what ways professionalism as a mode of regulation has evolved. To date, attention has focused on the impact of neoliberal political and economic ideologies that challenge the idea that professions shoul…
View article: COVID‐19 and the Future of Management Studies. Insights from Leading Scholars
COVID‐19 and the Future of Management Studies. Insights from Leading Scholars Open
The COVID-19 pandemic and its medical, social and economic impacts presented profound challenges to business, government, and society. It also presents management scholars with an opportunity to rethink some of our core assumptions and dir…
View article: News from the Editors: Celebrating the Past, Welcoming the Future
News from the Editors: Celebrating the Past, Welcoming the Future Open
The Journal of Management Studies has a long and illustrious history. It has published cutting edge management scholarship for well over a half century. Many breakthroughs in the field of management studies were published in its pages, and…
View article: Learning the rules of the game: How is corporate masculinity learned and enacted by male professionals from nonprivileged backgrounds?
Learning the rules of the game: How is corporate masculinity learned and enacted by male professionals from nonprivileged backgrounds? Open
Focusing on the lived intersection of social class and hegemonic masculinity, this article uses data elicited over a 5‐year period to analyze the experiences of 10 white male participants from nonprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds, who w…
View article: Introduction to the COVID‐19 Commentaries
Introduction to the COVID‐19 Commentaries Open
The Editors The COVID-19 pandemic confronted the world with a rapid, unexpected and far-reaching global crisis. While it began as a healthcare emergency, it very rapidly became clear that the pandemic would have unprecedented political, ec…
View article: Professional Occupations and Organizations
Professional Occupations and Organizations Open
This Element engages with fundamental questions concerning the future trajectory of professions as a distinct occupational category and of the formal organizations, which represent, employ or host professionals. It begins with a literature…
View article: Critical Essay: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing : The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct.
Critical Essay: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing : The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct. Open
Professional misconduct has become seemingly ubiquitous in recent decades. However, to date there has been little sustained effort to theorize the phenomenon of professional misconduct, how this relates to professional organizations, and h…
View article: Rethinking professionalization: A generative dialogue on CSR practitioners1
Rethinking professionalization: A generative dialogue on CSR practitioners1 Open
Studies of emerging professions are more and more at the crossroad of different fields of research, and field boundaries thus hamper the development of a full-fledged conversation. In an attempt to bridge these boundaries, this article off…
View article: Karl Polanyi on Strategy: The Effects of Culture, Morality and Double-Movements on Embedded Strategy
Karl Polanyi on Strategy: The Effects of Culture, Morality and Double-Movements on Embedded Strategy Open
Karl Polanyi is arguably one of the most significant economic sociologists. At first glance the links between Polanyi’s ideas about markets, society and institutions and strategy may not be obvious. However, there is a hereto unrecognised …
View article: Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology
Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology Open
In the light of its surprising absence in extant literature in the domain of the sociology of work, specifically within the journal Work, Employment and Society, this article represents a ‘call to arms’ for research focused upon profession…
View article: Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: an intersectional analysis of career progression
Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: an intersectional analysis of career progression Open
Intersectionality theory is concerned with integrating social characteristics to better understanding complex human relations and inequalities in organizations and societies (McCall 2005). Recently, intersectionality research has taken a c…
View article: Integrating sustainability into project management practices: the perspective of professional institutions
Integrating sustainability into project management practices: the perspective of professional institutions Open
This is paper is based on a work in progress research project, therefore results and conclusions are preliminary.Synopsis: ‘Sustainability’ in its broadest meaning has acquired a great importance in modern society, and consequently influen…
View article: Bad barrels and bad cellars:a ‘boundaries’ perspective on professional misconduct
Bad barrels and bad cellars:a ‘boundaries’ perspective on professional misconduct Open
Professions have traditionally been associated with a public safeguard role, with their superior ethical standards usually invoked to justify their occupational privileges and special labour market position. As such professionals have been…