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Scientific Impact of Interdisciplinary Research during Crises Open

Murat Tarakci, Sitabhra Sinha, Juan Pablo Madiedo · 2025

Performance Implications of Digital Disruption in Strategic Competition Open

Fabian J. Sting, Murat Tarakci, Jan Recker · 2024

Pervasive digitalization is changing how firms engage in strategic competition. Some firms are pursuing digital disruption strategies, using digital resources to rewire their value chain and change the landscape of their industry by redefi…

Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research Open

Mariano L.M. Heyden, Murat Tarakci, Linda Rouleau, Anneloes Raes · 2023

Middle management research has been synonymous with the contributions of Steven W. Floyd and his colleagues. The seminal work by Wooldridge and Floyd (1990), for instance, marked a notable turning point and established the strategic case f…

Heroes or Villains? Recasting Middle Management Roles, Processes, and Behaviours Open

Murat Tarakci, Mariano L.M. Heyden, Linda Rouleau, Anneloes Raes, Steven W. Floyd · 2023

Middle management ranks are once again being questioned by scholars and practitioners alike. This introduction to the special issue represents a timely reference point for consolidating, reviving, and guiding the next wave of researchers s…

Affective Leadership in Agile Teams Open

Max-Antoine Renault, Murat Tarakci · 2023

Agile management prescribes a set of structures and processes to help teams respond to change. This article presents an in-depth case study examining how high- and low-agility nursing teams differed in their response to the COVID-19 pandem…

Orchestrating coordination among humanitarian organizations Open

Lea Ruesch, Murat Tarakci, Maria Besiou, Niels Van Quaquebeke · 2022

Disasters mobilize hundreds of organizations, but coordination among them remains a challenge. This is why the United Nations has formed clusters to facilitate information and resource exchange among humanitarian organizations. Yet, coordi…

Aspiration formation and attention rules Open

Luca Berchicci, Murat Tarakci · 2021

Research Summary The behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) proposes that firm behavior is goal‐directed and that organizational aspirations are a function of prior historical aspirations, past performance, and the performance of others. Des…

Negative Spillovers Across Partnerships for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Open

Birgul Arslan, Murat Tarakci · 2020

Humanity faces ongoing and contemporaneous grand challenges. Occasionally, abrupt shocks escalate a grand challenge’s salience over others. Prior research has advocated forming partnerships to address grand challenges via responsible innov…

Do Exogenous Shocks Help or Hurt Innovation Performance of Alliances? Evidence from Ebola Outbreak Open

Birgul Arslan, Murat Tarakci · 2019

Building on attention-based view, we argue that exogenous shocks affect alliance performance by steering managerial attention. We find that while the innovation performance of Ebola alliances formed after the 2014 outbreak increased, perfo…

Temporary deembedding buyer – supplier relationships: A complexity perspective Open

Fabian J. Sting, Merieke Stevens, Murat Tarakci · 2019

Research on buyer–supplier relationships has debated the advantages and disadvantages of embedded relationships. We join this debate by developing theory on the performance implications of relaxing embedded buyer–supplier relationships for…

The Dark Side of Visionary Leadership in Strategy Implementation: Strategic Alignment, Strategic Consensus, and Commitment Open

Nüfer Yasin Ateş, Murat Tarakci, Jeanine Pieternel Porck, Daan van Knippenberg, Patrick J. F. Groenen · 2018

Drawing from visionary leadership and strategy process research, we theorize and test the mechanism through which middle and lower-level managers’ visionary leadership affects their teams’ strategic commitment. The management literature ex…

Creativity and Innovation Under Constraints: A Cross-Disciplinary Integrative Review Open

Oguz A. Acar, Murat Tarakci, Daan van Knippenberg · 2018

Generating creative ideas and turning them into innovations is key for competitive advantage. However, endeavors toward creativity and innovation are bounded by constraints such as rules and regulations, deadlines, and scarce resources. Th…

Do Disruptive Visions Pay Off? The Impact of Disruptive Entrepreneurial Visions on Venture Funding Open

Timo van Balen, Murat Tarakci, Ashish Sood · 2018

Entrepreneurs often articulate a vision for their venture that purports to fundamentally change, disturb, or re‐order the ways in which organizations, markets, and ecosystems operate. We call these visions disruptive visions . Neglected in…

Performance Feedback and Middle Managers’ Divergent Strategic Behavior : The Roles of Social Comparisons and Organizational Identification Open

Murat Tarakci, Nüfer Yasin Ateş, Steven W. Floyd, Yoojung Ahn, B. Wooldridge · 2018

textabstractWhat drives middle managers to search for new strategic initiatives and champion them to top management? This behavior—labeled divergent strategic behavior—spawns emergent strategies and thereby provides one of the essential in…

Performance feedback and middle managers’ divergent strategic behavior: The roles of social comparisons and organizational identification Open

Murat Tarakci, Nüfer Yasin Ateş, Steven W. Floyd, Yoojung Ahn, Bill Wooldridge · 2017

Research Summary : What drives middle managers to search for new strategic initiatives and champion them to top management? This behavior—labeled divergent strategic behavior—spawns emergent strategies and thereby provides one of the essen…

Temporary De-Embedding Buyer-Supplier Relationships Open

Fabian J. Sting, Merieke Stevens, Murat Tarakci · 2017

Research on buyer-supplier relationships has debated the advantages and disadvantages of embedded relationships. We join this debate by developing theory on the performance implications of relaxing embedded buyer-supplier relationships for…

Never Change a Winning Team Open

Timo van Balen, Murat Tarakci · 2017

A great deal of scholarship has already investigated how to create high performing teams. However, less is known about how to sustain of the performance of these teams. This is an important challenge because teams with previous successes c…

Temporary De-Embedding Buyer-Supplier Relationships: A Complexity Perspective Open

Fabian J. Sting, Merieke Stevens, Murat Tarakci · 2017

Are leaders needed to improve team performance Open

Murat Tarakci · 2016

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