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The article presents abstracts on topics related to business policy and strategy which include a study of business unit managers in the airline industry, the likelihood and bureaucratic costs of bankruptcy, and the impact of firm attributes on corporate processes.

This section presents abstracts of conference papers about management history. Some of the papers include "History, Ownership Forms and Corporate Governance Systems: A Study of the Indian Context," about the evolution of ownership and corporate governance in India, "Charisma Revisited," regarding the historical roles of charismatic leaders in organizations, and "The Times They Are A-Changin': Transformation in the Popular Music Industry - An Evolutionary View," about organizational change in the music recording industry.

Over half of businesses are started by people who are already employed, a phenomenon called hybrid entrepreneurship (HE). Although research on hybrid entrepreneurship has increased in recent years, the diversity of perspectives has led to a fragmented literature that makes it difficult to advance our understanding of this phenomenon. We fill this gap by conducting an inclusive systematic review of research conducted on hybrid entrepreneurship. Our review integrates existing research in a framework of antecedents and outcomes of hybrid entrepreneurship. This enables us to propose opportunities for future research to contribute to areas that have been overlooked. In doing so, we contribute to the emerging literature on hybrid entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relatively little research has examined the transformative implications of exogenous shocks on social enterprises. Using quasi-experimental design, this paper addresses how the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, the Brexit Referendum, and the Covid-19 lockdown affect the management of hybrid tensions in social enterprises. This study finds that social enterprises survived were more likely to transform through dehybridizing after the Financial Crisis and Brexit Vote. This paper also finds that social enterprises that dehybridized following these shocks had higher turnover, net tangible assets, and/or profits in comparison to companies that pivoted, dissolved, or had no transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section presents several management consulting conference paper abstracts. The abstracts include "Education and Experience as Antecedents of the Performance of Management Consultants," that analyzes human capital in terms of education and experience; "Being Human: The Real Challenge for the 21st Century," about relationships within business; and "Designing and Processing a Socio-Economic Management Control," which discusses social performance of management control.

This section presents abstracts of several studies on conflict management. One paper addresses the question what leadership means to managers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland as well as to what extent popular U.S. leadership concepts are universally endorsed across cultures. Another presents an attempt to reproblematize certain aspects of narrations and narrative knowledge which seems to be of specific importance for any knowledge management effort. A paper by Andrew Harry Barton and Rick Delbridge examines the extent of involvement of shop-floor workers and supervisors in innovation, continuous improvement and problem solving activities.

The article presents abstracts from conference papers on critical management studies which include the instrumentalization of the self at an organizational level, "caring" surveillance over employee negative emotions, and the timing and delays in software development.

Abstracts are presented relating to the topic of critical management. They include "Bergson, the Virtual, and the 'Virtual Organization'," "From the 'Ultimate Truth' to a 'Mental Entity'--Concept of Intuition in Management Research," and "The Sweetest Dreams that Labor Knows: Robert Frost and the Poetics of Work."

The article presents abstracts of conference papers related to technology and innovation management. "Deploying Intellectual Capital for Architectural Innovative Capabilities," by Mohan Subramaniam; "Exploring Industry Implications of Organizational Learning," by David R. King; "The Fragility of Knowledge Sharing: A Behavioral Approach," by Georg Von Krogh; "When Do Acquisitions Facilitate Technological Exploration and Exploitation?," by Paul Almeida.

The article presents several conference paper abstracts on social issues in management. "Constructing Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Industry Associations," discusses the nature of trade associations and the role they play in society. "Path Dependence in Firm-Stakeholder Relations," focuses on social responsibility by businesses. "Exploring Recent Business Scandals and Entrepreneurial Antecedents: Ethical Leadership Implications," investigates the relationship between scandals and entrepreneurship.

The article presents abstracts of conference papers concerning research methods. "The Legitimacy of Messiness: Interdisciplinary Research and Interorganizational Relationships," investigates interorganizational relationships. "Playing the Scales: Learning to be a Qualitative Researcher," parallels learning to play a musical instrument to the process of learning research skills. "Integrating Action Research Methods: Contextual Components and Constructive Choices," discusses the use of action research in Australian regional development context.

This section presents organization and management theory conference paper abstracts. "Factors That Impact Sales Person's Performance in Virtual Environments" aims to understand the effects of sales persons' location on their sales quota achievement. "Can Progress Be Resistant to Bad Institutions? The Case of ICT" shows that cross-country differences in the use of information and communication technologies are to a considerable extent due to differences in the investment climate. "Chance, Choice, & Inevitability in Strategy," discusses strategic choice.

The article presents several conference paper abstracts on organizations and the natural environment. "Sustainable Organizational Innovation via Stakeholder Engagement," focuses on how economic growth affects strategic decision-making. "Corporate Greening Through ISO 14001: A Rational Myth?," discusses research on the standard in environmental management. "Resourcing Environmental Strategy: Behavioral and Resource-Based Perspectives," investigates what kinds of firm resources are most useful for corporate environmental strategies.

This article presents several abstracts of studies about organization development and change. In the paper titled "Towards a Holistic Theoretical Framework for the Unfolding of Planned Change," develops a framework for the unfolding of planned change efforts using as empirical field of investigation longitudinal case studies from Greek public organizations that currently are undergoing radical change. "A Construct Validation of a New Job Insecurity Measure (JIM): The Emerging Role of Management" explores the dimensionality of job insecurity. "Responding to a Changing Environment: Adapting Human and Social Capital to Impact Performance," that investigates how a firm responds to a changing environment using a resource-based perspective.

This section presents several abstracts of research about organizational communication. The progress of the past seven years of field study research on work group effectiveness was examined in the paper titled "Work Team Effectiveness Field Research: Progress and Prospects." An analysis of thirty-six empirical studies reveals that work team field research is proceeding primarily along dimensions of interdependence, autonomy, diversity and conflict. In the paper "Temporal Effects of Relational Stocks on Technology-Enabled Group Performance," the authors extend existing group development models by employing a complementary stock perspective. Results suggest more complex implications of utilizing technology than previously observed delays in relational development that accompanies technology use.

This section presents abstracts of conference papers about managerial spirituality and religion. Some of the abstracts include "What Should a Science of Workplace Spirituality Study?," focusing on developing a methodology for analyzing spirituality in the workplace, "Correlates of the Protestant Ethic of Hard Work: Results from a Diverse Ethno-Religious Sample," about how Protestent work ethic affects the corporate workplace, and "Why is Spirituality Integral to Management Education?," that discusses how religion and spirituality can affect management education.

This section presents several management education and development conference paper abstracts. They include, "The Effect of Instructional Delivery Method on Student Achievement," regarding the educational value of undergraduate human resource management classes, "A Personal and Experimental Reflection on Teaching and Learning wtih the Consultant Learning Method," about an analysis of undergraduate and graduate management courses, and "What it Means to Supervise: A Phenomenographic Study of Doctorial Student Supervision," discussing what doctoral supervisors look for in their management students.

The article presents a section of abstracts on conference papers in Health Care Management. They include "Understanding Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care with Patient-Physician Interaction Data," examining the mental health treatment process; "Vertical Integration Between Community Hospitals and Nursing Facilities," about resource dependancy theory; and "Downstream Integration and Competitive Strategies in the US Pharmaceutical Industry," regarding vertical integration.

This section presents abstracts of several papers on entrepreneurship. The first paper proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent fit perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. Another paper elaborates theoretical foundations for opportunity-based entrepreneurial discovery research and presents an empirical study providing evidence for examining the validity of an opportunity-based research approach. One more paper explores innovation as a corporate entrepreneurial outcome in recently established small firms.

This paper aims to analyze how stakeholders from different levels (local and global) pressure companies to adopt sustainable practices in an industry with significant environmental and social impacts. Based on a multiple case study of four Brazilian multinational companies, we found that government and industry associations take over the roles as moderators and NGOs translate demands from the global to the local level. Companies will also advocate for sustainable practices in an institutional context where environmental policies are below their standards. We contribute to the literature by expanding the knowledge regarding the role of stakeholders in pushing sustainability agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts on management topics which include the use of arbitration mechanism in technology partnerships, the role of bridge network as a device for transferring collectively held knowledge, and a meta-analysis of business group performance, context and strategy.

The article presents abstracts on management topics which include the effectiveness of boards of directors, the monitoring of chief executive officers and corporate divestment.

The article presents abstracts on topics of research regarding management consulting which include "Beyond Agency: Institutional and Strategic Management Perspectives of Segment Reporting Regulation," "Leadership Negligence and Malpractice: Emotional Unintelligence at Seattle Aerospace International," "Management Control Consulting in Independent Professions: Problematics, Stakes and Methods," and "Management Consulting as Participation: Client-Consultant Relations in the Context of Implementation."

The article presents abstracts of conference papers. They include "CAN THE FAIR TRADE MOVEMENT ENRICH TRADITIONAL BUSINESS ETHICS?," "INTEGRAL LEADERSHIP: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP VISIONS," "SERVANT LEADERSHIP: FINDING FULFILLMENT IN SERVING HUMANITY," "SIMPLE GIFTS: RULES FOR QUAKER BUSINESS MEETINGS," and "THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHARACTER."

The article presents abstracts regarding topics of organizational development and change, including the importance of understanding organizational change, how the transfer of structural similarities is a viable strategic practice, and the sorts of antecedents and consequences that result from strategic and structural change.

The article presents abstracts on management consulting topics, including the connections between how a person adapts and learns, the importance of maintaining a healthy consultant-client relationship, and problem solving.

This article presents journal supplied abstracts for the best papers submitted in 2006. The abstracts include articles based on business policy and strategy, gender and diversity in organizations, management consulting, organizational communication and information systems, and health care management. Also presented are articles focusing on conflict management, entrepreneurship, human resources, managerial and organizational cognition, and international management.

The article presents several conference paper abstracts on public and nonprofit organization management. "Community Foundation, Organizational Strategy, and Public Policy," about the strategic plan of California community foundations. "The Influence of Top Executive Functional Experience on Nonprofit Organization Financial Performance," discusses the relationship between a chief executive officer and the organization. "Innovation and Organizational Performance: A Critical Review of the Evidence and a Research Agenda," focuses on how innovation helps performance in public agencies.

This section presents conference paper abstracts related to operations management. "A Critical Review of Six Sigma in Organizational Operations," contends that the Six Sigma approach to business improvement has emerged in both the practitioner and academic literature as having a significant role in this area. "Project Success as a Topic in Project Management Literature," highlights the characteristics of thirty articles on project success published between 1986 and 2004. "The Effect of Manufacturing Proactivity on Environmental Proactivity: An Exploratory Analysis," discusses the effect of manufacturing proactivity.

This section presents abstracts of conference papers about managerial and organizational decision making. Some of the abstracts include "Emotional Intelligence and Communication Perceptions During Conflict and Decision Making," focusing on how business intelligence helps organizational effectiveness, "Knowledge Sharing and Team Effectiveness in Challenging Organizational Environments," about how management teams benefit from external knowledge, and "A Small World After All? Network Perceptions Versus Reality," that discusses how social networks can affect an organization.

This section presents abstracts of papers related to business policy and strategy, including "Competition, Learning, or Legitimacy: Understanding the Adoption of Websites by Consumer Magazines," about corporate earnings restatements; "A Road to Directorship: How Corporate Executives Secure Positions on Other Firm's Boards," about the role of outside directors; and "A Selection that Cannot Stand the Test: Succession Context and New CEO Dismissal," about executive succession.

This section presents abstracts of several papers on conflict management. Some of the papers include "Knowing Your Place: Self-Perceptions of Status in Social Groups," which focuses on the impact of social categorization and disagreement on individuals' affective and cognitive reactions in decision-making settings; "The Impact of Social Similarity on Affective and Cognitive Reactions to Opinion Conflict," about how workers interact and resolve conflicts in businesses; and "Are Prime Movers More Powerful? Evidence from Experiments on Competitive Choice and Interaction," which examines the effect of outside options on trust and trustworthiness.

This section presents abstracts of several conference papers on careers. Ichiro Kato and Ryuta Suzuki reports the development and validation of the Subjective Career Matrix, a conceptual framework which was designed to exhibit the perceptions of uncertainty and the will to design one's career. Michel Tremblay examines the influence of three forms of plateauing-structural, content and pay on the attitudes and behaviors of 900 Canadian engineers. In "Cross-Cultural Mentoring in International Joint Ventures," Aimin Yan and Yan Shen develops a conceptual model of cross-cultural mentoring and development in the context of international joint ventures.

This section presents abstracts of conference papers related to business policy and strategy. These include "Competitive Advantage in Transition Economies: Exploring Organizational Capacity for Change," discussing competitive advantage in developed countries, "A Changing of the Guard: Executive and Director Turnover Following Corporate Earnings Restatements," on corporate earnings restatements, and "Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Alliance Formation: A Multidimensional Perspective."

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a long-standing and serious social issue that inherently impacts and is impacted by work and workplaces. Work-related intimate partner violence (WIPV) is a pattern of IPV that both directly and indirectly undermines its victim/survivors' employment, work and careers, yet scant attention has been paid in management studies to workplace responses and responsibilities regarding this form of violence. Hence, we conduct a systematic review and conceptual analysis of 111 WIPV-focused papers utilizing three well-established feminist lenses to ascertain and conceptualize what we know and do not know about the WIPV domain and, more importantly, to outline an agenda for what we should know from a gendered perspective about WIPV. We develop a gender-sensitive, multilevel framework by which we investigate and challenge the WIPV research agenda from individual, interactionist, and structural viewpoints including the interaction between those perspectives. A key purpose of this paper is to expand the notion of WIPV beyond the current focus on micro-level employment issues to include meso-level organizational issues and macro-level societal issues. A second and connected purpose is to draw attention to the need to ask big questions related to workplaces and to highlight the pivotal role of human resource management (HRM) in fostering ethical and socially sustainable workplaces. Thus, we advance the much-needed debate about WIPV, provide a template for how gender can be conceptualized in HRM and workplace research, and challenge the ethical boundaries for organizational involvement in areas traditionally deemed as private or societal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the midst of an ecological crisis, futures are typically imagined either as a doomsday dystopian scenario or an idyllic utopian one. This paper takes a practice perspective and examines how actors navigate the dystopian-utopian tensions in future making in the context of dairy farming. The study empirically examines the ongoing Regenerative Farming Pilot Network (RegenPilot) at Arla, a Danish multinational dairy cooperative, during its first year. The study shows that actors constructed a paradoxical imaginary of the future that was both utopian and dystopian. This imaginary guided the actors in enacting three future-making practices of different temporalities and teleoaffectivities – remembering a proud but doubtful past, performing a potential but limited present, and imagining a promising but unknown future – to make an alternative sustainable dairy future. By enacting the future-making practices, actors created a contested site for future making, where the paradoxical imaginary was maintained and reproduced. The paper contributes to organization studies and future making (i) by proposing three genres of futures – expected futures, imaginative futures and alternative futures, providing conceptual clarification, (ii) by conceptually distinguishing temporal, teleological and affective as three constitutive dimensions of future-making practices, and (iii) by suggesting a paradoxical approach toward working with rather than resolving utopian-dystopian tensions in imaginaries. Finally, the paper offers an organizational explanation for the green transition challenges in the agriculture sector and suggests ways to potentially facilitate a faster transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the shift in entrepreneurship from a youth-centric focus to an emphasis on senior entrepreneurs, particularly women over 45. Utilizing a qualitative approach, it examines the influence of family dynamics, diverse capital forms (economic, social, and symbolic), and cultural perceptions on senior women's entrepreneurial journeys. The findings highlight the unique advantages senior women bring, including extensive life experiences and established networks, juxtaposed against challenges such as societal biases and age-related barriers. This paper contributes to redefining entrepreneurship by advocating for a broader understanding across various life stages, emphasizing the untapped potential and need for greater support for senior women entrepreneurs. This research thus calls for an inclusive approach in entrepreneurship policies and practices, recognizing the diverse contributions across age and gender spectrums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article consists of abstracts for papers presented at a conference that focused on organizations and the natural environment including: "A Network Analysis of Evolving Interorganizational Environmental Collaborations"; "Absorptive Capacity, Environmental Proactivity and Competitive Advantage"; and "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Management of Supply Chains: Toward a Holistic Framework."

The article consists of abstracts for operations management conference papers including: "A Learning and Knowledge Approach to Sustainable Operations"; "A Phased Approach to the Examination of Humanitarian Supply Chains"; and "Antecedents of Project Performance and Customer Satisfaction in Outsourced Offshore Projects."

Abstracts are presented for conference papers including: "Appreciating the Unpredictable: A Case Study of Questions"; "A Review of Maturity Grid Based Approaches to Assessing Organizational Capabilities"; and "Acculturation, Organizational Identity, and Commitment to Post-Merger Implementation."

The article presents abstracts of conference papers. They include "A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE LINK BETWEEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY," "A MULTINATIONAL STUDY OF CORPORATE STAKEHOLDERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE," "BUSINESS MODELS FOR DISTRIBUTED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES--EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN CLEANTECH FIRMS," "BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY EMBEDDEDNESS AS A STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE: A MULTILEVEL PROCESS FRAMEWORK," and "BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY: RHETORIC OR REALITY?"

The article presents abstracts of conference papers. They include "A REVISED AND EXTENDED THEORY OF THE FOCUSED FACTORY," "ANTECEDENTS OF VERTICAL INTEGRATION DECISIONS IN REMANUFACTURING," "ARE EXPERT OPINIONS IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT REALLY SO BAD?," "BUSINESS CONTINUITY PRACTICES WITHIN THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROFESSION," and "BUYER BEWARE: QUALITY RISK IN OUTSOURCING."

The article presents abstracts of conference papers. They include "A COMPLENTARITY PERSPECTIVE ON ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE," "A CRITIQUE ON THE DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL," "A FIGHT FROM BELOW: TRANSFORMING PURCHASING WORK," "A KNOWLEDGE BASED PERSPECTIVE ON BOARD OF DIRECTORS' EFFECTIVENESS," and "A MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL UNLEARNING: A PREREQUISITE FOR ADAPTATION IN A TURBULENT WORLD."

The article presents abstracts of conference papers. They include "A DRAMATURGICAL INQUIRY INTO SENSEMAKING AND SENSEGIVING PROCESSES DURING AN ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS," "A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN? RELATIONSHIPS OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND SPIRITUALITY," "A SOCIAL-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE ON FIRM INNOVATION," "A SYSTEMIC FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING CONTROL CENTER COGNITION," and "A THEORY OF RELATIONSHIP CREATIVITY."