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This symposium explores the interface between organizations and marginalized persons by examining the role that organizations may have in reintegrating these individuals into work and society at la...

This All Academy Symposium endeavors to broaden the sight of management research by highlighting the central nature of embodiment and embodied experience to understanding human interactions. We use...

Using comparative case histories of 12 firms over 12 years we theorize how emerging market multinational companies (EMNCs) born or based in hyper turbulent contexts internationalize by sequentially...

The symposium uses a hybrid paper-panel format to sample ""living mechanisms"" operating at the interface between organizations and their natural ecological systems. Eight papers demonstrate a wide...

The context-contingent view of competitive advantage suggests that firm-level performance depends on the interaction of internal capabilities and environmental conditions. This study evaluates whet...

This article presents a study that examined the development of inter-organizational trust at the beginning of a cross-cultural alliance for trustors from Canada and Japan. Trust is a critical facto...

Entrepreneurship research has traditionally focused on far-from- equilibrium economic processes. Through doing so, significant insight have been made into the nature of innovative discovery and cre...

Survival under adversity is an ongoing, effortful accomplishment: entrepreneurs continuously counter-act the sudden and often significant vulnerability of their venture to external shocks and/or chronic crises. While quantitative studies paint a bleak picture by the numbers of the entrepreneurs who exit and fail, qualitative research recognizes that different types of adversity may either strain or strengthen the entrepreneurial-venture relationships. Using an inductive study of entrepreneurs traversing a 12-window year of unprecedented political turbulence, we develop a theoretical model of continuance under cumulative adversity that delineates how entrepreneur’s orientation towards the pain of others or their own relates to the survival paths they choose to follow to prolong the life- span of damaged and rapidly declining ventures. We contribute a processual understanding of survival and differentiate between paths of persistence, endurance and reflexive perseverance. By inducing the twin notions of pro...

The growing literature on fields and especially on field-configuring events have drawn attention to significant discontinuities in firm-level corporate social responsibility (CSR). It also revealed...

The 1990's "revolution of environmental concern" (Post & Altman, 1992) increased the priority of environmental issues on the business agenda. Robinson and Dechant (1999) propose that the attention ...

How do hybrid organizations that combine economics and ideology create meaning for their varied constituencies? And how is organizational meaningfulness associated with evaluation and valuation, by...

This paper examines the partnership between a non-profit community hospital and a for-profit technology start-up using a longitudinal case study and a mixed method emergent research design that includes comprehensive real-time accounts, observation, direct communication, retrospective reflection and prospection. Prior literature on cross-sector interactions argue that partners actively co-create value through a deliberate goal-setting and frame-alignment process. We look beyond value creation to understand whether and how partners strive and reach impact in cross-sector collaborations. Elaborating on the two modes of synthesis discussed in the transdisciplinarity literature, we distinguish theoretically between extractive integration (part-to-part combinations) and additive integration (whole-to-whole combinations). We then empirically reveal two reinforcing cycles, showing that extraction promotes value creation whereas additive integration stimulates impact making. To iterate between value creation and ...

In this paper, we study the effects of deinstitutionalization and examine how institutions at multiple levels interact with one another in influencing firm-level outcomes. Our empirical context is ...

Using 16 longitudinal case studies of organizations operating in Lebanon from 1922 to 2014, whose founders, CEOs and/or general managers and trusted third party experts described as "survivors", th...

For over 40 years, sustainability research has explored the incentives that encourage managers to operate within their social responsibilities. This study synthesizes property rights theo...

In an era of global competition, there is a growing interest within the strategy field to study how the institutional environments influence firm strategies and competitive advantage. In this paper...

In today's complex business world, firms increasingly collaborate with governments, NGOs, and universities to address institutional challenges and enhance market opportunities. Cross-sector allianc...