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The goal of this work is to present two sides of project management research: projects regarded as a solution to major contemporary economic, social, and environmental concerns, and projects perceived as an area in which modern slavery, corruption, and greenwashing operate in secret. This article, based on a literature review, is a voice in the discussion on important research problems as well as choices made by researchers in the context of the real impact of the topics discussed on social awareness and organisational policies. The first section of the paper focuses on the positive aspects of projects, namely the role that project management knowledge and abilities play in tackling critical social problems. The second section of the work exposes heinous project management practices, most notably modern slavery. For projects to become a means of increasing efficiency rather than a vehicle for slavery and inequality, uncomfortable subjects must be raised and risks discussed, particularly those coming from insufficient attention to the challenges of the dark side of projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essential idea in Organisational Behaviour is Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). Since 1983, when Organ first proposed OCB, OCB research has been ongoing. The research of OCB has drawn controversy in recent years. This essay examines various crucial studies on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB), including context-based research, OCB mechanisms, and the dark side of OCB. It also explores OCB challenges. We discover a dearth of current studies on OCB through the review and offer five suggestions for more study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study looked at the bright and dark-side personality profile of distressed and potentially derailing doctors (82% male). The derailing doctors were on average 48.75 years old, and from many specialities, in particular, general practice and surgery. Method: In all, a group of 77 derailing British doctors, and a control group of 357 doctors completed a valid multi-dimensional test of bright-side (normal) personality (NEO-PI-R) and one of dysfunctional interpersonal themes (sub-clinical personality disorders) (HDS: Hogan Development Survey). Results: Controlling for sex and age, the derailing doctors were more Neurotic (less resilient), and less Agreeable, Conscientious, Extraverted and Open-to- Experience. They were also more Excitable (Borderline), Sceptical (Paranoid), Cautious (Avoidant), Reserved (Schizoid), Leisurely (Passive Aggressive) and Bold (Narcissistic). Discriminant analysis showed age, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Leisurely and Excitable were, in that order, the greatest personality discriminators between those who did and did not derail. Conclusion: More research needs to be done on doctor derailment to inform the selection and training of doctors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study aims to analyze the perception of managers and supervisors of public contracts in the Greater Florianópolis region about the relationship with long-term service providers, considering the dark side approach of relationship marketing. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research has an exploratory nature and a cross-sectional qualitative approach, and uses semi-structured indepth interviews as a data collection technique. Nine public managers who work with the management and supervision of long-term service provision contracts were interviewed. The analysis was performed in an interpretative manner, using data coding. Results: The main findings show behaviors characterized as the dark side of relationship marketing between long-term service providers and the public sector. Among the behaviors observed in both the literature and the interviewees' statements, negligence of the service provider towards the customer (in this case, in the public sector), customer confusion, private sector favoritism, and dishonesty stand out. The dimension "entrapment by legislation", not found in the literature, was identified and incorporated into the findings. Limitations/implications: This study analyzes the phenomenon from a one-sided perspective, observing the perceptions of the customer, in this case, in the public sector. This perception is possibly different from that of the service providers, and this fact can bring other nuances to the assessed phenomenon. Originality/value: In an unprecedented way, this study presents a theoretical proposition of the behaviors on the dark side of relationship marketing applied to the public sector. Most academic productions are of foreign origin and address B2C or B2B relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Boundary spanner corruption—voluntary collaborative behavior between individuals representing different organizations that violates their organizations' norms—is a serious problem in business-to-business (B2B) marketing relationships. Drawing on insights from the literatures on the dark side of business relationships and deviance in sales and service organizations, the authors identify boundary spanner corruption as a potential dark side complication inherent in close B2B marketing relationships. The same elements that generate benefits in interorganizational relationships, such as those between customer and seller firms, also enable the development of boundary-spanning social cocoons that can foment corrupt activities under certain conditions. A conceptual framework illustrates how trust at the interpersonal, intraorganizational, and interorganizational levels enables corrupt behaviors by allowing deviance-inducing factors stemming from the task environment or from the individual boundary spanner to manifest in boundary spanner corruption. Interpersonal trust between representatives of different organizations, interorganizational trust between these organizations, and intraorganizational agency trust of management in their representatives foster the development of a boundary-spanning social cocoon—a microculture that can inculcate deviant norms leading to corrupt behavior. Boundary spanner corruption imposes direct and opportunity costs on the involved organizations, with the additional burden of latent financial risk associated with potential exposure. The authors substantiate their multi-level framework and propositions with field-based insights from qualitative interviews with senior executives. The multi-level framework of boundary spanner corruption extends beyond extant marketing literature, highlights intriguing directions for future research, and offers new managerial insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the dark side of projects, engaging project scholars and practitioners in discussions about sensitive, confusing, uncomfortable, challenging, and questionable phenomena, such as corruption, sexism, money laundering, modern slavery, waste of resources, and organizational politics. The dark side impacts people’s lives, questioning the legitimacy of projects as forms of work organization and the political and ideological systems shaping the projects’ context. Project scholars and practitioners need to be aware of the harm the dark side of projects may promote. Ultimately, we aim to build awareness, promote research, and help sensitize our community to the dark side of projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Materialism and compulsive consumption are viewed as dimensions of the dark side of consumer behaviour and have been the focus of consumer research for several decades. This article first shows that previous efforts to study compulsive buying and materialism have been limited in part because they have relied on single perspectives and inadequate methods. Second, it suggests that research in this area could be advanced by adopting emergent approaches and methods that have been used in social and behavioural sciences to study the onset and development of maladaptive behavioural patterns. Third, the article presents the multi-theoretical life course research paradigm that has been widely adopted in numerous disciplines as an approach to the study of various forms of maladaptive behaviour. Fourth, it illustrates how this approach could be employed to study the onset and development of materialism and compulsive buying. Finally, drawing from this paradigm, the article offers new insights in the form of propositions and conceptual directions to help researchers improve their efforts in studying materialism and compulsive buying as well as other forms of the dark side of consumer behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study extends the nascent stream of research that investigates the contributions of mobile and virtual technology to consumer misbehaviour and dark side of consumer life. Using a qualitative approach, the present research explores the nature of consumer-technology relationship, specifically virtual andmobile technology, at the level of lived experience. The findings reflect eight important facets of technologyrelated dark-side consumer behaviour that, in one way or another, cause harm to the individual user, other consumers or society at large. These themes showcase human entrapment in mobile and virtual technology. The findings have significant implications for marketing managers as well as consumer well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increasing number of organizations worldwide are engaging in diversity branding to promote their commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace. In this paper, we review 39 peer-reviewed articles on diversity branding, representing the most recent and significant studies in the field. Our review highlights the prevalence of diversity branding, core conceptual and theoretical approaches, and key findings. We also identify directions for future research, emphasizing company-level outcomes and potential negative, unintended consequences of diversity branding., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Laura De Boom reports financial support was provided by Research Foundation Flanders. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

The dark side of entrepreneurship, especially the dark side of student entrepreneurship, has received little attention from academia. This study tries to examine the dark side of entrepreneurship among students in Chinese universities. Employing qualitative method by conducting semi-structured interview with students at the universities. Our study identifies the unproductive and destructive factors that drive the dark side of student entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship costs that accompany students in the process of entrepreneurship are usually time pressure, academic conflict, and even health damage. There is a huge discrepancy between the knowledge given to students by universities and the knowledge required for entrepreneurship, and college students frequently lack entrepreneurial knowledge and business logic. In China, the use of inappropriate policy tools has decoupled the student entrepreneurship policies it pursues from the purpose the policies are supposed to serve. In so doing, this study contributes to the micro-level of the notion of the dark side of student entrepreneurship.

Our study examines the impacts on workers when organisational humour is repeated, sustained, dominating, and potentially harmful, and thus can be considered to be bullying. In an ethnographic study of an idiosyncratic New Zealand IT company, we observed humour that was sexualised, dominating, and perpetrated by the most powerful organizational members. We argue that the compelling need for belonging in this extreme organizational culture influenced workers to accept bullying humour as just a joke and therefore acceptable and harmless even when it contravened societal workplace norms. Our contribution is in identifying and extending the significant theoretical relationship between workplace humour and bullying that, to date, is not well-explored in organizational research.

For the World Bank, integration into the global economy is the path towards development. Its experts argue that the Global South will benefit from easing barriers to investment and trade, thus facilitating interaction between transnational corporations and local enterprises. Yet, there is growing scepticism regarding the prospects to develop in global networks. This article delves into their dark side. Following critical scholarship, the author suggests that integration into global networks is a process that creates winners and losers. It leads to uneven development. To analyse concrete mechanisms that underlie the process of failed development, he drafts a heuristic on exclusion, downgrading, and non-participation from/in global networks. This approach is tested against the backdrop of the hydrocarbon sector in Bolivia and Ghana. In Bolivia, indigenous suppliers suffer from downgrading, exclusion, and non-participation because of a recent shift to a turn-key model and sector-specific entry barriers. Ghana is marked by non-participation of local firms, mostly due to endogenous problems: corruption and institutional deficiencies, little industrialization, a high interest rate, and rent-seeking. These findings confirm that caution with regard to the possibilities to develop in global networks is justified, but they also indicate that not every development problem results from global network participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is concerned with the relationship between the job motivational and preference profile of individuals and their engagement in safety behaviours. Studies have investigated personality traits but not motive and value correlates of risk-related behaviour. More than 25,000 Americans completed a questionnaire on safety-related competencies in the workplace that measured six different, but related, safety-related traits. They also completed a motivational measure of preferences and values used extensively in personnel assessment and selection. The six safety dimensions yielded two factors labelled observant and resilient that, along with the total score, were the criterion variables. Step-wise regressions indicated that those with high needs for affiliation, hedonism and recognition tended to be less safety conscious. The two different factors also showed a different pattern of demographic and motivational correlates. Problems of method invariance are discussed, as well the role of job motivation individual differences in safety-related traits and competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been argued to offer a myriad of improvements in how we work and live. The notion of AI comprises a wide-ranging set of technologies that allow individuals and organizations to integrate and analyze data and use that insight to improve or automate decision-making. While most attention has been placed on the positive aspects companies realize by the adoption by the adoption and use of AI, there is a growing concern around the negative and unintended consequences of such technologies. In this special issue we have made a call for research papers that help us explore the dark side of AI use. By adopting a dark side lens, we aimed to expand our understanding of how AI should be implemented in practice, and how to minimize or avoid negative outcomes. In this editorial, we build on the notion of responsible AI, to highlight the different ways in which AI can potentially produce unintended consequences, as well as to suggest alternative paths future IS research can follow to improve our knowledge about how to mitigate such occurrences. We further expand on dark side theorizing in order to uncover hidden assumptions of current literature as well as to propose other prominent themes that can guide future IS research on AI adoption and use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data are often vividly depicted as strategic assets that organisations can (re)use to create value for myriad purposes. However, the same qualities that make data so appreciated – that is, their volume, their value for a plurality of stakeholders and their indefinite reuse capacity – also have a dark side: data reuse can lead to deviant data use that undermines the legitimacy of data analytics initiatives. To investigate this dynamic, we build on the notion of data ecosystems and provide empirical evidence from a longitudinal, 15-year case study of the emergence, expansion and eventual collapse of a large-scale data analytics project – called DAMD – in the Danish health care sector. We demonstrate that data reuse in the evolving data ecosystem elicited a data reuse dark side that was so dominant that it eventually resulted in the project's demise. We conceptualise the reuse dark side's three major mechanisms as function creep, stakeholder creep and data creep. Based on these insights, we develop an empirically grounded Data Analytics Ecosystem Model that extends the current understanding of data ecosystems and provides a view of these ecosystems as having both a bright and a dark side. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are heralding a new era of analytics and data-driven decision-making. Organisations increasingly rely on people analytics to optimise human resource management practices in areas such as recruitment, performance evaluation, personnel development, health and retention management. Recent progress in the field of AI and ever-increasing volumes of digital data have raised expectations and contributed to a very positive image of people analytics. However, transferring and applying the efficiency-driven logic of analytics to manage humans carries numerous risks, challenges, and ethical implications. Based on a theorising review our paper analyses perils that can emerge from the use of people analytics. By disclosing the underlying assumptions of people analytics and offering a perspective on current and future technological advancements, we identify six perils and discuss their implications for organisations and employees. Then, we illustrate how these perils may aggravate with increasing analytical power of people analytics, and we suggest directions for future research. Our theorising review contributes to information system research at the intersection of analytics, artificial intelligence, and human-algorithmic management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Big data analytics (BDA) and artificial intelligence (AI) may provide both bright and dark sides that may affect user participation in ridesharing. We do not know whether the juxtaposed sides of these IT artefacts influence users' cognitive appraisals, and if so, to what extent will their participative behaviour be affected. This paper contributes to the IS research by uncovering the interplay between the dark and bright sides of BDA and AI and the underlying mechanisms of cognitive appraisals for user behaviour in ridesharing. We performed two phases of the study using mixed-methods. In the first study, we conduct 21 semi-structured interviews to develop the research model. The second study empirically validated the research model using survey data of 332 passengers. We find that the usage of BDA and AI on ridesharing platforms have a bright side (usefulness, "the good") but also a dark side (uncertainty and invasion of privacy, "the bad and the ugly"). The bright side generates perceived benefits, and the dark side shape perceived risks in users, which discount the risks from the benefits of using the ridesharing platform. Privacy control exerts a positive effect on the perceived benefits to encourage individuals to use the ridesharing platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some claim that planning has a "dark" side which is expressed in policies and practices that disadvantage minorities and less powerful groups. This article explores how revisions to an aspect of English planning legislation, plus the linked adoption by local planning authorities of "restrictive" development policies, may disproportionately affect the housing choices of young, lower-income adults. Combining documentary research, secondary data analysis and Yiftachel's conceptual framework of "planning as social control," it examines how the legislation and policy might limit the supply of an accommodation type popular with this group, and the resulting social, political and economic effects. The implications for planning theory and practice are considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interest in public sector innovations has been growing among policy makers, practitioners, and scholars. Despite the complexity of modernisation and resource constraints, public leaders must create innovative policies to deliver better services and overcome societal challenges. This research is on public innovation which examined opportunities and challenges facing public innovation. The study was triggered by the mixed outcomes of the decentralisation policy in Indonesia. While some local governments have engaged in service, process and governance innovations, many continue to face difficulties in adopting and sustaining innovative programs. Through case studies of two governance innovations in Batang Regency (2012-2017), this research appraised the dilemma of risk governance in securing the credibility and sustainability of two innovative ideas, namely UPKP2 local ombudsman and Budget Festival. Results of the study highlighted evidence that considering the highly dynamic socio-political environment that heads of local governments face, managing risk governance is important in implementing public innovation in a meaningful and sustainable way

Under the open innovation paradigm, few empirical studies have addressed the value co-creation of the cross-functional and external integration, particularly the adverse effects of integration-induced structural empowerment on new product development (NPD). This study constructs a moderated mediation model grounded in value co-creation theory to investigate the interplay among cross-functional integration, customer-supplier involvement, structural empowerment, and NPD performance. Data from a survey of 294 high-performance manufacturing firms (machinery, electronics, and automobiles) worldwide, conducted during the fourth round of the High-Performance Manufacturing project, were analyzed. The empirical results indicate that cross-functional integration indirectly affects NPD performance through the mediating role of customer-supplier involvement. Moreover, the positive association between customer involvement and NPD performance is markedly diminished under conditions of high as opposed to low structural empowerment. However, structural empowerment does not significantly moderate the positive relationship between supplier involvement and NPD performance. This study contributes to the understanding of the value co-creation mechanisms associated with different integration strategies in NPD performance and reveals the potential drawbacks of excessive structural empowerment. Consequently, this study offers actionable insights for firms implementing integration strategies and structural empowerment. • This study contributes to the value co-creation mechanisms of different integration strategies on NPD performance. • This study reveals the potential drawbacks of excessive structural empowerment. • This study offers actionable insights for firms implementing integration strategies and structural empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our study examines the impacts on workers when organisational humour is repeated, sustained, dominating, and potentially harmful, and thus can be considered to be bullying. In an ethnographic study of an idiosyncratic New Zealand IT company, we observed humour that was sexualised, dominating, and perpetrated by the most powerful organizational members. We argue that the compelling need for belonging in this extreme organizational culture influenced workers to accept bullying humour as just a joke and therefore acceptable and harmless even when it contravened societal workplace norms. Our contribution is in identifying and extending the significant theoretical relationship between workplace humour and bullying that, to date, is not well-explored in organizational research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology provides businesses with the opportunity to better engage with customers, but the speed and scope of transformation in customer management have triggered a dark side, affecting people, companies and societies. Research is needed to structure and manage the dark side concept more systematically, considering aspects of dark side behaviours in relation to customer relationship management. Marketers frequently cite research on surveillance, cyber resilience, the dark web, theft by customers/staff, the illicit monetisation of data to third parties, and many other topics as examples of the dark side. The paper reviews the current state of the research and practice regarding the dark side of CRM and explores the dimensions and consequences. A conceptual framework is devised, which captures four important drivers of the dark side – namely unfairness, distrust, opportunism and lack of transparency. The theoretical and managerial implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming to stimulate the debate and the critical thinking of the students in management and business, this teaching case aims to present a real situation in which inadequate, immoral and criminal conducts are shown, committed by a pharmaceutical company. Therefore, it differs from others whose interest is to identify best practices and decision making for a certain situation. The case is about the episode "Drug Short" from the series "Dirty Money", that presents the many illegal and immoral practices committed by the pharmaceutical company Valeant, in an attempt to obtain greater profits for its shareholders. The case focuses on corporate practices that are harmful to society and gives an opportunity for a debate about the consequences of these actions and how they can be avoided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current exploratory study was designed to examine whether an expert‐generated rating of the creativity of a product and of its darkness‐brightness would both be influenced by the mood of the participants who had created that product. Positive and negative moods of the participants were induced by watching an emotional video, followed by appropriate instrumental music. Our participants were students of art and architecture, and they were asked to produce short texts and drawings while being in a specific mood. Their products tend to be subsequently rated by judges as being more bright and as being more creative when they had been generated while in a positive mood, and to be rated as being less bright and as being less creative when they had been generated in a negative mood. We also found an effect for the task, the drawings being rated as being more bright than the texts. In addition, those studying architecture generated more brightly rated products. Both positive and negative moods may result in creative products—and these will differ on a dark–bright rating scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Continuously evolving influenza viruses cause seasonal epidemics and pose global pandemic threats. Although viral neuraminidase (NA) is an effective drug and vaccine target, our understanding of the NA antigenic landscape still remains incomplete. Here, we describe NA-specific human antibodies that target the underside of the NA globular head domain, inhibit viral propagation of a wide range of human H3N2, swine-origin variant H3N2, and H2N2 viruses, and confer both pre- and post-exposure protection against lethal H3N2 infection in mice. Cryo-EM structures of two such antibodies in complex with NA reveal non-overlapping epitopes covering the underside of the NA head. These sites are highly conserved among N2 NAs yet inaccessible unless the NA head tilts or dissociates. Our findings help guide the development of effective countermeasures against ever-changing influenza viruses by identifying hidden conserved sites of vulnerability on the NA underside. [Display omitted] • Isolation of broadly cross-reactive and protective N2 NA-targeting human antibodies • Cryo-EM structures of two broadly cross-reactive antibodies in complex with N2 NA • Identification of conserved non-overlapping epitopes on the underside of NA head • Detection of antibodies to the NA underside epitopes in human convalescent samples Influenza neuraminidase (NA) is underappreciated as a vaccine target owing to its incomplete epitope landscape. Lederhofer et al. isolated human monoclonal antibodies to NA underside (i.e., dark side) epitopes with broad cross-reactivity across N2 subtype and protective efficacy in pre- and post-exposure settings, providing insights for NA-based vaccine design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proliferation of political Structure and the activation of social cleavages led Iran to an exacerbating process of electoral competition in the past two decades. Despite the positive functions of elections in Iran, the dark sides of this process are less known. Elections in Iran has led to an increase in the internal conflicts of political system, created very severe discontinuities in the policy- making process, paved the way for activating and intensifying social cleavages (especially ethnic and religious cleavages), and formed a kind of Sponsorship-based policy making and intensify the economic corruption of politicians. One of the main negative consequences of this process is delegitimizing the electoral process. The role of delegitimizing has been linked to the anti-developmental role of elections in Iran. From the viewpoint of the pathology of democratic processes and the effort to improve the quality of electoral mechanisms, it is important to understand such dimensions. “Completion of the institutional chain of electoral politics” is a proposed framework for reforming these processes.

This essay describes the experiences faculty may encounter when teaching tough topics. When professionals are in the position as the individual who cares for, hears about, or witnesses the trauma and suffering of others, they might themselves be at risk for experiencing vicarious stress, or secondary trauma. If ongoing and untreated, this traumatic stress can morph into compassion fatigue, which can impede professional success and contribute to burnout. This essay reflects on the experiences of teaching the Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication where students openly shared course-related personal experiences. We reflect on how to successfully manage the delicate climate of the Dark Side classroom for optimal discussion and application of sometimes personal, and oftentimes difficult, course content. The pedagogical strategies reflected in this essay can be adopted for use in other courses with similar potential for student disclosure.