Journal of Management Studies

15/06/2026

📢 Call for Papers | Journal of Management Studies Special Issue

Truth and Organizations in the Age of Polarization

📅 Submission deadline: 3 May 2027

What happens when shared understandings of truth become increasingly contested? How do organizations build credibility, maintain legitimacy, and navigate competing claims in an era shaped by political polarization, AI, algorithmic influence, and information uncertainty?

This Special Issue of the Journal of Management Studies invites theoretically grounded research examining how truth is perceived, challenged, negotiated, and made consequential in and around organizations.

We welcome submissions that explore questions such as:

🔹 How organizations establish and defend credibility and authority
🔹 How stakeholders decide what information to trust and believe
🔹 How AI, algorithms, and digital platforms shape perceptions of truth
🔹 How organizations navigate competing truths across polarized environments
🔹 How truth claims influence legitimacy, transparency, leadership, and organizational change

The Special Issue welcomes conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, computational, and methodological contributions that place truth at the centre of organizational theorizing.

Guest Editors:
• Chidiebere Ogbonnaya (King’s College London, UK)
• Claudia Gabbioneta (University of York, UK)
• Hannes Leroy (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands)
• Johann Fortwengel (King’s College London, UK)
• Patrick Haack (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Yasin Rofcanin (University of Bath, UK)

🔗 Read the full Call for Papers here: https://journalofmanagementstudies.ac.uk/special-issue-call-for-papers-truth-and-organizations-in-the-age-of-polarization/

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12/06/2026

📢 New Paper Alert: Fly Solo, Then Return Home? Offspring’s Entrepreneurship Experience and their Future As Family Business Successors

This paper examines parent-child successions involving 8,274 potential successors in Sweden between 2001 and 2019. The study finds that entrepreneurship experience can increase the likelihood of succession, while also showing how opportunity costs linked to the offspring’s venture and the family firm influence that effect.

Authors and affiliations:

• Philipp Sieger (University of Bern)
• Jasper Brinkerink (University of Edinburgh)
• Massimo Baù (Jönköping University)
• Johan Karlsson (Jönköping University; Svenskt Näringsliv)
• Alfredo De Massis (Università degli Studi G. D’Annunzio Chieti Pescara; IMD Business School; Lancaster University; Zhejiang University)

🔗 Access the full paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.70114

How does early-career entrepreneurship experience of family business offspring affect their likelihood of eventually taking over the established family firm? Considering family business succession as...

11/06/2026

📢 Call for Papers | Journal of Management Studies

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue Call for Papers: Decentering Strategic Leadership and Governance Research: Insights from Diverse Institutional Landscapes

🔍 Strategic leadership and governance does not look the same across the globe, so why do we keep studying them as if they do?

This special issue aims to challenge the US-centric, universalist assumptions dominating the field. We invite submissions that explore how macro-level institutional contexts shape micro-level leadership and governance practices, from within-country variety to cross-national comparisons and responses to transnational developments.

🗓 Submission window: 15–30 June 2026

Guest Editors: Floor Rink, Ruth V. Aguilera, Sarosh Asad, Mariano L.M. Heyden, Sun Hyun Park, Dennis Veltrop

JMS Editor: : Tiffany Trzebiatowski

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/44sbLpo

This issue welcomes theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions that engage with strategic leadership and governance from new and underrepresented angles.

Let’s broaden the conversation. Let’s decenter.

10/06/2026

📕 New JMS Insights Blog Post: Strategy and Acquisitions

In this new JMS Insights blog post, the authors show that acquisition success is not determined by following a universal integration playbook. Instead, effective integration depends on aligning post-acquisition decisions with the acquiring firm's strategic orientation. The study demonstrates that market-oriented firms tend to achieve stronger outcomes through greater functional integration and coordination, while entrepreneurial-oriented firms often benefit from preserving decision-making autonomy and using shared goals to create alignment. The findings highlight that successful acquisitions are shaped not only by selecting the right target, but also by choosing an integration approach that supports how the acquiring firm creates value.

Authors:
● Florian Bauer (University of Bristol Business School, UK)
● David R. King (Indiana University Kelley School of Business, USA)
● Jeffrey G. Covin (College of Business, University of Wyoming, USA)
● Svante Schriber (Stockholm Business School, Sweden)

Read the full JMS Insights Blog here: https://bit.ly/4v6RX6U

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05/06/2026

📢 New Paper Alert | Signalling servant leadership: How followers interpret leader behaviours

Leadership signals matter. This paper develops a signalling perspective on servant leadership, explaining how followers interpret leader behaviours and come to view leaders as servant leaders.

The authors show that costly, observable leader behaviours can serve as credible signals of servant leadership, while follower characteristics and contextual factors shape how those signals are received and interpreted. The study offers new insights into the mechanisms through which servant leadership perceptions emerge and develop.

Authors and affiliations:

• Nathan Eva (Monash Business School)
• Emily M. Hunter (Baylor University)
• Mitchell J. Neubert (Baylor University)
• Matthew Wood (The University of Oklahoma)

🔗 Access the full paper here: https://bit.ly/43QAxPL

Based on over 25 years of studies on servant leadership and multiple meta-analyses, we can safely say servant leadership positively affects individuals, teams, and organizations. Yet to reap these be...

04/06/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎉

Presented annually by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS), the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional PhD and DBA research that demonstrates outstanding innovation and advances new thinking in management and organisation studies.

We are delighted to announce this year's finalists:

🔹 Ludovica Castiglia (Emory University, USA)
📖 Navigating the Ideological Divide: Three Essays on Ideology in and around Organizations

🔹 Domenico Di Prisco (IÉSEG School of Management, France)
📖 Weaving AI into Society: The Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the Social Fabric of Organizations

🔹 Nicole Steller (ESCP Madrid, Spain)
📖 Corporate Purpose – Concept, Complications, and Consequences

Named in honour of Grigor McClelland, founder of SAMS and a pioneer of business and management research in the UK, the award celebrates doctoral work that explores bold new directions and challenges established thinking within the discipline.

The overall winner will receive a £5,000 prize, while each finalist receives £1,000 in recognition of their outstanding contributions.

🏆 The award winner will be announced at the SAMS Awards Ceremony during the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference on Wednesday, 17 June 2026, in Kristiansand, Norway.

Find out more about the SAMS Grigor McClelland Award and our previous winners here: https://bit.ly/4o4xsVG

We congratulate all three finalists on this remarkable achievement and look forward to celebrating with them at EURAM and announcing the winner.

GRIGOR McCLELLAND DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD or JMS, is a leading international journal that shares bold ideas, thoughtful research, and practical insights.

04/06/2026

📕 Celebrating a successful JMS Publishing Workshop in Seoul.

The second day of the Journal of Management Studies Publishing Workshop saw participants engage in a series of developmental paper presentations and small-group discussions. These sessions provided valuable opportunities for in-depth feedback, scholarly exchange, and constructive conversations on how to strengthen and advance research projects.

We extend our sincere thanks to Seoul National University for hosting the workshop and for creating such a welcoming environment for learning and collaboration. Special thanks again go to Jonghoon Bae and Theresa Cho, whose hard work, generosity, and attention to detail were instrumental in making the event such a success.

We are also grateful to our JMS editors - Kristina Potočnik, Johann Fortwengel, Claudia Gabbioneta, Bill Schulze, Mirko Benischke, and Lin Cui - for sharing their expertise and providing thoughtful developmental feedback throughout the workshop.

Our thanks also go to local scholars Eunyoung Park, Kyuho Jin, Bo Kyung Kim, Seung-Yoon Rhee, and Young-Choon Kim, who generously contributed their time and expertise to the developmental sessions, as well as Sung-Joon Park for his valuable contribution to the Day 1 panel discussion.

Finally, thank you to all the researchers and attendees who contributed their ideas, questions, and enthusiasm over the two days. It was a pleasure to connect with so many members of our scholarly community.

Swipe through for a final selection of highlights from the workshop 📸

03/06/2026

📚 New JMS Point-Counterpoint Debate: Social Media as a Threat to Democracy

This debate brings together contrasting perspectives on one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society:

• From Platform Design to Attention Governance: Rethinking Social Media Externalities - Mirko Benischke (Erasmus University Rotterdam) & Corinne Post (Villanova School of Business)

• Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm - Itziar Castelló (Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London), Elanor Colleoni (IULM Milan), Andreas Georg Scherer (University of Zurich) & Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich (Leuphana University)

• Are Social Media Platforms a Threat to Democracy? An Ecosystem Governance Perspective - Carmelo Cennamo (Copenhagen Business School) & Jovana Karanovic (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)

• Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future-Proof Democracy - J.P. Vergne (UCL School of Management)

We also pause to honour the memory of Jovana Karanovic. As her co-author Carmelo Cennamo reflected, this publication represents an opportunity to celebrate Jovana’s legacy and the values that shaped her scholarship. Her commitment to using research to contribute to a better society, alongside her inspiring character and sense of purpose, left a lasting impact on those who worked with her. Carmelo remains committed to ensuring that this work reaches the widest possible audience and achieves the impact that both authors hoped for when writing it. As he notes:

"Her combination of intellectual curiosity and dedication to addressing important societal challenges and making a difference in the world will continue to inspire us all"

Read the full P*P debate on the JMS website: https://bit.ly/4o1BXjP

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03/06/2026

📕 New JMS Insights Blog Post | The Creativity through Constraints: Zooming in on the Micro-Moves that Drive Innovation in the Toughest Environments

Innovation is often portrayed as the product of abundant resources and ideal conditions. Yet some of the most impactful innovations emerge when teams face severe constraints. Drawing on research across 60 innovation projects serving Base-of-the-Pyramid markets in India and sub-Saharan Africa, this new JMS Insights Blog explores how innovators transform limitations into opportunities through a series of practical, repeatable actions.

The study highlights how teams respond differently to goal constraints and task constraints, and how successful innovators move flexibly between structured planning and creative improvisation as challenges evolve. The findings offer valuable lessons for organizations seeking to innovate under pressure, whether facing resource shortages, regulatory demands, affordability challenges, or shifting market conditions.

Authors:

● Helene Doms (Danone S.A.)
● Matthias Weiss (Zeppelin University)
● Martin Hoegl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Read the full JMS Insights Blog here: https://bit.ly/4vnvXEy

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02/06/2026

As Professor Paolo Aversa concludes his term as Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for his outstanding service to the journal.

A globally recognised scholar of strategy, innovation, and industry evolution, Paolo has brought tremendous energy, insight, and expertise to the editorial team. Beyond his impressive academic achievements, he has been a valued colleague whose enthusiasm, generosity, and commitment to supporting great research have made a lasting impact on our community.

Thank you, Paolo, for everything you have contributed to JMS. We wish you every success!