Journal of Management Studies

Journal of Management Studies | A Publishing Workshop in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

We are delighted to announce the upcoming Journal of Management Studies Publishing are holding a Paper Development Workshop as part of the India Management Research Conference 2026 in Gujarat, India on 5 December 2026.

Led by JMS General Editor Johann Fortwengel (King’s College London), the workshop will feature:
• An editorial panel discussion on theorizing, positioning, and publishing;
• Small-group development sessions in which each of the selected papers receives dedicated feedback from a JMS Editor and an assigned discussant; and
• Roundtables focused on sharpening the contribution, framing, and research design.

📍 In-person at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Gujarat
📅 Workshop date: 5 December 2026
📝 Application deadline: 15 October 2026

Link to the full call: https://journalofmanagementstudies.ac.uk/reimagining-organizations-transformation-and-value-creation-in-the-age-of-ai-perspectives-from-developing-economies-and-the-global-south/

Link to application form here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imrc2026

We look forward to welcoming colleagues for what promises to be an engaging and developmental workshop.

📢 New Paper Alert | Legacy as Evaluative Authorization: A Process Theory of Divergent Organizational Trajectories

Why do organizations that draw on their past in similar ways end up on different paths? The key insight is that organizations diverge not because they inherit different histories, but because they give those histories different forms of stability.

This article provides a theory of how organizations use their past to shape future strategic decisions.

Authors and affiliations:

● Gideon D. Markman, Louisiana State University, USA
● Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Audencia Business School, France
● James Davis, Utah State University, USA
● William B. Gartner, Audencia Business School, France

🔗 Access the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.70148

Legacy as Evaluative Authorization: A Process Theory of Divergent Organizational Trajectories Strategic reorientation entails justifying new directions in light of the past. While organizations invoke their past when facing strategic shifts, these invocations can yield divergent outcomes, ena...

📕 New JMS Insights Blog Post | Why Microfinance Works - Even When It Doesn’t Create Entrepreneurs
Based on extensive fieldwork in rural South Africa, the study shows how borrowers and loan officers sustain microfinance through practices rooted in Ubuntu: an African philosophy centred on care, reciprocity, and community.

Rather than viewing loans used for household needs as a failure, the research demonstrates how flexible, community-based approaches help people navigate financial uncertainty while maintaining strong repayment and supporting those around them. The findings suggest that the lasting value of microfinance may lie not only in fostering entrepreneurship, but also in strengthening communities' ability to manage scarcity together.

Authors and Affiliations:
• Jacob Vermeire (Ghent University)
• Miguel Meuleman (Vlerick Business School)
• Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC Business School)

🔗 Read the latest JMS Insights Blog here: https://journalofmanagementstudies.ac.uk/why-microfinance-works-even-when-it-doesnt-create-entrepreneurs/

Why Microfinance Works - Even When It Doesn’t Create Entrepreneurs - Journal Of Management Studies Find out the latest news from the Why Microfinance Works - Even When It Doesn’t Create Entrepreneurs . JMS is a leading international journal that shares bold ideas, thoughtful research, and practical insights.

📢 New Paper Alert | Bifurcation Bias in Executive Compensation and Family Firm Performance: The Role of Normative Context

Bifurcation bias, the preferential treatment of family managers over non-family managers, is widespread in family firms. Drawing on justice and entitlement theories, this paper demonstrates that fairness judgments are socially embedded: cash-based compensation of family managers undermines firm performance, but the effect varies depending on regional traditions, industry competitiveness, and family involvement in management.

This paper provides practical guidance for family firms seeking to balance fairness with family-centred goals.

Authors and affiliations:

● Weiwen Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
● Xiaotong Li, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China
● James J. Chrisman, Mississippi State University, USA
● Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

🔗 Access the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70144

Bifurcation Bias in Executive Compensation and Family Firm Performance: The Role of Normative Context Bifurcation bias, the preferential treatment in favour of family managers over non-family managers, is prevalent in family firms, yet research on its performance implications remains inconclusive. We...

🪶 New JMS Says Alert | Beyond Resilience: The Privilege of Composure Under Geopolitical Tension

🌍 When personal crisis strikes, academic life carries on around it: deadlines, meetings, and expectations continue as if disruption is an individual problem. Omid Aliasghar reflects on how composure must be renegotiated when their full presence is no longer possible. Feelings of isolation are often not because of the crisis itself, but because of the gap between the support that exists and the structural conditions that prevent it from being translated into action. A field built on the study of how organizations navigate disruption has, for too long, asked its own members to navigate it in silence. Closing the gap between care and the conditions that allow it to act are what the field demands in order to shift composure from performative to reflexive.

Author and affiliation:

● Omid Aliasghar (University of Auckland)

🔗 Access the full essay here: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70135

Beyond Resilience: The Privilege of Composure Under Geopolitical Tension Click on the article title to read more.

📢 Call for Papers | Journal of Management Studies Special Issue

Organizational Practices for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Institutionally Contested Times

The Journal of Management Studies invites submissions for a new Special Issue exploring how organizations navigate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) amid evolving political, legal, and institutional landscapes.

We welcome conceptual and empirical research examining how organizations respond to competing institutional pressures, shifting regulatory environments, and the challenges of sustaining inclusive practices in increasingly contested contexts. Contributions from a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are encouraged.

📅 Submission window: 15–31 March 2027

For full details, including the aims and scope of the Special Issue, illustrative research questions, Guest Editors, and submission guidance, please visit the JMS website here: https://journalofmanagementstudies.ac.uk/special-issue-call-for-papers-organizational-practices-for-equality-diversity-and-inclusion-in-institutionally-contested-times/

Special Issue Call for Papers: Organizational Practices for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Institutionally Contested Times - Journal Of Management Studies Find out the latest news from the Special Issue Call for Papers: Organizational Practices for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Institutionally Contested Times . JMS is a leading international journal that shares bold ideas, thoughtful research, and practical insights.

📢 New Paper Alert | Complementary or Substitutive Environmental Governance? ISO 14001 and Environmental Stringency for Emission Reduction

Contrary to the dominant view that public and private governance are substitutes, this paper proposes that they can complement one another, depending on the institutional setting.

Using the global diffusion of ISO 14001 as an indicator of the growing privatization of environmental governance, and environmental stringency as a reflection of the strength and effectiveness of public environmental governance. This paper examines how ISO 14001 and environmental stringency interact to reduce corporate emissions across institutional systems showing that complementarity is more likely in liberal market economies or other systems following a market-based logic, and when firms expand internationally.

Authors and affiliations:

● Irene Margaret (University of Liverpool)
● Jordi A. Surroca (University of Liverpool)
● Josep A. Tribó (Stevens Institute of Technology)

🔗 Access the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70137

Complementary or Substitutive Environmental Governance? ISO 14001 and Environmental Stringency for Emission Reduction In this paper, we adopt the so-called ‘related’ perspective on business and government relations and propose that they interact and influence one another in governing corporate responsibility. We the...

📕 New JMS Insights Blog Post | My Child Started a Business. Have I Lost My Successor?

Many family business owners worry that when a son or daughter launches their own venture, the prospect of them one day leading the family firm disappears. New research published in JMS suggests the reality is far more encouraging. Drawing on evidence from more than 8,000 potential successors in Sweden, the study finds that early-career entrepreneurial experience can actually make next-generation family members more likely to take over the family business. At the same time, successful entrepreneurial ventures create attractive career alternatives, highlighting the importance of ensuring the family firm remains an appealing opportunity for future leaders.

Authors and Affiliations:
• Philipp Sieger (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Jasper Brinkerink (University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland)
• Massimo Baù (Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden)
• Johan Karlsson (CeFEO and Svenskt Näringsliv (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise), Sweden))
• Alfredo De Massis (D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy; IMD, Switzerland)

🔗 Read the latest JMS Insights Blog here: https://journalofmanagementstudies.ac.uk/my-child-started-a-business-have-i-lost-my-successor/

My Child Started a Business. Have I lost My Successor? - Journal Of Management Studies Find out the latest news from the My Child Started a Business. Have I lost My Successor? . JMS is a leading international journal that shares bold ideas, thoughtful research, and practical insights.

General Editor Corinne Post will be participating in tomorrow's event "Publishing Literature Reviews in Top Journals in the Age of AI"

📅 13.15-14.45, Tuesday 4 August
📍 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown: Level 5: Salon E