Academy of Management Journal

Due to their distinctive features, multiteam systems (MTSs) face significant coordination challenges—both within component teams and across the larger system. Despite the benefits of informal mecha...

Jonathan C. Ziegert

Andrew P. Knight

Christian J. Resick

Katrina A. Graham

Addressing Performance Tensions in Multiteam Systems: Balancing Informal Mechanisms of Coordination within and between Teams

Evidence suggests that organizational leaders can inspire employees by communicating a vision of the future with image-based rhetoric—words and phrases that are readily envisioned in the mind’s eye...

Andrew M. Carton

Brian J. Lucas

How Can Leaders Overcome the Blurry Vision Bias? Identifying an Antidote to the Paradox of Vision Communication

领导者如何克服模糊愿景偏见？寻找愿景沟通悖论的解药

Views differ on whether individuals with a calling orientation toward work (i.e., seeing work as personally fulfilling and contributing to a better world) enjoy more favorable objective career outcomes, such as higher income and chance of promotion, versus those with a job orientation (i.e., seeing work as a means to a financial end). We suggest that the impasse is partially due to prior research's exclusive focus on how work orientation affects one's effort and subsequent job performance. Drawing on theories of signaling, cognitive biases, and reciprocity, we propose that calling-oriented employees enjoy better objective career outcomes than job-oriented employees via an external pathway: managers misperceive employees' calling orientation as evidence of better performance and stronger organizational commitment. In Study 1—analyses of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study—we find support for the main effect, and in Study 2—an online experiment—we constructively replicate this effect and find evidence for our predicted explanatory mechanisms. Furthermore, observing a calling-oriented employee prompts managers to perceive them more favorably in other domains, creating a halo effect. Our research sheds light on how individuals' subjective view of the meaning of work influences their objective career success, highlighting workplace signals and managerial perceptions as important mechanisms.

Yuna Cho

Winnie Y. Jiang

How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions

工作导向如何通过管理者的（错误）认知影响客观职业结果

Xiaoran Hu

Michael R. Parke

Randall S. Peterson

Grace M. Simon

Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance

老板的笑话也能假笑？领导幽默量、下属表面行为与权力距离

Why, how, and under what conditions do firms respond to supply chain disruptions? These are important questions, given that firms around the world are increasingly exposed to disruptions that impede their supply chain relationships and associated operations. This study applies information processing and resource dependence perspectives to identify the repertoire of strategic responses to supply chain disruptions and to devise and test a model that explains the occurrence of the alternative responses. The findings suggest that these responses are shaped by the "stability motive" and by "interpretative postures," which evolve from past experiences.

Christoph Bode

Stephan M. Wagner

Kenneth J. Petersen

Lisa M. Ellram

Understanding Responses to Supply Chain Disruptions: Insights from Information Processing and Resource Dependence Perspectives

Isabel Neuberger

Fabio Mattioli

Harriette Richards

Greg Nyilasy

Paul Tracey

Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences

中介合法化：创始人如何在关键受众中建立新创企业合法性

In contrast to models of organizational transformation that focus on one-time episodes of change, this study reveals limits to the number of transformations an organization can make without losing the support of key stakeholder groups. To better understand the process of repeated transformation, we study an extreme case of a medical technology startup with a history of pivoting, focusing on the degree to which employees and investors continued to support the venture. Although new ventures are often advised to be highly adaptive, we find that repeated pivoting introduces relational liabilities for even highly flexible organizations. Drawing on our analysis, we develop a culturally informed process model of resource commitments that reveals how differences in pivoting narratives and stakeholder orientations affect the flow of support from employees and investors, even as the organization repeatedly pivots. Our model contributes to existing theories of organizational transformation, offering an enriched understanding of how organizations can narratively sustain resource commitments to enable continuous adaptation.

Eric Knight

Matthew G. Grimes

Joel Gehman

The Limits of Pivoting: A Culturally Informed Model of Resource Commitments during Repeated Organizational Transformation

转向的局限性：组织转型过程中基于文化视角的资源承诺模型

Leif Brändle

Elisabeth S. C. Berger

Michael D. Howard

Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks

跨越技术边界：中介与创新网络的形成

Prevailing theories hold that regional entrepreneurial activity is a function of each region's preexisting local resource endowments. But these theories do not explain entrepreneurial activity in regions that possess few of the requisite endowments, such as nonmetropolitan areas, which often lack many of the resources conducive to entrepreneurship. Drawing on institutional theory and knowledge spillover theory, we theorize that individuals engaged in institutional work play a key role in catalyzing entrepreneurial activity within such regions by serving as conduits of voluntary, horizontal knowledge spillovers. We propose that their ability to do so is enhanced when they access nonlocal tacit knowledge from others working in similar contexts. We further propose that, consistent with sociological theories of social capital and trust, local socioeconomic conditions can constrain the absorption of such knowledge and thereby local venturing in their home communities. Empirically, we study these propositions through a field intervention: an in-person gathering fostering tacit knowledge spillovers among individual entrepreneurial ecosystem architects from nonmetro counties in a Midwestern U.S. state. We conducted additional tests of alternative specifications, identification, and behavioral impacts. Taken together, these arguments and findings deepen our theoretical understanding of an important pathway in the development of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Sunasir Dutta

Daniel P. Forbes

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers

促进非都市地区的创业：生态系统建筑师作为知识溢出的渠道

Juliane Reinecke

Laura M. Little

Tal Simons

Paul Bliese

John Dencker

Quinetta Roberson

Georg von Krogh

Marc Gruber

Advancing Management Theory through Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities

通过跨学科研究推进管理理论：挑战与机遇

Abbreviation	Acad. Manage. J.
Journal Impact	9.46
Quartiles(Global)	MANAGEMENT(Q1)

ISSN	0001-4273, 1948-0989
h-index	375
Top Journals	Yes

Publication Information	Publisher: Academy of Management，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1989，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:5.30%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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