Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 11 Issue 2

Despotic leadership and organizational deviance: The mediating role of organizational identification and the moderating role of value congruence

Hakan Erkutlu, Jamel Chafra

Drawing on the social exchange theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between despotic leadership and employee’s organizational deviance. Specifically…

Iterative prototyping of strategy implementation workshop design

Anders Kryger

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a strategy implementation workshop design can be developed and tested while minimizing the time spent on developing the design.

PhD scientists in the boardroom: the innovation impact

Tim Swift

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact that PhD scientists serving on the board of directors of firms conducting hard science have on the R&D-based innovative…

True exogenous shock or just a scapegoat: Making sense of crises – the case of the 2008/2009 global banking crisis’ impact on manufacturing industries

Lars Schweizer, Andreas Nienhaus

Sensemaking models generally lack an objective determinant to distinguish between CEO fault and changes in systematic risk caused by exogenous negative shocks like a banking…

When implementation falters: the challenge of having peripheral issues stick in organisations

Mikael Sundström, Robert Holmberg

The purpose of this paper is to study a class of issues that in spite of recognised needs and explicit managerial demands have proven hard to have “stick” in organisations…

The need for requisite variety to support growth: an organizational life cycle perspective

Rocco Palumbo, Rosalba Manna

Drawing on the “Giffoni Experience” case study, the purpose of this paper is to establish a conceptual link between requisite variety and organizational life cycle. The law of…

The elephant in the room of mutual forbearance: How a multi-market firm develops the motivation for forbearance

Burak Cem Konduk

The purpose of this paper is to explain how a multi-market firm develops the motivation to forbear from competition.