Although organizations and individuals tend to focus on learning from success, research has
shown that failure can yield crucial insights in various contexts that range from small …

Signaling theory is about decision-making and communication. It describes scenarios where
signalers send observable signals that carry credible information about unobservable …

In this article, we provide a nuanced perspective on the benefits and costs of covert
research. In particular, we illustrate the value of such an approach by focusing on covert …

This review assembles two highly referenced streams of research in organization and
management studies over the past decade: institutional logics and categories. We present …

We examine why organizations may at times decrease their performance after receiving a
positive rating. We argue that in contrast to the prevailing assumption that organizations will …

In the last decade, research on negative social evaluations, from adverse reputation to
extreme stigmatization, has burgeoned both at the individual and organizational level. Thus …

More students study management and organization studies than ever, the number of
business schools worldwide continues to rise, and more management research is being …

Previous work on institutional complexity has discussed two solutions that organizations
internally deploy when externally engaging with multiple institutional logics: blended …

Research on organizational misconduct has examined how audiences generate discourses
to make sense of behaviour that may transgress the line between right and wrong. However …

The purpose of this study is to theoretically and empirically extend the debate of the
curvilinear linkage between corporate sustainability performance and its reporting practices …