Instrumental stakeholder theory has largely emphasized the positive effects of investing in stakeholder cooperative relationships in an additive, lineal fashion in the sense that the more investments the better. Yet investing in stakeholders can be very costly and the effects of these...

Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper argues that economic sociology can provide a...

From an historical perspective, management accounting is a very recent phenomenon (see Johnson & Kaplan, 1987) and is culturally grounded in a few old-industrialized countries, in Europe: Germany, United-Kingdom, France, but also in Japan and in the United-States. Notwithstanding the cultural...

It is often presumed that knowledge exchange (or transfer) leads to distinctive advantages for firms. Amalgamating extensive qualitative data from knowledge-intensive sites and agent-based simulation, we model how individual agents, rather than organizational units or firms, search and exchange...

While the study of human work and the workplace occupies a central place in scientific thought and discourse, less attention is given to the unemployment phenomenon and far less to the long term unemployment experience. Focusing on the latter, this paper offers a conceptual framework and a...

Do “flat” egalitarian or hierarchical structures lead to higher organizational resilience against unexpected adversities such as supply chain crises, technological disruptions, and pandem- ics? The learning and unlearning perspective asserts that the time of adversity and its duration are...