Research laboratories in universities face a complex challenge: they must manage multiple projects, diverse teams, and tight deadlines, often with limited resources. While the business world has long used agile and quality management tools to navigate such complexity, these methods are...

"This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges. With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the...

This report presents the findings from the first of two activities conducted under the World Bank’s Advisory Services and Analytics project, with the primary aim of gaining insights into the increasing threats posed by wildfire outbreaks to both forests and local communities in Thailand. This...

"Redefining Management: The Manager/Leader-Relevant Stakeholder Paradigm presents a groundbreaking shift in management philosophy, theory, and practice, introducing the innovative concept of the manager/leader-relevant stakeholder. This paradigm challenges the traditional manager-subordinate...

Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral bias that involves the overestimation of one's own capabilities. We introduce a model in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation of the tasks. A rational manager tends to reduce...

The European Research on Management and Business Economics is a well-established journal in the fields of management, business, and economics. Founded 30 years ago in Spain under the name Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, the journal initially published in...

The need remains for a review of the literature devoted to telework, due to the exponential growth of this work format, as well as to the consequent increase in the number of publications about it. For this reason, the aim sought with this study consists in analysing the literature on telework...

(1) Background: This study aimed to develop and validate a new instrument to measure relational reflexivity in management settings. Relational reflexivity-defined as the integration of self-awareness, perspective-taking, and interpersonal responsibility-has been discussed conceptually, but it...

The rapid integration of AI into business and management demands ethical and responsible technology design and deployment. While various policies and frameworks exist, there is limited understanding of operationalizing responsible artificial intelligence (RAI). The literature remains fragmented,...

Frame of the research. Well-being is a concept that has attracted scholars’ interest for centuries. In the last decades, workplace well-being has gained academic research attention. Nevertheless, a holistic approach to how workplace well-being is related to the decision-making process is...

Innovation has become crucial for Multinational Corporations (MNCs) to survive and thrive in today's digital era of disruptive technologies. According to the attention-based view, top management team (TMT) attention reflects organizational cognition and strategic preferences. This study...

Podcasts are reshaping how management ideas are disseminated and consumed in the digital age. This conceptual essay applies insights from management fashion theory to analyze how podcasts operate as hybrid media that both mirror and amplify popular business ideas. We explore the interplay among...

Palestinian higher education institutions operate under extraordinary challenges due to military occupation, including movement restrictions, resource limitations, and institutional closures, requiring university leaders to develop innovative approaches to maintain academic standards. This study...

From where does management acquire its authority to act in the name of the corporation? The orthodoxy that shareholders alone authorise management is frequently criticised for treating the corporation as the property of shareholders, rather than as a distinct legal person in its own right...

The Apple TV+ series Severance (2022-present) offers a dystopian portrayal of workplace life that intensifies real-world dynamics of control, boundary management, and identity regulation. This paper analyzes Severance as a speculative case study in organizational theory, treating the show's...

We study how liberalization and competition affect firms’ output and product scope depending on management practices. In a model of multi-product firms, we show that firms with better management practices specialize in fewer products with lower marginal costs. The model predicts that, under...

We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings, and closings in U.S. Census and international data. Better-managed firms also birth better-managed plants and improve the performance of the plants they acquire. To explain these findings, we build a model...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within the decision-making processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) presents both significant opportunities and substantial ethical challenges. The aim of this paper is to provide a theoretical model depicting the interdependence of...