本文精选了管理学国际顶刊《Academy of Management Journal》近期发表的论文，提供管理学领域最新的学术动态。

Role Rectification: How Hybrid Entrepreneurship Turns Entrepreneur Roles from Liability to Advantage in Hiring

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4

Gavin Williamson （Rowan University）

Timothy P. Munyon （University of Tennessee）

Ali Mchiri （Sam Houston State University）

Malgorzata W. Kozusznik （Ghent University）

Abstract

Research shows that certain work roles constrain labor market success when individuals transition to new work roles, as they are viewed as discrediting by potential role partners. However, workers increasingly hold multiple roles simultaneously, which may alter the inferences drawn from roles that are discrediting in isolation. Building on role accumulation theory, we theorize that work roles that are net liabilities in isolation, such as the entrepreneur role, can become net assets as part of a compensatory role set, and we identify a new theoretical mechanism of role rectification through which this effect occurs. Mobilizing verbal protocol, experimental, and archival data sources, we find evidence for role rectification using the case of hybrid entrepreneurs, but we also find that the benefits of role rectification are attenuated in contexts where role accumulation magnifies role nonconformity risks.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2023.1071

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Pragmatic Adaptation in Large-Scale Creative Projects with Underspecified Product Concepts

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4

Elizabeth D. Rouse （Boston College）

Abstract

Developing new creative products inherently involves ambiguity due to its focus on novelty. When organizations have high ambitions for novelty yet lack a specific product concept, they must coordinate complex work and manage possibilities alongside significant ambiguity. This longitudinal qualitative study of a video game project examines how a large-scale creative project team collaborated in the face of an underspecified product concept. I theorize how project teams employ two interconnected processes: an iterative compositional process that drives product development within periods, and a pragmatic adaptation process that shifts teams from creative idealism to realism across periods. The findings reveal three distinct but interrelated forms of work—product work, contribution framing, and adaptive psychological work—that enable creative workers to develop an ambitious product without a specified product concept. By examining both product work and the psychological experiences of creative workers across hierarchical levels, this research broadens our understanding of creative work beyond more exclusively product-focused perspectives.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.0418

CEO Regulatory Focus as an Interpretive Frame: An Empirical Examination of Investor Perceptions in the Context of Earning Deviations

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4

Srikanth Paruchuri （Texas A&M University）

Joel L. Andrus （University of Arkansas）

David W. Sullivan （University of New South Wales）

Abstract

Investors perceive a CEO’s regulatory foci based on the language they use. Complementing earlier studies on the direct effects of CEO regulatory focus, we propose a novel theoretical paradigm in which CEOs’ regulatory-focused language act as interpretive frames shaping investors’ reactions to earnings deviations—the positive or negative earnings deviations from analysts’ expectations. We propose that investor reactions to earnings deviations will be amplified when investors perceive a CEO to have higher promotion focus, and dampened when investors perceive a CEO to have higher prevention focus. We employ a multimethod approach to test our theorizing; we use an archival study of S&P 500 firms from 2003 to 2017 to test our hypotheses, and two preregistered randomized vignette experiments to explore the underlying investor attributions theorized in our framework. Across all studies, we find broad support for our theorization regarding how CEO regulatory-focused language acts as interpretive frames for investors, which has important implications for research on the social view of financial markets and CEO regulatory focus.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2023.0896

Reckoning with the Ideal Worker Body: A Qualitative Study of Workers in Chronic Pain

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4

Beth S. Schinoff （University of Delaware）

Kim Rocheville （Creighton University）

Elana Feldman （University of Massachusetts Lowell）

Njoke Thomas （Boston College）

Abstract

Implicit in the ideal worker norm is the assumption of the ideal worker body, a body that is always ready and willing to meet work demands. Yet, bodies vary in their ability to meet this ideal. Through a qualitative study of 66 workers in chronic pain, we build theory on the experience of a chronic, stigmatized deviation from the ideal worker body. Our analysis uncovered that as informants’ pain interfered with their work, they attempted to pass as ideal-worker-bodied. However, attempting to pass ultimately increased their pain and its interference with their work, thus catapulting them into a vicious cycle. For two thirds of our informants, this cycle led to their pain becoming intolerable, forcing them to reckon with pervasive ableist norms as they turned to medical professionals for help. Informants who received validating cues from medical professionals were better able to relinquish, albeit with difficulty, the ideal worker body as necessary. They came to accept an alternative to the ideal worker body: a sufficient worker body. Informants who received invalidating cues continued in the vicious cycle of striving for the ideal worker body. Our findings contribute to scholarship on bodies at work, stigma at work, and the ideal worker norm.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2023.0511

Seeking Greener Pastures: Employee Turnover Following Corporate Stakeholder Violations

Academy of Management Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4

Forrest Briscoe （Cornell University）

Mark R. DesJardine （Dartmouth College）

Abstract

Are employees willing to leave when their employer violates societal norms? We develop an event-based framework for understanding employee turnover in response to stakeholder violations—publicly announced, regulator-sanctioned harms to stakeholders. We theorize that intense violations prompt some employees to reassess their affiliation due to reputational concerns, especially when violations are broad in scope, occur in rapid succession, or diverge from past patterns. These features increase the likelihood that observers, including peers and future employers, will view the misconduct as systemic, elevating reputational risk for those who remain. Using eight years of job history data from 735 large U.S. public companies, sourced from LinkedIn by Revelio Labs, we find that violations amounting to 5% of a company’s annual revenues translate into a 3.93% increase in employee turnover. Turnover rates rise further when violations are broad, rapid, or historically atypical. Departing employees tend to join firms with fewer prior violations, indicating a form of values-based sorting. We also estimate the financial toll of violation-induced turnover for representative firms in our sample. Our findings offer a new lens on stakeholder violations as organizational events that drive interorganizational migration.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.0243