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# VU Management Perspectives

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- [When does a career decision become a regret?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2026/03/23/when-does-a-career-decision-become-a-regret/) - I should have taken that job abroad!I should have studied something different!I should have told my boss what I really think of them and their behaviour.I should have made decisions based on what truly matters instead of simply pursuing the career ladder without reflection. I should have…we all know the feeling of regret; the bitter
- [Learning Culture by Design: Practical Ways to Make Learning Part of Your Organization’s DNA](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/11/24/learning-culture-by-design-practical-ways-to-make-learning-part-of-your-organizations-dna/) - Using Learning to Build a Learning Culture Organizations are under constant pressure to innovate, adapt, and rethink how they work. Yet many companies still approach learning as a series of disconnected activities - an annual training here, a leadership workshop there. Unsurprisingly, these efforts rarely change behavior or culture. Our study, published in Research-Technology Management
- [The development of AI over the last three decades: a professional’s journey](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/11/05/the-development-of-ai-over-the-last-three-decades-a-professionals-journey/) - The Beginning of AI: From Unknown Study to Hidden Opportunity Over the past three decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has developed at a rapid pace and is now more integrated into our daily lives than we could ever have imagined. Jan-Willem Gefken, director of the Palga Foundation and professional in IT management for data-driven organizations, already
- [Open Strategy: Shiny Ideal or Working Reality?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/09/01/open-strategy-shiny-ideal-or-working-reality/) - Open Strategy: Big Potential, Real Challenges Open strategy – the practice of involving a wider set of stakeholders in the strategy formulation process - can make organizations faster, smarter, and more innovative. By tapping into a broader set of perspectives, companies can spot opportunities and risks earlier, challenge entrenched thinking or build stronger buy-in for
- [Why Some People Have Regret in Their Careers—And Others Don’t](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/08/04/why-some-people-have-regret-in-their-careers-and-others-dont/) - Why do we need to talk about regret? We’re constantly told to take charge of our careers: Be proactive. Take ownership. Make the most out of it and don’t let anyone else steer. But what happens when things go wrong anyway? When choices don’t pan out, or opportunities are missed? In modern careers, where responsibility
- [Leaving to Return: Why ‘Boomerang’ Transitions Are Shaping Modern Careers—and How Organizations Can Capitalize](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/07/07/leaving-to-return-why-boomerang-transitions-are-shaping-modern-careers-and-how-organizations-can-capitalize/) - Careers Are No Longer Linear—And That’s Why Boomerangs Matter Recruiters used to view ex-employees with suspicion. Today, firms actively court them. In the United States alone, boomerang hires may already represent 28 percent of all new appointments. Why the surge? Labor shortages, rising internal mobility platforms, and employees’ need for varied career experiences all play
- [Bitter medicine: Fixing Feedback Phobia](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/06/23/bitter-medicine-fixing-feedback-phobia/) - Why do individuals often avoid giving negative feedback in organizational settings, despite its recognized value for learning, improvement, and accountability? In our interviews, we found that there is a lot of emotional friction in the process. Giving that negative feedback is a very emotionally charged experience for many individuals; giving the feedback feels like a
- [Reimagining Sustainability: Unlocking the Coopetitive Circular Business Model](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/06/10/reimagining-sustainability-unlocking-the-coopetitive-circular-business-model/) - In today's fast-paced business world, the push for sustainability is more than just a trend—it's an imperative. Our recent study, "Towards the Coopetitive Circular Business Model" published in Industrial Marketing Management, explores an innovative approach that has the potential to transform how companies transition towards sustainability. We introduce the Coopetitive Circular Business Model (CCBM), which
- [Rethinking Rural Entrepreneurship](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/05/12/rethinking-rural-entrepreneurship/) - Beyond the Traditional View of Rural Entrepreneurship Historically, scholars have debated how much rural context influences entrepreneurship. Some argue that rural entrepreneurs are shaped by external conditions such as low population density, lack of infrastructure, and economic policies (specifically agricultural). Others focus on the personal experiences of rural entrepreneurs and their social networks as part
- [Ever wondered about acts of power in a techno music ecosystem?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/04/28/ever-wondered-about-acts-of-power-in-a-techno-music-ecosystem/) - In a recently published study in Industry and Innovation, with Elco van Burg, Brian Tjemkes, and Omar Solinger, I explored how the techno experience – as a creative output – is both consistent and innovative. By interviewing nearly 50 people – from DJs to police, from illegal rave organizers to large festivals – and observing
- [Decoding Signals of Managerial Human Capital for Smarter Hiring Decisions](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/04/14/decoding-signals-of-managerial-human-capital-for-smarter-hiring-decisions/) - The Challenge of Identifying Managerial Human Capital in Labor Markets Effective managers lead teams, solve problems, allocate resources, and navigate organizational challenges effectively. Managerial human capital refers to an individual’s capacities that allow them to execute these tasks, and as such, plays a pivotal role in organizational performance. So all organizations are interested in hiring
- [Boosting Collaboration: How Daily Expectations Drive Knowledge Sharing in the Workplace](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/03/31/how-daily-expectations-drive-knowledge-sharing-in-the-workplace/) - Introduction Effective knowledge sharing is essential for organizational success. It drives innovation, improves decision-making, and boosts overall performance. For example, imagine a marketing team working on a new campaign. A junior employee struggles with analyzing customer data, and a senior colleague notices and shares a simple method they use for data analysis, along with a
- [Small Steps, Big Impacts: The Butterfly Effect in Women’s Business](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/03/17/small-steps-big-impacts-the-butterfly-effect-in-womens-business/) - Why Women’s Entrepreneurship Matters: Expanding Capabilities Poverty is not gender neutral. While income is crucial in assessing poverty, its gendered dimensions necessitate a more comprehensive framework that considers the distinctive factors contributing to poverty among women. Consequently, measures of progress against poverty should include not only calculations related to basic needs, income, and consumption but
- [Unlocking the Power of Isolation for Exploratory Innovation](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/03/03/unlocking-the-power-of-isolation-for-exploratory-innovation/) - In today’s fast-paced business environment, a firm’s ability to generate exploratory innovations is crucial for its survival. This involves being skilled in experimentation, risk-taking, and discovery, enabling the firm to explore new knowledge domains and renew itself over time. But what drives this ability to innovate? Recent research sheds light on the role of intraorganizational
- [CEOs make sense and learn from failure by distilling pairs of simple rules](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/open-competition-grant-for-sbe-project-about-open-science-copy-6/) - These last few years have changed our lives, our societies, and our workplaces, but they have also changed our minds. The only good use of the pandemic would be to let it help us distill some new and better principles for our lives and our professions. How can we learn better from the negative events
- [Skidding in the global race for talent? Diversity at the top puts firms on track](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/05/08/skidding-in-the-global-race-for-talent-diversity-at-the-top-puts-firms-on-track/) - What increases firms’ chances of winning the race? The simple answer: nationality diversity! But, in order to truly have a positive impact on employer attractiveness, not only are diversity initiatives in the firm required – but an implementation of diversity at the very top of the organization, i.e., in the top management. Our empirical analyses
- [Why moral leaders are readers: how world literature can stimulate moral development in business school students](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/07/03/why-moral-leaders-are-readers-how-world-literature-can-stimulate-moral-development-in-business-school-students/) - A new approach towards teaching business ethics In the past decades, ethical scandals and widespread critique on shareholder based capitalism have drawn more attention to business ethics education. In the business ethics classroom, students have the opportunity to become critical moral agents. However, classical approaches to teaching business ethics – often relying on teaching abstract
- [Bridging the Digital Gap: AI Consulting in Education](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/20/bridging-the-digital-gap-ai-consulting-in-education/) - In this day and age, the world is marked by rapid technological development. Subsequently, educational institutions face an unprecedented dilemma: how to tackle the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to stay ahead in the game. I had the opportunity to interview IT consultant, Bauke van der Weijden – who serves secondary schools as a client
- [Bridging internal and external stakeholder expectations together: The new role of "issue brokers" in corporate social responsibility](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/02/03/bridging-internal-and-external-stakeholder-expectations-together-the-new-role-of-issue-brokers-in-corporate-social-responsibility/) - In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable business practices, organizations face a critical question: how can they effectively respond to societal challenges while aligning these efforts with organizational goals and internal priorities? Our recent research, published in the journal Strategic Organization, uncovers a transformative shift in the role of CSR managers,
- [Innovation in the underground of organizations](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/02/17/innovation-in-the-underground-of-organizations/) - Underground innovation is the initiation and development of innovations by employees, (at least initially) unapproved and developed without official company resources. It was long thought that employees hid their projects to create a decent prototype and avoid termination by management at an early stage. Better show some evidence for your idea! But we find that
- [Bricolage Meets Strategy: Insights From Greek Social Entrepreneurs in Times of Crisis](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/01/14/bricolage-meets-strategy-insights-from-greek-social-entrepreneurs-in-times-of-crisis/) - What did I study and why does this matter? My study of Greek social entrepreneurs, published in the British Journal of Management on 22 November 2024, sheds light on how resource scarcity can inspire strategic growth through a practice called bricolage. Bricolage refers to using scarce resources in inventive ways to solve problems and seize
- [<strong>Sustainability reporting: what you measure might not be what you get</strong>](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/02/13/sustainability-reporting-what-you-measure-might-not-be-what-you-get/) - Sustainability reporting - from exception to expectation ‘What gets measured gets managed’ is a management wisdom (or platitude) typically accredited to management guru Peter Drucker. Interestingly, what Drucker actually said was 'What gets measured gets managed - even when it's pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the
- [Is ESG reporting ready to save the world?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/03/21/is-esg-reporting-ready-to-save-the-world/) - ESG reporting, the communication of environmental, social and governance issues by business firms, has been hailed as an important solution to tackle societal challenges such as the climate crisis. Yet, while it increases transparency, the “real” effects of ESG reporting on social and ecological conditions remain unclear. To address this shortcoming, we have solicited a
- [How Workplace Changes and Managerial Support Impact Employee Learning](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/10/07/how-workplace-changes-and-managerial-support-impact-employee-learning/) - In today’s fast-evolving work environment, employees are continuously navigating new technologies, shifting customer needs, and organizational restructuring. These changes demand constant learning and adaptation, making the ability to develop new skills vital for employee and organizational success. But how exactly do these workplace changes influence employee learning? More importantly, what role does managerial support play
- [The roots of the symbolic are key for business and management](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/09/18/the-roots-of-the-symbolic-are-key-for-business-and-management/) - It might seem strange to study the symbolic outside of the humanities, like anthropology or linguistics. However, if we consider symbolism to be biological, it makes sense that a foundational part of what makes us human also contributes to how we bond and work. According to research from Christine Moser (SBE, Management & Organization) and
- [SERVUS (Servant-Leadership Centre for Research and Education)](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/01/testbeitrag-2/) - The Servant-Leadership Centre for Research and Education originated from an active group of researchers and practitioners at amongst others the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Greenleaf Centre Europe, THTConsulting, VUMedical Centre and VU School of Business and Economics (SBE). During the last two decades fundamental research on dilemma reconciliation in organizations demonstrated the key role of
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Global Business Development](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-global-business-development/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Global Business Development acts as a platform for researchers, students and professionals striving to master the intricacies of international business. With an expansive research agenda encompassing digital innovation and cross-cultural leadership, we offer tailored educational experiences to equip students and professionals for the global economy.
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Strategizing & Organizing Innovation](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-strategizing-organizing-innovation/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Strategizing & Organizing Innovation is dedicated to groundbreaking research and advice on how companies and other organizations can structurally boost their innovation performance and become world-class innovators. Its mission is to provide businesses, their leaders, and the academic community with key insights how to make innovation into a structural success,
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Diversity and Inclusion in Organisations](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-diversity-and-inclusion-in-organisations/) - The purpose of the VU Knowledge Hub for Diversity and Inclusion in Organisations is to advance scholarly, organisational and societal understandings of the diverse and inclusive organisations and to offer evidence-based solutions.
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Consulting and Professional Service Firms](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-consulting-and-professional-service-firms/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Consulting and Professional Service Firms is known for its engagement in management consulting research and practice.
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Feedback Culture](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/01/testbeitrag-3/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Feedback Culture is a center of expertise that aims to be a platform for research to examine how feedback culture can be cultivated in organizations in different fields and across different countries. As a research platform, the Knowledge Hub offers opportunities for research and executive education collaborations between scholars and
- [VU Center for Enterprise Family Research](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-center-for-enterprise-family-research/) - The VU Center for Enterprise Family Research (CEFR) studies enterprises at the family level and aims to be a platform of expertise on how to best prepare the rising generation (siblings or cousins who inherit family assets) to be responsible enterprise owners and figure out for themselves which role they want to play in the
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Ecosystems](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-ecosystems/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Ecosystems is a hub of expertise, which aims to be platform for research, education, and valorization. Propagating cross-disciplinary and multi-level research into the emergence, governance, and transformation of business ecosystems.
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Corporate Governance and Boards Development](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/01/testbeitrag-1/) - The VU Knowledge Hub for Corporate Governance and Boards Development aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of factors influencing the decision-making of boards, including board members and CEO characteristics, behavioural patterns, governance structures and regulatory requirements.
- [VU Knowledge Hub for Navigating (Strategic) Paradoxes](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/08/vu-knowledge-hub-for-navigating-strategic-paradoxes/) - The aim of the hub is to serve as a platform for paradox thinking. This entails three core activities: Facilitating research exchanges; bridging the research practice gap to generate and disseminate actionable knowledge enriching academia, business, and society; and exchanging and further paradox thinking in teaching.
- [VU Business & Society Knowledge Hub](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/01/06/vu-business-society-knowledge-hub/) - The VU Business & Society Knowledge Hub aspires to advance research on the role of business in society, driven by the broader question of how businesses are managed, led and organized in order to ensure social and ecological sustainability and contribute to the greater good.
- [People at the heart of the circular economy: turning trade-offs into synergies](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/07/17/people-at-the-heart-of-the-circular-economy-turning-trade-offs-into-synergies/) - The social dimension of the circular economy The circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum. The CE is a more sustainable alternative to the linear ‘take-make-waste’ economy which depletes resources and turns them into (often harmful) waste. The transition from a linear to a circular economy is supported by the Dutch government, which has committed itself
- [The unsuspecting killer of ‘billing by the hour’](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/11/11/the-unsuspecting-killer-of-billing-by-the-hour/) - In a recent interview, Mr Judson Rollins, a former strategy consultant to the aviation industry turned ‘Scale Whisperer,’ discussed his role in helping self-employed professionals deliver more value to their clients with less effort and greater rewards. He highlighted that AI and machine learning will catalyse the end of hourly billing in professional service firms
- [Strategic alliances are needed to tackle global challenges. Yet, leading alliance management teams is no easy feat](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/02/strategic-alliances-are-needed-to-tackle-global-challenges-yet-crafting-and-leading-alliance-management-teams-is-no-easy-feat/) - Alliance management teams; unique yet varied In today’s globalizing and technology-driven world, engaging in strategic alliances and forming alliance teams is becoming increasingly crucial. These teams can be joint venture management teams, buyer-supplier partnership teams, and inter-organizational new product development teams. They differ from intra-organizational teams because they need to balance vested interests across organizations;
- [How consultants can help make management research more relevant](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/the-annual-mo-academy-of-management-research-day-was-great-success/) - Management scholars struggle with making their research more relevant for practice. For instance, their publications are too abstract for practitioners, aim at scientific goals instead of practitioner goals or confirm the obvious for practitioners. Their studies report causalities that are not rigorous when applied in practice, their results are not timely, and they are too
- [Why we need human morality to keep AI in check](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/best-paper-award-for-hans-berends-and-elco-van-burg-2/) - More than 20 years after the first edition of “The Matrix,” people are still divided about what AI can and cannot do. Some think that AI is the last hope to save the planet and humankind; and others envision our species to be doomed and at the mercy of machines—a la The Matrix. And while
- [The top 5 ethical transgressions in consulting](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/06/05/the-top-5-ethical-transgressions-in-consulting/) - The research was conducted by Onno Bouwmeester, Professor of Consulting and Business Ethics at Durham University Business School, and Director of VU Knowledge Hub for Consulting and Professional Service Firms at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His study finds that, whilst clients are typically portrayed within industry guidance as the biggest victims of ethical failures by consultants, media reporting,
- [“Bring Your Own AI”: The need for a clear AI-strategy?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/10/29/bring-your-own-ai-the-need-for-a-clear-ai-strategy/) - The market is changing rapidly, especially in terms of technological developments. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central theme in this context. Despite AI’s popularity, many organisations have not yet developed formal AI-strategies. There are no guidelines for the ethical, legal, and safe use of AI tools within an organisation. In contrast, employees are taking
- [Looking for someone handsome? Why venture capitalists' funding decision's aren't always rational](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/02/20/sustainability-reporting-what-you-measure-might-not-be-what-you-get-copy/) - That VCs’ screening and selection of startups is subject to biased decision-making is well-documented. Their subsequent funding decisions have, by contrast, always been assumed rational. A new study, available as open access article in the journal Industry and Innovation, questions this taken-for-granted assumption. The study’s results, which are based on data from 231 European IT-startups,
- [Learning the hard way: how entrepreneurs move from overconfidence to confidence](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/05/22/learning-the-hard-way-how-entrepreneurs-move-from-overconfidence-to-confidence/) - You would assume that gaining experience in a domain builds confidence. However, our open access publication at the Journal of Business Research shows that it does not work like this in the context of entrepreneurship. Instead, some of the 281 entrepreneurs we studied show the Dunning-Kruger effect; that is, inexperience makes people overconfident, experience gives
- [When M&A meets emotion: How emotional dynamics look like during M&A trajectories](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/06/19/when-ma-meets-emotion-how-emotional-dynamics-look-like-during-ma-trajectories/) - Why are emotions important during M&As? Emotions are transient feelings everyone experiences, with an identified trigger or target shaped by sensemaking practices, resulting in emotional experiences and responses. During a sensemaking process, an individual cognitively appraises emotional triggers based on positive or negative effects on their well-being. This emotional process is especially triggered by disrupting
- [Unleashing the Power of Managerial Translation](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/08/28/unleashing-the-power-of-managerial-translation/) - The Flow of Management Concepts In today's fast-paced business world, organizations strive to adapt and thrive by exploring innovative approaches. Influential management concepts like Lean, Agile, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have gained considerable attention in the past two decades and have had profound effects on our work environments. Previous research has highlighted the significance
- [Crisis or opportunity? Entrepreneurship and Covid-19 in Africa](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/09/11/crisis-or-opportunity-entrepreneurship-and-covid-19-in-africa/) - The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent government measures decreased the number of people who wanted to or could become entrepreneurs in Africa. At the same time, the crisis yielded innovativeness and resilience among new and existing business owners. How can entrepreneurs and policy makers turn crisis into opportunity, and build back better through entrepreneurship? The global
- [Crafting Attention Flows in Organizations: How employees can shape communication structures](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/09/25/crafting-attention-flows-in-organizations-how-employees-can-shape-communication-structures/) - Think of organizations as intricate networks of communication channels—meetings, reports, calls, workshops, and other interactions. Communication channels are especially important in organizations that are organized into specialized units or departments. They help to align with strategic objectives, ensuring that each unit's efforts contribute to the organization's overarching goals. How this network is structured significantly shapes
- [Unlocking the Future of Consultancy: Building In-House AI Languages with a Deep Learning Expert](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/10/30/unlocking-the-future-of-consultancy-building-in-house-ai-languages-with-a-deep-learning-expert/) - AI is changing the world AI is changing the world. Maybe, experiencing these changes from the inside, as citizens of the game changer superpowers, we don’t really realize the violent impact of disruption on our daily life. The violent impact will come when, while cooking dinner for our beloved family we realize that an Artificial
- [AI and Consulting: Should Algorithms Find Their Rhythm, or not?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/06/ai-and-consulting-should-algorithms-find-their-rhythm-or-not/) - The world as we know it today is developing at a rapid pace, where technological advancements appear like wildflowers, transforming our technological landscape. One of the most actual developments has been that of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with tools like OpenAI’s chatbot ‘ChatGTP’ gaining a bigger user base by the day, including consultants not shying away
- [Is Generative AI ethically trustworthy to be used in consulting?](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/11/13/is-generative-ai-ethically-trustworthy-to-be-used-in-consulting/) - Disruption has been a fearful term that is used more and more often when talking about the transformative force of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in Professional Service Firms (PSFs), under which Consultancy firms. Why fearful? The popularity of natural language processing (NPL) technologies – which is a type of Generative AI – is growing increasingly.
- [Three ways to get team members to value your proactive initiatives](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/12/18/three-ways-to-get-team-members-to-value-your-proactive-initiatives/) - How do you respond when a team member initiates an improvement to your team’s work methods? Do you praise them for being proactive, or do you instantly roll your eyes when hearing about it? Initiating changes to improve the team's functioning is often considered to be risky by proactive employees. Proactive behavior in a team
- [Is funding a startup worth the risk? The answer may be found by looking in the mirror](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/02/23/is-funding-a-startup-worth-the-risk-the-answer-may-be-found-by-looking-in-the-mirror/) - That VCs’ startup screening and selection decisions are biased by the attractiveness of the entrepreneur is well-established. Recent research found VCs’ subsequent capital allocation decisions also to be affected by the halo-effect. A new study, available as open access article in Frontiers in Psychology, now turns the spotlight to the attractiveness of the VC himself.
- [How organizational leaders transform their inherited collective traumas into meaningful actions](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/03/06/how-organizational-leaders-transform-their-inherited-collective-traumas-into-meaningful-actions/) - Business schools can help leaders and executives process historical consciousness to help them bring meaning and empathy into their organizations. Kenneth Frazier was the first African American President of Merck & Co., a major multinational pharmaceutical corporation, and one of the only three Black Fortune 500 CEOs. In 2017, he quit Trump’s Manufacturing Council as
- [Beyond Ping Pong Tables: Creating Community within Business Incubators](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/12/04/beyond-ping-pong-tables-creating-community-within-business-incubators/) - Moving away from a recipe approach to collaborative and flexible incubation People tend to associate incubators with coffee machines, printers and ping pong tables and often overlook the relational and intangible factors behind business incubation. While, these kinds of structural elements enable the replication of incubators, standardized solutions have been criticized for not being adaptive
- [I’m Not So Tough: Entrepreneurs’ Confidence After Hard Times](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2024/02/08/im-not-so-tough-entrepreneurs-confidence-after-hard-times/) - The stereotype of the hardened entrepreneur When asking entrepreneurs how they deal with crises, we often focus on the venture and how it is pulled from the brink of failure by some daring decisions. But we rarely ask how they, as a person, deal with their venture being on the brink of failure. By contrast,
- [Guidelines for adopting e-health in social care organizations during a crisis](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/02/guidelines-for-adopting-e-health-in-social-care-organizations-during-a-crisis/) - During the Covid-19 pandemic many people were suddenly reminded how fragile their own health can be. Yet, what has been widely overlooked is how the situation of vulnerable people changed, who are dependent on support from social care organizations, such as homeless people, people with psychiatric and/or addiction issues, sex workers, undocumented, and poor families.
- [Do networks promote team innovation? It depends!](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/02/do-networks-promote-team-innovation-it-depends/) - Team networks and team innovation Team innovation, or the generation and effective implementation of new ideas in teams, is becoming increasingly crucial for managers of most organizations – especially those that heavily rely on knowledge work for the products and services they offer. Think of the development of smartphones, electric cars, or the internet. None
- [Rethinking Rigor - Shining Light Ahead for Entrepreneurs](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/02/rethinking-rigor-shining-light-ahead-for-entrepreneurs/) - Our research, published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, advocates for a shared conceptualization of rigor, which helps close the gap between scholars and entrepreneurs. How Scholarly Concepts Fit with the World Traditionally, entrepreneurship scholarship view concepts as mirroring or corresponding to some entrepreneurial phenomenon in the real world. We can think of this fit as
- [How Subsidiary Entrepreneurial Activities Receive Headquarter Approval](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/open-competition-grant-for-sbe-project-about-open-science-copy/) - Enhancing worldwide learning and global integration Subsidiaries are increasingly portrayed as important knowledge-creators who play an active role in the firm, developing new technologies and product offerings for global use. Hence, these units are strategically important, serving as vehicles to enter international markets and increase the firm’s knowledge portfolio often through their entrepreneurial undertakings. However,
- [Evidence is often more surprising than we realize](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/best-paper-award-for-hans-berends-and-elco-van-burg/) - Trusting the science In this time of vaccines and climate change, we need science to be widely trusted. Unfortunately, the social sciences are making themselves look untrustworthy by underreporting evidence against hypotheses. That is, if one would only look at all published evidence, theories appear more supported than if one would look at all collected
- [Towards meaningful evaluation of evidence](https://www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2023/01/03/open-competition-grant-for-sbe-project-about-open-science/) - Putting results in meaningful terms Quantitative social scientists aim to be able to say that some effect is statistically significant or insignificant. However, a growing collective of academics argue that this aim is misleading. For example, this practice is involved in the tendency to overreport support for hypotheses. Leading statisticians argue that, instead of statistical

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