Are workplace changes enough to drive employee learning, or is something more required? Our findings reveal that while change spurs learning, managerial support is the key to unlocking both formal and informal development. Empowering leaders to champion continuous growth helps organizations adapt and thrive.

What if symbols are rooted in evolution? In this article, Nelson Phillips and Christine Moser argue that looking at the symbolic origin of humanity can help us better understand management and organization on an intrinsic level—like understanding DNA is essential to modern-day science.

The circular economy aims to benefit the environment, but how can the circular economy also benefit people? By talking to circular leaders in the Netherlands we find that both the environment and people can win from circularity, but only if ethical motives take precedence over economic growth motives.

Venture capitalists are sensitive to the halo effect, as they prefer to invest in startups led by physically attractive, male entrepreneurs. However, a new study finds this halo effect to depend in part on VCs own physical attractiveness. This pertains particularly to VCs of below-average attractiveness.

In these times full of crises, we ask how does a crisis affect entrepreneurs in the long run? We find that, years after a crisis, they still feel less secure in their job. Furthermore, their confidence is required for the daring decisions that can help their venture manage the next crisis.

Self-managing teams heavily rely on the proactive efforts of their members to enhance team performance. Yet, cultivating supportive reactions from team members is fundamental for the success of proactive initiatives.

While global replication of business incubators seems effortless, incubators need to be adaptive to local contexts. Indeed, establishing a functioning incubator surpasses mimicking a Silicon Valley model, involving context-specific social practices. Our research finds that successfull incubators ensure creation of participation, flexibility, trust and reciprocity and balance between offering top-down support from management and adapting to bottom-up needs of members.

In a time of accelerating technological development, educational institutions fall behind in utilizing AI’s potential. Schools are at a crossroads: embrace the AI revolution or risk becoming obsolete as pupils seamlessly surf the digital wave. Are our schools equipped to take up the challenge?