Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Announcing The Big Six and Strategic Insights

After extensive engagement with many stakeholders of SMS and incorporating a detailed analysis of key issues identified by top global consulting firms plus consultation with leading global executives and business…

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SMS 44th Annual Conference Istanbul

Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

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Contrasting Forms of Organizing Economic Activity in an Open and maybe Not So Open World

Some believe that the distinctions firms face regarding the economic and social outcomes of their operations are all-encompassing. Others believe that the expectations are unclear, and the world is not…

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Salary Transparency Policies, Partnered with Low-cost Monitoring Tools, Can Help Close the Gender Pay Gap

Salary transparency could be a great equalizer tool, but new research finds that those effects may be seen only if the cost of monitoring salaries is low. If the public…

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Women Power! Family Women in Boards of Directors as a Stimulus to Innovation

by Jonathan Bauweraerts, Emanuela Rondi, Paola Rovelli, Alfredo De Massis & Salvatore Sciascia BEYOND PINK QUOTAS Over recent years, gender or ‘pink quotas’ have been introduced Europe-wide to encourage the inclusion…

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How Managers Can Design Socially Inclusive Strategies

By Brian Ganson, Tony L. He, and Witold J. Henisz Managers are increasingly challenged by issues as diverse as climate change, globalization, pandemic response, and inclusive development. However, a key…

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Figure depicting Stakeholders, corporate social performance motives, and stakeholder salience

Do Owners Pressure for More or Less Corporate Social Performance?

by Kurt Desender and Mircea Epure This year marks the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s influential New York Times piece, which argued that corporations should pursue value maximization while other…

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The Story behind the SEJ Special Issue on “Catalyzing Change and Innovation in Women’s Entrepreneurship”

By Candida Brush Every research effort has a good background story, and here is ours. Last year, we attended the June 2019 Diana International Research Conference at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.[1] The…

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SMS Webinar: Men and Women in Academia

[Tuesday, May 19, 2020, Zoom] by Renate Kratochvil and Sarah Stanske  Do man and woman face different challenges in their academic career? Rebecca Kehoe (Cornell University) and Ruth Aguilera (Northeastern…

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Chinese Pharmacy

A Strategy Contribution to the Immigration Debate

by Esther Leibel Do skilled ethnic migrants steal jobs from local skilled workers? According to Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury and Do Yoon Kim, this question may originate from a flawed assumption—that…

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