Reasoning with Concepts (Gärdenfors & Matías Osta-Vélez, 2026) - Weekend Book Review

The Social Attribution of Innovation (Aversa et al., 2026) | FT50 AMJ

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:47:06 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:06:28 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:21:43 Reference Aversa, P., Gouvard, P., & Makarova, M. A. (2026). The Social Attribution of Innovation: Uncovering the Heads Behind the Guillotine. Academy of Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.0314 ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI Linkedin Post By Professor Erica Steckler https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-steckler-ph-d-427272_simbyte-episode-1-ed-freeman-activity-7469092002098225152-PbHM 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit. I’m so glad you’re here. There are some research articles that do more than present an argument. They quietly unsettle the habits of thought we have carried for years, and ask us to look again at something we believed we already understood. Today, I want to sit for a while with one such piece: The Social Attribution of Innovation: Uncovering the Heads Behind the Guillotine by Paolo Aversa, Paul Gouvard, and Maria A. Makarova, published online on 12 June 2026 in the Academy of Management Journal 📚 This is, of course, no ordinary journal. Academy of Management Journal is one of the most prestigious outlets in management research and belongs to the FT50 journal list 🏛️✨ So when a paper appears here, it often arrives carrying both rigor and consequence. And this one does exactly that. What I find especially moving is the paper’s refusal to accept the familiar comfort of the “hero innovator” story. Instead, the authors lead us into a subtler and more human terrain, where inventions and inventors are not simply paired by fact, but bound together through public memory, social judgment, and repeated acts of attribution. Through the strange and enduring case of the guillotine, they show us how Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who did not invent the machine, nevertheless became inseparable from it in the historical imagination. ⚙️🩸🧠 Paolo Aversa, Paul Gouvard, and Maria A. Makarova write with a precision that feels, to me, almost forensic, yet the implications are deeply human. They remind us that recognition is rarely innocent. It gathers around those who seem to embody a problem, a value, or a public mood. Their idea of an evaluation-attribution spiral is especially compelling, because it captures how society slowly fastens a name to an innovation until the bond feels inevitable, even when it is not. 🔍💭 In a way, this is a paper about invention, but also about memory, reputation, and the quiet machinery by which history decides who will stand at the center of the story. My thanks to Paolo Aversa, Paul Gouvard, and Maria A. Makarova, and to the Academy of Management, for publishing this fascinating article in such a prestigious FT50 journal 🙏📖 If you enjoy these reflective research conversations, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and also follow the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel 🎧📺 The podcast is also available on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 🍎✨ And as we begin, I want to leave you with a question 🤔 If history remembers the wrong inventor for the right reasons, what does that reveal about innovation, and what does it reveal about us?

The Broken Machine (Jones-Imhotep 2026) - Weekend Book Review

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:16:42 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:41:549 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:04:33 Reference Edward Jones-Imhotep (2026). The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14893.001.0001 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI Linkedin Post By Professor Erica Steckler https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-steckler-ph-d-427272_simbyte-episode-1-ed-freeman-activity-7469092002098225152-PbHM 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, and to this episode of Weekend Book Review. I’m very glad you’re here. Some books do not arrive with noise. They arrive quietly, almost like a thought one has been postponing for years. The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self, published on 19 May 2026 by The MIT Press, feels to me like one of those books. 📚🛠️ In this episode, I’m sitting with Edward Jones-Imhotep’s remarkable and unsettling study of breakdown, not merely as a mechanical event, but as a deeply human drama. What happens when a machine fails? What sort of society reveals itself in that moment? And perhaps more intimately, what kind of self is called into being when order falters? 🌫️⚙️ Jones-Imhotep, a distinguished historian of science and technology at the University of Toronto, has long been attentive to the fragile boundary between systems and selves. Readers who know his earlier work, especially The Unreliable Nation, will recognize that rare quality in his scholarship: the ability to make machines feel historical, political, and strangely personal. Here, he turns to the modern Atlantic world and traces how broken technologies, from the guillotine and railway systems to slave societies, Gantt charts, and Cold War electronics, became instruments for deciding who belonged, who was disciplined, and who stood outside the imagined order of democracy and civility. 🕰️🔍 There is something haunting in that idea. That a breakdown is never only a breakdown. That a faulty machine may also become a mirror. And that, for more than two centuries, societies have used such moments not only to repair devices, but to judge character, emotion, responsibility, even worth. This book seems to suggest that the modern self was shaped not in the smooth functioning of technology, but in those uneasy instants when things stopped working. 💭 So today, on Weekend Book Review, I want to linger with this book carefully, and ask what it means to read malfunction as culture, as politics, and as a way of understanding the moral architecture of modern life. 🧠✨ My thanks to Edward Jones-Imhotep and The MIT Press for this thought-provoking work. If you enjoy these conversations, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and also follow the Weekend Researcher channel on YouTube 🎧📺. You can also find the podcast on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts 🍎🎙️ And as we begin, I want to leave you with a small, restless question: when a machine breaks, are we really watching technology fail, or are we glimpsing the hidden rules by which a society imagines itself? 🌌

‌Rewriting the Imprint (Mueller & Reus, 2026) | FT50 JoM

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:55:35 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:15:45 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:36:08 Reference Mueller, M. J., & Reus, T. H. (2026). Rewriting the Imprint: How #MeToo Led CEOs From Male-Dominant Cultures to Increase Gender Equality. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063261449761 ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI Linkedin Post By Professor Erica Steckler https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-steckler-ph-d-427272_simbyte-episode-1-ed-freeman-activity-7469092002098225152-PbHM 🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit! Every so often, a piece of research arrives that makes you wonder whether people really change, or whether the world simply gives them permission to become who they were always capable of being. 🌍✨ Today's episode takes us into that uncomfortable, fascinating space where culture, memory, and leadership collide. We are discussing the remarkable new paper, "Rewriting the Imprint: How #MeToo Led CEOs From Male-Dominant Cultures to Increase Gender Equality," by Michael J. Mueller and Taco H. Reus, recently published online on 5 June 2026 in the prestigious Journal of Management. Now, the Journal of Management is not just another academic outlet. It belongs to the elite FT50 journal list, a collection of publications that shape the global conversation in business and management research. 🏆📖 The authors ask a deceptively simple question. What happens when the values we inherit from childhood collide with a movement that reshapes society? Can a CEO raised in a deeply male-dominated culture genuinely rethink old assumptions? Or are early imprints too deeply carved into the human mind? Drawing on the global wave of the #MeToo movement, this study suggests something surprisingly hopeful. It finds that many leaders who once seemed least likely to change became the very people who increased opportunities for women the most. Not because they were forced to, but because a social movement created what the authors call a "second sensitive period," a moment when old beliefs could be rewritten. 💡🌱 Maybe that is the larger story here. Maybe institutions do not change because rules change. Maybe they change because people find themselves staring at a mirror they never expected to face. And that leaves us with a question worth carrying into the rest of our day. 🤔 If a movement can rewrite the deepest cultural imprints of a corporate leader, what forgotten imprint inside each of us is still waiting to be rewritten? 🙏 Our sincere thanks to authors Michael J. Mueller and Taco H. Reus, and to SAGE Publications for bringing this outstanding research to the academic community. 🎧 If you enjoy thoughtful conversations about world-class research, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and to our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts. 📺🍎🎙️ Because behind every published paper, there is a story about people. And sometimes, those stories change the world. ✨

Reasoning with Concepts (Gärdenfors & Matías Osta-Vélez, 2026) - Weekend Book Review

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:49:04 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:12:26 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:35:54 Reference Gärdenfors, P., & Matías Osta-Vélez. (2026). Reasoning with Concepts. In The MIT Press eBooks. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15931.001.0001 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI A discussion note on SIMBytes https://sim.aom.org/discussion/a-message-from-sims-curriculum-committee-chair-sheldene-simola-with-jennifer-griffin 🎧✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit. This is our Weekend Book Review, the little corner of the week where I get to sit down with a book that asks us to think a little harder about the world and, perhaps, about ourselves. You know, we often imagine that reasoning is something cold and mechanical. We picture logic as a row of tidy equations marching across a blackboard. But then you watch a child recognize a dog they have never seen before, or you hear someone say, "This feels like home," and suddenly you realize that the mind works less like a calculator and more like a landscape. That is exactly where Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta-Vélez invite us to wander in their remarkable new book, Reasoning with Concepts: Conceptual Spaces as a Framework, published by The MIT Press on 26 May 2026. Gärdenfors, one of the pioneers of cognitive science and the architect behind the theory of conceptual spaces, has spent decades asking how meaning itself is organized. Alongside him, philosopher of science Matías Osta-Vélez brings a deep curiosity about how humans and intelligent systems actually make sense of the world. And together they offer a beautiful, almost geometric idea. Maybe our minds do not reason by following rigid rules. Maybe we move through invisible spaces, where thoughts have shape, memories have distance, and ideas become neighbors. Similarity, typicality, analogy, expectation, they are not separate puzzles at all. They are different paths through the same mental landscape. As someone fascinated by both marketing and artificial intelligence, I found myself wondering whether the future of AI will belong not to machines that calculate faster, but to machines that can understand concepts the way people do. Perhaps intelligence is less about finding the right answer and more about knowing which ideas belong close together. 📖 So today, we are going to explore a book that quietly bridges psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, and AI, and asks one deceptively simple question: How do our minds know what belongs where? 💛 A heartfelt thank you to authors Peter Gärdenfors and Matías Osta-Vélez, and to The MIT Press, for bringing this thought-provoking work into the world. 🎙️ If you enjoy conversations where research feels a little more human, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow our YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast. 🌌 And when this episode is over, I hope one question stays with you: if our lives are really built from concepts connected by invisible distances, then what forgotten idea has been sitting quietly at the center of your own mental map, waiting for you to notice it?

Fly Solo, Then Return Home? (Sieger et al 2026) | FT50 JMS

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:43:27 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:00:07 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:20:36 Reference Sieger, P., Brinkerink, J., Baù, M., Karlsson, J. and De Massis, A. (2026), Fly Solo, Then Return Home? Offspring's Entrepreneurship Experience and their Future As Family Business Successors. J. Manage. Stud.. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70114 ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI A discussion note on SIMBytes https://sim.aom.org/discussion/a-message-from-sims-curriculum-committee-chair-sheldene-simola-with-jennifer-griffin 🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit! The place where research papers stop looking like intimidating stacks of PDF files and start sounding like stories about real people, real choices, and the wonderfully complicated business of being human. 🌍✨ Today, we are diving into a fascinating new article, "Fly Solo, Then Return Home? Offspring's Entrepreneurship Experience and their Future As Family Business Successors," by Philipp Sieger, Jasper Brinkerink, Massimo Baù, Johan Karlsson, and Alfredo De Massis, recently published online on 29 May 2026 in the Journal of Management Studies, one of the world's most respected management journals and a proud member of the prestigious FT50 journal list. 🏆📖 Every family business carries a quiet question that is rarely written into the balance sheet. Will the next generation stay, or will they leave? And perhaps even more importantly, if they leave to chase their own dreams, can they ever truly come back? This paper follows thousands of families across Sweden and discovers something deeply human. Sometimes the child who walks away to build a company of their own is not abandoning the family legacy at all. They are preparing themselves for it. Entrepreneurship becomes less of an escape and more of an apprenticeship. 🚀🏡 But life is never that simple. What happens when that independent venture becomes wildly successful? What happens when personal ambition and family obligation begin pulling in opposite directions? The authors show that succession is not just a business transaction. It is a conversation between generations, shaped by opportunity, identity, and the enduring gravity of home. ❤️ In many ways, this research reminds us that families are strange little economies. We invest in each other, we compete with each other, we leave, and sometimes, after seeing the world, we discover that the road forward circles back to where we started. 🙏 Our sincere thanks to the authors for this thoughtful contribution and to the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for bringing this outstanding work to the scholarly community. 🎧 If you enjoy conversations where big ideas meet everyday life, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast. 🔔🎙️📺 And before we begin, here is a question worth carrying with you: 🤔 When young people leave home to discover who they are, are they really walking away from their family's story, or are they quietly writing its next chapter?