Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data (Langley, 1999) - Weekend Classics

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?

Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Freeman 1984) - Weekend Classics

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 01:00:44 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:22:59 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:46:50 Reference Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139192675 ‌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 another episode of our beloved Weekend Classics. Every once in a while, I come across a book that feels less like a management textbook and more like a gentle correction to the way we've been looking at the world. Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach is one of those books. When R. Edward Freeman first published it back in 1984, the business world was still largely telling one story. Companies existed to serve shareholders. Profit came first, and everything else followed. But Freeman, who began his academic journey studying mathematics and philosophy before becoming one of the world's most influential thinkers in business ethics, asked a wonderfully simple question. What if a company is really a community? What if customers, employees, suppliers, governments, and even society itself are not distractions from business, but the very reason business exists? I have always loved books that make complicated ideas feel deeply human, and this one does exactly that. It reminds me that behind every quarterly report is a factory worker heading home to family, a supplier betting on a contract, a customer placing trust in a brand, and a manager trying to balance impossible expectations. Freeman did not merely give us a framework. He gave us a different pair of glasses. Perhaps that is why this book still matters more than forty years later. In an age of AI, climate change, social media storms, and global uncertainty, the old map often feels too small for the territory. Stakeholder theory asks us to widen the frame and see business as an ongoing act of creating value together. 📖 So today, we revisit this modern classic from Cambridge University Press, originally part of the Pitman series in Business and Public Policy, and explore why generations of scholars and managers still return to its pages. A heartfelt thank you to Professor R. Edward Freeman for giving the world an idea that continues to shape how we think about capitalism, and to Cambridge University Press for keeping this remarkable work alive for new readers. 🎙️ If you enjoy conversations where books become stories and theories become human, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, YouTube channel Weekend Researcher, Amazon Prime Music, and Apple Podcasts. Your support helps this little community of curious minds keep growing. 💭 And before we begin, I want to leave you with one question. If the true measure of a business is not simply the wealth it creates for owners, but the lives it touches along the way, then who, really, is the most important stakeholder in the story?

Remote Work and Hiring Requirements (Wang et al 2026) | FT50 ASQ

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:49:24 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:08:26 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:21:52 Reference Wang, S., Zhang, L., & Liao, Z. (2026). Remote Work and Hiring Requirements: Cross-Country Evidence from Job Postings. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392261450609 ‌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 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit. There was a time when remote work sounded like liberation. 🌍💻 No traffic jams. No fluorescent office lights. No manager watching the clock from across the room. Just a laptop, an internet connection, and the quiet promise that work could finally fit around life instead of the other way around. But every revolution leaves behind a different kind of pressure. Today’s episode explores the fascinating new paper “Remote Work and Hiring Requirements: Cross-Country Evidence from Job Postings,” written by Shinan Wang, Letian Zhang, and Zhenyu Liao, published online on 29 May 2026 in Administrative Science Quarterly 📚🏛️, one of the world’s most prestigious FT50 journals. The researchers analyzed more than 50 million job postings across 28 European countries. And hidden inside that mountain of data was a troubling shift in the modern labor market. Remote jobs increasingly ask for more. More skills. More qualifications. More experience. According to the study, remote positions often require nearly 25% more skills than comparable in-person jobs. Why? Because remote work changes how organizations trust people. When employees are physically distant, training becomes harder. Informal learning disappears. Managers cannot simply walk across the office to solve confusion in real time. At the same time, companies suddenly receive applications from an enormous global talent pool, allowing them to become more selective than ever before. 📈 And so hiring changes. Employers begin relying heavily on measurable signals like certifications, technical expertise, and years of experience. Cultural fit and human chemistry slowly lose ground to metrics and keywords. The résumé becomes a filter. The worker becomes a checklist. What makes this paper powerful is that it reveals something larger than remote work itself. It reveals how digital life quietly transforms human expectations. Flexibility sounds humane. But flexibility also creates competition on a scale previous generations never imagined. The office may disappear. But the pressure follows us home. And maybe that leaves us with a difficult question tonight: If remote work gives us freedom from physical offices, why does it also make workers feel they must become endlessly optimized just to belong? 🌌 🙏 Special thanks to Shinan Wang, Letian Zhang, Zhenyu Liao, and SAGE Publications for this outstanding contribution to scholarship in the prestigious FT50 journal Administrative Science Quarterly. 🎧 Subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 🚀 Also available on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast 🍎🎙️

Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing (Weick 2020) - Weekend Classics

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Start at 00:38:46 Hindi Podcast Start at 01:04:00 Danish Podcast Start at 01:26:32 Reference Weick, K.E. (2020), Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing: A Handoff*. J. Manage. Stud., 57: 1420-1431. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12617 Tribute by Dave Snowden (Another pioneer of SenseMaking and complexity science) https://thecynefin.co/karl-weick-1936-2026/ Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ 🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — this is Weekend Classics. 🌙 Tonight’s episode begins with remembrance. We pay our deepest respect to Professor Karl E. Weick, who passed away on 21 May 2026 at the age of 89. 🌹 His work transformed how scholars understood organizations, uncertainty, and the fragile process through which human beings create meaning from chaos. In this episode, we revisit “Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing: A Handoff,” published in the Journal of Management Studies in November 2020. Some papers explain theories. This one explains people. Karl Weick reminds us that life is rarely understood while it is being lived. People move through confusion first. Meaning comes later. Organizations, therefore, are not simply structures or systems. They are ongoing conversations where individuals attempt to explain uncertainty to themselves and to one another. The essay reflects on how human beings organize experience into stories that feel stable enough to survive another day. Weick explores how familiarity shapes judgment, how assumptions quietly become reality, and how unconscious fears influence collective behavior inside institutions. There is a quiet sadness beneath these ideas. Because the modern world moves faster than our ability to understand it. People react before they reflect. Teams improvise before they comprehend. And often, entire organizations continue functioning through narratives built after confusion has already passed. Yet Weick never writes with cynicism. Instead, he writes with compassion for imperfect people trying to create order in uncertain environments. Perhaps that is why his work still feels alive today. Not because it offers certainty, but because it acknowledges how deeply uncertain human life truly is. And maybe the lingering question from this essay is this: If organizations are built from stories we create after events unfold, then how much of our professional life is genuine understanding, and how much is simply our attempt to make peace with uncertainty? 🌌 🙏 We sincerely thank Professor Karl E. Weick, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, and John Wiley & Sons for this remarkable contribution to scholarship. 🎧 Subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher. Also available on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast. 🚀

Bayesian Experimentation in Early-Stage Ventures (Contigiani et al. 2026) | FT50 SEJ

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:48:48 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:07:41 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:26:30 Reference Contigiani, A., Denoo, L., & Hablicsek, M. (2026). Toward a theory of Bayesian experimentation in early-stage ventures. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.70031 ‌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 🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit ✨ There is something strangely comforting about the myth of the entrepreneur who simply knows. The founder with perfect instincts. The visionary who walks into uncertainty and somehow comes out carrying the future in both hands. But this paper, thoughtful and quietly provocative, asks us to slow down and reconsider that story. 🤔⚡ Today, we’re diving into Toward a Theory of Bayesian Experimentation in Early-Stage Ventures by Andrea Contigiani, Lien Denoo, and Márton Hablicsek, published online on 20 May 2026 in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 📖🌍 And this matters not only because the ideas are powerful, but because Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal belongs to the prestigious FT50 journal list, one of the most respected collections of academic journals in management and business research. 🎓🏆 What fascinated me about this article is its refusal to worship experimentation as some universal cure. In startup culture, we hear endless praise for testing, pivoting, iterating. But the authors ask a harder question: what if experimentation itself carries costs? 💡⚙️ Using a Bayesian framework, the paper explores when startups should experiment and when they should move directly into the market. And the answer, as it turns out, depends on uncertainty, adaptation costs, and the lurking possibility that competitors may copy what founders learn along the way. 📈🔍 The paper becomes even more human when it talks about bias. Founders often begin with strong beliefs about what customers want, beliefs shaped by ego, hope, obsession, or intuition. The authors argue that the more biased those beliefs are, the more valuable experimentation becomes. In other words, testing is not just about learning about the market. Sometimes it is about learning the limits of ourselves. ❤️🧠 I kept thinking about how deeply this applies beyond startups. We all carry priors into our lives. Assumptions about work, relationships, ambition, success. And reality keeps handing us evidence, asking whether we are brave enough to update what we believe. 🌌 This paper gives entrepreneurs a rigorous framework, even a measurable “Return to Experimentation,” but beneath the equations is a profoundly human tension between conviction and correction. Between holding onto an idea and letting the world reshape it. ✨ So maybe the real question is not whether experimentation helps startups succeed. Maybe it’s this: how do we know when persistence is wisdom, and when it is simply refusing to learn? 🎧🤍 Our thanks to Andrea Contigiani, Lien Denoo, Márton Hablicsek, and to John Wiley & Sons Ltd and the Strategic Management Society for publishing this remarkable work. 🙏📘 Subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and follow Weekend Researcher on YouTube 🎥🎙️ Also available on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts 🍎🎶