Papers by Jaana Woiceshyn
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
What kind of research should be done in business schools? This has been debated since business sc... more What kind of research should be done in business schools? This has been debated since business school faculty started to conduct research, but a lengthy debate has centered on the 'rigor versus relevance' of business school research, as well as on the appropriateness of different research modes. We pursued this question at the micro level, investigating what kind of narratives business school researchers themselves follow and what kind of identity positions are available to them to adopt. Comparing the narratives and identity positions of researchers in two different contexts-Canada and Finland-through a qualitative analysis of interview transcripts, we found more contextual and local variation than what the rigor versus relevance debate and the studies on the business school research modes suggest, but also dominant forms of research appreciated more than others within local moral orders. We identify and analyse four different narratives and identity positions of Canadian and five of Finnish business res...
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014
Academic engagement—research collaboration and informal networking between academic researchers a... more Academic engagement—research collaboration and informal networking between academic researchers and practitioners—has been shown to be much more common than commercialization activities and to give rise to new, both academically valuable and practically relevant insights and to contribute to innovation. Critics argue, however, that it compromises scientific rigor of business school research. To understand this relatively little studied phenomenon, we conducted a case study comparing the ‘standard’ North American arm’s length academic engagement mode represented by Canadian business schools with the ‘deviant’ collaboration mode dominant at Finnish business schools. Description of these two cases allowed us to conceptualize key dimensions of the national and institutional context shaping academic engagement in business schools as well as to identify microfoundations of such engagement. Implications for business school researchers, managers and public policy are suggested. Key words: academic engagement, bus...
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2015
Leadership clearly has an impact on organizational outcomes, and previous research has revealed t... more Leadership clearly has an impact on organizational outcomes, and previous research has revealed the antecedents and consequences of leadership styles and the effects of leaders’ personality traits. We focus on an area that has received much less attention: ethical leadership practice and the virtues that guide it. Following the positive turn in leadership research, we examine what constitutes virtuous action of leaders. We draw on observations made in a novel realm, rock climbing, and integrate them with the literature on leadership virtues while drawing parallels to business. We identify six essential virtues at the core of the ethical leadership model we propose: rationality, honesty, independence, integrity, justice, and pride. Three of these—rationality, independence, and pride—are not conventional virtues, but we suggest that they are critical for ethical leadership, as is the standard of human flourishing and the leader’s relationship with followers as a trader of values. Our ...
Oil, Gas & Energy Law Journal, 2020
Project Management Journal
The front end of projects is strategically important; yet, how project concepts are identified, e... more The front end of projects is strategically important; yet, how project concepts are identified, evaluated, and selected at the pre-project stage is poorly understood. This article reports on an inductive multiple-case study of how executives made such decisions in major upstream oil and gas projects. The findings show that in such a high-risk context, often an experienced executive makes these decisions alone and he creates value by facilitating growth. We identified three value-creating decision processes that varied by the executives’ risk approach and decision context. These processes depart from the formal project management prescriptions and the strategic decision-making literature.
Long Range Planning, Jun 30, 2009
This paper examines how decision makers manage complex situations by combining rational analysis ... more This paper examines how decision makers manage complex situations by combining rational analysis with intuition. Based on a study of 19 oil company CEOs, it identifies two processes used by the most effective CEOs: integration by essentials (IBE) and spiralling. Besides using these two processes, the effective CEOs shared three thinking-related traits: focus, motivation and self-awareness. The paper concludes with implications for effective decision making.
Journal of Change Management
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the imbalance between inductive and deductive rese... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the imbalance between inductive and deductive research in management and organizational studies and to suggest changes in the journal review and publishing process that would help correct the imbalance by encouraging more inductive research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors briefly review the ongoing debate about the “developmental” vs “as-is/light-touch” journal review modes, trace the roots of the prevailing developmental review to the hypothetico-deductive research approach, and contrast publishing deductive and inductive research from the perspectives of authors, editors, and reviewers.FindingsApplication of the same developmental evaluation and review mode to both deductive and inductive research, despite their fundamental differences, discourages inductive research. The authors argue that a light-touch review is more appropriate for inductive research, given its different logic.Practical implicationsSpecific criteria for the ...
Innovation Management Policy Practice, Nov 6, 2013
Business Ethics Quarterly
Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, 2010
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 1997
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 1996
Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 2013
Knowledge is a resource that needs to be strategically managed by firms. This paper examines the ... more Knowledge is a resource that needs to be strategically managed by firms. This paper examines the conditions for internal versus external sourcing of knowledge. We argue that firms incur production costs when developing knowledge internally and transaction costs when obtaining it through the market. The relative size of the transaction costs and production costs depends on the industry structure and the type of knowledge needed, and should guide firms in their choice of internal versus external sourcing of knowledge in ...
Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 2013
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