mrev management revue

Remote and hybrid work became common practices due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, they entail a risk of work loneliness, which raises the question of newcomers’ socialisation to work communities. This study explores whether the social...

Employers are increasingly using algorithmic directions to instruct employees. Algorithmic direction controls work through instructions and recommendations based on algorithms, either substituting or complementing traditional control mechanisms,...

Managing businesses during COVID-19 was challenging, mainly due to constant changes. Managers' experiences gained from these crises should be shared so that they can be more prepared in case it happens again. The aim of this article is to research...

Through a major international survey of scientists, we investigated the stress effects on scientists who experience work-related intimidation and harassment, from whom they sought support, how useful support was, and whose support mattered for...

Personal resources have been widely investigated in studies on work engagement. They have been mainly viewed as affected by individuals’ situated environments and as the most proximal predictor of work engagement. Unlike those studies, we aimed to...

Despite hundreds of existing definitions, defining leadership remains a thorny issue today. We attempted to tackle this issue and summarise here a framework being developed to shape a renewed, simplified definition of leadership. The paper first...

The paper investigates the signalling behaviour of digital native applicants in employment interviews and analyses how their reactions differ in face-to-face versus video-mediated contexts. The social presence within the interview setting and the...

This paper reports on findings from a study of Swedish retail stores, with the aim of discussing the triggers and amplifiers by offering a nuanced perspective on the effects of organisational resilience (OR) of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish...

Working from home (WFH) has recently become a widespread form of workplace transformation. Here, digital team communication platforms (TCP), like Microsoft Teams or Slack, have essential value for enabling WFH at a large scale. However, TCPs...

Whilst it is often claimed that experienced crisis responders are likely to adopt the intuitive and analytical thinking styles when solving complex problems in time-pressured crisis situations, scholarly efforts to explicate the nature of...

Purpose – Technology is considered a tool of competency enhancement and a source of innovation and competitive advantage for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although many studies examined the drivers and barriers of technology adoption...

In recent decades, it has become increasingly difficult for rural firms to attract workers with specialised skills, and employment rates have decreased. A majority of rural firms are family SMEs. Family SMEs are, therefore, important contributors to...

Tensions seem inextricably linked to the HR profession. Research has intensively dealt with various tensions related to HR work and has taken different means to investigate them analytically and empirically. For HR managers, tensions considerably...

Crowdwork is often characterised by low incomes and insecure employment conditions. Nevertheless, the business models of crowdwork platforms require a sufficiently large number of crowdworkers. Like other markets, the market for crowdwork is...

There is a growing interest in exploring the potential benefits and risks of digital work communication (DWC) for employers and employees. While some studies view the use of DWC as a demand that threatens employees’ mental health, others regard it...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with sustainable development. Their characteristics require different sustainability management approaches to those employed by larger enterprises. However, supportive tools for sustainability...

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a priority for business leaders as it challenges the very existence of the traditional way of conducting business. Businesses aim to reinvent themselves by engaging in business model innovation for...

This research is about the strategic capabilities and resources of sustainability-oriented businesses in the agri-food sector. We apply the lens of the natural resource-based view (NRBV) to two exemplary value chains in the Northern German agri-food...

Entrepreneurial competences geared towards sustainable actions are necessary for the transition towards sustainability. Higher education institutions are dedicated to training students to acquire these competences, which entails equipping teachers...

Organisations increasingly depend on their employees’ insights to achieve organisational efficiency by optimising processes and solving problems. If employees share their knowledge, they do what the literature refers to as employee voice. The key...

Nowadays, innovation and transformation appear as leading ideas in nearly all societal fields. Against the background of rapid technological development, globalisation, ecological challenges, and social change, perspectives of desired futures have...

This work aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and corporate performance, considering the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider a sample of Portuguese-listed firms for the period between 2010 and 2020 using a...

Digitalisation and the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the use of telework. Employees often use private resources for working from home (WFH). However, we know little about how employers and employees divide telework-related workplace costs,...

Work values characterise employees’ goals in organisations across situations and influence employees’ work behaviour. Due to demographic change and the shortage of skilled workers in many industrialised countries, the importance of...