Baltic Journal of Management: Volume 15 Issue 4

Strategic change and sensemaking practice: enabling the role of the middle manager

Sarah Kieran, Juliet MacMahon, Sarah MacCurtain

The critical input of middle managers as they make sense of the organisation's plans is paramount during the process of strategic change. Through the lens of middle manager…

HRM as an ongoing struggle for legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of HR managers as “employee-experience designers”

Jasmin Mahadevan, Anja P. Schmitz

This study shows how presumed “HR-trends,” such as the recent promotion of Employee Experience (EX) design, are never value-free ideas of a presumably objective “best practice”…

Implications of self-managing teams for the HRM function

Maarten Renkema, Anna Bos-Nehles, Jeroen Meijerink

Organisations increasingly implement self-managing teams (SMTs) to empower their employees. By drawing from the HRM process model and multilevel thinking, this paper explores how…

Impact of a firm's commitment to learning and open-mindedness on its organizational innovation among Russian manufacturing firms

Igor Dukeov, Jukka-Pekka Bergman, Pia Heilmann, Andrey Nasledov

During the last decade, a firm's ability to innovate has gained substantial attention in the literature devoted to innovation and strategic management. This study aims at…

How does servant leadership influence employees' service innovative behavior? The roles of intrinsic motivation and identification with the leader

Weilin Su, Bei Lyu, Hui Chen, Yanzi Zhang

With the rapid development of the service industry, service innovation has gradually become a hot topic in business today. How to further improve employees' service innovative…

Technological capability dynamics through cluster organizations

Anna Maria Lis, Malgorzata Rozkwitalska

The purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of COs in enabling them to accumulate technological capability (TC…

Family-managed firms and employment growth during an economic downturn: does their location matter?

Stefano Amato, Rodrigo Basco, Silvia Gómez Ansón, Nicola Lattanzi

This study investigates the relationship between family-managed firms and firm employment growth by considering the effects of location and economic crisis as moderating variables.

Mitigating knowledge hiding in firms: an exploratory study

Atif Saleem Butt

The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms can mitigate knowledge hiding behavior among their managers.