Jost Sieweke

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | VU ·  Department of Management & Organization Studies

Recruitment plays a central role during digital transformation because companies in many industries need to hire employees who possess IT-related knowledge, skills and abilities to digitalise their products, services and processes. However, extant research so far mainly has focussed on the use of digital technology in recruiting processes and its o...

Does a greater representation of women in top management teams (TMTs) contribute to higher firm perfor-mance? Although several studies have investigated this question, they have failed to sufficiently account for endogeneity. We address the endogeneity problem by using an instrumental variable (IV) design to estimate the causal effect of women's re...

We advance research on legitimacy and institutional change by theorizing a multilevel model of how an individual legitimacy belief-propriety-is affected by an exogenous crisis event and how two collective constructs-validity and consensus-influence this effect. Whereas consensus and validity can overlap in that validity may reflect consensual appro...

As improving the construct validity of measures has been a fundamental concern in management research, we commend Bitektine and colleagues for their efforts to develop and validate individual-level measures for organizational legitimacy, reputation, and status. However, we have some concerns with regard to their measurement approach. Specifically,...

Endogeneity is a serious challenge for leadership research. To overcome the problem, researchers increasingly rely upon experimental designs, such as laboratory and field experiments. In this paper, we argue that natural experiments — in the form of standard natural experiments, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity designs — offer ad...

This double volume presents the state of the art in research on the microfoundations of institu-tions. In this introductory chapter, we develop an overview of where the emerging microfounda-tional agenda in institutional theory stands and in which direction it is moving. We discuss the questions of what microfoundations of institutions are, what th...

This double volume presents the state of the art in research on the microfoundations of institutions. In this introductory chapter, we develop an overview of where the emerging microfounda-tional agenda in institutional theory stands and in which direction it is moving. We discuss the questions of what microfoundations of institutions are, what the...

This paper examines the relationship between audit seniors' discussing their own experiences with committing and correcting errors (modeling fallibility), and audit juniors' thinking about errors and error communication (openly discussing their own self-discovered errors). The paper investigates the direct relationship between senior modeling falli...

Research on e-participation has grown significantly in the last years. This review focuses on public administrations, which are central actors in the solicitation and organization of e-participation and in the process of diffusion of more democratic decision-making in government contexts. However, research indicates that public administrations ofte...

To explain the legitimation of inequality among the members of a social system, we blend system justification theory and the theory of social judgment. We identify adaptation and replacement as two major mechanisms of inequality legitimation and examine their influence in the unique setting of a natural experiment, the reunification of socialist Ea...

Ongelijkheid is voor veel samenlevingen een grote uitdaging geworden. Hoewel de negatieve gevolgen van ongelijkheid, zoals ongelukkig zijn, welbekend zijn en politieke partijen de noodzaak benadrukken om ongelijkheid te verminderen, wordt er in feite weinig gedaan. Het lijkt er zelfs op dat veel mensen, inclusief degenen die minder bevoorrecht zijn...

Large sums are spent each year on professional services. However, while differences in the spending between countries can be discerned, we do not know why they occur. Inspired by the organizational buying behavior literature, this paper investigates the influence of culture on the use of professional services. As the use of professional services in...

Purpose Learning from errors is important for employees, particularly at early stages of their career. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived trainer responses to errors on trainee learning from errors in a workplace setting. In study 1, we test a model that examines the associations between perceived trainer responses t...

Purpose Researchers have paid little attention to the relationship between employees’ objective internal and external pay standing and their job performance. Moreover, few studies have considered that employees’ objective pay standing is dynamic; that is, it changes over time. In this study, we analyze the relationship between changes in employees’...

This article focuses on the potential of online participation to enable the cooperative development of norms by affected stakeholders, investigating whether such processes can produce norms of both high quality and legitimacy. To answer this question, we designed, implemented, and evaluated an online norm setting process that goes beyond the scope...

To explore the dynamics of coordination in teams, we examine the impact of team familiarity and team leader experience on team coordination errors (TCEs). We argue that team familiarity has a U-shaped effect on TCEs. We study the moderating effects of team leader prior experience and team leader team-specific experience on the association between t...

An deutschen hochschulen lassen sich in den letzten jahren verschiedene entwicklungen beobachten, die darauf zielen, sie stärker als bislang an Wirtschaftlichkeitsprinzipien auszurichten. Im Zuge dessen werden verschiedene Kriterien diskutiert, um die Forschungsleistung von Fakultäten und Professoren zu messen. Jedoch ist bislang unklar, wie Forsch...

New institutional theory highlights the importance of language in processes of institutionalization, but Bourdieu argues that institutions are also transmitted by mimesis, i.e., the unconscious imitation of other actors’ actions. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that explains institutionalization through imitation. I show that throug...

In den letzten Jahren ist ein zunehmender Einsatz von Freelancern (freien Mitarbeitern) festzustellen, die eigenverantwortlich Leistungen für Unternehmen erbringen. Ihr wirtschaftlicher Erfolg hängt von einer hohen Employability ab. Bislang ist jedoch unklar, welche Faktoren die Employability beeinflussen. Dieser Beitrag hat das Ziel, den Zusammenh...

Despite the increasing relevance of inter-organizational projects in practice and the importance of rules for organizations, research has analyzed rules in inter-organizational projects only in a rudimentary way. Little is known about how rules in such projects are set and by which actor(s). Furthermore, research has rarely focused on the influence...

Whereas the diffusion of management ideas has received much attention in the literature, little is known about the diffusion of scientific ideas. This article aims to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing the influence of differences in research communities’ intellectual traditions on the diffusion of scientific ideas. Specifically, I analyz...

Approaches to explain processes of institutionalization have stressed the importance of linguistic processes. Bourdieu’s theory of practice argued, however, that institutions are also transmitted through the process of mimesis (i.e., the unconscious imitation of other actors’ actions). The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that explains t...

In Studien zur Internationalisierung wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen finden sich Hinweise, dass Dienstleistungsunternehmen ihren Klienten häufig ins Ausland folgen (follow-yourcustomer-Strategie). Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht am Beispiel der Unternehmensberatung erstmals die Frage, welche Relevanz diese Internationalisierungsstrategie aus...