This study explores how contingency misfit can possibly be compensated. The paper particularly focuses on stakeholder enactment as a dynamic adaptation mechanism to overcome configurational misfit. By analyzing data from 238 firms located in eight countries, our study shows that stakeholder...

We sketch out two basic paradigms informing banking practice: the economistic paradigm focusing on profit maximization and the humanistic one, serving the common good. We then highlight paradigmatic cases to explore how each of these business models fared during the quasi-natural experiment of...

This important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a...

Humanistic Management is a notion used for organizing practices that protect dignity and promote well-being and human flourishing within the planetary boundaries (Mele 2003, Mele 2009, Dierksmeier 2015). The cornerstones of dignity, well-being, and flourishing differentiate humanistic management...

This chapter presents a new humanistic synthesis of understanding human nature. Building on the emerging consilience of knowledge across the sciences and humanities, I propose an alternative model of human nature. This model is aimed to increase accuracy while maintaining parsimony to serve as a...

In this paper, I am examining the foundational assumptions of human nature (ontology) that guide current corporate governance and strategy. I question these assumptions based on the latest findings from the sciences and propose an alternative, humanistic ontology. This ontology allows us to...