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🎉 Congratulations to our Author! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our author for their publication in Business Research Quarterly (BRQ). The paper is titled: "Concurrent experience and improvements in focal and supportive routines: Inside U.S. nursing homes’ experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic" 🤔 What’s fascinating? 🤔 This paper challenges conventional learning theory by showing how organizations adapt and build resilience under pressure when events occur concurrently, rather than sequentially. 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulations to Vinit M. Desai, University of Colorado Denver! 📊 Key Conclusions: 1. Novel Timing Insights: Advances learning theory by exploring the impact of concurrent, clustered experiences versus sequential repetition. 2. Resilience Mechanism: Identifies how organizations adapt supportive routines to enhance resilience under challenging conditions. 3. Empirical Validation: Provides robust evidence from nursing homes' responses to clustered COVID-19 outbreaks. 🔗 Read More & Cite the Paper: https://lnkd.in/dWbmegxh J. Alberto Aragon-Correa, Juan P. Maícas , Ruth V. Aguilera , Herman Aguinis , Nicolai J. Foss , Tima Bansal, Sharon A. Alvarez, Anoop Madhok, Emilio J Castilla, Maurizio Zollo, ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers

✨🎄 Season's Greetings from BRQ ✨🎄 The editorial team at Business Research Quarterly wishes all our readers, authors, and collaborators a joyful holiday season filled with happiness and meaningful moments. Thank you for being part of our academic community and contributing to the advancement of knowledge in business management. We look forward to sharing more inspiring research with you in the coming year! 🎅🌟 Best wishes for a successful and prosperous 2025! 🌟🎅

✨🎄 Season's Greetings from BRQ ✨🎄 The editorial team at Business Research Quarterly wishes all our readers, authors, and collaborators a joyful holiday season filled with happiness and meaningful moments. Thank you for being part of our academic community and contributing to the advancement of knowledge in business management. We look forward to sharing more inspiring research with you in the coming year! 🎅🌟 Best wishes for a successful and prosperous 2025! 🌟🎅

🎉 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their publication in Business Research Quarterly (BRQ). The paper is titled: "Institutional experience, formal institutional quality, and firm performance: An analysis of firms from the European Union" 🤔 What’s fascinating? 🤔 This paper challenges the prevailing notion that institutional diversity is a liability for firms. Instead, it argues that exposure to a variety of institutional profiles creates an institutional competitive advantage, offering firms opportunities for learning and adaptation. 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulations to Alexandre Oliveira, Universidade de Coimbra! 🎉Congratulations to Fernando Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra! 🎉Congratulations to Nuno Rosa Reis, Polytechnic of Leiria! 📊 Key Conclusions: 1. Institutional Diversity Boosts Performance: Exposure to diverse institutions enhances firms' ability to adapt and perform better. 2. Experience Matters: Firms with more diverse institutional experience leverage formal institutional quality more effectively. 3. Empirical Proof: Analysis of EU firms (2010–2021) confirms institutional diversity and experience as key to success. 🔗 Read More & Cite the Paper: https://lnkd.in/d6YP3NCf J. Alberto Aragon-Correa, Juan P. Maícas , Ruth V. Aguilera , Herman Aguinis , Nicolai J. Foss , Tima Bansal, Sharon A. Alvarez, Anoop Madhok, Emilio J Castilla, Maurizio Zollo, ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers

🎉 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our authors for their publication in Business Research Quarterly (BRQ). The paper is titled: "How stressful is firm insolvency? Self-reported, biological, and physiological indicators of entrepreneurs’ well-being" 🤔 What’s fascinating? 🤔 This paper uses a holistic approach, combining psychological, biological, and physiological measures to reveal the human toll of insolvency, bridging subjective experiences with objective evidence. 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulations to Dominika Wach, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences! 🎉Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Carsten C. Schermuly, SRH University! 🎉Congratulations to Clemens Kirschbaum, Technische Universität Dresden! 🎉Congratulations to Jürgen Wegge, Technische Universität Dresden! 📊 Key Conclusions: 1. It integrates psychological, biological, and physiological perspectives to provide a comprehensive view of the impact of insolvency on entrepreneurial well-being. 2. It combines self-reported data with objective biological measures, offering empirical evidence on stress and recovery in times of hardship. 3. It highlights the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Germany’s unfavorable insolvency context, contributing to cross-national discussions on policy and well-being. 🔗 Read More & Cite the Paper: https://lnkd.in/dhGSd_P2 J. Alberto Aragon-Correa, Juan P. Maícas , Ruth V. Aguilera , Herman Aguinis , Nicolai J. Foss , Tima Bansal, Sharon A. Alvarez , Anoop Madhok, Emilio J Castilla , Maurizio Zollo, ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers

👏💥Congratulations to the authors featured in BRQ's latest virtual issue, ⭕"Crisis, resilience and organizations" ⭕, for their insightful research on heir focus on economic crises, recovery, and organizational resilience! ➡️SPECIAL ISSUE: https://lnkd.in/dBT4_xy2 Senior Editor: Félix J. López-Iturriaga, Universidad de Valladolid Editors-in-chief: Juan P. Maícas, J. Alberto Aragon-Correa *** Introduction from the editor to the virtual collection Félix J. López-Iturriaga ➡️https://lnkd.in/dBT4_xy2 *** The impact of SME leader’s psychological capital on strategic responses during crisis Ann-Christin Grözinger, Sven Wolff, Phlipp Julian Ruf (Universität Siegen), David Audretsch (Indiana University), Petra Moog (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) Abstract: "This study investigates how the Psychological Capital of small and medium enterprises leaders has influenced their strategic responses, ultimately impacting the performance of their companies, during the COVID-19 pandemic (...)" ➡️https://lnkd.in/dQDbZrsy *** Avoiding relapses after crises: Exploring the influence of firm investors’ characteristics on organizational resilience Elena Mellado García, Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, J. Alberto Aragon-Correa (Universidad de Granada) Abstract: "(...) this study evaluates how certain investor characteristics foster organizational resilience during a crisis by preventing a relapse following recovery (...)" ➡️https://lnkd.in/dFpFzDGg *** SMEs filing for bankruptcy in Spain: The best of luck! F. Javier Sánchez Vidal, Horacio Garcia, PhD, Antonia Madrid Guijarro (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena) Abstract: "The aim of this work is to analyze the factors that help companies avoid liquidation following the spirit of the Spanish insolvency law (...)" ➡️https://lnkd.in/dBA-HM6f *** Braking before the curve and accelerating inside? Exploration, countercyclical behavior, and SMEs’ resilience during economic downturns Vicente Safón, María Iborra Juan (Universitat de València) Abstract: "(...) Our thesis is that exploration acts as a countercyclical factor by slowing down a firm’s growth before the external shock takes effect, favoring growth during the crisis, and providing better resilience outcomes(...)" ➡️https://lnkd.in/dYDuevgU ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers, Ruth V. Aguilera Herman Aguinis Nicolai J. Foss Sharon A. Alvarez Tima Bansal Anoop Madhok Emilio J Castilla Maurizio Zollo

🎉 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our author for their publication in Business Research Quarterly (BRQ). The paper is titled: "Toward a coping-in-combination approach: The benefits of combining coping strategies for purpose in life of the self-employed" 🤔 What’s fascinating? 🤔 This paper challenges the prevailing approach in the self-employment coping literature, which typically isolates coping strategies. Instead, it introduces a novel perspective that examines how combinations of coping strategies influence a critical aspect of well-being—purpose in life. 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulations to Michael Lerman , Iowa State University ! 🎉Congratulations to Huiqing Ju, Iowa State University! 🎉Congratulations to Boris Nikolaev, Colorado State University ! 📊 Key Conclusions: 1. Combining persistence and positive reappraisal buffers the negative effects of lowering aspirations on purpose in life. 2. Primary (persistence) and secondary (reappraisal, lowering aspirations) coping strategies have distinct but complementary effects. 🔗 Read More & Cite the Paper: https://lnkd.in/dMYrtUMZ J. Alberto Aragon-Correa , Juan P. Maícas , Ruth V. Aguilera , Herman Aguinis , Nicolai J. Foss , Tima Bansal, Sharon A. Alvarez , Anoop Madhok, Emilio J Castilla, Maurizio Zollo, ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers

💡 BRQ has incorporated the role of Consulting Editors into its organizational structure. These world-renowned researchers will advise the editorial team, helping to strengthen academic rigor and guiding the journal's leadership, not only in identifying trends and future research lines but also by actively promoting academic debate. We are pleased to announce our ninth 💥 Consulting Editor 💥 : ➡ Emilio J Castilla, NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Castilla is currently the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He joined the MIT Sloan faculty in 2005, after being a faculty member in the Management Department of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT, as well as a Research Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, and at the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. His research primarily focuses on the sociological aspects of work and employment. Castilla is particularly interested in studying how social and organizational processes influence key organizational and employment processes and outcomes over time. His focus is on the recruitment, hiring, development, and job mobility of employees within and across organizations and locations, as well as on the impact of teamwork and social relations on performance and innovation. His work has been published in top academic journals and edited volumes, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology, Management Science and American Sociological Review. 👏🙌Welcome to the BRQ team, Emilio J Castilla! BRQ is the Spanish Academy of Management (ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas)) peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication. ACEDE supports the Open Access publication and the authors do not have to pay any fees.

🎉 Congratulations to our Authors! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our author for their publication in Business Research Quarterly (BRQ). The paper is titled: "Entrepreneurs’ thriving after venture distress: The role of self-compassion, learning, and venture failure" 🤔 What’s fascinating? 🤔 This paper explores how self-compassion and the ability to learn from distress enable entrepreneurs to thrive despite the challenges of venture distress or failure. Using self-determination theory and data from Belgian entrepreneurs, it reveals these personal attributes can buffer the negative impact of distress on well-being, even when ventures fail. 🌍 Authors: 🎉Congratulations to Karlien Coppens , Ghent University ! 🎉Congratulations to Mirjam Knockaert , Technical University of Munich ! 📊 Key Conclusions: 1. Self-compassion and learning from distress help entrepreneurs thrive despite challenges or failure. 2. These traits protect well-being regardless of whether ventures persist or fail. 3. Fostering these traits can enhance resilience in entrepreneurship. 🔗 Read More & Cite the Paper: https://lnkd.in/dRrjKeUV J. Alberto Aragon-Correa , Juan P. Maícas , Ruth V. Aguilera , Herman Aguinis , Nicolai J. Foss , Tima Bansal, Sharon A. Alvarez , Anoop Madhok, Maurizio Zollo, ACEDE (Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de Empresas), Sage Journals and Call for Papers

📢 [#JustPublished] We are delighted to announce that our paper "Institutional experience, formal institutional quality, and firm performance: An analysis of firms from the European Union" has just been published in BRQ Business Research Quarterly ◾ Alexandre Oliveira (FEUC - Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra / Politécnico de Leiria) ◾ Fernando Carvalho (FEUC - Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra) ◾ Nuno Rosa Reis (Politécnico de Leiria) 👉 Download the article here: https://lnkd.in/dieMBeuf