Management Decision: Volume 58 Issue 10

Guest editorial

Brandon Randolph-Seng

Human and organizational responses to extreme threats: a comparative developmental approach

Murad A. Mithani, Ipek Kocoglu

The proposed theoretical model offers a systematic approach to synthesize the fragmented research on organizational crisis, disasters and extreme events.

A strange situation indeed: Fostering leader–follower attachment security during unprecedented crisis

Amanda S. Hinojosa, Megan J. Doughty Shaine, Kelly Davis McCauley

We discuss how attachment theory can help leaders maintain security in their relationships with followers during crisis, using the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic as an example. We…

Managing an existential threat: how a global crisis contaminates organizational decision-making

J. Ian Norris, Mario P. Casa de Calvo, Robert D. Mather

The paper introduces a new model, the evolutionary-existential model of organizational decision-making. The purpose of the model is to provide an empirical framework for…

Too late to act: when crises become tragic

Mary-Lieta Clément, Christophe Roux-Dufort

This article aims to explore the tragic nature of crisis and identify managers’ decision-making processes and strategies when they are trapped by events beyond their understanding…

Management in times of crisis: Can collective plans prepare teams to make and implement good decisions?

J. Lukas Thürmer, Frank Wieber, Peter M. Gollwitzer

Crises such as the Coronavirus pandemic pose extraordinary challenges to the decision making in management teams. Teams need to integrate available information quickly to make…

Organization member action proximity and attributions for managerial crisis response failure

Jack Carson, Jacob Waddingham, Jeremy Mackey

The purpose of this research is to describe organization members' attributions for managerial responses to obviously externally caused crises. The authors draw from attribution…

Are you talkin' to me?: the role of culture in crisis management sensemaking

W. Scott Sherman, Katherine J. Roberto

This paper considers the role of culture in crisis management narratives. The importance of sensemaking and sense-giving to crisis management is expanded by exploring how…

Corporate social responsibility during unprecedented crises: the role of authentic leadership and business model flexibility

Corey Fox, Phillip Davis, Melissa Baucus

The purpose of the present research is to explore the relationships between corporate social responsibility (CSR), authentic leadership and business model flexibility during times…

Top managers' improvisational decision-making in crisis: a paradox perspective

Pooya Tabesh, Dusya M. Vera

The purpose of this paper is to describe how top management teams' expertise in comprehensive and intuitive decision-making contributes to effective improvisational…

Emergence of interpersonal helping in times of crises: a theoretical model of prosperity and eradication of interpersonal helping in organizations

Shih Yung Chou, Charles Ramser, Tree Chang, Bo Han

The purpose of this article is to develop a cross-level, theoretical model describing the process by which interpersonal helping becomes conspicuous, as well as the process by…