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Episode Synopsis
Welcome to Revise and Resubmit—the podcast where academic rigor meets real-world relevance, and curiosity sparks conversation. Today, we’re diving into the tangled, turbulent, and utterly fascinating world of cross-sector partnerships. Imagine this: actors from business, government, and civil society, each with their own playbook, clashing like titans one moment and collaborating like soulmates the next. What keeps these partnerships from collapsing under the weight of their own complexity? What invisible rhythms dictate their dance between motivation and fatigue?
Our guide through this labyrinth is a groundbreaking study titled Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings, authored by Christiana Weber, Marit Grewe-Salfeld, Markus Göbel, Barbara Harsman, Yuka Matsuo, and Rick Vogel. Published in the prestigious Journal of Management Studies—a crown jewel in the FT50, the Financial Times’ elite list of the world’s top 50 business journals—this research doesn’t just scratch the surface. It rewrites the script.
Through a qualitative deep dive into three cross-sector partnerships tackling social and environmental crises, the authors uncover a hidden heartbeat: three pulsating sets of practices—embracing, orchestrating, and opposing complexity—that keep collaborations alive, even when logic clashes and fatigue looms. Their model shatters the static, siloed view of practice-driven institutionalism, revealing instead a cyclical dance where micro-level grit meets macro-level change.
But here’s the kicker: What if the secret to sustaining collaboration isn’t harmony… but tension? What if the friction between sectors isn’t a bug in the system… but the very engine of progress?
A huge thank you to the brilliant authors and to the Journal of Management Studies, published by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, for pushing the boundaries of how we understand hybrid worlds.
Now, dear listeners, if your curiosity is piqued—and how could it not be?—hit subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, follow the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher for bonus deep dives, or find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts. Because in the ever-shifting landscape of knowledge, you don’t want to miss a single beat.
So tell us: When collaboration feels like a tug-of-war… is the real victory simply keeping the rope from snapping?
Reference
Weber, C., Grewe‐Salfeld, M., Göbel, M., Harsman, B., Matsuo, Y., & Vogel, R. (2025). Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13185
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Our guide through this labyrinth is a groundbreaking study titled Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings, authored by Christiana Weber, Marit Grewe-Salfeld, Markus Göbel, Barbara Harsman, Yuka Matsuo, and Rick Vogel. Published in the prestigious Journal of Management Studies—a crown jewel in the FT50, the Financial Times’ elite list of the world’s top 50 business journals—this research doesn’t just scratch the surface. It rewrites the script.
Through a qualitative deep dive into three cross-sector partnerships tackling social and environmental crises, the authors uncover a hidden heartbeat: three pulsating sets of practices—embracing, orchestrating, and opposing complexity—that keep collaborations alive, even when logic clashes and fatigue looms. Their model shatters the static, siloed view of practice-driven institutionalism, revealing instead a cyclical dance where micro-level grit meets macro-level change.
But here’s the kicker: What if the secret to sustaining collaboration isn’t harmony… but tension? What if the friction between sectors isn’t a bug in the system… but the very engine of progress?
A huge thank you to the brilliant authors and to the Journal of Management Studies, published by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, for pushing the boundaries of how we understand hybrid worlds.
Now, dear listeners, if your curiosity is piqued—and how could it not be?—hit subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, follow the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher for bonus deep dives, or find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts. Because in the ever-shifting landscape of knowledge, you don’t want to miss a single beat.
So tell us: When collaboration feels like a tug-of-war… is the real victory simply keeping the rope from snapping?
Reference
Weber, C., Grewe‐Salfeld, M., Göbel, M., Harsman, B., Matsuo, Y., & Vogel, R. (2025). Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13185
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https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher
Support us on Patreon
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