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    A humanistic future for strategizing in a world of uncertainties: Learning from an extreme case
    Our study centralizes uncertainty, addressing not only its potential for organizational opportunities but also its existential dimensions for humans. Our ethnographic study of a deliberately “humanistic” company analyzes how human action and strategic agency are interwoven under conditions of deep uncertainty. Building on Strategy-as-Practice research and insights from sociology and science and technology studies, we develop three conceptual anchors: the cunning of uncertainty, communities of discovery, and resonant relationships. Our empirical findings describe how four interrelated practices – setting principles to encourage discovery, cultivating resonance through relational spaces, scaling communities through organizational spheres, and leading through zooming in and out- form a dynamic social web that connects human action to strategic agency.
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    The Classification of Civilians as Human Shields: a Means to Justify Violence?
    (Lund University Libraries, 2023-06)
    Human shields have been increasingly documented in contemporary theatres of war. In this context, it is interesting to examine the circumstances in which the attacking party classifies the civilians they face as human shields. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the use of the classification of human shields by belligerents facing civilians during armed conflicts. The paper sets forth the argument that this legal category has been instrumentalized to justify civilian casualties, assigning the entire responsibility to the adversary. To support this claim, the research provides legal clarifications on the concept of human shields, the status of civilians used as such, and the obligations of the attacking party facing them. This involves uncovering the gaps and uncertainties in the law regarding human shields on the one hand, and the principle of proportionality on the other hand. Despite those uncertainties, this thesis maintains that human shields should be treated as civilians and that the principle of proportionality should apply normally. The subsequent examination of two case studies, the civil war in Sri Lanka and the conflict between Israel and Palestine, evaluates the patterns of instrumentalization of the category of human shields to avoid war crime accusations. Due to the lack of legal definition, the classification of human shields is being extended to cover up to hundreds of thousands of civilians, and allows for stretching the principle of proportionality to raise the threshold of acceptable casualties. This process often involves parallel narrative building to adapt the facts to this discourse. The case studies reveal the specific role of human shielding in instrumentalizing International Humanitarian Law. However, coupled with proportionality, these legal tools question the construction and the role of International Humanitarian Law in protecting civilians during armed conflicts. The appraisal of Israel’s modus operandi indeed demonstrates how the practice of instrumentalization has been systematized and shapes the course of hostilities.
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    Situated Attention and Strategic Leadership Interfaces: The Role of CEO Humility and Digital Transformation Urgency for Corporate Venture Capital Investments
    (Wiley, 2025-09-19) ;
    Philipp Schade
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    Monika C. Schuhmacher
    Integrating the attention-based view with the strategic leadership interfaces perspective, we propose a theoretical model of situational urgency mechanisms influencing the allocation of CEOs' attention towards responsive actions. Specifically, we theorize upon the role of humility, which leads CEOs towards embracing interfaces and makes them particularly attentive to the situational context in which they operate. We test our theorization by studying corporate venture capital investments in digital ventures as a response to the situational urgency for digital transformation originating from multiple levels of analysis, internal and external to the firm. Testing a sample of 362 CEOs from 191 firms and 35 industries, we find support for the importance of CEO humility and the moderating role of the lack of top management team digital experience (team-level urgency) and emerging digital competition (industry-level urgency). Our study provides important insights into CEO responsiveness and advances our understanding of situated attention through the theorization of situational urgency and its integration with the strategic leadership interfaces perspective.
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    Profiting from Ecosystems: Examining Incumbents’ Dynamic Capabilities
    In today’s economy, numerous incumbents are engaged in or plan to engage with ecosystems, driven by the belief in significant growth opportunities and increased profitability. However, some firms have started retreating to their core businesses due to unmet expectations and unrealized goals. Despite the growing importance of ecosystems, relatively little is known about the realization of these expected performance outcomes. Therefore, we aim to shed light on the incumbents’ boundary conditions for profiting from ecosystems. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities’ literature as a powerful lens for incumbents operating in change, we argue that dynamic capabilities serve as a critical foundation for achieving successful performance outcomes. By using a survey dataset of firms in the banking and insurance industries, we reveal the positive relationship between dynamic capabilities and ecosystem performance. Additionally, we provide evidence of the positive impact of ecosystem performance on firms’ non-financial performance.
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    Toxic Language Captures Attention: Evidence from 200 Million News Headline Impressions
    (2025-09-20)
    Roggenkamp, Hauke
    Online platforms extract revenue by capturing user attention and selling it to advertisers, leading algorithmic content curation to prioritize content that most effectively captures attention. This creates a potential pathway for toxic language to dominate public discourse if toxic content systematically outperforms civil alternatives in capturing clicks. Using data from 53,755 news headlines across 12,473 A/B tests that generated over 205.8 million impressions at Upworthy.com, I employ the Perspective API to measure headline toxicity and analyze click-through rates as the primary outcome variable to approximate attention capture. A fixed effects specification exploits within-experiment variation to isolate toxicity effects from article-level characteristics, comparing headlines that advertise identical content but vary in toxic language. Results demonstrate that toxic content increases click-through rates by 9.859% relative to civil alternatives, even when controlling for negativity and other linguistic features. This persistent toxicity bias suggests that toxic language triggers automatic attention-capture mechanisms that operate free from social signaling dynamics.

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