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First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Slaats, M. (2024). First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 40(1), Article 101313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101313

While normative control practices aim to raise employee motivation and commitment to professional standards in professional service firms, there is much debate on when and for whom such practices remain motivational. Based on interviews with 18 self-... Read More about First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies.

Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews. Management consulting journal, 6(2), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0010

Jokes-based interviews can help to reduce social desirability bias of responses onsensitive topics, such as unethical business behaviour or other norm transgressions.The jokes-based interview method is relevant for academic researchers, as well as fo... Read More about Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews.

What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting. Management consulting journal, 6(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0005

In studies on consultant ethics clients are usually portrayed as their potential victims. However, in newspapers a different story can be found, when journalists report cased where clients and consultants have been partners in crime. To better map th... Read More about What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting.

The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors (2022)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Cornelissen, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2022). The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12615

Entrepreneurs’ responses to feedback are in part determined by how the interactions during which they receive it unfold. Prior studies primarily discuss feedback interactions between entrepreneurs and their mentors or trusted advisors. As a result of... Read More about The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors.

Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance (2019)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Bouwmeester, O., & Cornelissen, J. P. (2019). Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance. International Small Business Journal, 37(3), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242618818249

For entrepreneurial narratives to be effective, they need to be judged as plausible and have to resonate with an audience. Prior research has, however, not examined or explained how entrepreneurs try to meet these criteria. In this article, we addres... Read More about Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance.

The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting (2016)
Journal Article
Mühlhaus, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2016). The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting. Human Relations, 69(9), 1823-1852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726715626255

Following social identity theory, the way in which individuals appraise stressful encounters and cope with them is influenced by their membership of social groups, which presumes self-categorization as a group member. To date, the impact of self-cate... Read More about The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting.