Institutt for ledelse og organisasjon

Security Journal 39(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-026-00551-2

Utilizing the Critical Incident Technique (CIT), this in-depth case study explores the role of individual safety consciousness in an adversary recruitment process. The data stems from the legal proceedings of a criminal case in which Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) successfully recruited a trusted employee from a societal safety-oriented organization. Based on three CIT categories: (1) professional recruitment strategies, (2) safety consciousness in the recruitment process, and (3) change in behavior due to the recruitment process, we provide a conceptual model and typology of insider threats. Conceptualized through security violations as accidental & neglective, self-motivated, and actor-driven insider threats, the results may help organizations delineate and target preventive efforts and draw on existing research.

Current Psychology 45(10) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-026-09541-4

This paper introduces the notion of perceived supervisor politics (PSP), suggests that it differs from perceived organizational politics (POP), and develops an expanded self-consistency perspective to explain the effects of POP and PSP. Based on cognitive dissonance theory and its self-consistency assumptions, we suggest that POP represents a threat to self-consistency for employees with high organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) but not those with low OBSE. In contrast, based on self-verification theory, we suggest that PSP provides self-verification opportunities for low-OBSE employees but not for high-OBSE employees. Reflecting these ideas, we expected to find unique interactions between POP vs. PSP and OBSE in predicting turnover intention. Moreover, by combining insights from cognitive dissonance and self-verification theories, we argue that PSP disrupts employees’ psychological consistency when the self-verification experience implied by the combination of PSP and OBSE conflicts with their overall experience of self-verification with their supervisor. We expected that the resulting three-way interaction would predict turnover intention. Two time-lagged studies were conducted with participants from the US (Study 1) and China (Study 2) to examine these ideas. Consistent with our hypotheses, Study 1 found PSP to be associated with reduced turnover intention among individuals with very low levels of OBSE, whereas Study 2 showed the predicted three-way interaction to explain turnover intention. Detailed findings, along with their implications and future research directions, are discussed.

Corporate Reputation Review Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41299-026-00261-w

This article examines how organizations respond to reputational scandals in sponsorship relationships within the fields of art and sport. While sponsorship has been widely explored as a means of building legitimacy, less attention has been given to how legitimacy is actively renegotiated when reputational crises occur. Drawing on stakeholder theory and institutional logics, we investigate how organizations justify either continuing or severing controversial sponsorship ties through strategies grounded in compliance or conformity. Using a comparative case study design and secondary data, we analyse four high-profile scandals involving either discredited sponsors or tainted recipients. The findings reveal that responses are shaped by field-specific reputational dynamics rather than by a simple binary logic. In symbolically rich domains such as the arts, organizations tend to invoke conformity-based arguments aligned with moral and cultural expectations; in performance-driven or lower-visibility sports, compliance-based justifications linked to legality and contractual obligations dominate. Hybrid responses also emerge, influenced by elite stakeholder pressure, media attention, and internal governance considerations. By linking symbolic capital, field structures, and stakeholder salience to sponsorship decision-making, this study contributes to research on corporate reputation, organizational legitimacy, and sponsorship ethics, offering insights for managers facing reputational threats in complex institutional environments.

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 14(4) Doi: https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm140404

Production planning & control (Print) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2026.2657441