Antwerp Management School

May we tighten the screws? An experiment on public acceptance of pressure during police interrogations

Abstract Purpose Many countries have vague limits on how much pressure police may use during interrogations. This leaves room for tactics that increase the risk of false confessions, such as lying about the evidence. Public opinion seems to oppose ‘friendly questioning’, which ma...

EXPRESS: Forced Choices without Resolutions: A Dialectical View of Strategic Change in an Endgame Industry

Endgame industries confront firms with intensifying contradictions. Yet little is known about how such conditions shape strategic change over time. Drawing on a longitudinal case study of Software Corp., a leader in the shrinking output management industry, we develop a dialectic...

When AI sees more than organizations can govern: Closing the accountability gap in radiology

AI in radiology is scaling diagnostic influence faster than hospitals are redesigning responsibility. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews with three senior radiologists and radiology leaders in the United States, Belgium, and Denmark, two executives from global medi...

Financial Transparency Certification and Interorganizational Network Ties—An Empirical Study

ABSTRACT In this study, we examine the role of interorganizational network ties (being board interlocks and auditor ties in particular) in explaining external financial transparency certification among Belgian nonprofit organizations (NPOs). As a voluntary quality signal, externa...

Divided beyond politics: How perceptions of non-political differentness are linked to affective polarization among citizens

While affective polarization is commonly attributed to political differences between partisans, recent studies suggest it also relates to perceived non-political differences, such as differences in lifestyle, class, or personality. However, little is known about the relevance of...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...