American Journal of Management https://mail.articlegateway.com/index.php/AJM <p style="text-align: justify;">The <strong>American Journal of Management (AJM</strong>) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing scholarly empirical and theoretical research articles focusing on improving business and management theory, practice and behavior. AJM encourages research that impacts the general business and management fields as a whole and introduces new ideas or new perspectives on existing research. Accepted manuscripts will focus of bridging the gap between academic theory and practice as it applies to improving the broad spectrum of the business discipline. Manuscripts that are suitable for publication in AJM cover domains such as business strategy and policy, entrepreneurship, human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods. These domains are not inclusive as any traditional aspect of business is appropriate. The average acceptance rate for the American Journal of Management is less than 20 percent.</p> North American Business Press en-US American Journal of Management 2165-7998 <div><span class="theme-text-color-1-2">Please review our&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nabpress.com/copyright" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="label">Copyright Notice</span></a>.</span></div> Case Study of Transforming and Scaling Entrepreneurial Internship Access in IHE https://mail.articlegateway.com/index.php/AJM/article/view/7334 <p>This case study explores innovative approaches to expand access to high-quality internships and improve equitable student outcomes. It focuses on Lehigh University’s virtual Innovation Internship program, partnered with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and Epixego Inc. The program aims to address challenges in traditional internships, such as hidden curriculum, false narratives, and unequal social environments. By incorporating self-assessment of learning competencies and enhancing student agency, the program doubled its capacity to 40 students. The study measured student self-efficacy, occupational identity choice, and outcome expectations based on various factors. Results showed that students changed internship preferences across occupation categories and experienced increases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy (3%), occupational identity (7%), and perception of entrepreneurship education (4%). This multifaceted approach demonstrates the potential for innovative internship designs to improve accessibility and student development outcomes.</p> A. Balaraman S. Leedberg P. Celik S. Dewalt Copyright (c) 2024 American Journal of Management 2024-11-08 2024-11-08 24 4 10.33423/ajm.v24i4.7334 Two Pandemics and Workplace Shifts: Generational Considerations: A Multi-Factor Comparison of How Pandemics Impact Young Workers: Insights for Management and Employees© https://mail.articlegateway.com/index.php/AJM/article/view/7335 <p>This paper will compare several business-related factors. There has been relatively little academic research conducted to compare and contrast a breadth of workplace issues and dimensions during the early twentieth century’s Spanish Flu epidemic and the early twenty-first century’s COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This manuscript analyzes several variables and adds to the literature by examining significant factors that impacted workers and their workplaces during these two significant healthcare incidents. The major factors discussed include the labor force members during both of these pandemics, the demographics of those workforces, the workplace safety, the labor economic data during these two pandemics, the wages &amp; how they fluctuated, the labor unions &amp; evolving perspectives towards unionization, and the dominant industry shifts. Several of the findings regarding Millennials and Generation Z workers are supported by this author’s current research of university students who were employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The insights provided in this manuscript are instrumental for business managers and human resource management professionals, higher education, and for those who provide corporate training.</p> Catherine Giunta Copyright (c) 2024 American Journal of Management 2024-11-08 2024-11-08 24 4 10.33423/ajm.v24i4.7335 Integrating Philosophy Into the Entrepreneurship Curriculum: Using Stoicism as a Practical Guide for Entrepreneurship Students https://mail.articlegateway.com/index.php/AJM/article/view/7336 <p>Management education, and by extension, entrepreneurship education, is most effective when the ideas taught in the classroom are relevant to the workplace. The need to carefully examine business school curricula was presented in the 2013 book by the Graduate Management Admissions Council, Disrupt or be Disrupted: A Blueprint for Change in Management Education. One way for entrepreneurship programs to remain relevant is to keep up with current ideas and actions of practitioners. This paper examines Stoic philosophy, which is currently popular with many entrepreneurs and business leaders. The author argues that educators may want to integrate Stoic philosophy into the entrepreneurship curriculum.</p> Lawrence S. Silver Copyright (c) 2024 American Journal of Management 2024-11-08 2024-11-08 24 4 10.33423/ajm.v24i4.7336 The Effect of Institutional Context, Distance, and Routine Complexity on the Transfer of Routines Across Borders https://mail.articlegateway.com/index.php/AJM/article/view/7337 <p>Transferring routines and practices within Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is a prevalent and, at times, tedious process. New institutional context imposes forces for local adaptation, which disrupts the stability of the routine - stability due to the interplay between ostensive (the codified and/or abstract version of the routine) and performative (the practiced version) aspects of the routine. Change in routines is then needed to ensure local adaptation and the routine reaches a new state of stability. Our study focuses on the micro-processes of the transfer process and the pertinent states of stability and change in the focal routines and practices. We use simulation experiments and examine the effect of intuitional pressures for local adaptation. The local adaptation speed of ostensive routine is shown to matter. Slow enactment of the revised version of the ostensive routine (i.e. implementation of the locally adapted routine) at the subsidiary level can disrupt the stability of the routine.</p> Majid Eghbali-Zarch Copyright (c) 2024 American Journal of Management 2024-11-08 2024-11-08 24 4 10.33423/ajm.v24i4.7337