Stigma usually builds from the bottom up. Anastasiya Zavyalova studied what happens when it comes from the top instead: Russia's 2012 foreign agents law and the NGOs it branded.

Authors: Laura Adler (Yale School of Management); Elena Ayala-Hurtado (Princeton University) Interviewers: Junyan Lu (National University of Singapore – Strategy & Policy); Ellina Watanabe (ESADE Business School – Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability) Article link: https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392251318974 Your paper examines how job seekers navigate the tension between meritocratic and social capital logics, showing how these logics are fundamentally situated and ...

How do founders leave marks that outlast them? Markus Becker walks through the mechanisms of organizational imprinting, and a career-long fascination with how the past keeps shaping what organizations do.

Milo Shaoqing Wang and Christopher Steele trace how China's private entrepreneurs went from politically suspect to officially celebrated, and how a second-year PhD paper became a decade-long study of state-led destigmatization.

Invited to write on diversity for ASQ's 50th anniversary, Damon Phillips and Aruna Ranganathan took on a harder question: why does a field built on studying elites still struggle to see everyone else?

Xu Li's Berlin apartment sat amid the clubs, which got him wondering how DJs land jobs at all. With Amandine Ody-Brasier he followed the puzzle into the scene, where breaking the law can win community support.

An acquaintance heading to Paris for hypnosis training stopped Nishani Bourmault cold: anesthesiologists are supposed to be evidence-based. She and Michel Anteby recount how French doctors reboot deeply technical professional work.

Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early advantage, so why did they lose? Profit made them ignore the cues.

Melanie Prengler, Anthony Klotz, and Chad Murphy on digital nomads and what return-to-office mandates get wrong: the choice was never between a structured office and an unsupported home.

A reviewer suggested measuring passion hourly. Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, and Jon Jachimowicz explain why even three surveys a day strained organizational reality in their 20-day study of passion contagion in teams.