Am I a real architect? Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Yen found that architects' answers turned on the status of their clients, a pattern that surfaced while sorting post-it notes on the floor.

Grace Augustine and colleagues followed the recycling coordinators that the environmental movement pushed into organizations, and found what happens to movement-backed occupations after the enthusiasm moves on.

Jin Hyung Kim and Jordan Siegel on how foreign firms pay for legitimacy under autocratic rule, and the winding path from a novel dataset to a mixed-methods research design.

Who actually decides which candidates make the shortlist? Almasa Sarabi and Nico Lehmann followed hiring decisions through four data sources to pin down where gender disparities enter the pipeline.

Why did Taiwanese firms step up corporate philanthropy after the Sunflower Movement? Yishu Cai on charitable giving as a hedge against institutional transition risk rather than an act of goodwill.

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?