2014 – The ASQ Blog

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ASQ Interview

Zhu, Shen, & Hillman (2014). Recategorization into the In-group: The Appointment of Demographically Different New Directors and Their Subsequent Positions on Corporate Boards

By Pete AcevesDecember 17, 20140

If directors prefer people like themselves, why has board diversity risen for two decades? David Zhu, Wei Shen, and Amy Hillman explain how ...

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ASQ Interview

Cable, Gino, & Staats (2013). Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best: Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Authentic Self-expression

By mgmauskapfDecember 8, 20141

Daniel Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats on what it takes to run a field experiment: mutual curiosity, persistence when things go wrong, ...

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ASQ Interview

DiBenigno & Kellogg (2014). Beyond Occupational Differences: The Importance of Cross-cutting Demographics and Dyadic Toolkits for Collaboration in a U.S. Hospital

By mgmauskapfDecember 2, 20140

Julia DiBenigno and Katherine Kellogg matched two nearly identical hospital units and found that nurses and patient care technicians collaborated well on only ...

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ASQ Interview

Tilcsik (2014). Imprint–environment Fit and Performance: How Organizational Munificence at the Time of Hire Affects Subsequent Job Performance

By Pete AcevesNovember 18, 20140

András Tilcsik went into his dissertation site planning to study culture and networks, but the data he needed didn't exist. He recounts how ...

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ASQ Interview

Casciaro, Gino, & Kouchaki (2014). The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty

By Pete AcevesNovember 14, 20140

'I hate networking,' their MBA students kept saying. Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki took the complaint seriously and found that instrumental ...

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ASQ Interview

Wang (2015). Activating Cross-border Brokerage: Interorganizational Knowledge Transfer through Skilled Return Migration

By Pete AcevesNovember 9, 20140

Dan Wang surveyed thousands of skilled migrants who returned home, then interviewed 160 of them. Those conversations changed how he measured embeddedness and ...

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ASQ Interview

Christian, Eisenkraft, & Kapadia (2015). Dynamic Associations among Somatic Complaints, Human Energy, and Discretionary Behaviors Experiences with Pain Fluctuations at Work

By Pete AcevesNovember 4, 20140

People with chronic pain have good days and bad days, but theories of working sick treated health as fixed. Michael Christian, Noah Eisenkraft, ...

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ASQ Interview

Zhu & Chen (2015). CEO Narcissism and the Impact of Prior Board Experience on Corporate Strategy

By Pete AcevesNovember 4, 20140

David Zhu and Guoli Chen discuss why narcissistic CEOs copy the strategies they personally witnessed on other boards while discounting what fellow directors ...

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ASQ Interview

Funk & Hirschman (2014). Derivatives and Deregulation: Financial Innovation and the Demise of Glass–Steagall

By Pete AcevesNovember 3, 20140

Regulation is supposed to shape innovation. Russell Funk and Daniel Hirschman trace the reverse: how financial swaps quietly eroded Glass-Steagall, and whether banks ...

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ASQ Interview

Briscoe & Murphy (2012). Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity, Third-party Responses, and the Interorganizational Diffusion of Controversial Practices

By mgmauskapfSeptember 22, 20140

Why did transparent benefit cuts stall while opaque spending caps spread through the Fortune 500? Forrest Briscoe and Chad Murphy explain how consultants' ...

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ASQ Interview

Pontikes (2012). Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Ambiguous Classification Affects Multiple Audiences’ Evaluations

By colloqAugust 3, 20140

Elizabeth Pontikes drew on her years positioning software companies to study how ambiguous market categories play to different audiences, and she recounts finding ...

News & Announcements

[Discussion] Davis (2014). Editorial Essay: Why Do We Still Have Journals?

By colloqMay 5, 20144

A break from our usual interviews: ASQ editor Jerry Davis argues that the journal system is broken and that review, not distribution, is ...

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ASQ Interview

Bernstein (2012). The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control

By colloqJanuary 15, 20140

How does a researcher get nearly unlimited access to a Chinese phone factory, including permission to run a field experiment? Ethan Bernstein describes ...

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