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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Carton(2018). “I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work

By amyzhaodingNovember 15, 20181
Andrew Carton joins the podcast to discuss how NASA leaders under Kennedy changed the meaning of work, so that an engineer building circuits ...
Young employees working at desktop computers in a shared office
ASQ Interview

Smith & Besharov (2017). Bowing before Dual Gods: How Structured Flexibility Sustains Organizational Hybridity

By anjalimbhattOctober 30, 20180
When Wendy Smith and Marya Besharov asked how Digital Divide Data kept its social and business missions alive for years, the founder handed ...
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ASQ Interview

RANGANATHAN (2018). TRAIN THEM TO RETAIN THEM: WORK READINESS AND THE RETENTION OF FIRST-TIME WOMEN WORKERS IN INDIA

By winnieyjiangSeptember 26, 20180
For the first-time women workers Aruna Ranganathan studied at an Indian garment factory, what mattered was training in self-presentation, work-life separation, and self-reliance. ...
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ASQ Interview

Baumann, Eggers, & Stieglitz (2018). Colleagues and Competitors: How Internal Social Comparisons Shape Organizational Search and Adaptation

By amyzhaodingSeptember 12, 20180
What happens when a firm's divisions benchmark against each other instead of against their own past performance? Oliver Baumann, J.P. Eggers, and Nils ...
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ASQ Interview

DIBENIGNO (2018). ANCHORED PERSONALIZATION IN MANAGING GOAL CONFLICT BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL GROUPS: THE CASE OF U.S. ARMY MENTAL HEALTH CARE

By winnieyjiangAugust 29, 20180
Julia DiBenigno on comparative ethnography in U.S. Army mental health care: a year of pilot fieldwork across seven posts, then four carefully matched ...
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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Petriglieri, Petriglieri, & Wood(2018). Fast Tracks and Inner Journeys: Crafting Portable Selves for Contemporary Careers

By amyzhaodingAugust 22, 20180
Gianpiero and Jennifer Petriglieri join the podcast to discuss the nomadic class of workers who move across countries, companies, and functions, and to ...
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ASQ Interview

Ter Wal, Alexy, Block & Sanders (2016). The Best of Both Worlds: The Benefits of Open-specialized and Closed-diverse Syndication Networks for New Ventures’ Success

By amyzhaodingAugust 9, 20180
Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...
Wooden blocks spelling GIG in front of a laptop keyboard
ASQ Interview

Petriglieri, Ashford & Wrzesniewski (2018). Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities

By madelinejkingJuly 19, 20180
Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski wrote about independent workers while working rather like them: often alone, separated by an ocean, trying ...
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ASQ Interview

FU, TSUI, LIU, & LI (2010). PURSUIT OF WHOSE HAPPINESS? EXECUTIVE LEADERS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL BEHAVIORS AND PERSONAL VALUES

By winnieyjiangJune 20, 20180
During interviews for the GLOBE project, Ping Ping Fu and Anne Tsui noticed that some transformational leaders held self-enhancing rather than self-transcendent values. ...
ASQ Podcast

PODCAST: Ferguson, Soule & Dudley (2018). Osmotic Mobilization and Union Support during the Long Protest Wave, 1960–1995.

By anjalimbhattJune 13, 20181
John-Paul Ferguson joins the podcast to discuss his paper with Sarah Soule and Thomas Dudley, the army of undergraduates who coded decades of ...
Businessman writing a word cloud around the word Management
ASQ Interview

Bodrožić & Adler (2018). The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory

By channingspencerJune 6, 20180
Zlatko Bodrozic and Paul Adler liken studying today's organizations to watching only the last scene of a movie, and they build a neo-Schumpeterian ...
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ASQ Interview

Salvato & Rerup(2018). Routine regulation: Balancing conflicting goals in organizational routines

By amyzhaodingMay 23, 20180
A reviewer's observation sent Carlo Salvato and Claus Rerup back into their Alessi data: the truces between original design and efficient production were ...
NBA logo on a blue background
ASQ Interview

ZHANG (2017) A FAIR GAME? RACIAL BIAS AND REPEATED INTERACTION BETWEEN NBA COACHES AND PLAYERS

By channingspencerMay 11, 20180
As a second-year PhD student, Letian Zhang read a study of racially biased NBA referees and started downloading every basketball statistic he could ...
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ASQ Interview

ZHELYAZKOV (2017). INTERACTIONS AND INTERESTS: COLLABORATION OUTCOMES, COMPETITIVE CONCERNS, AND THE LIMITS TO TRIADIC CLOSURE

By winnieyjiangApril 25, 20180
Pavel Zhelyazkov explains why an intermediary will happily introduce a partner to a mediocre competitor but not to a stellar one, and what ...
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ASQ Interview

Clement, Shipilov, & Galunic (2018). Brokerage as a Public Good: The Externalities of Network Hubs for Different Formal Roles in Creative Organizations

By amyzhaodingApril 11, 20180
Why don't underperforming network hubs pay a reputational price? Julien Clement, Andrew Shipilov, and Charles Galunic field a pushback on their finding that ...
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ASQ Interview

KELLER (2017). POSTING AND SLOTTING: HOW HIRING PROCESSES SHAPE THE QUALITY OF HIRE AND COMPENSATION IN INTERNAL LABOR MARKETS

By winnieyjiangMarch 14, 20180
JR Keller traces his interest in internal labor markets back to Friday afternoons at Denny's, where he pored over the sports transactions in ...
Text slide reading The Clean Air Act with the EPA seal
ASQ Interview

Short & Toffel (2010). Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

By amyzhaodingFebruary 28, 20180
Jodi Short and Michael Toffel were skeptical that firms would self-police voluntarily. Their study of Clean Air Act facilities found regulatory surveillance works ...
Women artisans working at benches in a handicraft workshop
ASQ Interview

Ranganathan (2018). The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India

By amyzhaodingFebruary 21, 20180
Why would an Indian artisan charge a discerning customer less? Aruna Ranganathan argues that makers who identify with their work grow attached to ...
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ASQ Interview

Kovács & Sharkey (2014). The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality

By amyzhaodingJanuary 31, 20180
When book awards led to worse reader ratings, Balázs Kovács and Amanda Sharkey first assumed they had botched the analysis. They describe building ...
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ASQ Interview

Malhotra, Reus, Zhu, & Roelofsen (2017). The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs

By amyzhaodingJanuary 17, 20180
Shavin Malhotra, Taco Reus, PengCheng Zhu, and Erik Roelofsen used machine learning on CEOs' unscripted conference-call speech to gauge personality, and found extraverted ...
Headshot of Henrich Greve smiling in a blue patterned shirt
ASQ Video

2018 New Year: A Conversation with Henrich Greve, ASQ Editor

By amyzhaodingJanuary 3, 20180
ASQ editor Henrich Greve opens 2018 on video, reviewing a year of rising submissions and readership and previewing initiatives on evidence presentation, workshops, ...

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