Why would an activist group team up with its enemy's rival? Kate Odziemkowska traces when firm-activist collaborations form despite ideological opposition, and why ...

On this episode, Olga Khessina discusses her paper with Samira Reis and Cameron Verhaal on why some medical marijuana producers expose their identities ...

Flattery works even when you have nothing to brag about. Gareth Keeves, James Westphal, and Michael McDonald on why ingratiating managers come to ...

Jake Grandy came to business school from public policy and noticed what nonmarket strategy overlooked: agency bureaucrats with discretion. He and Shon Hiatt ...

Deborah Brown planned a microfinance study until two small children reset her research design. Kamal Munir compared yoga to cupcakes, nowhere then everywhere, ...

Ruthanne Huising on studying 71 university research labs within a decade-long team ethnography, staying neutral among lab cliques, and why professionals gain authority ...

A departmental retreat at a Detroit incubator handed Suntae Kim his dissertation site. He describes three years of fieldwork amid the city's crisis ...

How does a leaderless swarm of hackers get anything done? Felipe Massa and Siobhan O'Mahony recount years of watching Anonymous organize in open ...

A recorded panel on turning a dissertation into journal articles, featuring ASQ editor Christine Beckman and three scholars who published work from their ...

Accelerators tell entrepreneurs to give before they ask, then rank them against each other every week. Rekha Krishnan, Karen Cook, Rajiv Kozhikode, and ...

It started with live action role-playing: Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide Orazi, and Kristine de Valck recount how a shared hobby, a planned survey, ...

Hatim Rahman had spent a year embedded in an online labor platform when it switched to an opaque rating algorithm. That accident of ...

A recording of our virtual research discussion on writing and rewriting drafts, with supplemental materials from Daisy Chung on writing inductive qualitative papers ...

Johnny Boghossian and Robert David set out to learn how Quebec artisan cheese acquired a long history in a few short years, and ...

Derek Harmon wanted to test whether a leader questioning an institution's assumptions could shake it. That search led him to the one speaker ...

Brianna Caza describes how a paper on multiple jobholding was remade in review: the team returned to the field, collected an entirely new ...

Paul Godfrey agreed to review Antonio Strati's book on organizational aesthetics, opened it, and wondered what he had gotten himself into. A conversation ...

On this episode, Lisa Buchter discusses how LGBT rights activists in France pushed corporate diversity programs past vague commitments by handing organizations ready-to-use ...

Shipeng Yan, John Almandoz, and Fabrizio Ferraro on green investing and state policy, and how they answer the growing complaint that institutional logics ...

Does volunteering for corporate social impact work help or hurt your promotion chances? Christiane Bode, Michelle Rogan, and Jasjit Singh found the answer ...

Yanbo Wang once spent two years cleaning a dataset that yielded nothing. He and coauthors Toby Stuart and Jizhen Li discuss studying fraud ...

News images from the Syrian war made Winnie Jiang curious about refugee resettlement, so she volunteered at a local agency. She recounts how ...

Video recording of the first ASQ Blog virtual discussion on the road to journal publication, in which experienced scholars talk through the first ...

Christine Beckman announces the 2021 ASQ awards: Sarah Thébaud wins the Award for Scholarly Contribution and Nathan Wilmers the Dissertation Award, with video ...

At the R&D firm Anne ter Wal and colleagues studied, manager-technologist pairs could finish each other's sentences. That raised the question behind the ...

Sarah Thébaud on connecting the gender-and-institutions literature to entrepreneurship, why an Etsy shop and a venture-backed startup are not the same phenomenon, and ...

An invitation to the third virtual reception: Beth Bechky, Sameer Srivastava, and Olav Sorenson of the ASQ methods advisory panel discuss the perils ...

Lei Zhang and Isin Guler on how venture capital syndicates decide who joins the club, and how Zhang carved one big dissertation question ...

Michael Pratt joins the podcast to discuss trust among firefighters who must take leaps of faith, and how an out-of-the-blue call from engineers ...

David Clough and Henning Piezunka explain why a firm watches its competitors' performance when deciding whether to drop a shared supplier, and how ...

Video recording of the conversation with ASQ dissertation award winners Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Derek Harmon, joined by discussant Marc-David Seidel, on planning, conducting, ...

An invitation to the blog's second virtual reception, where dissertation award winners Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Derek Harmon discuss what makes a great dissertation ...

A Capitol Hill rumor that Republican officeholders paid their female staffers less sent Seth Carnahan and Brad Greenwood hunting for salary data. They ...

Matt Bloom, Amy Colbert, and Jordan Nielsen distinguish two ways professionals narrate a calling: discerners, who feel destined for one particular kind of ...

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao ask what happens to a communist ideological imprint when the party that created it reverses course, and why ...

Video recording of the ASQ Blog's first virtual reception, a conversation with editor Henrich Greve and associate editor Christine Beckman on publishing and ...

It started when eBay managers admitted their business sellers were upset and they didn't understand why. Corentin Curchod traces a decade of phenomenon-driven ...

An invitation to the blog's first virtual reception: a live conversation with ASQ editors Henrich Greve and Christine Beckman about the publication process ...

Kisha Lashley and Timothy Pollock on studying medical cannabis entrepreneurs back when dispensaries were still being raided, and what it took to get ...

Can Glassdoor reviews measure corporate culture? Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer Srivastava describe mining employees' free-text comments to track cultural heterogeneity across ...

Matthew Beane discusses shadow learning in robotic surgery, why the risk that matters for learning is socially constructed, and how the robot made ...

Mabel Abraham on why an audience can produce gender bias even when nobody in it is actually biased: entrepreneurs make inferences about others' ...

Xu Huang recounts how his DBA student, now CEO of Taiwan's largest shoe manufacturer, insisted on studying succession while clashing with his own ...

Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt began studying Fintech startups before winners, losers, or even market viability had emerged. They discuss building theory from ...

How do you pick sites for a comparative ethnography? Katherine Kellogg explains why she only studies hospitals matched on everything the literature already ...

Jennifer Petriglieri and Otilia Obodaru assumed 50:50 couples would fare best; they are each in one. Meeting dual-career couples who thrived on unequal ...

Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...

It takes a village, says Beth Bechky: phone calls from field sites, years of presentations, friendly readers of half-baked drafts. She describes how ...

Ryan Raffaelli joins the podcast to explain how Swiss mechanical watchmaking came back between 1970 and 2008, and how a theoretical puzzle about ...

A senior colleague didn't want the trip to a Florida sheriff's department, so Shefali Patil went instead, arriving two weeks before body cameras ...