Reading statistics on the cost of replacing workers, Matthew Bidwell kept wondering how anyone actually knew. The answer became a paper showing that ...

Does guanxi fade as markets mature? Heather Haveman, Nan Jia, Jing Shi, and Yongxiang Wang found the opposite in China, where state power ...

Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...

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Abhinav Gupta and Adam Wowak join the podcast to discuss how directors' political ideologies shape CEO pay, and how Federal Election Commission records ...

Interdisciplinary research wins citations but costs productivity. Erin Leahey, Christine Beckman, and Taryn Stanko discuss that trade-off, why their sample couldn't answer the ...

ASQ editor Henrich Greve opens the blog's 2017 in a video interview about what the journal is doing to stay impactful and his ...

Our ten most-read posts of 2016, including conversations with outgoing editor Jerry Davis and award winner Charlene Zietsma, Alexandra Michel's nine-year ethnography of ...

Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...

Charlene Zietsma, winner of the 2016 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, talks in this video about how her winning article grew from her ...

It started with a glass of Grappa di Picolit after dinner in Bergamo. Giuseppe Delmestri and Royston Greenwood recount how a once-plebeian spirit's ...

A Politico article about corporate PACs with bad PR sat on Timothy Werner's back burner until Mary-Hunter McDonnell visited his campus. They discuss ...

Sharon Koppman traces how omnivorous cultural tastes formed in childhood help people land creative jobs in adulthood, a link two cultural capital literatures ...

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In this video interview, Jerry Davis looks back on five years as ASQ's editor, and talks about his new passion projects and what ...

The idea for studying résumé whitening came from Sora Jun, then an undergraduate. She and Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, and András Tilcsik describe ...

Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason study the organizations built to connect countries. They discuss why intergovernmental organizations deliver economic and political benefits ...

The scripts for Star Wars and Seinfeld were rejected multiple times. Justin Berg discusses why managers who specialize in evaluating ideas may get ...

Behavioral theory and prospect theory both predict what firms do when performance dips, but tend to conflate risk with change. Aleksandra Kacperczyk, Christine ...

Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...

Brokerage research celebrates the returns to spanning structural holes while ignoring what brokers spend to earn them. Christopher Rider makes the case for ...

Network scholars study how ties form, rarely how they end. Christopher Rider considers whether interorganizational relationships belong to organizations or to the people ...

Curtis Chan and Michel Anteby wanted to train alongside TSA officers until their IRB balked at researchers making national security decisions. They recount ...

It took three years and dozens of legally trained research assistants for Mauro Guillén and Laurence Capron to build their cross-national index of ...

Christopher Yenkey went to East Africa to study how new stock markets recruit investors, settling on Kenya after a too-quiet month at the ...

When universities slip in the rankings, some respond by raising tuition. Noah Askin and Matthew Bothner discuss the 'Chivas Regal' strategy and why ...

Can partners rotate leadership too often? Jason Davis and Kathleen Eisenhardt explain why their data showed no downside to alternating control in collaborative ...

Sun Hyun Park and James Westphal found white male executives steering blame toward minority CEOs in the press. The bigger surprise: female and ...

Thomas Lawrence and Graham Dover describe how a dissertation on social innovation became an ASQ paper about place, and why the framing that ...

Alison Fragale, John Sumanth, Larissa Tiedens, and Gregory Northcraft used emails made public by the Enron investigation to study deference among peers, after ...

Chad Navis and Mary Ann Glynn on how satellite radio became a market category, and how they built theory that speaks to both ...

How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...

Alexandra Michel spent nine years studying investment bankers who work 100-hour weeks, and explains why organizations control employees most effectively through their bodies, ...

Merely being associated with a powerful person can make people feel powerful themselves, even when the tie gives them nothing real. Noah Goldstein ...

Forrest Briscoe and Wenpin Tsai set out to use a law firm merger as a natural experiment on networks. Their diagrams ended up ...

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Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick started noticing how much self-regard some CEOs displayed in press interviews. That variance became a research program on ...

Sreedhari Desai, Dolly Chugh, and Arthur Brief find that men's marriage structures follow them to work. One surprise: being raised by a working ...

The path was anything but linear: Charlene Zietsma and Thomas Lawrence recount how two conference papers merged, got bounced from an AMJ special ...

Mary Dunn and Candace Jones noticed that the rise of a care logic in medical education tracked the arrival of women in medical ...

Amy Ou, Anne Tsui, and colleagues were the first to test the effects of humble CEOs. Why now? The 2008 financial crisis, Ou ...

When bad earnings news hits, a CEO's best defense may be another CEO's praise. James Westphal, Sun Hyun Park, Michael McDonald, and Mathew ...

Emily Cox Pahnke, Riitta Katila, and Kathleen Eisenhardt describe turning a dissertation into a study of how funding partners' institutional logics shape young ...

Dean Xu had long dreamed of explaining China's economic transition through organization theory. With Jane Lu and Qian Gu, he traces how a ...

Can an opera company change how audiences see it just by reordering its season? Bo Kyung Kim and Michael Jensen on market identity ...

What did Jesuit bookkeeping know that modern corporations forget? Paolo Quattrone argues that accounting works best when it interrogates what cannot be framed: ...

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The blog turns two: 45 interviews published and readers in nearly 50 countries since August 2013. A thank-you to contributors, a call for ...

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