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 ...
Invited to write on diversity for ASQ's 50th anniversary, Damon Phillips and Aruna Ranganathan took on a harder question: why does a field ...
ASQ Interview
When Breaking the Law Gets You the Job: Evidence from the Electronic Dance Music Community.
Xu Li's Berlin apartment sat amid the clubs, which got him wondering how DJs land jobs at all. With Amandine Ody-Brasier he followed ...
ASQ Interview
Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis
An acquaintance heading to Paris for hypnosis training stopped Nishani Bourmault cold: anesthesiologists are supposed to be evidence-based. She and Michel Anteby recount ...
ASQ Interview
The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning: Deciphering Hidden Goals from Ambiguous Experience
Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early ...
ASQ Interview
Place Iteration and Integration: How Digital Nomads Navigate the Mobile Worker Paradox
Melanie Prengler, Anthony Klotz, and Chad Murphy on digital nomads and what return-to-office mandates get wrong: the choice was never between a structured ...
ASQ Interview
Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion
A reviewer suggested measuring passion hourly. Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, and Jon Jachimowicz explain why even three surveys a day strained ...
Mathijs De Vaan and Toby Stuart on the downside of trust in referrals: once you trust an intermediary, that person becomes the default, ...
ASQ Interview
Harambee! A Triadic Perspective on Social Impact: Organizations, Evaluators, and Target Beneficiaries in Kenya
Anna Kim hand-plucked tea leaves alongside Kenyan farmers to earn conversations during fieldwork. When one community refused to fit her nine-site Fairtrade study, ...
ASQ Interview
“If I Could Turn Back Time”: Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories, and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer
Why did the analog synthesizer come back? Andrew Nelson, Callen Anthony, and Mary Tripsas, all musicians themselves, on the pleasures and pitfalls of ...
A talk at HEC, a research visit to Cornell, and a dissertation chapter: Panikos Georgallis, Glen Dowell, and Rodolphe Durand recount how their ...
ASQ Interview
Evidence in Practice: How Structural and Programmatic Scaffolds Enable Collaboration in International Development.
"We always seem to fail." A Hewlett Foundation lament launched Rodrigo Canales and Charlie Cannon's study of why smart, well-funded teams still cannot ...
ASQ Interview
The Group Dynamics of Interorganizational Relationships: Collaborating with Multiple Partners in Innovation Ecosystems.
Jason Davis revisits his 2016 paper on group cycling in innovation ecosystems and explains why getting collaboration processes right now matters most for ...
ASQ Interview
Junkies, Queers, and Babies: Persistence and Updating of the Category AIDS Through Silencing and Puncturing of the Moral Boundary.
When a baby was diagnosed with what was then called gay-related immunodeficiency, many doctors refused to update the category. Mia Chang-Zunion and Stine ...
In the favela training program Leandro Pongeluppe studied, local women entrepreneurs generated the biggest employment gains, evidence for his argument that residents, not ...
ASQ Podcast
Frontline Professionals in the Wake of Social Media Scrutiny: Examining the Processes of Obscured Accountability.
Arvind Karunakaran joins the podcast to discuss what happens when social media outrage lands on 911 dispatchers and other frontline professionals, and how ...
ASQ Interview
Xia, Steensma, and Bai (2023). When Do Collaborative First Moves Diminish Nationality-Based Homophilic Preferences? An Examination Of Chinese Venture Capital Investment Syndicates
Why would a Chinese venture capital firm be shunned by its compatriots for teaming up with Americans? Wei Xia, Kevin Steensma, and Xiaoou ...
What lets women finally cash in on brokerage? Job mobility, argue Evelyn Zhang, Brandy Aven, and Adam Kleinbaum: moving grants women a license ...
ASQ Interview
Jackson (2023). (Not) Paying For Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated With Transactional Approaches To Diversity Recruitment
The literature is riddled with the dead bodies of failed DEI initiatives, Summer Jackson jokes. So she chose a company trying to do ...
Our ten most-read posts of 2023, from Mike Pratt's reflections on twelve years as an ASQ associate editor to stigma hierarchies in sex ...