Bob Sutton warned Mark Zbaracki that industry experience wouldn't help him in academia. But watching ceremonial conformity inside IBM convinced Zbaracki that institutional ...
After twelve years and hundreds of manuscripts, Mike Pratt stepped down as an ASQ associate editor. He answers the Blog Board's questions about ...
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Odziemkowska (2022). Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations
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 ...
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Keeves, Westphal and McDonald (2017) Those Closest Wield the Sharpest Knife: How Ingratiation Leads to Resentment and Social Undermining of the CEO
Flattery works even when you have nothing to brag about. Gareth Keeves, James Westphal, and Michael McDonald on why ingratiating managers come to ...
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Kim (2021). Frame Restructuration: The Making of an Alternative Business Incubator amid Detroit’s Crisis
A departmental retreat at a Detroit incubator handed Suntae Kim his dissertation site. He describes three years of fieldwork amid the city's crisis ...
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Mannucci, Orazi & De Valck (2020). Developing Improvisation Skills: The Influence of Individual Orientations
It started with live action role-playing: Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide Orazi, and Kristine de Valck recount how a shared hobby, a planned survey, ...
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Rahman (2021). The Invisible Cage: Workers’ Reactivity to Opaque Algorithmic Evaluations
Hatim Rahman had spent a year embedded in an online labor platform when it switched to an opaque rating algorithm. That accident of ...
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Harmon (2019). When the Fed Speaks: Arguments, Emotions, and the Microfoundations of Institutions
Derek Harmon wanted to test whether a leader questioning an institution's assumptions could shake it. That search led him to the one speaker ...
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Godfrey (2021). Antonio Strati: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies (Book Review)
Paul Godfrey agreed to review Antonio Strati's book on organizational aesthetics, opened it, and wondered what he had gotten himself into. A conversation ...
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Bode, Rogan & Singh (2021). Up to No Good? Gender, Social Impact Work, and Employee Promotions
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 ...
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Ter Wal, Criscuolo, McEvily and Salter (2020). Dual Networking: How Collaborators Network in Their Quest for Innovation
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 ...