Hui Sun

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ASQ Interview

Zhang and Guler (2020). How to Join the Club: Patterns of Embeddedness and the Addition of New Members to Interorganizational Collaborations

By Hui SunApril 5, 20210

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

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ASQ Interview

Clough and Piezunka (2020). Tie Dissolution in Market Networks: A Theory of Vicarious Performance Feedback

By Hui SunNovember 6, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Bloom, Colbert and Nielsen (2020). Stories of Calling: How Called Professionals Construct Narrative Identities

By Hui SunSeptember 21, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Curchod, Patriotta, Cohen and Neysen (2019). Working for an Algorithm: Power Asymmetries and Agency in Online Work Settings

By Hui SunAugust 19, 20200

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 ...

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ASQ Interview

Lashley & Pollock (2019). Waiting to Inhale: Reducing Stigma in the Medical Cannabis Industry

By Hui SunJuly 20, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Corritore, Goldberg, & Srivastava (2019). DUALITY IN DIVERSITY: HOW INTRAPERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL CULTURAL HETEROGENEITY RELATE TO FIRM PERFORMANCE

By Hui SunMay 15, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Beane (2019). Shadow Learning: Building Robotic Surgical Skill When Approved Means Fail

By Hui SunMay 1, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Abraham (2019). Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs

By Hui SunApril 17, 20200

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

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ASQ Interview

Xu Huang, Louis Chen, Erica Xu, Feifei Lu, Ka-Chai Tam (2019). Shadow of the Prince: Parent-incumbents’ Coercive Control over Child-successors in Family Organizations

By Hui SunApril 3, 20201

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

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ASQ Interview

Bechky (2019). Evaluative Spillovers from Technological Change: The Effects of “DNA Envy” on Occupational Practices in Forensic Science

By Hui SunNovember 22, 20190

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

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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Raffaelli (2019). Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970–2008

By Hui SunOctober 4, 20190

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

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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Patil (2018). “The Public Doesn’t Understand”: The Self-reinforcing Interplay of Image Discrepancies and Political Ideologies in Law Enforcement

By Hui SunSeptember 20, 20190

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 ...

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ASQ Interview

Cole & Chandler (2019). A Model of Competitive Impression Management: Edison versus Westinghouse in the War of the Currents

By Hui SunSeptember 6, 20190

Why did Edison campaign to have executions run on Westinghouse's alternating current, and why did Westinghouse trash his own invention in response? Benjamin ...

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ASQ Interview

Li & Piezunka (2019). The Uniplex Third: Enabling Single-domain Role Transitions in Multiplex Relationships

By Hui SunAugust 23, 20191

Jian Bai Li and Henning Piezunka spent six years studying family businesses, waiting out the by-the-book founding stories until informants trusted them enough ...

Businessman sailing a dollar-bill paper boat over a sea of banknotes

ASQ Interview

Yan, Ferraro, & Almandoz (2018). The Rise of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: The Paradoxical Role of the Financial Logic

By Hui SunMay 15, 20190

Shipeng Yan, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Juan Almandoz recount how a puzzle practitioners kept raising, why responsible investing grows so unevenly across countries, became ...