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Askin & Bothner (2016). Status-Aspirational Pricing: The ‘‘Chivas Regal’’ Strategy in U.S. Higher Education, 2006–2012

By mgmauskapfMarch 30, 20161

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

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Michel (2011). Transcending Socialization: A Nine-Year Ethnography of the Body’s Role in Organizational Control and Knowledge Workers’ Transformation

By mgmauskapfJanuary 27, 20161

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

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Zietsma & Lawrence (2010). Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work

By mgmauskapfDecember 2, 20151

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

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Dunn & Jones (2010). Institutional Logics and Institutional Pluralism: The Contestation of Care and Science Logics in Medical Education, 1967-2005

By mgmauskapfNovember 18, 20150

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

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Pahnke, Katila, & Eisenhardt (2015). Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms

By mgmauskapfOctober 29, 20152

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

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Celebrating Our Two Year Anniversary

By mgmauskapfAugust 4, 20150

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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Pollock, Lee, Jin, & Lashley (2015). (Un)tangled: Exploring the Asymmetric Coevolution of New Venture Capital Firms’ Reputation and Status

By mgmauskapfJune 29, 20150

Timothy Pollock got tired of scholars using status and reputation interchangeably, often with identical measures. He and coauthors Peggy Lee, Kyuho Jin, and ...

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Tan (2015). Using Negotiated Joining to Construct and Fill Open-ended Roles in Elite Culinary Groups

By mgmauskapfJune 10, 20150

Vaughn Tan had been hanging around cutting-edge culinary R&D teams since 2003 before realizing they were a research site. People there contribute enormously ...

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Perkins (2014). When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Multinational Corporation

By mgmauskapfMay 20, 20150

Susan Perkins presented this paper at conferences nearly a decade before it appeared in print. She recounts that long road, plus the advice ...

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Dahlander & McFarland (2013). Ties That Last: Tie Formation and Persistence in Research Collaborations over Time

By mgmauskapfMay 14, 20150

Why do some research collaborations last while others fizzle? Linus Dahlander and Daniel McFarland on ties that persist among academic co-authors, and why ...

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Harvey & Kou (2013). Collective Engagement in Creative Tasks: The Role of Evaluation in the Creative Process in Groups

By mgmauskapfMay 6, 20150

Sarah Harvey and Chia-Yu Kou had a hunch from consulting life: groups are most creative when meetings flow, not when perspectives clash. Testing ...

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Joshi (2014). By Whom and When Is Women’s Expertise Recognized? The Interactive Effects of Gender and Education in Science and Engineering Teams

By mgmauskapfApril 15, 20150

Aparna Joshi never set out to be a gender researcher. Then a finding about women's expertise going unrecognized in science and engineering teams ...

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Zhu & Chung (2014). Portfolios of Political Ties and Business Group Strategy in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Taiwan

By mgmauskapfMarch 25, 20150

Hongjin Zhu and Chi-Nien Chung studied what Taiwan's business groups did when the 2000 regime change scrambled political loyalties, and why holding a ...

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Almandoz (2014). Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics: When Institutional Forces Predict Banks’ Risk Exposure

By mgmauskapfFebruary 18, 20150

Juan Almandoz came to academia after business and nonprofit careers, curious why the same work means such different things to different people. He ...

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Yue, Rao, & Ingram (2013). Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target

By mgmauskapfJanuary 28, 20151

Why did protesters swarm Walmart but mostly spare Target? Lori Yue, Hayagreeva Rao, and Paul Ingram describe the mapping exercise that revealed Target ...

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Bianchi (2013). The Bright Side of Bad Times: The Affective Advantages of Entering the Workforce in a Recession

By mgmauskapfJanuary 21, 20150

Emily Bianchi graduated into the dot-com crash, cobbled together part-time jobs, and was grateful for a badly paid one. She describes how that ...

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Ody-Brasier & Vermeulen (2014). The Price You Pay: Price-setting as a Response to Norm Violations in the Market for Champagne Grapes

By mgmauskapfJanuary 7, 20150

Champagne grape growers all claimed prices were uniform, then admitted charging less to buyers they liked. Amandine Ody-Brasier and Freek Vermeulen recount how ...

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Cable, Gino, & Staats (2013). Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best: Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Authentic Self-expression

By mgmauskapfDecember 8, 20141

Daniel Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats on what it takes to run a field experiment: mutual curiosity, persistence when things go wrong, ...

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DiBenigno & Kellogg (2014). Beyond Occupational Differences: The Importance of Cross-cutting Demographics and Dyadic Toolkits for Collaboration in a U.S. Hospital

By mgmauskapfDecember 2, 20140

Julia DiBenigno and Katherine Kellogg matched two nearly identical hospital units and found that nurses and patient care technicians collaborated well on only ...

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Briscoe & Murphy (2012). Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity, Third-party Responses, and the Interorganizational Diffusion of Controversial Practices

By mgmauskapfSeptember 22, 20140

Why did transparent benefit cuts stall while opaque spending caps spread through the Fortune 500? Forrest Briscoe and Chad Murphy explain how consultants' ...