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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Our five most-read posts of 2015, led by Pahnke, Katila, and Eisenhardt on partners' institutional logics and a behind-the-scenes conversation with ASQ managing ...

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

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

A friend's bottle of good red wine eventually led Daniel Malter to the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc, a setting fixed enough ...

Heather Haveman planned to study careers in the American magazine industry, until the data made that impossible. She, Jacob Habinek, and Leo Goodman ...

Linda Johanson is usually the first person to read your ASQ submission. The journal's managing editor describes how manuscripts get matched to editors ...

What began as a marketing study of a natural food co-op turned into something else once idealists and pragmatists started fighting. Blake Ashforth ...

Michelle Rogan and Olav Sorenson on why acquirers pick poor partners: shared clients shape who buys whom in global advertising, and the same ...

John-Paul Ferguson and Sharique Hasan expected specialization to pay early in Indian Administrative Service careers and diversification to pay later. Specialization won at ...

Do elites fall from grace because they misbehave, or because they're targeted? Scott Graffin, Jonathan Bundy, Joseph Porac, James Wade, and Dennis Quinn ...

Google and Amazon spend billions keeping employees entrepreneurial, yet research says large firms produce fewer founders. Aleksandra Kacperczyk describes reassessing that conventional wisdom ...

Sigal Barsade and Olivia O'Neill faced a framing dilemma: lead with emotional culture as the general construct, or with companionate love itself? They ...

An English literature PhD running global financial services sales caught Adam Kleinbaum's attention, and his wife's question, 'How did he end up in ...

Speaking up is supposed to help organizations. James Detert, Ethan Burris, David Harrison, and Sean Martin discuss their finding that voice flowing sideways ...

Edward Smith has compared organizations to fishing boats, exotic fruit, and matchmaking markets. He reflects on when a metaphor carries a theory to ...

If directors prefer people like themselves, why has board diversity risen for two decades? David Zhu, Wei Shen, and Amy Hillman explain how ...

András Tilcsik went into his dissertation site planning to study culture and networks, but the data he needed didn't exist. He recounts how ...

'I hate networking,' their MBA students kept saying. Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki took the complaint seriously and found that instrumental ...

Dan Wang surveyed thousands of skilled migrants who returned home, then interviewed 160 of them. Those conversations changed how he measured embeddedness and ...

People with chronic pain have good days and bad days, but theories of working sick treated health as fixed. Michael Christian, Noah Eisenkraft, ...

David Zhu and Guoli Chen discuss why narcissistic CEOs copy the strategies they personally witnessed on other boards while discounting what fellow directors ...

Regulation is supposed to shape innovation. Russell Funk and Daniel Hirschman trace the reverse: how financial swaps quietly eroded Glass-Steagall, and whether banks ...