It started with live action role-playing: Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide Orazi, and Kristine de Valck recount how a shared hobby, a planned survey, ...

Hatim Rahman had spent a year embedded in an online labor platform when it switched to an opaque rating algorithm. That accident of ...

Johnny Boghossian and Robert David set out to learn how Quebec artisan cheese acquired a long history in a few short years, and ...

Derek Harmon wanted to test whether a leader questioning an institution's assumptions could shake it. That search led him to the one speaker ...

Brianna Caza describes how a paper on multiple jobholding was remade in review: the team returned to the field, collected an entirely new ...

Paul Godfrey agreed to review Antonio Strati's book on organizational aesthetics, opened it, and wondered what he had gotten himself into. A conversation ...

Shipeng Yan, John Almandoz, and Fabrizio Ferraro on green investing and state policy, and how they answer the growing complaint that institutional logics ...

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 ...

News images from the Syrian war made Winnie Jiang curious about refugee resettlement, so she volunteered at a local agency. She recounts how ...

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 ...

Sarah Thébaud on connecting the gender-and-institutions literature to entrepreneurship, why an Etsy shop and a venture-backed startup are not the same phenomenon, and ...

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

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

A Capitol Hill rumor that Republican officeholders paid their female staffers less sent Seth Carnahan and Brad Greenwood hunting for salary data. They ...

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

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao ask what happens to a communist ideological imprint when the party that created it reverses course, and why ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt began studying Fintech startups before winners, losers, or even market viability had emerged. They discuss building theory from ...

How do you pick sites for a comparative ethnography? Katherine Kellogg explains why she only studies hospitals matched on everything the literature already ...

Jennifer Petriglieri and Otilia Obodaru assumed 50:50 couples would fare best; they are each in one. Meeting dual-career couples who thrived on unequal ...

Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...

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

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

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 ...

The collaboration behind this study of green chemistry began when chemist Julie Haack asked management scholar Jennifer Howard-Grenville how to visualize her community's ...

Jochem Kroezen entered a microbrewery project as a self-described quantitative person who knew little beyond Heineken. He recounts how a decade with Dutch ...

Anne Bowers and Matteo Prato set out to explain why Institutional Investor changes its analyst ranking categories. Years later, the paper had flipped ...

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

When Wendy Smith and Marya Besharov asked how Digital Divide Data kept its social and business missions alive for years, the founder handed ...

For the first-time women workers Aruna Ranganathan studied at an Indian garment factory, what mattered was training in self-presentation, work-life separation, and self-reliance. ...

What happens when a firm's divisions benchmark against each other instead of against their own past performance? Oliver Baumann, J.P. Eggers, and Nils ...

Julia DiBenigno on comparative ethnography in U.S. Army mental health care: a year of pilot fieldwork across seven posts, then four carefully matched ...

Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...

Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski wrote about independent workers while working rather like them: often alone, separated by an ocean, trying ...

During interviews for the GLOBE project, Ping Ping Fu and Anne Tsui noticed that some transformational leaders held self-enhancing rather than self-transcendent values. ...

Zlatko Bodrozic and Paul Adler liken studying today's organizations to watching only the last scene of a movie, and they build a neo-Schumpeterian ...

A reviewer's observation sent Carlo Salvato and Claus Rerup back into their Alessi data: the truces between original design and efficient production were ...

As a second-year PhD student, Letian Zhang read a study of racially biased NBA referees and started downloading every basketball statistic he could ...

Pavel Zhelyazkov explains why an intermediary will happily introduce a partner to a mediocre competitor but not to a stellar one, and what ...

Why don't underperforming network hubs pay a reputational price? Julien Clement, Andrew Shipilov, and Charles Galunic field a pushback on their finding that ...

JR Keller traces his interest in internal labor markets back to Friday afternoons at Denny's, where he pored over the sports transactions in ...

Jodi Short and Michael Toffel were skeptical that firms would self-police voluntarily. Their study of Clean Air Act facilities found regulatory surveillance works ...

Why would an Indian artisan charge a discerning customer less? Aruna Ranganathan argues that makers who identify with their work grow attached to ...

When book awards led to worse reader ratings, Balázs Kovács and Amanda Sharkey first assumed they had botched the analysis. They describe building ...