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 ...

Shavin Malhotra, Taco Reus, PengCheng Zhu, and Erik Roelofsen used machine learning on CEOs' unscripted conference-call speech to gauge personality, and found extraverted ...

Chad Carlos noticed something odd in a seminar dataset: hotels that had earned costly ecotourism certifications weren't mentioning them anywhere. He and Ben ...

An anatomist once shouted 'Catch!' and threw Michel Anteby a plastinated body part, testing him for disgust. Anteby recounts studying the U.S. cadaver ...

When a trusted manager defects to a rival firm, which relationship do clients keep? Sekou Bermiss and Bruce Greenbaum studied lobbyists to learn ...

At a business school award luncheon, Kristie Rogers watched Televerde's CEO credit respect for the success of his inmate-staffed call centers. With Kevin ...

Why study friendship networks rather than advice ties? Zuzana Sasovova, Ajay Mehra, Stephen Borgatti, and Michaela Schippers defend that choice and describe how ...

How did Alessi turn kitchenware into applied art without being punished for crossing categories? Elena Dalpiaz, Violina Rindova, and Davide Ravasi discuss failed ...

Emily Truelove and Katherine Kellogg walk through the countless drafts behind their radical flank paper, including reviewer orders to swap an empirical puzzle ...

Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky revisit a moment when corporate America courting open source communities was genuinely shocking, and explain how boundary organizations ...

Pierre Azoulay's 1999 company visits were meant as mere background for a statistical dissertation. He, Nelson Repenning, and Ezra Zuckerman recount how that ...

What began as a one-year exploratory study of service design stretched to five. Anne-Laure Fayard, Ileana Stigliani, and Beth Bechky describe how reviewers, ...

Adam Cobb and Flannery Stevens argue that where large firms employ fewer people, state income inequality rises. The idea traces back to Jerry ...

Why do some communities answer natural disasters with a burst of social entrepreneurship? Sunasir Dutta points to the variety of local voluntary associations, ...

Francis Flynn, Jennifer Chatman, and Sandra Spataro flip the usual question about stereotyping: instead of studying perceivers, they ask whether extraverted, self-monitoring targets ...

Writing from Columbia during the 2008 crisis, Lori Yue, Jiao Luo, and Paul Ingram looked back to 1907, when Manhattan's banking elite let ...

Reading statistics on the cost of replacing workers, Matthew Bidwell kept wondering how anyone actually knew. The answer became a paper showing that ...

Does guanxi fade as markets mature? Heather Haveman, Nan Jia, Jing Shi, and Yongxiang Wang found the opposite in China, where state power ...

Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...

What do destabilized baboon hierarchies have to do with executive risk-taking? Jennifer Jordan, Niro Sivanathan, and Adam Galinsky trace their study of power, ...

Interdisciplinary research wins citations but costs productivity. Erin Leahey, Christine Beckman, and Taryn Stanko discuss that trade-off, why their sample couldn't answer the ...

Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...

It started with a glass of Grappa di Picolit after dinner in Bergamo. Giuseppe Delmestri and Royston Greenwood recount how a once-plebeian spirit's ...

Sharon Koppman traces how omnivorous cultural tastes formed in childhood help people land creative jobs in adulthood, a link two cultural capital literatures ...

Why do software startups herd into hot market categories, and what happens to the companies that follow the crowd? Elizabeth Pontikes and William ...

The idea for studying résumé whitening came from Sora Jun, then an undergraduate. She and Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, and András Tilcsik describe ...

Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason study the organizations built to connect countries. They discuss why intergovernmental organizations deliver economic and political benefits ...

The scripts for Star Wars and Seinfeld were rejected multiple times. Justin Berg discusses why managers who specialize in evaluating ideas may get ...

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

Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...

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 ...

Curtis Chan and Michel Anteby wanted to train alongside TSA officers until their IRB balked at researchers making national security decisions. They recount ...

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 ...

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

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

Sun Hyun Park and James Westphal found white male executives steering blame toward minority CEOs in the press. The bigger surprise: female and ...

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

Alison Fragale, John Sumanth, Larissa Tiedens, and Gregory Northcraft used emails made public by the Enron investigation to study deference among peers, after ...

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

How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...

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

Merely being associated with a powerful person can make people feel powerful themselves, even when the tie gives them nothing real. Noah Goldstein ...

Forrest Briscoe and Wenpin Tsai set out to use a law firm merger as a natural experiment on networks. Their diagrams ended up ...

Why are gay men overrepresented in some occupations and lesbians in others? András Tilcsik, Michel Anteby, and Carly Knight argue the answer is ...

Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick started noticing how much self-regard some CEOs displayed in press interviews. That variance became a research program on ...

Sreedhari Desai, Dolly Chugh, and Arthur Brief find that men's marriage structures follow them to work. One surprise: being raised by a working ...