When bad earnings news hits, a CEO's best defense may be another CEO's praise. James Westphal, Sun Hyun Park, Michael McDonald, and Mathew ...

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

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

Can an opera company change how audiences see it just by reordering its season? Bo Kyung Kim and Michael Jensen on market identity ...

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

Shawn Clark, Dennis Gioia, David Ketchen, and James Thomas discuss transitional identity, the interim sense of what merging organizations are becoming, and why ...

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 ...

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

Measuring CEO narcissism meant ordering decades-old microfiche from the Chicago Public Library. Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Andreas König, Albrecht Enders, and Donald Hambrick on narcissistic ...

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 ...

As a Senate aide, Victoria Brescoll noticed that the most powerful women rarely took the floor while their male counterparts seized every chance. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Elizabeth Pontikes drew on her years positioning software companies to study how ambiguous market categories play to different audiences, and she recounts finding ...

How does a researcher get nearly unlimited access to a Chinese phone factory, including permission to run a field experiment? Ethan Bernstein describes ...

When a male CEO has children, his employees' wages change. Michael Dahl, Cristian Dezső, and David Gaddis Ross explain how a newborn's randomly ...

What do the Olympics, hurricanes, and political conventions do to corporate giving in a city? András Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis explain why studying ...

Chad McPherson and Michael Sauder didn't enter the drug court with institutional logics in mind. They describe how the frame emerged halfway through ...

Huggy Rao and Sunasir Dutta recount how a study of the 1857 Bengal Army mutinies began with a phone call to a not-yet-matriculated ...