A talk at HEC, a research visit to Cornell, and a dissertation chapter: Panikos Georgallis, Glen Dowell, and Rodolphe Durand recount how their ...
Tag: Categories and classification
ASQ Interview
Junkies, Queers, and Babies: Persistence and Updating of the Category AIDS Through Silencing and Puncturing of the Moral Boundary.
When a baby was diagnosed with what was then called gay-related immunodeficiency, many doctors refused to update the category. Mia Chang-Zunion and Stine ...
ASQ Interview
Kim & Schifeling (2022). Good Corp, Bad Corp, and the Rise of B Corps: How Market Incumbents’ Diverse Responses Reinvigorate Challengers
How did both profit-maximizing giants and sustainability champions fuel the rise of B Corps? Suntae Kim and Todd Schifeling trace the answer, and ...
ASQ Podcast
PODCAST: KHESSINA, REIS, & VERHAAL (2021). Stepping out of the Shadows: Identity Exposure as a Remedy for Stigma Transfer Concerns in the Medical Marijuana Market
On this episode, Olga Khessina discusses her paper with Samira Reis and Cameron Verhaal on why some medical marijuana producers expose their identities ...
ASQ Interview
Boghossian and David (2021). Under the Umbrella: Goal-Derived Category Construction and Product Category Nesting.
Johnny Boghossian and Robert David set out to learn how Quebec artisan cheese acquired a long history in a few short years, and ...
ASQ Interview
Lashley & Pollock (2019). Waiting to Inhale: Reducing Stigma in the Medical Cannabis Industry
Kisha Lashley and Timothy Pollock on studying medical cannabis entrepreneurs back when dispensaries were still being raided, and what it took to get ...
ASQ Interview
Bowers & Prato (2018). The Structural Origins of Unearned Status: How Arbitrary Changes in Categories Affect Status Position and Market Impact
Anne Bowers and Matteo Prato set out to explain why Institutional Investor changes its analyst ranking categories. Years later, the paper had flipped ...
ASQ Interview
Dalpiaz, Rindova, & Ravasi (2016). Combining Logics to Transform Organizational Agency: Blending Industry and Art at Alessi
How did Alessi turn kitchenware into applied art without being punished for crossing categories? Elena Dalpiaz, Violina Rindova, and Davide Ravasi discuss failed ...
ASQ Interview
Leahey, Beckman, & Stanko (2016). Prominent but Less Productive: The Impact of Interdisciplinarity on Scientists’ Research
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 ...
ASQ Interview
Delmestri & Greenwood (2016). How Cinderella Became a Queen: Theorizing Radical Status Change
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 ...
ASQ Interview
Pontikes & Barnett (2016). The Non-Consensus Entrepreneur: Organizational Responses to Vital Events
Why do software startups herd into hot market categories, and what happens to the companies that follow the crowd? Elizabeth Pontikes and William ...
ASQ Interview
Merluzzi & Phillips (2016). The Specialist Discount: Negative Returns for MBAs with Focused Profiles in Investment Banking.
Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...
ASQ Interview
Navis and Glynn (2010). How new market categories emerge: temporal dynamics of legitimacy, identity, and entrepreneurship in satellite radio, 1990-2005
Chad Navis and Mary Ann Glynn on how satellite radio became a market category, and how they built theory that speaks to both ...
ASQ Interview
Kim & Jensen (2011). How product order affects market identity repertoire ordering in the US opera market
Can an opera company change how audiences see it just by reordering its season? Bo Kyung Kim and Michael Jensen on market identity ...
ASQ Interview
Malter (2014). On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc
A friend's bottle of good red wine eventually led Daniel Malter to the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc, a setting fixed enough ...
ASQ Interview
Ferguson & Hasan (2013). Specialization and Career Dynamics: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service
John-Paul Ferguson and Sharique Hasan expected specialization to pay early in Indian Administrative Service careers and diversification to pay later. Specialization won at ...
ASQ Interview
Kleinbaum (2012). Organizational Misfits and the Origins of Brokerage in Intrafirm Networks
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 ...
ASQ Interview
Pontikes (2012). Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Ambiguous Classification Affects Multiple Audiences’ Evaluations
Elizabeth Pontikes drew on her years positioning software companies to study how ambiguous market categories play to different audiences, and she recounts finding ...