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Jackson (2023). (Not) Paying For Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated With Transactional Approaches To Diversity Recruitment

By ASQ blogFebruary 8, 20240

The literature is riddled with the dead bodies of failed DEI initiatives, Summer Jackson jokes. So she chose a company trying to do ...

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Munir, Ansari, and Brown (2021) From Patañjali to the “Gospel of Sweat”: Yoga’s Remarkable Transformation from a Sacred Movement into a Thriving Global Market

By Luke N. HeddenMay 19, 20220

Deborah Brown planned a microfinance study until two small children reset her research design. Kamal Munir compared yoga to cupcakes, nowhere then everywhere, ...

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Li & Piezunka (2019). The Uniplex Third: Enabling Single-domain Role Transitions in Multiplex Relationships

By Hui SunAugust 23, 20191

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 ...

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ZHELYAZKOV (2017). INTERACTIONS AND INTERESTS: COLLABORATION OUTCOMES, COMPETITIVE CONCERNS, AND THE LIMITS TO TRIADIC CLOSURE

By winnieyjiangApril 25, 20180

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

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Ranganathan (2018). The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India

By amyzhaodingFebruary 21, 20180

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

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Kovács & Sharkey (2014). The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality

By amyzhaodingJanuary 31, 20180

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

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Anteby (2010). Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers

By amyzhaodingNovember 8, 20170

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

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Bermiss & Greenbaum (2015). Loyal to Whom? The Effect of Relational Embededdness and Managers’ Mobility on Market Tie Dissolution

By jrcromwellOctober 18, 20170

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

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Azoulay, Repenning, & Zuckerman (2010). Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharma industry

By amyzhaodingJune 14, 20170

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

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Haveman, Jia, Shi & Wang (2017). The Dynamics of Political Embeddedness in China

By jrcromwellMarch 8, 20170

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

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Yenkey (2015). Mobilizing a Market: Ethnic Segmentation and Investor Recruitment into the Nairobi Securities Exchange

By Pete AcevesApril 14, 20160

Christopher Yenkey went to East Africa to study how new stock markets recruit investors, settling on Kenya after a too-quiet month at the ...

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Askin & Bothner (2016). Status-Aspirational Pricing: The ‘‘Chivas Regal’’ Strategy in U.S. Higher Education, 2006–2012

By mgmauskapfMarch 30, 20161

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

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Malter (2014). On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc

By Pete AcevesJuly 15, 20150

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

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Smith (2011). Identities as Lenses: How Organizational Identity Affects Audiences’ Evaluation of Organizational Performance

By Pete AcevesJanuary 14, 20150

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

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Ody-Brasier & Vermeulen (2014). The Price You Pay: Price-setting as a Response to Norm Violations in the Market for Champagne Grapes

By mgmauskapfJanuary 7, 20150

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

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