Milo Shaoqing Wang and Christopher Steele trace how China's private entrepreneurs went from politically suspect to officially celebrated, and how a second-year PhD ...

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Bob Sutton warned Mark Zbaracki that industry experience wouldn't help him in academia. But watching ceremonial conformity inside IBM convinced Zbaracki that institutional ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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Ryan Raffaelli joins the podcast to explain how Swiss mechanical watchmaking came back between 1970 and 2008, and how a theoretical puzzle about ...

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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 ...

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

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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, ...

Charlene Zietsma, winner of the 2016 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, talks in this video about how her winning article grew from her ...

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 ...

It took three years and dozens of legally trained research assistants for Mauro Guillén and Laurence Capron to build their cross-national index of ...

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

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

Our five most-read posts of 2015, led by Pahnke, Katila, and Eisenhardt on partners' institutional logics and a behind-the-scenes conversation with ASQ managing ...

The path was anything but linear: Charlene Zietsma and Thomas Lawrence recount how two conference papers merged, got bounced from an AMJ special ...

Mary Dunn and Candace Jones noticed that the rise of a care logic in medical education tracked the arrival of women in medical ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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