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 ...

An acquaintance heading to Paris for hypnosis training stopped Nishani Bourmault cold: anesthesiologists are supposed to be evidence-based. She and Michel Anteby recount ...

Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early ...

Melanie Prengler, Anthony Klotz, and Chad Murphy on digital nomads and what return-to-office mandates get wrong: the choice was never between a structured ...

Why did the analog synthesizer come back? Andrew Nelson, Callen Anthony, and Mary Tripsas, all musicians themselves, on the pleasures and pitfalls of ...

Lindsey Cameron traces her decade of gig economy research to watching her mother fight downward mobility after the Great Recession, and to Jerry ...

"We always seem to fail." A Hewlett Foundation lament launched Rodrigo Canales and Charlie Cannon's study of why smart, well-funded teams still cannot ...

Jason Davis revisits his 2016 paper on group cycling in innovation ecosystems and explains why getting collaboration processes right now matters most for ...

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 ...

Winnie Jiang's study of journalists began with a screening of Spotlight and a four-hour first interview. She and Amy Wrzesniewski recount how an ...

Vanessa Conzon set out to study flexible work policies and only later noticed that managers' responses split along gender lines. She also calls ...

A kitchen conversation at Imperial College led Brice Dattée to Ducati, then to Lamborghini. He recounts the origins of his paper with Jean-Luc ...

How did both profit-maximizing giants and sustainability champions fuel the rise of B Corps? Suntae Kim and Todd Schifeling trace the answer, and ...

Why grocery stores? Alexandra Feldberg explains how perishable inventory, data on 40,000 products, and sharply gendered departments made supermarkets the right place to ...

Yonghoon Lee watched friends fail to break into the music industry. Years later, K-pop's rise gave him and Martin Gargiulo the setting to ...

Cold emails got no response, so Madeline Toubiana and Trish Ruebottom went to the protests. They recount earning the trust of sex workers ...

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

After twelve years and hundreds of manuscripts, Mike Pratt stepped down as an ASQ associate editor. He answers the Blog Board's questions about ...

Video of our panel on publishing micro and meso research in ASQ, with associate editors Stéphane Côté, Aparna Joshi, and Erin Reid, plus ...

Katina Sawyer was volunteering at an organization fighting commercial sex exploitation and needed a qualitative collaborator. She recalls approaching Judy Clair at an ...

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

Accelerators tell entrepreneurs to give before they ask, then rank them against each other every week. Rekha Krishnan, Karen Cook, Rajiv Kozhikode, and ...

It started with live action role-playing: Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide Orazi, and Kristine de Valck recount how a shared hobby, a planned survey, ...

A recording of our virtual research discussion on writing and rewriting drafts, with supplemental materials from Daisy Chung on writing inductive qualitative papers ...

Johnny Boghossian and Robert David set out to learn how Quebec artisan cheese acquired a long history in a few short years, and ...

Brianna Caza describes how a paper on multiple jobholding was remade in review: the team returned to the field, collected an entirely new ...

On this episode, Lisa Buchter discusses how LGBT rights activists in France pushed corporate diversity programs past vague commitments by handing organizations ready-to-use ...

News images from the Syrian war made Winnie Jiang curious about refugee resettlement, so she volunteered at a local agency. She recounts how ...

An invitation to the third virtual reception: Beth Bechky, Sameer Srivastava, and Olav Sorenson of the ASQ methods advisory panel discuss the perils ...

Michael Pratt joins the podcast to discuss trust among firefighters who must take leaps of faith, and how an out-of-the-blue call from engineers ...

Matt Bloom, Amy Colbert, and Jordan Nielsen distinguish two ways professionals narrate a calling: discerners, who feel destined for one particular kind of ...

It started when eBay managers admitted their business sellers were upset and they didn't understand why. Corentin Curchod traces a decade of phenomenon-driven ...

Kisha Lashley and Timothy Pollock on studying medical cannabis entrepreneurs back when dispensaries were still being raided, and what it took to get ...

Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt began studying Fintech startups before winners, losers, or even market viability had emerged. They discuss building theory from ...

Jennifer Petriglieri and Otilia Obodaru assumed 50:50 couples would fare best; they are each in one. Meeting dual-career couples who thrived on unequal ...

Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...

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

Why did Edison campaign to have executions run on Westinghouse's alternating current, and why did Westinghouse trash his own invention in response? Benjamin ...

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 ...

The collaboration behind this study of green chemistry began when chemist Julie Haack asked management scholar Jennifer Howard-Grenville how to visualize her community's ...

Jochem Kroezen entered a microbrewery project as a self-described quantitative person who knew little beyond Heineken. He recounts how a decade with Dutch ...

Andrew Carton joins the podcast to discuss how NASA leaders under Kennedy changed the meaning of work, so that an engineer building circuits ...

When Wendy Smith and Marya Besharov asked how Digital Divide Data kept its social and business missions alive for years, the founder handed ...

For the first-time women workers Aruna Ranganathan studied at an Indian garment factory, what mattered was training in self-presentation, work-life separation, and self-reliance. ...

Gianpiero and Jennifer Petriglieri join the podcast to discuss the nomadic class of workers who move across countries, companies, and functions, and to ...

Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski wrote about independent workers while working rather like them: often alone, separated by an ocean, trying ...

A reviewer's observation sent Carlo Salvato and Claus Rerup back into their Alessi data: the truces between original design and efficient production were ...

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

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 ...

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