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

Emily Truelove and Katherine Kellogg walk through the countless drafts behind their radical flank paper, including reviewer orders to swap an empirical puzzle ...

Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky revisit a moment when corporate America courting open source communities was genuinely shocking, and explain how boundary organizations ...

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

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, ...

Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...

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 ...

The idea for studying résumé whitening came from Sora Jun, then an undergraduate. She and Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, and András Tilcsik describe ...

Curtis Chan and Michel Anteby wanted to train alongside TSA officers until their IRB balked at researchers making national security decisions. They recount ...

Can partners rotate leadership too often? Jason Davis and Kathleen Eisenhardt explain why their data showed no downside to alternating control in collaborative ...

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

How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

András Tilcsik went into his dissertation site planning to study culture and networks, but the data he needed didn't exist. He recounts how ...