Who actually decides which candidates make the shortlist? Almasa Sarabi and Nico Lehmann followed hiring decisions through four data sources to pin down ...
Tag: Quantitative methods
ASQ Interview
When Breaking the Law Gets You the Job: Evidence from the Electronic Dance Music Community.
Xu Li's Berlin apartment sat amid the clubs, which got him wondering how DJs land jobs at all. With Amandine Ody-Brasier he followed ...
ASQ Interview
Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion
A reviewer suggested measuring passion hourly. Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, and Jon Jachimowicz explain why even three surveys a day strained ...
Mathijs De Vaan and Toby Stuart on the downside of trust in referrals: once you trust an intermediary, that person becomes the default, ...
Fifty million job postings across 28 European countries went into Letian Zhang and Shinan Wang's case that societal trust shapes which skills employers ...
A talk at HEC, a research visit to Cornell, and a dissertation chapter: Panikos Georgallis, Glen Dowell, and Rodolphe Durand recount how their ...
ASQ Interview
Corporate Boards with Street Smarts? How Diffuse Street Protests Indirectly Shape Corporate Governance.
Seminar audiences kept objecting that executives already read the news, sinking the attention story Muhan Zhang, Forrest Briscoe, and Mark DesJardine started with. ...
In the favela training program Leandro Pongeluppe studied, local women entrepreneurs generated the biggest employment gains, evidence for his argument that residents, not ...
ASQ Interview
Dobrow, Weisman, Heller & Tosti-Kharas (2023). Calling and the good life: A meta-analysis and theoretical extension.
Are callings about passion or the greater good? Shasa Dobrow and Hannah Weisman waded through hundreds of studies and a decades-old stalemate, and ...
ASQ Interview
Xia, Steensma, and Bai (2023). When Do Collaborative First Moves Diminish Nationality-Based Homophilic Preferences? An Examination Of Chinese Venture Capital Investment Syndicates
Why would a Chinese venture capital firm be shunned by its compatriots for teaming up with Americans? Wei Xia, Kevin Steensma, and Xiaoou ...
What lets women finally cash in on brokerage? Job mobility, argue Evelyn Zhang, Brandy Aven, and Adam Kleinbaum: moving grants women a license ...
ASQ Interview
Berg (2022). One-hit wonders versus hit makers: Sustaining success in creative industries
Justin Berg likens studying the music industry to a biologist studying fruit flies: careers cycle fast enough to watch many lifetimes. He asks ...
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 Interview
Feldberg (2022). The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance
Why grocery stores? Alexandra Feldberg explains how perishable inventory, data on 40,000 products, and sharply gendered departments made supermarkets the right place to ...
ASQ Interview
Lee & Gargiulo (2022). Escaping the Survival Trap: Network Transition among Early-Career Freelance Songwriters
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 ...
ASQ Interview
Sharkey, Pontikes, & Hsu (2022). The Impact of Mandated Pay Gap Transparency on Firms’ Reputation as Employers
A MeToo project stalled on data problems, then a newspaper story about the UK's pay gap transparency law set a new course. Amanda ...
ASQ Video
[VIDEO RECORDING AVAILABLE]: ASQ Blog Virtual Research Discussion: Publishing Micro and Meso Research in ASQ
Video of our panel on publishing micro and meso research in ASQ, with associate editors Stéphane Côté, Aparna Joshi, and Erin Reid, plus ...
ASQ Interview
Gupta & Briscoe (2020) – Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism:
Can an entire corporation lean red or blue? Abhinav Gupta and Forrest Briscoe describe how employee campaign donations became a measure of organizational ...
ASQ Interview
Odziemkowska (2022). Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations
Why would an activist group team up with its enemy's rival? Kate Odziemkowska traces when firm-activist collaborations form despite ideological opposition, and why ...
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
Grandy & Hiatt (2020) State Agency Discretion and Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets
Jake Grandy came to business school from public policy and noticed what nonmarket strategy overlooked: agency bureaucrats with discretion. He and Shon Hiatt ...
ASQ Interview
Harmon (2019). When the Fed Speaks: Arguments, Emotions, and the Microfoundations of Institutions
Derek Harmon wanted to test whether a leader questioning an institution's assumptions could shake it. That search led him to the one speaker ...
ASQ Interview
Yan, Almandoz & Ferraro (2021). The Impact of Logic (In)Compatibility: Green Investing, State Policy, and Corporate Environmental Performance
Shipeng Yan, John Almandoz, and Fabrizio Ferraro on green investing and state policy, and how they answer the growing complaint that institutional logics ...
ASQ Interview
Bode, Rogan & Singh (2021). Up to No Good? Gender, Social Impact Work, and Employee Promotions
Does volunteering for corporate social impact work help or hurt your promotion chances? Christiane Bode, Michelle Rogan, and Jasjit Singh found the answer ...
Yanbo Wang once spent two years cleaning a dataset that yielded nothing. He and coauthors Toby Stuart and Jizhen Li discuss studying fraud ...
ASQ Interview
Ter Wal, Criscuolo, McEvily and Salter (2020). Dual Networking: How Collaborators Network in Their Quest for Innovation
At the R&D firm Anne ter Wal and colleagues studied, manager-technologist pairs could finish each other's sentences. That raised the question behind the ...
ASQ Interview
Thébaud (2015). Business as Plan B: Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries
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 ...
An invitation to the third virtual reception: Beth Bechky, Sameer Srivastava, and Olav Sorenson of the ASQ methods advisory panel discuss the perils ...
ASQ Interview
Zhang and Guler (2020). How to Join the Club: Patterns of Embeddedness and the Addition of New Members to Interorganizational Collaborations
Lei Zhang and Isin Guler on how venture capital syndicates decide who joins the club, and how Zhang carved one big dissertation question ...
ASQ Interview
Clough and Piezunka (2020). Tie Dissolution in Market Networks: A Theory of Vicarious Performance Feedback
David Clough and Henning Piezunka explain why a firm watches its competitors' performance when deciding whether to drop a shared supplier, and how ...
ASQ Interview
CARNAHAN & GREENWOOD (2017). Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers?
A Capitol Hill rumor that Republican officeholders paid their female staffers less sent Seth Carnahan and Brad Greenwood hunting for salary data. They ...
ASQ Interview
Marquis and Qiao (2020) Waking from Mao’s Dream: Communist Ideological Imprinting and the Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Ventures in China
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao ask what happens to a communist ideological imprint when the party that created it reverses course, and why ...
ASQ Interview
Corritore, Goldberg, & Srivastava (2019). DUALITY IN DIVERSITY: HOW INTRAPERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL CULTURAL HETEROGENEITY RELATE TO FIRM PERFORMANCE
Can Glassdoor reviews measure corporate culture? Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer Srivastava describe mining employees' free-text comments to track cultural heterogeneity across ...
ASQ Interview
Abraham (2019). Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs
Mabel Abraham on why an audience can produce gender bias even when nobody in it is actually biased: entrepreneurs make inferences about others' ...
ASQ Interview
Xu Huang, Louis Chen, Erica Xu, Feifei Lu, Ka-Chai Tam (2019). Shadow of the Prince: Parent-incumbents’ Coercive Control over Child-successors in Family Organizations
Xu Huang recounts how his DBA student, now CEO of Taiwan's largest shoe manufacturer, insisted on studying succession while clashing with his own ...
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
Baumann, Eggers, & Stieglitz (2018). Colleagues and Competitors: How Internal Social Comparisons Shape Organizational Search and Adaptation
What happens when a firm's divisions benchmark against each other instead of against their own past performance? Oliver Baumann, J.P. Eggers, and Nils ...
ASQ Interview
Ter Wal, Alexy, Block & Sanders (2016). The Best of Both Worlds: The Benefits of Open-specialized and Closed-diverse Syndication Networks for New Ventures’ Success
Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...
ASQ Interview
FU, TSUI, LIU, & LI (2010). PURSUIT OF WHOSE HAPPINESS? EXECUTIVE LEADERS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL BEHAVIORS AND PERSONAL VALUES
During interviews for the GLOBE project, Ping Ping Fu and Anne Tsui noticed that some transformational leaders held self-enhancing rather than self-transcendent values. ...
ASQ Podcast
PODCAST: Ferguson, Soule & Dudley (2018). Osmotic Mobilization and Union Support during the Long Protest Wave, 1960–1995.
John-Paul Ferguson joins the podcast to discuss his paper with Sarah Soule and Thomas Dudley, the army of undergraduates who coded decades of ...
ASQ Interview
ZHANG (2017) A FAIR GAME? RACIAL BIAS AND REPEATED INTERACTION BETWEEN NBA COACHES AND PLAYERS
As a second-year PhD student, Letian Zhang read a study of racially biased NBA referees and started downloading every basketball statistic he could ...
ASQ Interview
Clement, Shipilov, & Galunic (2018). Brokerage as a Public Good: The Externalities of Network Hubs for Different Formal Roles in Creative Organizations
Why don't underperforming network hubs pay a reputational price? Julien Clement, Andrew Shipilov, and Charles Galunic field a pushback on their finding that ...
ASQ Interview
KELLER (2017). POSTING AND SLOTTING: HOW HIRING PROCESSES SHAPE THE QUALITY OF HIRE AND COMPENSATION IN INTERNAL LABOR MARKETS
JR Keller traces his interest in internal labor markets back to Friday afternoons at Denny's, where he pored over the sports transactions in ...
ASQ Interview
Short & Toffel (2010). Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment
Jodi Short and Michael Toffel were skeptical that firms would self-police voluntarily. Their study of Clean Air Act facilities found regulatory surveillance works ...
ASQ Interview
Kovács & Sharkey (2014). The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality
When book awards led to worse reader ratings, Balázs Kovács and Amanda Sharkey first assumed they had botched the analysis. They describe building ...
Shavin Malhotra, Taco Reus, PengCheng Zhu, and Erik Roelofsen used machine learning on CEOs' unscripted conference-call speech to gauge personality, and found extraverted ...
ASQ editor Henrich Greve opens 2018 on video, reviewing a year of rising submissions and readership and previewing initiatives on evidence presentation, workshops, ...
ASQ Interview
Carlos & Lewis (2017). Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic
Chad Carlos noticed something odd in a seminar dataset: hotels that had earned costly ecotourism certifications weren't mentioning them anywhere. He and Ben ...
ASQ Podcast
PODCAST: Botelho & Abraham (2017). Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process
Tristan Botelho and Mabel Abraham join the podcast to discuss gender double standards in multistage evaluations, and Abraham's push to move past documenting ...
A running collection of resources for ASQ's evidence presentation initiative, including AOM workshop slides from editors and authors on visualizing data, numerical narrative, ...














































