Why study friendship networks rather than advice ties? Zuzana Sasovova, Ajay Mehra, Stephen Borgatti, and Michaela Schippers defend that choice and describe how ...

Adam Cobb and Flannery Stevens argue that where large firms employ fewer people, state income inequality rises. The idea traces back to Jerry ...

Why do some communities answer natural disasters with a burst of social entrepreneurship? Sunasir Dutta points to the variety of local voluntary associations, ...

Writing from Columbia during the 2008 crisis, Lori Yue, Jiao Luo, and Paul Ingram looked back to 1907, when Manhattan's banking elite let ...

Reading statistics on the cost of replacing workers, Matthew Bidwell kept wondering how anyone actually knew. The answer became a paper showing that ...

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

Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...

Abhinav Gupta and Adam Wowak join the podcast to discuss how directors' political ideologies shape CEO pay, and how Federal Election Commission records ...

Interdisciplinary research wins citations but costs productivity. Erin Leahey, Christine Beckman, and Taryn Stanko discuss that trade-off, why their sample couldn't answer the ...

A Politico article about corporate PACs with bad PR sat on Timothy Werner's back burner until Mary-Hunter McDonnell visited his campus. They discuss ...

Why do software startups herd into hot market categories, and what happens to the companies that follow the crowd? Elizabeth Pontikes and William ...

Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason study the organizations built to connect countries. They discuss why intergovernmental organizations deliver economic and political benefits ...

Behavioral theory and prospect theory both predict what firms do when performance dips, but tend to conflate risk with change. Aleksandra Kacperczyk, Christine ...

Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...

Brokerage research celebrates the returns to spanning structural holes while ignoring what brokers spend to earn them. Christopher Rider makes the case for ...

Network scholars study how ties form, rarely how they end. Christopher Rider considers whether interorganizational relationships belong to organizations or to the people ...

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

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

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

Sun Hyun Park and James Westphal found white male executives steering blame toward minority CEOs in the press. The bigger surprise: female and ...

Alison Fragale, John Sumanth, Larissa Tiedens, and Gregory Northcraft used emails made public by the Enron investigation to study deference among peers, after ...

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

Forrest Briscoe and Wenpin Tsai set out to use a law firm merger as a natural experiment on networks. Their diagrams ended up ...

Why are gay men overrepresented in some occupations and lesbians in others? András Tilcsik, Michel Anteby, and Carly Knight argue the answer is ...

Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick started noticing how much self-regard some CEOs displayed in press interviews. That variance became a research program on ...

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

Amy Ou, Anne Tsui, and colleagues were the first to test the effects of humble CEOs. Why now? The 2008 financial crisis, Ou ...

When bad earnings news hits, a CEO's best defense may be another CEO's praise. James Westphal, Sun Hyun Park, Michael McDonald, and Mathew ...

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 ...

Can an opera company change how audiences see it just by reordering its season? Bo Kyung Kim and Michael Jensen on market identity ...

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

Heather Haveman planned to study careers in the American magazine industry, until the data made that impossible. She, Jacob Habinek, and Leo Goodman ...

Timothy Pollock got tired of scholars using status and reputation interchangeably, often with identical measures. He and coauthors Peggy Lee, Kyuho Jin, and ...

Measuring CEO narcissism meant ordering decades-old microfiche from the Chicago Public Library. Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Andreas König, Albrecht Enders, and Donald Hambrick on narcissistic ...

Why do some research collaborations last while others fizzle? Linus Dahlander and Daniel McFarland on ties that persist among academic co-authors, and why ...

Aparna Joshi never set out to be a gender researcher. Then a finding about women's expertise going unrecognized in science and engineering teams ...

Michelle Rogan and Olav Sorenson on why acquirers pick poor partners: shared clients shape who buys whom in global advertising, and the same ...

John-Paul Ferguson and Sharique Hasan expected specialization to pay early in Indian Administrative Service careers and diversification to pay later. Specialization won at ...

Do elites fall from grace because they misbehave, or because they're targeted? Scott Graffin, Jonathan Bundy, Joseph Porac, James Wade, and Dennis Quinn ...

An English literature PhD running global financial services sales caught Adam Kleinbaum's attention, and his wife's question, 'How did he end up in ...

Why did protesters swarm Walmart but mostly spare Target? Lori Yue, Hayagreeva Rao, and Paul Ingram describe the mapping exercise that revealed Target ...

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

If directors prefer people like themselves, why has board diversity risen for two decades? David Zhu, Wei Shen, and Amy Hillman explain 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 ...

Dan Wang surveyed thousands of skilled migrants who returned home, then interviewed 160 of them. Those conversations changed how he measured embeddedness and ...

People with chronic pain have good days and bad days, but theories of working sick treated health as fixed. Michael Christian, Noah Eisenkraft, ...

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

Elizabeth Pontikes drew on her years positioning software companies to study how ambiguous market categories play to different audiences, and she recounts finding ...

When a male CEO has children, his employees' wages change. Michael Dahl, Cristian Dezső, and David Gaddis Ross explain how a newborn's randomly ...