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 ...
Tag: Stigma and deviance
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
The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning: Deciphering Hidden Goals from Ambiguous Experience
Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early ...
ASQ Interview
Junkies, Queers, and Babies: Persistence and Updating of the Category AIDS Through Silencing and Puncturing of the Moral Boundary.
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 ...
Our ten most-read posts of 2023, from Mike Pratt's reflections on twelve years as an ASQ associate editor to stigma hierarchies in sex ...
ASQ Interview
Toubiana & Ruebottom (2022). Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation
Cold emails got no response, so Madeline Toubiana and Trish Ruebottom went to the protests. They recount earning the trust of sex workers ...
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 ...
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
Lashley & Pollock (2019). Waiting to Inhale: Reducing Stigma in the Medical Cannabis Industry
Kisha Lashley and Timothy Pollock on studying medical cannabis entrepreneurs back when dispensaries were still being raided, and what it took to get ...
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Anteby (2010). Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers
An anatomist once shouted 'Catch!' and threw Michel Anteby a plastinated body part, testing him for disgust. Anteby recounts studying the U.S. cadaver ...
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Rogers, Corley & Ashforth (2017). Seeing More than Orange: Organizational Respect and Positive Identity Transformation in a Prison Context
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 ...
ASQ Interview
Tilcsik, Anteby, and Knight (2015).Concealable Stigma and Occupational Segregation: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lesbian Occupations
Why are gay men overrepresented in some occupations and lesbians in others? András Tilcsik, Michel Anteby, and Carly Knight argue the answer is ...
ASQ Interview
Graffin, Bundy, Porac, Wade, & Quinn (2013). Falls from Grace and the Hazards of High Status: The 2009 British MP Expense Scandal and Its Impact on Parliamentary Elites
Do elites fall from grace because they misbehave, or because they're targeted? Scott Graffin, Jonathan Bundy, Joseph Porac, James Wade, and Dennis Quinn ...
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Ody-Brasier & Vermeulen (2014). The Price You Pay: Price-setting as a Response to Norm Violations in the Market for Champagne Grapes
Champagne grape growers all claimed prices were uniform, then admitted charging less to buyers they liked. Amandine Ody-Brasier and Freek Vermeulen recount how ...
ASQ Interview
Briscoe & Murphy (2012). Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity, Third-party Responses, and the Interorganizational Diffusion of Controversial Practices
Why did transparent benefit cuts stall while opaque spending caps spread through the Fortune 500? Forrest Briscoe and Chad Murphy explain how consultants' ...