Grace Augustine and colleagues followed the recycling coordinators that the environmental movement pushed into organizations, and found what happens to movement-backed occupations after ...
Tag: Sustainability and social impact
ASQ Interview
CSR as Hedging Against Institutional Transition Risk: Corporate Philanthropy After the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan
Why did Taiwanese firms step up corporate philanthropy after the Sunflower Movement? Yishu Cai on charitable giving as a hedge against institutional transition ...
ASQ Interview
Harambee! A Triadic Perspective on Social Impact: Organizations, Evaluators, and Target Beneficiaries in Kenya
Anna Kim hand-plucked tea leaves alongside Kenyan farmers to earn conversations during fieldwork. When one community refused to fit her nine-site Fairtrade study, ...
A talk at HEC, a research visit to Cornell, and a dissertation chapter: Panikos Georgallis, Glen Dowell, and Rodolphe Durand recount how their ...
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Evidence in Practice: How Structural and Programmatic Scaffolds Enable Collaboration in International Development.
"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 ...
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
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
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
Sawyer & Clair (2022) – Hope Cultures in Organizations: Tackling the Grand Challenge of Commercial Sex Exploitation
Katina Sawyer was volunteering at an organization fighting commercial sex exploitation and needed a qualitative collaborator. She recalls approaching Judy Clair at an ...
ASQ Interview
Kim (2021). Frame Restructuration: The Making of an Alternative Business Incubator amid Detroit’s Crisis
A departmental retreat at a Detroit incubator handed Suntae Kim his dissertation site. He describes three years of fieldwork amid the city's crisis ...
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 ...
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HOWARD-GRENVILLE, NELSON, EARLE, HAACK, & YOUNG. (2017). “If Chemists Don’t Do It, Who Is Going To?” Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry.
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 ...
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Yan, Ferraro, & Almandoz (2018). The Rise of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: The Paradoxical Role of the Financial Logic
Shipeng Yan, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Juan Almandoz recount how a puzzle practitioners kept raising, why responsible investing grows so unevenly across countries, became ...
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Smith & Besharov (2017). Bowing before Dual Gods: How Structured Flexibility Sustains Organizational Hybridity
When Wendy Smith and Marya Besharov asked how Digital Divide Data kept its social and business missions alive for years, the founder handed ...
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
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 Interview
Dutta (2017): Creating in the Crucibles of Nature’s Fury–Associational Diversity and Local Social Entrepreneurship after Natural Disasters in California, 1991–2010
Why do some communities answer natural disasters with a burst of social entrepreneurship? Sunasir Dutta points to the variety of local voluntary associations, ...
ASQ Interview
Lawrence & Dover (2015). Place and Institutional Work: Creating Housing for the Hard-to-house
Thomas Lawrence and Graham Dover describe how a dissertation on social innovation became an ASQ paper about place, and why the framing that ...
ASQ Interview
Tilcsik & Marquis (2013). Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities
What do the Olympics, hurricanes, and political conventions do to corporate giving in a city? András Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis explain why studying ...