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 ...

"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 ...

How did both profit-maximizing giants and sustainability champions fuel the rise of B Corps? Suntae Kim and Todd Schifeling trace the answer, and ...

Can an entire corporation lean red or blue? Abhinav Gupta and Forrest Briscoe describe how employee campaign donations became a measure of organizational ...

Katina Sawyer was volunteering at an organization fighting commercial sex exploitation and needed a qualitative collaborator. She recalls approaching Judy Clair at an ...

A departmental retreat at a Detroit incubator handed Suntae Kim his dissertation site. He describes three years of fieldwork amid the city's crisis ...

Shipeng Yan, John Almandoz, and Fabrizio Ferraro on green investing and state policy, and how they answer the growing complaint that institutional logics ...

Does volunteering for corporate social impact work help or hurt your promotion chances? Christiane Bode, Michelle Rogan, and Jasjit Singh found the answer ...

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 ...

Shipeng Yan, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Juan Almandoz recount how a puzzle practitioners kept raising, why responsible investing grows so unevenly across countries, became ...

When Wendy Smith and Marya Besharov asked how Digital Divide Data kept its social and business missions alive for years, the founder handed ...

Jodi Short and Michael Toffel were skeptical that firms would self-police voluntarily. Their study of Clean Air Act facilities found regulatory surveillance works ...

Chad Carlos noticed something odd in a seminar dataset: hotels that had earned costly ecotourism certifications weren't mentioning them anywhere. He and Ben ...

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

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

What do the Olympics, hurricanes, and political conventions do to corporate giving in a city? András Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis explain why studying ...