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The Making of the “Good Bad” Job: How Algorithmic Management Manufactures Consent Through Constant and Confined Choices Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lindsey D. Cameron
This research explores how a new relation of production—the shift from human managers to algorithmic managers on digital platforms—manufactures workplace consent. While most research has argued that the task standardization and surveillance that accompany algorithmic management will give rise to the quintessential “bad job” (Kalleberg, Reskin, and Hudson, 2000; Kalleberg, 2011), I find that, surprisingly
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Wenqian Wang, Fabrice Lumineau, and Oliver Schilke. Blockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational Design Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Simone Santoni
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Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart. Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rodrigo Valadao
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Trusting Talent: Cross-Country Differences in Hiring Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Letian Zhang, Shinan Wang
This article argues that a society’s level of social trust influences employers’ hiring strategies. Employers can focus either on applicants’ potential and select on foundational skills (e.g., social skills, math skills) or on their readiness and select on more-advanced skills (e.g., pricing a derivative). The higher (lower) the social trust—people’s trust in their fellow members of society—the more
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Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Elizabeth Gorman
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Co-Constructing Community and Entrepreneurial Identity: How Founders Ascribe Self-Referential Meanings to Entrepreneurship Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Eliana Crosina
Drawing on a 2.5-year ethnography of first-time founders in a coworking facility, I shed light on the process by which founders ascribe self-referential meaning to entrepreneurship—that is, how they develop an entrepreneurial identity in situ. I discovered that founders’ use of the coworking space occasioned distinct interaction patterns. Over time, varying interactions played a central role in whether
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How Beneficiaries Become Sources of Normative Control Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 James Chu
Organizations can motivate and coordinate work by socializing members to internalize organizational values. Existing theories posit that organizations achieve normative control through encapsulation, wherein peers and managers are primary sources of members’ socialization. Drawing on ethnographic data from a not-for-profit school, I show how an external actor—beneficiaries—can become a source of normative
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Words of a Leader: The Importance of Intersectionality for Understanding Women Leaders’ Use of Dominant Language and How Others Receive It Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Cydney Hurston Dupree
Management scholars have long examined gender disparities in leaders’ communication and followers’ reactions. There is, however, a paucity of research that takes an intersectional perspective. This article takes that step, using an intersectional lens to examine women leaders’ use of dominant language and how others receive it. Leveraging advances in natural-language processing, I analyzed the stereotype
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License to Broker: How Mobility Eliminates Gender Gaps in Network Advantage Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Evelyn Y. Zhang, Brandy L. Aven, Adam M. Kleinbaum
Brokerage in intra-organizational networks is critical to performance, but women exhibit less brokerage in their social networks and receive lower performance returns to the brokerage they exhibit than men do. We uncover a condition under which the gender gaps in network advantage are entirely negated: mobility. When women move between units of the organization, they increase their brokerage more than
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The Dynamics of Team Learning: Harmony and Rhythm in Teamwork Arrangements for Innovation Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Jean-François Harvey, Johnathan R. Cromwell, Kevin J. Johnson, Amy C. Edmondson
Innovation teams must navigate inherent tensions between different learning activities to produce high levels of performance. Yet, we know little about how teams combine these activities—notably re...
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“If I Could Turn Back Time”: Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories, and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer* Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Andrew Nelson, Callen Anthony, Mary Tripsas
There are numerous examples of the reemergence of old technology, such as vinyl records and film cameras. Yet, the literature on technology trajectories has focused almost exclusively on linear mod...
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Calling and the Good Life: A Meta-Analysis and Theoretical Extension Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Shoshana R. Dobrow, Hannah Weisman, Daniel Heller, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
While a positive view of calling has been ubiquitous since its introduction into the literature over two decades ago, research remains unsettled about the extent to which it contributes to various ...
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Ideas in the Space Between: Stockpiling and Processes for Managing Ideas in Developing a Creative Portfolio Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Poornika Ananth, Sarah Harvey
Research on the creative process has focused on how an idea develops within a single focal creative project. But creators often work to develop creative portfolios featuring multiple projects that ...
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Cultural Breadth and Embeddedness: The Individual Adoption of Organizational Culture as a Determinant of Creativity Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Yoonjin Choi, Paul Ingram, Sang Won Han
We propose that individuals differ in their ability to generate creative ideas as a function of the values, beliefs, and norms of their social group’s culture they have adopted and routinely use. T...
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Organization-as-Platform Activism: Theory and Evidence from the National Football League “Take a Knee” Movement Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Alexandra Rheinhardt, Forrest Briscoe, Aparna Joshi
Social activists sometimes engage in a form of workplace activism that involves using their employer organization as an unofficial platform to communicate social issue messages to external stakehol...
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Career Specialization, Involuntary Worker–Firm Separations, and Employment Outcomes: Why Generalists Outperform Specialists When Their Jobs Are Displaced* Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Heejung Byun, Joseph Raffiee
Existing theories offer conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between career specialization and labor market outcomes. While some scholars argue it is better for workers to specialize...
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A Change of Tune: The Democratization of Market Mediation and Crossover Production in the U.S. Commercial Music Industry Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Yuan Shi
This article examines whether intermediaries and consumers exert similar influence on producers’ boundary-spanning efforts. I propose that boundary spanning is primarily constrained by intermediari...
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Where Is All the Deviance? Liminal Prescribing and the Social Networks Underlying the Prescription Drug Crisis Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Victoria (Shu) Zhang, Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Marissa King
The misuse of prescription drugs is a pressing public health crisis in the United States that is fueled by high-risk prescribing. We show that high-risk prescribing comprises two distinct practices...
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: Modular Search and Systemic Inertia as a Response to Environmental Change Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Julien Clement
I develop and test a theory that explains why organizations may struggle to adapt in the face of change even when their members are aware of change, are motivated to adapt, and have the resources t...
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Relations in Aesthetic Space: How Color Enables Market Positioning Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Stoyan V. Sgourev, Erik Aadland, Giovanni Formilan
Color is omnipresent, but organizational research features no systematic theory or established method for analyzing it. We develop a relational approach to color, conceptualizing it as a means of p...
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Recognition Killed the Radio Star? Recognition Orientations and Sustained Creativity After the Best New Artist Grammy Nomination Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Spencer H. Harrison, Noah Askin, Lydia Paine Hagtvedt
Many organizations rely on group work to generate creativity, but existing research lacks theory on how groups’ responses to recognition for creative achievement shape their subsequent creative out...
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Embodying the Market: The Emergence of the Body Entrepreneur Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Alexandra Michel
When organizations take radically new forms, employees’ minds and bodies can also take radically new forms, but prior organizational research has lacked the concepts and data to understand such qua...
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Location-Independent Organizations: Designing Collaboration Across Space and Time Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Jen Rhymer
Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their wor...
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Avoiding the Appearance of Virtue: Reactivity to Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings in an Era of Shareholder Primacy Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Ben W. Lewis, W. Chad Carlos
We examine why organizations may at times decrease their performance after receiving a positive rating. We argue that in contrast to the prevailing assumption that organizations will strive for fav...
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The Impact of Mandated Pay Gap Transparency on Firms’ Reputations as Employers Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Amanda Sharkey, Elizabeth Pontikes, Greta Hsu
Mandated gender wage gap disclosure laws are an increasingly popular but relatively untested solution to gender-based compensation inequalities. Scholars and policymakers alike have argued that dis...
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The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Alexandra C. Feldberg
This multi-method study of managers in a grocery chain identifies a novel mechanism by which threats of gender stereotypes undermine women’s ability to be effective managers. I find that women mana...
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The Two Blades of the Scissors: Performance Feedback and Intrinsic Attributes in Organizational Risk Taking Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Xavier Sobrepere i Profitós, Thomas Keil, Pasi Kuusela
We draw on the behavioral theory of the firm and prospect theory to examine how performance feedback (decision context) and the characteristics of the alternatives (decision content) that decision ...
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From the Editor Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Christine M. Beckman
Each year at this time we have the pleasure of celebrating the winners of two awards. These are excellent articles among two extremely strong sets of contenders.
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Scarlet Letters: Rehabilitation Through Transgression Transparency and Personal Narrative Control Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Erin Frey, Ethan Bernstein, Nick Rekenthaler
When employees commit transgressions, organizations often use tools of organizational control to prevent them from transgressing again. We investigate whether organizations can use transgression tr...
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Shaping Nascent Industries: Innovation Strategy and Regulatory Uncertainty in Personal Genomics Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Cheng Gao, Rory McDonald
In nascent industries―whose new technologies are often poorly understood by regulators―contending with regulatory uncertainty can be crucial to organizational survival and growth. Prior research on...
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John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry. Measuring Culture Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Mary Ann Glynn
More than two decades ago, I attended a conference at Northwestern University, where John Mohr made a presentation, leveraging his classic paper “Measuring Meaning Structures” (1998). He was innovative, brilliant, and the academic audience was enthralled. With that talk, Mohr seemed to cement his reputation as “the guy who turned meaning into math” (Rawlings and Childress, 2021: 2). Sadly, and way
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Timothy G. Pollock. How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Joel Gehman
In Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Jerome Bruner (1986) distinguished two modes of thought. The logico-scientific mode employs categories and concepts as a means of describing and explaining the world. It deals in general causes and tests of verifiable truth. The narrative mode, by comparison, deals in human intention and action, locating experiences in time and place. It provides good stories, gripping
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Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Pamela S. Tolbert
One of the most hotly contested, enduring debates among social scientists centers on the question, why is there (still) a gender-based pay gap? In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin, a preeminent economic historian and labor economist, downplays the relative importance of some answers commonly given to this question: discrimination, women’s lack of assertiveness, and occupational segregation. Instead
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How Idealized Professional Identities Can Persist through Client Interactions Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Julia DiBenigno
How can a professional identity persist when it is mismatched with the reality of work demands in one’s first job? Existing theory suggests that new members of a profession should adapt their identities to align with their profession’s and organization’s goals. Using data from an ethnographic study of first-time hospital nurses, I develop the concept of idealized professional identities—identities
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Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff: The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050 Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Anita M. McGahan
This engaging, well-written, and persuasive book deals with a single question: what must happen to reduce net greenhouse gases to zero by the year 2050, the year beyond which climate catastrophe will occur if the reduction fails? Written for policymakers, scholars, and the general public, the book is remarkably clear, comprehensive, and compelling. Everyone interested in becoming part of the solution
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Syncing Up: A Process Model of Emergent Interdependence in Dynamic Teams Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Anna T. Mayo
Increasingly, organizational teams form quickly and change shape during their short lifespans, meaning they break from traditional definitions of “real” teams and experience instability in team membership and boundaries. While scholars have examined conditions that support effective teamwork in more-stable teams, we know little about how these dynamic teams can come to look like real teams that work
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Book Review Essay: Questioning Humans versus Machines: Artificial Intelligence in Class Conflict Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 David Stark
This extraordinary book is most valuable because it lends itself to three readings.
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Phanish Puranam
Is large-scale collective action possible without hierarchical structures to guide it and without inequality as an unpleasant corollary? This question is of interest to social scientists in general and organization scientists in particular. The late David Graeber (an anthropologist) and David Wengrow (an archaeologist) have produced a book written for a general audience that answers this question with
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Brokers in Disguise: The Joint Effect of Actual Brokerage and Socially Perceived Brokerage on Network Advantage Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Alessandro Iorio
Interpersonal networks can be conceptualized not only as actual social structures surrounding individuals but also as cognitive social structures stemming from individuals’ perceptions of those relationships. Yet most research on social networks adopts either a structural or a perceptual perspective. In this article, I blend these two traditions to examine how actual and perceptual brokerage jointly
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Book Review Essay: Luck’s Expanding Footprint Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Robert H. Frank
That things like eye color, body mass, and longevity are heritable was known millennia before anyone even knew what genes were. Studies documenting the heritability of sexual orientation, academic achievement, schizophrenia, and political beliefs are relatively recent. As Kathryn Paige Harden notes in The Genetic Lottery, many social scientists are more comfortable acknowledging some of these linkages
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Good Corp, Bad Corp, and the Rise of B Corps: How Market Incumbents’ Diverse Responses Reinvigorate Challengers Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Suntae Kim, Todd Schifeling
Social movements challenge incumbents and drive institutional change by introducing market alternatives—new products and organizational forms that embody an alternative institutional logic. Research has shown that in response to market alternatives, incumbents resist through heterogeneous behaviors: incumbents maintain their commitment to the dominant logic, effectively marginalizing challengers, while
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The Dynamics of Organizational Autonomy: Oscillations at Automobili Lamborghini Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Brice Dattée, Jean-Luc Arrègle, Paolo Barbieri, Thomas C. Lawton, Duncan N. Angwin
Through a 21-year longitudinal study of the relationship between Italian supercar manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini and its parent, German carmaker Audi AG, we examine how a unit’s degree of organizational autonomy is renegotiated over long periods of time. Using detailed empirical data, we develop a process model of the dynamics of organizational autonomy in a unit–parent relationship. This process
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The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Lori Yue
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One-Hit Wonders versus Hit Makers: Sustaining Success in Creative Industries Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Justin M. Berg
Creative industries produce many one-hit wonders who struggle to repeat their initial success and fewer hit makers who sustain success over time. To develop theory on the role of creativity in driving sustained market success, I propose a path dependence theory of creators’ careers that considers creators’ whole portfolios of products over time and how their early portfolios shape their later capacity
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Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Letian Zhang
This article suggests that regulations targeting the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. I theorize that although these bans have no legal jurisdiction over private-sector firms, they could influence such firms normatively. After such a ban, executives
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The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Winnie Yun Jiang
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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Neil Fligstein
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How Do Employees React When Their CEO Speaks Out? Intra- and Extra-Firm Implications of CEO Sociopolitical Activism Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Adam J. Wowak, John R. Busenbark, Donald C. Hambrick
Business leaders have traditionally avoided wading into society’s debates. Yet more and more CEOs are taking visible public stands on hotly contested issues, engaging in what has come to be called CEO sociopolitical activism. Despite its growing prevalence and potentially major implications, this class of executive behaviors remains largely unexplored by organizational scholars. Our study tests and
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Supporting Mental Health at Work (Comment on “The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business”) Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Lamar Pierce, Christopher I. Rider
Kensbock, Alkærsig, and Lomberg (KAL) (2022) address the important topic of employee mental health in organizations. For three reasons, we caution readers against embracing KAL’s proposition that employee mobility spreads mental disorders across organizations through a contagion process. First, we view harmful contagion as the least plausible of three theoretical mechanisms that imply similar empirical
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From the Editor Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Christine M. Beckman
You will see two commentaries in this issue referencing the article “The epidemic of mental disorders in business,” as well as the authors’ response to those commentaries. The commentaries and response offer an occasion to do a deep dive into the opportunities, complexities, and disagreements that arise when taking organizational ideas to important new contexts where there is interdisciplinary interest
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Authors’ Response: If Anything, We Should Stigmatize Unhealthy Organizations Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Julia M. Kensbock, Lars Alkærsig, Carina Lomberg
We appreciate the important academic discussions that our article (Kensbock, Alkærsig, and Lomberg, 2022) has initiated. Replying to the commentaries by Keyes and Shaman (2022) and Pierce and Rider (2022), we reiterate the goal and purpose of our research questions, including the use of a metaphor. We address theoretical arguments that a “normalization” or “matching” mechanism might account for our
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Tom Eisenmann: Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Alicia DeSantola
“All happy families resemble one another,” Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same could be said for startups. While successful entrepreneurial ventures regularly cluster into a few archetypical patterns, there are myriad ways they can go wrong, leading to their ultimate demise. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann takes on the thorny challenge of systematizing
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Daniel A. Levinthal: Evolutionary Processes & Organizational Adaptation: A Mendelian Perspective on Strategic Management Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Martin Ruef
Over the last couple of decades, evolutionary theories have offered the tantalizing prospect of integrating diverse perspectives on management and organizations into a common framework. In broad strokes, the evolutionary approaches take a generalized Darwinian form, in which features of organizations (e.g., routines, rules, ideas, personnel) or organizations and organizational populations themselves
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Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. Power, for All: How It Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Deborah Gruenfeld
Power, for All is a widely accessible academically grounded book about how individuals who must navigate existing power structures can act strategically to accomplish their goals, despite their relative powerlessness, by shifting the balance of power in their favor. It is a book about how to use power that speaks most directly to practitioners who aspire to create social change by disrupting the status
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Beth A. Bechky. Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 John Weeks
Good ethnographies tell stories that are enduringly topical. They provide a meticulous perspective on certain aspects of the culture of a particular group of people during a specific period of time, and they do it in a way that helps readers find connections and insights relevant to other topics far afield that we care to understand better. By this standard, Beth Bechky’s ethnography of forensic scientists
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Mike Savage. The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Mitchel Y. Abolafia
Much of the charm of this book lies in its ambition and its provocations, its desire to reflect on “what inequality tells us about the world we currently live in and how we are at a crucial historical turning point” (p. xi). The chapters are often introduced with a figure that serves as the central datum of the chapter and a jumping-off point for Savage’s broader reflections. As might be expected,
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Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian. Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Ellen Ernst Kossek
Managerial and organizational behavior scholars’ interest in work and family struggles with a gendered lens has grown significantly over the past 50 years since Rosabeth Kanter published her seminal book, Men and Women of the Corporation, as well as a Russell Sage Foundation monograph on work and family policies in the United States. Dreams of the Overworked arrived at a perfect time to add to this
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Sanford M. Jacoby. Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Bruce G. Carruthers
What happens when workers become capitalists? Jacoby’s fascinating new book describes efforts by U.S. unions and worker groups to exploit the leverage afforded by their own capital accumulations. Public sector and union pension funds are now among the biggest institutional investors, and their size and numbers have given them prominence in U.S. capital markets. During an era in which unions declined
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Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation Adm. Sci. Q. (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Madeline Toubiana, Trish Ruebottom
Scholars studying stigmatized, or “dirty work,” occupations have tended to characterize people outside of the occupation as the stigmatizers and those within the occupation as social supports who buffer each other from stigma. We argue that this characterization discounts the unique ways stigmatization can take place within heterogeneous occupations and the challenges it raises for finding support