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Showing papers in "Administrative Science Quarterly in 2020"


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TL;DR: The replication crisis in experimental social psychology has led to new standards for transparency in management journals as mentioned in this paper, leading to a new set of standards for accountability and transparency in the publishing of data.
Abstract: Management journals are currently responding to challenges raised by the “replication crisis” in experimental social psychology, leading to new standards for transparency. These approaches are spil...

168 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied five ventures in a nascent market and found that the business model was a key determinant of entrepreneurial success in these markets. But they left a key imperative unexplored.
Abstract: Prior research has advanced several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in a nascent fi...

163 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the conflict between women's family obligations and professional jobs' long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement, and research suggests that this “work-fa...
Abstract: It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work–fa...

128 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the power asymmetries generated by customers' evaluations in online work setting were investigated with interviews with 77 high-performing eBay business sellers in France and Belgium, and the authors investigated the power imbalance between customers and sellers.
Abstract: Drawing on interviews with 77 high-performing eBay business sellers in France and Belgium, this article investigates the power asymmetries generated by customers’ evaluations in online work setting...

120 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine why start-ups, generally characterized as flexible, malleable entities, might instead exhibit "flexibility" and "adaptability" in the air taxi market.
Abstract: Through an inductive, comparative study of four early entrants in the nascent air taxi market, we examine why start-ups, generally characterized as flexible, malleable entities, might instead exhib...

107 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, cultural heterogeneity in an organization relates to its underlying capacity for execution and innovation, and cultural diversity is commonly thought to present a tradeoff between task coordination and innovation.
Abstract: How does cultural heterogeneity in an organization relate to its underlying capacity for execution and innovation? Cultural diversity is commonly thought to present a tradeoff between task coordina...

78 citations


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TL;DR: While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on how decision makers' own biases perpetuate inequities, a growing body of work points to mechanisms of bias that ma... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on how decision makers’ own biases perpetuate inequities, a growing body of work points to mechanisms of bias that ma...

72 citations


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TL;DR: When a new industry category is predicated on a product or activity subject to “core” stigma, the actors trying to establish it may struggle to gain the resour.
Abstract: When a new industry category is predicated on a product or activity subject to “core” stigma—meaning its very nature is stigmatized—the actors trying to establish it may struggle to gain the resour...

68 citations


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TL;DR: This paper studied how organizational structures emerge in new issue domains using field data collected over 18 months at a large biomedical company that dealt with a variety of new issues in the field of bioinformatics.
Abstract: We advance interactionist perspectives on how organizational structures emerge in new issue domains. Our study is grounded in field data collected over 18 months at a large biomedical company that ...

53 citations


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TL;DR: The authors argue that organizations tend to be more "open" or "closed" as a function of their members' political ideologies and that this variation can help explain firms' responses to social acti...
Abstract: This paper argues that organizations tend to be more “open” or “closed” as a function of their members’ political ideologies and that this variation can help explain firms’ responses to social acti...

48 citations


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TL;DR: This paper studied the consequences of sex-based labor market segregation for gendered outcomes in conventional wage-and-salary employment, and found that the consequences can be significant for women.
Abstract: Although scholars have long recognized the consequences of sex-based labor market segregation for gendered outcomes in conventional wage-and-salary employment, comparatively little is known about t...

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Julia DiBenigno1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop grounded theory to understand how and when experts in lower-power peripheral roles can develop influential relationships with higher-power line managers in core functions to regroup experts.
Abstract: This paper develops grounded theory to understand how and when experts in lower-power peripheral roles can develop influential relationships with higher-power line managers in core functions to reg...

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TL;DR: The authors examine how signals of a candidate's capability affect perceptions of that person's commitment to an employer, using four experimental studies that use hiring managers as subjects, and test and show...
Abstract: We examine how signals of a candidate’s capability affect perceptions of that person’s commitment to an employer. In four experimental studies that use hiring managers as subjects, we test and show...

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TL;DR: Using 14 months of field research during an office redesign at a large professional sales organization, it is found that a reconfiguration of physical space intended to reduce costs had the unintended consequence of disrupting taken-for-granted greeting practices, noticing practices, and evaluation beliefs.
Abstract: Despite the great potential for flexible work policies to increase worker temporal flexibility—the extent to which workers control when and where their work tasks are completed—organizational schol...

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Kunyuan Qiao1
TL;DR: The authors theorize how an ideological imprint (ideology formed through past events)serves as an information filter that persistently affects individuals' decision making and how subsequent behaviors of the subsequent individuals follow the ideological imprint.
Abstract: We theorize how an ideological imprint—ideology formed through past events—serves as an information filter that persistently affects individuals’ decision making and how subsequent behaviors of the

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors seek to determine the extent to which organizations employ a division of labor between specialist creator roles and generalist business roles in a bid to orchestrate innovation.
Abstract: Organizations typically employ a division of labor between specialist creator roles and generalist business roles in a bid to orchestrate innovation. We seek to determine the extent to which indivi...

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TL;DR: It is found that a succession between the founder/father and the successor/son is successful when the mother is active in the family but not the firm, acting as a trustworthy third party to the founder and successor in thefamily while staying nonpartisan to their business disagreements.
Abstract: Actors in a multiplex relationship—one crossing multiple domains—can struggle to transition into new roles in one domain without disrupting existing interactions and the role hierarchy in another. ...

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TL;DR: The authors examined how group dynamics influence the growth of interorganizational collaborations through the additio... using U.S. venture capital investment data from 1985 to 2008 and qualitative interviews.
Abstract: Using U.S. venture capital investment data from 1985 to 2008 and qualitative interviews, we examine how group dynamics influence the growth of interorganizational collaborations through the additio...

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TL;DR: In this paper, two research streams examine how social movements operate both in and around organizations, and they probe the empirical spaces between these streams, asking how activism situated in multi-organization...
Abstract: Two research streams examine how social movements operate both “in and around” organizations. We probe the empirical spaces between these streams, asking how activism situated in multi-organization...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a dynamic perspective on how elected state officials' political incentives shape the behavior and performance of organizations, particularly state-owned enterprises (SOEs), in the state of New Jersey.
Abstract: This study develops a dynamic perspective on how elected state officials’ political incentives shape the behavior and performance of organizations, particularly state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Draw...

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TL;DR: A theory of vicarious performance feedback is proposed and it is found that a firm building a Formula One racing car is more likely to end an exchange relationship with an engine supplier after that supplier’s other customers experience an episode of poor performance relative to their historic track record.
Abstract: Managers need to periodically evaluate any exchange partner to decide whether to continue or dissolve the exchange tie, but doing so can be challenging because of causal ambiguity: it can be diffic...

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TL;DR: This work explores what happened when DNA profiling was held up as the “gold standard” of forensic evidence, resulting in scientific, public, and legal scrutiny of other forensic science occupational groups.
Abstract: Most studies of technologies’ impact on occupational change focus on occupational groups’ adoption and use of particular technologies in a field or workplace. Drawing on an 18-month ethnographic st...

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TL;DR: The authors theorize that anger incited by a social movement, which has a mobilizing effect among outsider activists, might immobilize collective action intentions for institutional insiders, those sympathet...
Abstract: We theorize that anger incited by a social movement, which has a mobilizing effect among outsider activists, might immobilize collective action intentions for institutional insiders—those sympathet...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw from sociological studies to understand the paradox of parent-incumbents' paradox of both empowering and dominating their child-successors during family firm succession.
Abstract: During family firm succession, parent-incumbents are often caught up in a paradox of both empowering and dominating their child-successors. To understand this recurring phenomenon, we draw from soc...

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TL;DR: The growing relevance of improvisation for successful organizing calls for a better understanding of how individuals develop improvisation skills as mentioned in this paper, while research has investigated the role of traini cation skills.
Abstract: The growing relevance of improvisation for successful organizing calls for a better understanding of how individuals develop improvisation skills. While research has investigated the role of traini...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the central importance of social resource exchange among peers for entrepreneurial success, but such peer relationships contain both social resources and peer relationships that contain both...
Abstract: Recent research on start-up accelerators has drawn attention to the central importance of social resource exchange among peers for entrepreneurial success. But such peer relationships contain both ...

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TL;DR: This study shows that control mechanisms are co-created through interactions between managers and employees as they engage in an iterative team learning process in two stages: learning about the mandated control mechanism in order to assess its viability in their local context; and learning how to (re)design the control mechanism so that it delivers its intended control outcomes.
Abstract: Organizational control is a fundamental function of all organizations. Drawing on ethnographic data from one hospital implementing a new behavioral control mechanism across multiple internal units,...

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TL;DR: Many legalized markets bear categorical stigma, a vilifying label attached to an industry and its participants, that threatens their performance and survival chances as discussed by the authors. This happens because audiences a...
Abstract: Many legalized markets bear categorical stigma—a vilifying label attached to an industry and its participants—that threatens their performance and survival chances. This happens because audiences a...

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TL;DR: Barriers to entry in regulated markets are frequently conceptualized as static features that must be removed or overcome if new entrants are to successfully enter a market as mentioned in this paper. But government instituti...
Abstract: Barriers to entry in regulated markets are frequently conceptualized as static features that must be removed or overcome if new entrants are to successfully enter a market. But government instituti...