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Autonomous Strategic Behavior, Organizational Learning and Top Management Support: Re-Examining Field Research with Computational Modeling
Re-examining field research findings about three critical episodes in Intel Corporation’s evolution we find that when autonomous strategic behavior significantly increased relevant organizational knowledge Intel top management provided sustained…
Fading Corporate Survival Prospects: Impact of Co-selection Bias in Resource Allocation on Strategic Intent
Research Summary: Our field study of new business development in a German-based global pharmaceutical company reveals that the emergence of co-selection bias in project-level state-gate resource allocation engendered a corporate-…
The Sociology of Interpretation
Recent years have seen a growing sociological interest in meaning. In fact, some argue that sociology cannot confront its foundational questions without addressing meaning. Yet sociologists mean many things when they talk about meaning. We…
Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
Theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, is central to human social interactions, communication, empathy, self-consciousness, and morality. We tested several language models using 40 classic false-…
Imagined Otherness: Perceived Schematic Difference Can Fuel Dehumanization
Why do people withdraw the dignity of humanity from others? Sociologists have focused on the roles of institutional processes through which blatantly dehumanizing norms and narratives diffuse through a population, whereas social psychologists…
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Positions in Network Structure Relate to a Language-Based Model of Group Identification
Shifting attachments to social groups are a constant in the modern era. What accounts for variation in the strength of group identification? Whereas prior work has emphasized group-level properties and individual differences, this article instead…
Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms
Descriptive norms — the behavior of other individuals in one’s reference group — play a key role in shaping individual decisions. When characterizing the behavior of others, a standard approach in the literature is to focus on average behavior.…
The Power of Public Confession: Mobilization and Reputation Effects of Disclosing Socially Irresponsible Performance
A core assumption in the impression management literature is that organizations voluntarily disclose information about their positive social and environmental activities, policies, and performance in order to improve or maintain their reputation…
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict
Whom do individuals blame for intergroup conflict? Do people attribute responsibility for intergroup conflict to the in-group or the out-group? Theoretically integrating the literatures on intergroup relations, moral psychology, and judgment and…
Designs for Corporate Venture Capital: Emergence of a Hybrid Structural Orientation
Combining qualitative survey and in-depth field research, we present a new typology of corporate venture capital (CVC) designs that highlights a hybrid CVC structural orientation to advance understanding of the process of integrating externally…
Do Investors Value Gender Diversity?
(R&R, Academy of Management Journal)
Ecology of Practices: Employer Prestige and Alumni Homophily in Work Ties
In this article we develop a network-ecology approach in which we argue that the position of an organization vis-a-vis other organizations in an external hierarchy — its status or prestige — affects the level of social similarity in its employees…
Egalitarian Effort: How Cultural Scrutiny Produces Gendered Hiring in Professional Sales
Egalitarianism has taken hold ideologically in many countries and has increased women’s entry into white-collar professional fields, but gendered access to professions persists. In this article the authors suggest managers’ cultural…
Enabling Success or Cementing Failure: When and Why Team Charters Help or Hurt Team Performance
A Fair Chance at the American Dream: An Attribution Perspective on Class-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market
(R&R, Academy of Management Journal)
Fairness of Job Fairs: How Race and Gender Influence Relational Opportunities among Early Career Job-Seekers
A great deal of research has documented relational deficits faced by various social groups as they look for jobs, and that disadvantages in job-seeking accrue to these groups as a result of these relational disadvantages. One of the ways…
Gender, Self-Beliefs, and Closing the Initial Salary Gap in Quantitative Field
Scholars suggest more women should enter lucrative jobs like those in engineering and computer science to reduce the existing gender gap in pay, but also point out women’s self-beliefs in their abilities in these domains lack men’s in ways…
A Process Model of Corporate Venture Capital as External Innovation Capability: The Case of JetBlue Technology Ventures
This paper presents a process model of corporate venture capital (CVC) based on field research of JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV), the CVC unit of JetBlue Airways. We examine how the JTV subsidiary was designed and staffed to enable effective…
Strategic Self-Labeling: Passion as a Bridge and Barrier to Organizational Entry for Job Candidates
The Subtle Backlash Against Prioritizing Mental Wellbeing at Work
(R&R, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)