Administrative Science Quarterly Online Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is available online:
September 2017; Vol. 62, No. 3
The September issue of ASQ is out, and the articles are all open access for a short time – we like to tear down walls, including paywalls. Like the articles? Be sure to check out the corresponding blog posts on my site Organizational Musings. Want to learn more about how our authors come up with their research ideas and bring them to fruition? Our student-run ASQ Blog features new interviews every week with ASQ authors and is a great resource for grad students, young scholars, and anyone else looking for research and writing insights. It's a great tool for those who want to get ahead of the game, and especially for getting ahead of senior scholars who don't read blogs.
From the Editor
Henrich R. Greve
The big reveal is here! Meet the winner of the 2017 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution.
Articles
Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women's Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles
Raina A. Brands and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
Do gender differences in responses to recruitment rejections contribute to women's underrepresentation in top management? The authors theorize and show that women are less likely than men to consider another job with a prospective employer that has rejected them in the past. Rejections linger and shape careers for a long time.
Blog post is here
Creating in the Crucibles of Nature's Fury: Associational Diversity and Local Social Entrepreneurship after Natural Disasters in California, 1991–2010
Sunasir Dutta
This paper examines foundings of human services organizations after natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, and tsunamis and explains why only some communities, not all, bounce back by founding appropriate collective-goods organizations.
Blog post is here
Those Closest Wield the Sharpest Knife: How Ingratiation Leads to Resentment and Social Undermining of the CEO
Gareth D. Keeves, James D. Westphal, and Michael L. McDonald
This study explores how ingratiation, a fundamental means of building and maintaining one's social capital, may trigger behavior that damages the social capital of the person being ingratiated. Undeserved praise hurts in both directions, because the praising person feels bad and hits back later.
Blog post is here
"If Chemists Don't Do It, Who Is Going To?" Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Andrew J. Nelson, Andrew G. Earle, Julie A. Haack, and Douglas M. Young
This study investigates the emergence and growth of "green chemistry"-an effort by chemists to encourage other chemists to reduce the health, safety, and environmental impacts of chemical products and processes-to explore how occupational members, absent external triggers for change, influence how their peers do their work. It shows how an occupation can take charge when management does not.
Blog post is here
Not All Sparks Light a Fire: Stakeholder and Shareholder Reactions to Critical Events in Contested Markets
Sinziana Dorobantu, Witold J. Henisz, and Lite Nartey
When and how does a critical mass of social and political stakeholders mobilize against a corporate organization, and what is the impact of such mobilization on the organization's market value? This paper also shows how actions have impact far in the future, because the track record of an organization will shape the mobilization that follows.
Blog post is here
Book Reviews
Kirsten Foot: Collaborating against Human Trafficking: Cross-sector Challenges and Practices
Nelson Phillips
Michaela DeSoucey: Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
Omar Lizardo
Robert S. Pasley: Anatomy of a Banking Scandal: The Keystone Bank Failure-Harbinger of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Juan (John) Almandoz
Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow. Narratives of Crisis: Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal
Karl E. Weick
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Henrich R. Greve, INSEAD
Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly