Administrative Science Quarterly Online Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is available online:
June 2018; Vol. 63, No. 2
We've got a lot of great content to share with you in the June issue of ASQ, starting with six articles to get you thinking about social networks, gender inequality in the workplace, the meaning of work, the M&A habits of extraverted CEOs, and social movements targeting private firms. Three book reviews and a book review essay round out the issue, but the content doesn't stop there. Visit my site Organizational Musings for a blog post on each article, and head to our student-run ASQ Blog for fascinating interviews with ASQ authors. To read the contents of future issues today, click here for all our OnlineFirst items, and follow us on Twitter (@ASQJournal) and like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ASQJournal) for all the newest news from ASQ!
Articles
Brokerage as a Public Good: The Externalities of Network Hubs for Different Formal Roles in Creative Organizations
Julien Clement, Andrew Shipilov, and Charles Galunic
Have you ever wondered whether your feeling that the networking and gossiping coworker is annoying reflects a real problem? You would be right. Research on creative work shows that those who are knowledge hubs can help creative workers, but reduce the productivity of others.
Blog post is here
Managers' Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers?
Seth Carnahan and Brad N. Greenwood
Here is a research finding with a lot of irony. Belief in gender equality is beneficial for women, but mainly if it is held by male bosses – not female ones.
Blog post is here
"I'm Not Mopping the Floors, I'm Putting a Man on the Moon": How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work
Andrew M. Carton
Are lofty missions good for organizations? The answer is, of course, it depends. Here is research showing that the path from mission to action requires the step of setting objectives consistent with the mission, and concrete enough to inspire action.
Blog post is here
The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs
Shavin Malhotra, Taco H. Reus, PengCheng Zhu, and Erik M. Roelofsen
Should we worry about whether CEO power over corporations is so great that their personality influences strategic actions? It depends on how much you like the idea that extravert personality CEOs acquire more firms, as this research shows.
Blog post is here
Change above the Glass Ceiling: Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Diversity in Japanese Firms
Eunmi Mun and Jiwook Jung
Firms hire and promote more women into top positions these days, but is this real change or just a token of change? Here is some work showing that top level female hires can be encouraged by institutional investors, and also helps female employment at lower levels in the organization.
Blog post is here
Osmotic Mobilization and Union Support during the Long Protest Wave, 1960–1995
John-Paul Ferguson, Thomas Dudley, and Sarah A. Soule
Social movements and labor unions are different, but are they unrelated? This research shows that social movements inspire unionization, especially when the movement had a progressive ideology.
Blog post is here
Book Reviews
Book Review Essay: Wealth, Power, and Political Influence: Organizations as Tools
Mark S. Mizruchi
Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry, and Viviana A. Zelizer (eds.): Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works
Russell J. Funk
Graeme Guthrie: The Firm Divided: Manager–Shareholder Conflict and the Fight for Control of the Modern Corporation
Michael Jensen
David Obstfeld: Getting New Things Done: Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action
Martin Kilduff and Jung Won Lee
Henrich R. Greve, INSEAD
Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly