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🔙💡 #ThrowbackThursday to our convo with @wyjiang27 on her 2021 article on sustaining #MeaningfulWork during crisis by adopting a situational purpose. A must-read for #qualresearch folks.

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Jiang (2021). Sustaining Meaningful Work in a Crisis: Adopting and Conveying a Situational Purpose
Author: Winnie Jiang – INSEAD Interviewers: Elizabeth Hood – Boston College, Carroll School of ManagementLuke Hedden – Boston College, Carroll School of Management
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June 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📅 #ThrowbackThursday

“You can’t mix arm’s-length routines with embedded expectations.”

Check out our interview with @pierre_azoulay about his 2017 co-authored article on what “bad” inter-organizational ties look like.

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May 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
📅 #ThrowbackThursday
What happens when category spanning helps with one audience but not another?

Elizabeth Pontikes shares how unexpected results (and a reviewer’s question!) led to a new theory of audience-specific ambiguity in this 2014 interview.

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May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📅 #ThrowbackThursday

“Calling vibes,” “good moves,” and ritualized conflict?
Revisit our 2015 interview with Blake Ashforth & Peter Reingen on managing organizational duality—and the strange elegance of dysfunction in a natural food co-op.

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May 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📅 #ThrowbackThursday

In this 2017 interview, @sekoubermiss & Bruce Greenbaum reflect on how null findings pushed them to rethink embeddedness and power in professional services.

A great read on how to build theory through the unexpected.
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May 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This #ThrowbackThursday, revisit our interview with @Justin_M_Berg on his 2022 ASQ article! 🎶

Why do some become hitmakers while others fade as one-hit wonders? Read how early creative choices shape long-term success in music: asqblog.com/2024/01/18/b...

#CreativityResearch
April 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨

How do moral boundaries silence scientific facts?

Mia Chang-Zunino & Stine Grodal discuss their 2024 article about the social persistence of the AIDS category.

Read the interview here: asqblog.com/2025/04/01/c...

#Categories #Boundaries
Chang-Zunino & Grodal (2024). Junkies, queers, and babies: Persistence and updating of the category AIDS through silencing and puncturing of the moral boundary.
Chang-Zunino & Grodal (2024). Junkies, queers, and babies: Persistence and updating of the category AIDS through silencing and puncturing of the moral boundary.  Authors: Mia Chang-Zunion ̵…
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April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨

How do firms manage collaboration with multiple partners across shifting innovation timelines?
@aiagentsprof shares insights from his 2016 ASQ paper on group cycling—and how it shaped his new thinking on AI strategy.

🔗 Read: asqblog.com/2025/04/09/d...

#Innovation #AI
April 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🔙🌟 Throwback to an insightful chat with #MattBloom, @AmyEColbert on their 2020 article with #JordanNielsen into how professionals find their true #calling and the #narratives that shape their journey.

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March 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🎙️✨ Check out our #ThrowbackThursday podcast with @RainaBrands and #IsabelFernandezMateo on their important research from 2017 on how recruitment experiences impact women's executive ambitions.

Learn how their work enriches gender #diversity in #leadership! 🎧🔗
PODCAST: Brands & Fernandez-Mateo (2017). Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles
Authors: Raina Brands – London Business School Isabel Fernandez-Mateo – London Business School Interviewer: Madeline King – Stern School of Business, New York University Article link: Listen to the…
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March 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🔍 New Blog Alert!
Check out our recent interview with @LSPongeluppe on his 2024 study, where he reflects on entrepreneurship in favelas, identity tensions, & the abductive research process.

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#Mobility #Entrepreneurship
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March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New blog /podcast alert 🔊

Hear the inside scoop from #ArvindKarunakaran about his 2024 article on how frontline professionals navigate bottom-up social media scrutiny—and why it often obscures rather than enhances accountability.
PODCAST: Karunakaran (2024). Frontline Professionals in the Wake of Social Media Scrutiny: Examining the Processes of Obscured Accountability.
Authors: Arvind Karunakaran – Stanford, Management Science & Engineering Interviewers: Valerio Iannucci – Boston University, Management & Organizations Elisabeth Yang – Ya…
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March 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Stories became a tool for navigating tensions."

🚁 This #ThrowbackThursday check out the interview with #ChristopherMyers on his 2022 article about storytelling among air medical transport crews. 🚑

Discover how these professionals use stories to learn and grow:
Myers (2022). Storytelling as a Tool for Vicarious Learning among Air Medical Transport Crews
Author: Christopher Myers – John Hopkins University Interviewers:: Teddy Carter – University of Alberta Meenal Banga – University of Texas at Austin
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March 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to our insightful interview with @pro_jo_sho & @MikeToffel on their 2010 article on self-regulation! 🌿 Dive into their work on legal environments and environmental performance.
Short & Toffel (2010). Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment
Authors: Jodi L. Short – University of California, Hastings Michael W. Toffel – Harvard University Interviewers: Xuege (Cathy) Lu – Cornell University Bjoern Mitzinneck – Cornell University Article…
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March 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This #ThrowbackThursday check out our interview with #JianhongChen & #SuchetaNadkarni on their 2017 paper on CEOs' temporal dispositions on how time urgency & pacing style can shape #leadership and #innovationhref="https://buff.ly/4aGZPmm" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">ion. ⏰

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Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Authors: Jianhong Chen -Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire Sucheta Nadkarni – Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Interviewers: Xena Welch…
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February 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨 How do organizations turn beneficiaries into sources of normative control? @jchu1225 discusses his 2024 ASQ paper on rituals of integration, the role of beneficiary validation, and insights from years of fieldwork in migrant schools. Ÿ”— Read here buff.ly/4iaLbpO <a href="/hashtag/OrgControl" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#OrgControl
Chu (2024). How Beneficiaries Become Sources of Normative Control.
Authors: Shoshana R. Dobrow – London School of Economics and Political Science Hannah Weisman – Harvard Business School Daniel Heller – Tel Aviv University Jennifer Tosti-Kharas &…
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February 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to an enlightening interview with #AleksandraKacperczyk on her 2013 paper on #CorporateEntrepreneurship! 💡

Learn how giants like Google foster innovation internally and why Schumpeter's theories remain influential. 🌟
Kacperczyk (2013). Opportunity Structures in Established Firms: Entrepreneurship versus Intrapreneurship in Mutual Funds
Author: Aleksandra Kacperczyk, MIT Sloan School of Management Interviewers: Martina Montauti, University of Lugano Margarita Cruz Barrientos, University of Lugano Article link:
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February 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This #ThrowbackThursday check out our interview with #JianhongChen & #SuchetaNadkarni on their 2017 paper on CEOs' temporal dispositions on how time urgency & pacing style can shape #leadership and #innovation. ⏰
Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Authors: Jianhong Chen -Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire Sucheta Nadkarni – Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Interviewers: Xena Welch…
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February 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚨 New ASQ Blog! 🚨

How do journalists navigate a declining industry? Winnie Jiang & @amywrzesniewski share the behind the scenes on their research on why some adapt while others stay committed, offering fresh insights on career transitions 🔍
Jiang & Wrzesniewski (2023). Perceiving Fixed or Flexible Meaning: Toward a Model of Meaning Fixedness and Navigating Occupational Destabilization.
Authors: Winnie Yun Jiang – INSEAD Amy Wrzesniewski – Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Interviewers:: Clara Soo – Michigan State University Drew Jauron – Tip…
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February 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM