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ASQ June 2021 Issue

  • 1.  ASQ June 2021 Issue

    Posted 05-07-2021 10:19

    Administrative Science Quarterly Online Table of Contents Alert

    The June 2021 issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is available online:

    Vol. 66, No. 2

    The ASQ June issue has change in the air. We have an account of insider activists facilitating LGBT implementation efforts, the adoption of new work practices through the cultivation of voice, and the successful embedding of a new organizational role by harmonizing professional, family and corporate logics. Basecamp might take notice of these organizationally nuanced understandings of how to navigate competing interests and complex change. We might also need to change our views: this issue suggests we need to re-evaluate how to measure team conflict; to recognize one's calling can be discovered as well as divined; and to develop a better understanding of how, exactly, fraud pays. As me move into summer, hoping for a respite, this issue of ASQ also provides a nuanced understanding of which of the 500 items on our to-do list we are most likely to attend. I hope you find something in this issue of ASQ to inspire, distract or stimulate your thinking.

    Articles

    Fraud and Innovation

    Yanbo Wang, Toby Stuart, and Jizhen Li

    Fraud pays, as this research shows. But what do fraudulent companies do with their ill-begotten gains? When honest firms receive state innovation grants, they hire R&D personnel and file innovative patents, but fraudulent firms use their dirty money for less productive and innovative activities. Perhaps fraudulent firms win the battle but they lose the (innovation) war.

    Blog post is here

     

    Stories of Calling: How Called Professionals Construct Narrative Identities

    Matt Bloom, Amy E. Colbert, and Jordan D. Nielsen

    People who have found their callings might seem to have similar stories, but callings are both discerned and discovered. And integrating a calling into one's identity does not happen in a flash but is a process of interweaving personal authenticity and professional legitimacy.

    Blog post is here

     

    The Dynamics of Prioritizing: How Actors Temporally Pattern Complex Role–Routine Ecologies

    Waldemar Kremser and Blagoy Blagoev

    Time is tight, and deadlines loom . . . how do you create routines that prioritize what is most important? It's not only what work is most important, and when it needs to be done, it's important to account for who is asking and their role in the organization.

    Blog post is here

     

    The Voice Cultivation Process: How Team Members Can Help Upward Voice Live on to Implementation

    Patricia Satterstrom, Michaela Kerrissey, and Julia DiBenigno

    Great ideas, especially those expressed those with less power, are often rejected or ignored at first. That doesn't have to be their final fate. This longitudinal study explains how ideas are cultivated over time and (eventually) brought to life by team members in a collective, interactive process.

    Blog post is here

     

    Things Are Not Always What They Seem: The Origins and Evolution of Intragroup Conflict

    Priti Pradhan Shah, Randall S. Peterson, Stephen L. Jones, and Amanda J. Ferguson

    A lot of our ideas about team-level conflict in the workplace are wrong. What we think of as team conflict often originates as individual or dyadic conflict, and it often stays there. These three studies suggest we need to fundamentally rethink our measurement and understandings of team conflict.

    Blog post is here

     

    Handling Resistance to Change When Societal and Workplace Logics Conflict

    Namrata Malhotra, Charlene Zietsma, Timothy Morris, and Michael Smets

    Sometimes we ask for – or even demand – the opportunity to do things differently. Then we resist the change. Change agents in UK law firms, however, managed to avoid the "of counsel" position becoming a stigmatized "mommy track" by embedding the new role in a corporate logic and reframing concerns to harmonize with the professional logic.

    Blog post is here

     

    Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists' Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy

    Lisa Buchter

    The law passes; the policy adopted; the company statement is issued. But what changes? Internal activists for LGBT rights facilitated the implementation of their employers' policies by creating resources and programs that made change possible.

    Blog post is here

     

    Book Reviews

    Book Review Essay: Capitalism, Socialism, or Social Democracy?

    Paul S. Adler. The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism

    Mark S. Mizruchi

    Xiaobo Wu, Johann Peter Murmann, Can Huang, and Bin Guo: The Management Transformation of Huawei: From Humble Beginnings to Global Leadership

    Robert A. Burgelman

     

    These articles and many more are featured on Henrich Greve's blog site Organizational Musings. Our student-run ASQ Blog features interviews with ASQ authors that offer insights into the research and writing process. To stay informed, connect with ASQ on social media: follow us on Twitter (@ASQJournal) and LinkedIn.

     

    Christine Beckman, University of Southern California

    Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly



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    Christine Beckman
    University of Southern California
    Los Angeles CA
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