Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1177/00018392241273301
Bryan Spencer, Claus Rerup
According to the Carnegie School tradition of experiential learning, learning processes are driven by interpretations of experience relative to an observable goal. While prior research has considered how ambiguity may complicate interpretation, it has seldom considered how ambiguous experience emanating from the enactment of hidden goals may complicate the interpretive process. Drawing on a 13-month inductive study of CryptoTradingGroup (CTG), a distributed financial organization, and its interactions with MajorCryptoCommunity (MCC), a cryptocurrency investment community, we examine how actors engage in effective interpretation and learning when they face hidden goals and ambiguous experience. We examine how perpetrators in CTG plotted a hidden market manipulation goal in a backstage secret chatroom while simultaneously targeting MCC with invalid information enacted in the frontstage. Our analysis unpacks the dynamics of how MCC deciphered the hidden market manipulation goal and stopped the fraud through a process that we label inferential interpretation. In shifting away from a model of effective learning with statistical inference, in which interpretation is rarely examined, inferential interpretation shows how heterogeneous actors construct understandings from cues embedded in ambiguous experience during the learning process. Our study makes interpretation, i.e., the construction of meaning, central to conceptions of experiential learning when reality, causality, and intentionality are obscured.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1177/00018392241271148
Adina D. Sterling
Despite continued research on workers’ quit behavior, questions remain on how race influences voluntary departure. To make progress on this topic, in this study I treat race as a structural position with respect to resources in order to develop a theoretical frame on why members of racial groups leave jobs. I argue that Black workers are more apt than White workers to voluntarily depart for reasons related to a lack of resources, such as a lack of health or transportation, whereas White workers are more likely than Black workers to depart for reasons that require resources, such as to start a new business or to take a new job. Using a nationally representative cohort sample spanning a period of two decades, I find support for my theory. The results indicate that Black workers are more likely than White workers to voluntarily depart their jobs due to resource constraints, and White workers are more likely than Black workers to voluntarily depart their jobs for reasons that require resources. This study suggests ways to reconceptualize the constraints and opportunities underlying voluntary departure and why such departure varies across racial groups.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1177/00018392241281726
Stephanie Decker
{"title":"Christina Lubinski. Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations","authors":"Stephanie Decker","doi":"10.1177/00018392241281726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241281726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1177/00018392241272056
Wyatt Y. Lee
As rankings of organizations have proliferated in recent decades, much research has focused on organizational efforts to maintain a high position in rankings. A common theme in this literature is that changes in rank affect evaluations by external audiences and, consequently, organizational outcomes. Yet, accumulating evidence suggests that rankings sometimes have little effect on audience assessments and organizational outcomes, a finding that calls into question the power of rankings. Instead of asking whether rankings matter, this study adopts a contingency approach and investigates when rankings matter. I develop theory about contextual and organizational factors that shape the salience and information value of shifts in rankings: the direction of the change, the availability of information from other intermediaries, the sophistication of the audience, and the focal organization’s previous ranking position. Panel data analysis and a natural experiment focused on the Fortune 500 rankings support this theory. This article provides a framework to help scholars understand the contingent and asymmetric consequences of rankings on organizational outcomes, with implications for research on evaluation systems.
{"title":"Falling Fortunes: The Contingent and Asymmetric Effect of Rankings on Organizational Outcomes","authors":"Wyatt Y. Lee","doi":"10.1177/00018392241272056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241272056","url":null,"abstract":"As rankings of organizations have proliferated in recent decades, much research has focused on organizational efforts to maintain a high position in rankings. A common theme in this literature is that changes in rank affect evaluations by external audiences and, consequently, organizational outcomes. Yet, accumulating evidence suggests that rankings sometimes have little effect on audience assessments and organizational outcomes, a finding that calls into question the power of rankings. Instead of asking whether rankings matter, this study adopts a contingency approach and investigates when rankings matter. I develop theory about contextual and organizational factors that shape the salience and information value of shifts in rankings: the direction of the change, the availability of information from other intermediaries, the sophistication of the audience, and the focal organization’s previous ranking position. Panel data analysis and a natural experiment focused on the Fortune 500 rankings support this theory. This article provides a framework to help scholars understand the contingent and asymmetric consequences of rankings on organizational outcomes, with implications for research on evaluation systems.","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1177/00018392241279850
Tammar B. Zilber
{"title":"Michel Anteby. The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field","authors":"Tammar B. Zilber","doi":"10.1177/00018392241279850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241279850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1177/00018392241277124
Patricia H. Thornton
{"title":"Robert N. Eberhart, Michael Lounsbury, and Howard E. Aldrich (eds.). Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives (vol. 81). Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings (vol. 82)","authors":"Patricia H. Thornton","doi":"10.1177/00018392241277124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241277124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1177/00018392241276417
Andrew J. Hoffman
{"title":"Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative","authors":"Andrew J. Hoffman","doi":"10.1177/00018392241276417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241276417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/00018392241264338
Christine M. Beckman
{"title":"From the Editor","authors":"Christine M. Beckman","doi":"10.1177/00018392241264338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392241264338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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