This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the context of corporate...

The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields — including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research — and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This article offers a...

Decoupling - the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices - is a ubiquitous organizational phenomenon. Yet, little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over time. This qualitative case study of a post-communist government agency develops process models of what...

This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay men in the United States. Pairs of fictitious résumés were sent in response to 1,769 job postings in seven states. One résumé in each pair was randomly assigned experience in a gay campus...

How does the presence of domain experts on a corporate board — directors whose primary professional experience is within the focal firm's industry — affect organizational outcomes? We argue that under conditions of significant decision uncertainty, a higher proportion of domain experts on a...

Numerous scholars have noted the disproportionately high number of gay and lesbian workers in certain occupations, but systematic explanations for this type of occupational segregation remain elusive. Drawing on the literatures on concealable stigma and stigma management, we develop a...

This study examines whether self-monitoring — a ubiquitous social psychological construct that captures the extent to which individuals regulate their self-presentation to match the expectation of others — varies across demographic and social contexts. Building on Erving Goffman’s classic...

Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and...

We examine institutional change processes in authoritarian settings and hypothesize how different types of institutional pressure can spur governmental action concerning firms' environmental performance. Authoritarian states' pursuit of maintaining legitimacy and retaining control is the key...

In a study of how project management is handled cross-culturally, the authors conducted observations and interviews with Chinese and Dutch managers in a variety of industries from food to engineering. Focusing on three key elements—process, people, and technology—the authors found that...