Recent research has show that management control systems (MCS) can improve performance in contexts characterized by high levels of task uncertainty. This seems to conflict with a second stream of research, which argues that MCSs risk undermining the intrinsic motivation needed for effective...

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in their search for answers to a broadening range of questions confronting their own fields. Seeking to clarify the concept and help assess its utility for...

In this paper, we first review the central role traditionally played by community in structuring professional work, especially the case of medicine; we then document the growing influence of market and hierarchy principles in the progressive restructuring of professional work over recent decades;...

Prior research has highlighted several features of professionalism that contribute to assuring the effective diffusion of innovations. Other evidence suggests however that professionals grossly underutilize some innovations and grossly over-utilize others. We explain this pattern as a...

Using the 1979-2010 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, our study tracks the earnings of individual entrepreneurs from the beginning of their entrepreneurial careers, examining the effects of labor markets on their earnings trajectory. Results show that apart from self-selection,...