Administrative Science Quarterly Online Table of Contents Alert
The March 2022 issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is available online:
Vol. 67, No. 1
I am pleased to share the March 2022 issue. As I explain in my letter from the editor, in this issue I experimented with an interdisciplinary set of commentaries about mental health, motivated by one of the papers. We have a set of papers on gendered expectations: how gendered expectations shape the influence of social impact work on promotion for men, the influence of surgeons' perceptions about nurses' gendered expectations of them, and how decreased performance pressure increases gender-based discrimination. We also have papers on adherence to global corporate governance norms and on the influence of technological distance on innovation between collaborating teams. In addition, we have another excellent set of book reviews to share. I hope you enjoy the wealth of research shared in this issue. Finally, I want to celebrate the life and many achievements of Sigal Barsade, winner of the 2020 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution (along with Mandy O'Neill). ASQ and our academic community lost a generous author, reviewer, and friend with her passing in February.
Articles
The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business-How Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Spread across Organizations through Employee Mobility
Julia M. Kensbock, Lars Alkærsig, and Carina Lomberg
Using an epidemiology metaphor, this research suggests that depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders may be contagious across organizations as employees-especially managers-diagnosed with mental disorders move to new workplaces.
Blog post is here
Contagion and Psychiatric Disorders: The Social Epidemiology of Risk (Comment on "The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business")
Katherine M. Keyes and Jeffrey Shaman
Supporting Mental Health at Work (Comment on "The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business")
Lamar Pierce and Christopher I. Rider
Authors' Response: If Anything, We Should Stigmatize Unhealthy Organizations
Julia M. Kensbock, Lars Alkærsig, and Carina Lomberg
Up to No Good? Gender, Social Impact Work, and Employee Promotions
Christiane Bode, Michelle Rogan, and Jasjit Singh
Many firms give employees the chance to participate in corporate social initiatives, but for men, doing so decreases their chances for promotion. The negative bias against male participants comes from male evaluators, who judge other men as less of a "fit" with the firm when they engage in social impact projects.
Blog post is here
Our Board, Our Rules: Nonconformity to Global Corporate Governance Norms
Michael A. Witt, Stav Fainshmidt, and Ruth V. Aguilera
While shareholders and management create coalitions that often lead to conformity with corporate governance norms in liberal market economies, the authors show that strong labor, dominant blockholders and small organizational size may be a counterpoint to conformity. The authors explore the configuration of factors leading to conformity and non-conformity with governance norms, which are more complex and locally driven than we thought.
Technological Distance and Breakthrough Inventions in Multi-Cluster Teams: How Intra- and Inter-Location Ties Bridge the Gap
Alex Vestal and Erwin Danneels
Proximity to expertise helps innovation, but only when the Goldilocks principle is followed: not too much proximity, not too little. In nanotech, firms combine local R&D teams with teams from R&D "hotspots." An inverted-U relationship between technological distance and breakthrough innovation is aided by an inter-cluster density of ties, more so than an intra-cluster density of ties.
Blog post is here
Economic Consequences and the Motive to Discriminate
Bryan K. Stroube
We know there are different motives to discriminate, including dislike based on traits and biased beliefs about performance abilities. Stroube shows that when the motive for performance-driven discrimination declines, discrimination based on dislike of demographic traits may flourish.
Blog post is here
Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations
Teresa Cardador, Patrick L. Hill, and Arghavan Salles
This article explores how surgeons believe their gender affects what nurses expect of them. Both men and women surgeons perceive that women (but not men) nurses expect women surgeons to build relationships and help with nursing tasks. This additional labor impacts women surgeons' performance, productivity, and mental health.
Blog post is here
Book Reviews
Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer (eds.): The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism
Robert N. Eberhart
James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park: Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and Institutions
Brayden G. King
Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer: Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
Michael Lounsbury
Marya L. Besharov and Bjoern C. Mitzinneck (eds.): Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises
Nelson Phillips
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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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