Existing category research tends to divorce categories from place. When considered at all,
place is often relegated to the contextual background. We see at least three important …

An increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures are growing at exponential rates despite
their founders' professed intentions not to grow their firms. We refer to these individuals as …

This 1.5-year ethnographic study of a US medical center shows that avoiding loss of
autonomy and work intensification for less powerful actors during digital technology …

In this Element, we examine how organizational researchers have published articles
contributing to organization theory in high quality organizational journals, and we examine …

The family business literature has not addressed the role of information systems (IS) in the
development of trust in family businesses. Through an in-depth analysis of a Chinese …

Identity is a multi-disciplinary concept manifest at multiple levels of analysis that can impact
many aspects of organizing. As such, the field can be complex and bewildering to the …

Through an inductive study of learning and development (L&D) executives in 69
multinational organizations, we build a theory of marginal leaders' conception of learning in …

As the online gig economy diffuses into professional fields, more workers now engage in
online platforms alongside traditional offline practice. How do concurrent online and offline …

We develop a model of how emotions shape the participation of professions' clients in
episodes of jurisdictional contestation. Our model begins with a framing contest between a …

How can a professional identity persist when it is mismatched with the reality of work
demands in one's first job? Existing theory suggests that new members of a profession …