Publications

September 2022
Article

Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews

By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ruidi Shang

This paper examines whether information extracted via text-based statistical methods applied to employee reviews left on the website Glassdoor.com can be used to develop indicators of corporate misconduct risk. We argue that inside information on the incidence of... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Management Control; Corporate Culture; Corporate Misconduct; Risk Measurement; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics

Article

Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation

1990
Book

Research on Negotiation in Organizations: A Series of Analytical Essays and Critical Reviews

By: B. H. Sheppard, M. H. Bazerman and R. J. Lewicki

Keywords: Organizations; Negotiation

Summer 2013
Book Review

Review of "Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America" by Carolyn M. Goldstein

By: Ai Hisano

1977
Book

Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Policy Agenda

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Policy; Information; United States

Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a major asset management firm, and national non-profit, Commonwealth — created the conditions for the nation’s largest payroll processor, multiple U.S. employers, retirement record keepers, and others... View Details

July 2022
Article

Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward

By: Lara Aknin, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Elizabeth Dunn, Daisy Fancourt, Elkhonon Goldberg, John Helliwell, Sarah P. Jones, Elie Karam, Richard Layard, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Andrew Rzepa, Shekhar Saxena, Emily Thornton, Tyler VanderWeele, Ashley V. Whillans, Jamil Zaki, Ozge Karadag Caman and Yanis Ben Amour

COVID-19 has infected millions of people and upended the lives of most humans on the planet. Researchers from across the psychological sciences have sought to document and investigate the impact of COVID-19 in myriad ways, causing an explosion of research that is broad... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Mental Health; Psychological Distress; Subjective Well-being; Lonelines; Social Connection; Self-harm; Suicide; Health Pandemics; Well-being

March 2013
Book Review

Book Review of 'From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy' by Robin Boadway

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

December 1999
Article

A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting

By: Paul M. Healy and James Wahlen

Keywords: Money; Management

Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers.

In this article, the authors present a... View Details

March 1979
Book Review

The Use, Non-Use, and Abuse of Social Science Knowledge: A Review Essay

2023
Working Paper

How Wicked Problems Drive Business Performance: A Review of the Academic Literature

By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses engaged in the pursuit of “purposeful” activities – that is, activities that engage with the broader community in ways that expand beyond the pursuit of shareholder value. Many of these activities involve... View Details

Keywords: Wicked Problems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Performance

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Book Review

Review of Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence, by Jordan Goodman

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry

2024
Working Paper

People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics

By: Mitchell Hoffman and Christopher T. Stanton

This chapter surveys recent advances in personnel economics. We begin by presenting evidence showing substantial and persistent productivity variation among workers in the same roles. We discuss new research on incentives and compensation; hiring practices; the... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Labor

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'Waiting for Euro': A Review of Economic Systems 25(3) (ed. B. Frensch)

By: Huw Pill

2017
Chapter

On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research

By: Julie Battilana, Marya Besharov and Bjoern Mitzinneck

The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on hybrids by bringing together work from these multiple perspectives; identifying common themes in the antecedents, challenges, opportunities, and management strategies associated with hybridity and highlighting... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Research

September 2008
Book Review

Review of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, by John Bogle

By: Malcolm Baker