In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic
effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and …

How work gets done has changed fundamentally in recent decades, with a growing number
of people working independently, outside of organizations in a style of work quite different …

Signaling theory is about decision-making and communication. It describes scenarios where
signalers send observable signals that carry credible information about unobservable …

India-focused research has proliferated in the last few decades. That stated, no study to date
has systematically examined the nuances of the intellectual evolution of this rich body of …

To understand how people cultivate and sustain authenticity in multiple, often shifting, work
roles, we analyze qualitative data gathered over five years from a sample of 48 plural …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to reflect on a broad body of work that responds to the
boundaryless career concept, first introduced in 1993, and to anticipate new theory-building …

A recurring theme in sociological research is the tradeoff between fitting in and standing out.
Prior work examining this tension tends to take either a structural or a cultural perspective …

Employers increasingly use digital technologies in the workplace to capture and analyze
worker data, electronically monitor their workers, and manage them using algorithms. In this …

We propose a synthesis of two lines of sociological research on boundary spanning in
cultural production and consumption. One, research on cultural omnivorousness, analyzes …

Social actors who move across categories are typically disadvantaged relative to their more
focused peers. Yet candidates who compile experiences across disparate areas can either …