The status of status research: A review of the types, functions, levels, and audiences

M Prato, G Ertug, F Castellucci… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Our review of 154 articles published over the last decade portrays an evolution of status
research. This body of literature has transitioned from viewing status as a monolithic …

Avoiding the appearance of virtue: Reactivity to corporate social responsibility ratings in an era of shareholder primacy

BW Lewis, WC Carlos - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We examine why organizations may at times decrease their performance after receiving a
positive rating. We argue that in contrast to the prevailing assumption that organizations will …

The experimental hand: How platform-based experimentation reconfigures worker autonomy

HA Rahman, T Weiss… - Academy of Management …, 2023‏ - journals.aom.org
We examine how and when platform-based experimentation influences worker autonomy,
especially in contexts where workers do not have access to the same relational …

The Stickiness of Category Labels: Audience Perception and Evaluation of Producer Repositioning in Creative Markets

B Kovács, G Hsu, A Sharkey - Management Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Market producers often seek to position themselves in different categories over time.
Successful repositioning is difficult, however, as audiences often devalue offerings that …

The Turing test of online reviews: Can we tell the difference between human-written and GPT-4-written online reviews?

B Kovács - Marketing Letters, 2024‏ - Springer
Online reviews serve as a guide for consumer choice. With advancements in large language
models (LLMs) and generative AI, the fast and inexpensive creation of human-like text may …

The evolution of technology

S Grodal, AD Krabbe… - Academy of management …, 2023‏ - journals.aom.org
The evolution of technology is a central theme for management theory due to the
transformative effect of technological change on societies, markets, industries …

From audience to evaluator: When visibility into prior evaluations leads to convergence or divergence in subsequent evaluations among professionals

TL Botelho - Organization Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Collective evaluation processes, which offer individuals an opportunity to assess quality,
have transcended mainstream sectors (eg, books, restaurants) to permeate professional …

Information-based competition: The case of rival owners in rating agencies

MR DesJardine, B Li, W Shi - Academy of Management Journal, 2025‏ - journals.aom.org
This study extends competitive dynamics research by theorizing how and when information
about a firm may be shaped by competitive forces operating through information …

[HTML][HTML] Signals from CSR competition: The influence of relative CSR performance on analysts' recommendations

J Zheng, M Ghorbani, Y Yan, Y Cao - The British Accounting Review, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Due to the institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its integration into
firm strategy, firms are engaged in fierce competition, which has gained stakeholders' …

The Ideological Imperative: Corporate Social Responsibility and News Media Coverage of Firms

Y Dewan, T Simons, G Wernicke - Organization Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Although prior research attributes news media coverage of firms to the alignment of firm
behavior with societal expectations of appropriateness, the appropriateness of firm behavior …