Using the 1979-2010 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, our study tracks the earnings of individual entrepreneurs from the beginning of their entrepreneurial careers, examining the effects of labor markets on their earnings trajectory. Results show that apart from self-selection,...

“We're proud of you! Made in America: Harley-Davidson,” President Donald J. Trump praised the motorcycle company's executives and union leaders on February 2, 2017. When he left the meeting at the White House that day, Matthew S. Levatich, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Harley-Davidson...

While research on the cost effectiveness of standardization to date has focused on the impact of different degrees of standardization, it has paid insufficient attention to the process an organization uses to formulate and implement standardized procedures. Drawing on the organizational...

In this paper, we first review the central role traditionally played by community in structuring professional work, especially the case of medicine; we then document the growing influence of market and hierarchy principles in the progressive restructuring of professional work over recent decades;...

This research examined the effects of social capital on entrepreneurial opportunity perception and weak tie investment using individual-level data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor linked with national-level data on social capital. Consistent with a social capital perspective, this study...

Prior research has highlighted several features of professionalism that contribute to assuring the effective diffusion of innovations. Other evidence suggests however that professionals grossly underutilize some innovations and grossly over-utilize others. We explain this pattern as a...

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in their search for answers to a broadening range of questions confronting their own fields. Seeking to clarify the concept and help assess its utility for...

The Anglo‐American institution of the profession is mutating: we propose to analyse this mutation as a contested diffusion process that spreads new organizing practices among professionals. We offer an integrated account of the roles played in this diffusion/mutation process by facilitating...