Past research has been relatively silent on factors contributing to an organization's decision to abandon its practices or strategies. To close this gap, we draw upon theories of interorganizational learning and multipoint competition to examine location abandonment by multiunit banks in New...

We examine the rise of same-sex partner health benefits in Fortune 500 corporations, 1990-2003. Such benefits challenged the existing institution of workplace heterosexism, which in turn triggered contestation between proponents and opponents of the institutions of workplace heterosexism and of...

Although organizations and individuals tend to focus on learning from success, research has shown that failure can yield crucial insights in various contexts that range from small mistakes and errors, product recalls, accidents, and medical errors to large-scale disasters. This review of the...