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Where did “Tex-Mex” come from? The divisive emergence of a social category (2017)
Journal Article
Wheaton, D., & Carroll, G. (2017). Where did “Tex-Mex” come from? The divisive emergence of a social category. Research in Organizational Behavior, 37, 143-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2017.09.003

Research on social categories has become one of the more active lines of research on organizations. Much of this research presumes the pre-existence of at least the “seed” of the category and then proceeds to study and explain how the category develo... Read More about Where did “Tex-Mex” come from? The divisive emergence of a social category.

Disambiguating authenticity: Interpretations of value and appeal (2017)
Journal Article
O’Connor, K., Carroll, C., & Kovács, B. (2017). Disambiguating authenticity: Interpretations of value and appeal. PLoS ONE, 12(6), Article e0179187. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179187

While shaping aesthetic judgment and choice, socially constructed authenticity takes on some very different meanings among observers, consumers, producers and critics. Using a theoretical framework positing four distinct meanings of socially construc... Read More about Disambiguating authenticity: Interpretations of value and appeal.

The Perils of Proclaiming an Authentic Organizational Identity (2017)
Journal Article
Kovács, B., Carroll, G., & Lehman, D. (2017). The Perils of Proclaiming an Authentic Organizational Identity. Sociological Science, 4, 80-106. https://doi.org/10.15195/v4.a4

An emerging body of research consistently demonstrates that individuals in developed consumer markets value authenticity. But how individuals respond to organizations that tout their identities as authentic is not so well understood. We argue that or... Read More about The Perils of Proclaiming an Authentic Organizational Identity.

The Handover in Hong Kong: Impact on Business Formation (2014)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., Feng, M., & Kuilman, J. (2014). The Handover in Hong Kong: Impact on Business Formation. Sociological Science, 1, 366-396. https://doi.org/10.15195/v1.a22

Although the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China was a major political transformation, its impact on new business formation has not been fully scrutinized. Theory suggests contradictory forces may operate before, during, and a... Read More about The Handover in Hong Kong: Impact on Business Formation.

Conflicting Social Codes and Organizations: Hygiene and Authenticity in Consumer Evaluations of Restaurants. (2014)
Journal Article
Lehman, D., Kovacs, B., & Carroll, G. (2014). Conflicting Social Codes and Organizations: Hygiene and Authenticity in Consumer Evaluations of Restaurants. Management Science, 60(10), 2602-2617. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.1903

Organization theory highlights the spread of norms of rationality in contemporary life. Yet rationality does not always spread without friction; individuals often act based on other beliefs and norms. We explore this problem in the context of restaur... Read More about Conflicting Social Codes and Organizations: Hygiene and Authenticity in Consumer Evaluations of Restaurants..

In the bud ? disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form (2003)
Journal Article
McKendrick, D., Jaffee, J., Carroll, G., & Khessina, O. (2003). In the bud ? disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(1), 60-93. https://doi.org/10.2307/3556619

This article develops and tests theory on when and where a new organizational form will emerge. Recent theory holds that as the number of organizations using a particular external identity code first increases beyond a critical minimal level, the cod... Read More about In the bud ? disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form.

Resource distributions and market partitioning: Dutch daily newspapers, 1968 to 1994 (2002)
Journal Article
Boone, C., Carroll, G., & van Witteloostuijn, A. (2002). Resource distributions and market partitioning: Dutch daily newspapers, 1968 to 1994. American Sociological Review, 67(3), 408-431. https://doi.org/10.2307/3088964

Resource-partitioning theory explains how, in heavily concentrated populations, specialist organizations arise and proliferate. The theory also addresses the process of market concentration itself, although far less attention has been devoted to the... Read More about Resource distributions and market partitioning: Dutch daily newspapers, 1968 to 1994.