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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..

Authenticity and Consumer Value Ratings: Empirical Tests from the Restaurant Domain (2013)
Journal Article
Kovács, B., Carroll, G., & Lehman, D. (2014). Authenticity and Consumer Value Ratings: Empirical Tests from the Restaurant Domain. Organization Science, 25(2), 458-478. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2013.0843

We present two studies that together test a fundamental yet rarely examined assumption underlying the contemporary appeal of authenticity—namely, that consumers assign higher value ratings to organizations regarded as authentic. Study 1 conducts cont... Read More about Authenticity and Consumer Value Ratings: Empirical Tests from the Restaurant Domain.

Restaurant organizational forms and community in the U.S. in 2005 (2011)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., & Torfason, M. (2011). Restaurant organizational forms and community in the U.S. in 2005. City & Community, 10(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01350.x

Recent sociological theory and research highlights food, drink, and restaurants as culturally meaningful and related to social identity. An implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological cha... Read More about Restaurant organizational forms and community in the U.S. in 2005.

The social lives of products: Analyzing product demography for management theory and practice (2010)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., Khessina, O., & McKendrick, D. (2010). The social lives of products: Analyzing product demography for management theory and practice. Academy of Management Annals, 4, 157-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/19416521003732362

Despite the centrality of products in many strategic and managerial theoretical frameworks, little is known systematically about how and why specific products come and go from markets. We argue that narrowing this gap will likely enhance management t... Read More about The social lives of products: Analyzing product demography for management theory and practice.

Niche width and scale in organizational competition: A computational approach (2010)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., & Kovács, B. (2010). Niche width and scale in organizational competition: A computational approach. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 16(1), 29-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-010-9064-4

In some organizational applications, the principle of allocation (PoA) and scale advantage (SA) oppose each other. While PoA implies that organizations with wide niches get punished, SA holds that large organizations gain an advantage because of scal... Read More about Niche width and scale in organizational competition: A computational approach.

Organizational evolution with fuzzy technological formats: Tape drive producers in the world market, 1951-1998 (2010)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., Feng, M., Le Mens, G., & McKendrick, D. (2010). Organizational evolution with fuzzy technological formats: Tape drive producers in the world market, 1951-1998. Research in the sociology of organizations, 31, 203-233. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x%282010%290000031009

We study how tape drive producers respond to the almost continuous emergence of new drive formats across the technology's history. The analysis characterizes the technological formats of tape drives according to their degree of contrast (distinctiven... Read More about Organizational evolution with fuzzy technological formats: Tape drive producers in the world market, 1951-1998.

The organizational construction of authenticity: An examination of contemporary food and dining in the U.S (2009)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., & Wheaton, D. (2009). The organizational construction of authenticity: An examination of contemporary food and dining in the U.S. Research in Organizational Behavior, 29, 255-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2009.06.003

This chapter attempts to strengthen theoretical connections between interpretive cultural studies of authenticity and organizational studies. Adopting an unstructured qualitative approach, we use the domain of contemporary food and dining to develop... Read More about The organizational construction of authenticity: An examination of contemporary food and dining in the U.S.

Studying populations of organizations over time (2009)
Book Chapter
Carroll, G., McKendrick, D., Feng, M., & Le Mens, G. (2009). Studying populations of organizations over time. In A. Bryman, & D. Buchanan (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods (213-229). SAGE Publications

Product demography of de novo and de alio firms in the optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999 (2008)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., & Khessina, O. (2008). Product demography of de novo and de alio firms in the optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999. Organization Science, 19(1), 25-38. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0301

Little theory and research addresses the ways organizational context affects the demography of products. We examine this question here by focusing on an organization's mode of market entry. Specifically, we explore differences between firms entering... Read More about Product demography of de novo and de alio firms in the optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999.

The logics of organization theory: Audiences, codes and ecologies (2007)
Book
Hannan, M., Polos, L., & Carroll, G. (2007). The logics of organization theory: Audiences, codes and ecologies. Princeton University Press

Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools--first-order logic and its foundational set theory--are ill-suited for handling these complications. Here, three leading... Read More about The logics of organization theory: Audiences, codes and ecologies.

Organizational demography (2007)
Book Chapter
Carroll, G. (2007). Organizational demography. In S. Clegg, & J. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies (1042-1044). SAGE Publications

The evolution of inertia (2004)
Journal Article
Hannan, M., Pòlos, L., & Carroll, G. (2004). The evolution of inertia. Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(1), 213-242. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/13.1.213

This article examines some evolutionary consequences of architectural inertia in organizations. The main theorem holds that selection favors architectural inertia in the sense that the median level of inertia in a closed population of organizations i... Read More about The evolution of inertia.

Size, differentiation and the performance of Dutch daily newspapers (2004)
Journal Article
Carroll, G., Boone, C., & van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). Size, differentiation and the performance of Dutch daily newspapers. Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(1), 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/13.1.117

We demonstrate how organizational ecology can contribute to strategic management and managerial practice by using resource-partitioning theory to make predictions with respect to: (i) the short-run performance (i.e. growth and profitability) conseque... Read More about Size, differentiation and the performance of Dutch daily newspapers.

The organizational niche (2003)
Journal Article
Hannan, M., Carroll, G., & Pólos, L. (2003). The organizational niche. Sociological Theory, 21(4), 309-340. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-9558.2003.00192.x

Although the concept of niche has been extremely useful in sociological theory and research, some aspects of the concept have not been clearly developed. This article advances a theoretical reconstruction of the concept of niche, with special applica... Read More about The organizational niche.