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Introduction
Anna Roberts is a doctoral candidate in the Management and Organization Department at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. She focuses on big, challenging questions of societal relevance, centering around how platforms and new forms of work change boundaries and power dynamics within institutions and organizations. Methodologically, she uses a range of qualitative methodological approaches, including grounded theory, process theory, and inductive case-based theorizing.
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Despite the growth of qualitative research, we lack a systematic understanding of the lived experiences of qualitative scholars themselves. Our study is motivated by the intuition that by shedding light on the “map makers behind the maps” we may gain a novel view of the field: of the assumptions, emotions, fears and hopes that anchor extant qualita...
In this paper, we consider the relationships among corporate accountability, reputation, and tax behavior as a corporate social responsibility issue. As part of our investigation, we provide empirical examples of corporate reputation and corporate tax behaviors using a sample of large, U.S.-based multinational companies. In addition, we utilize cor...
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We explore the challenges that digital platform‐based sharing economy ventures confront in establishing legitimacy for their business models by examining the dynamics that ensued when Uber Technologies deployed its ridesharing business model in four U.S. cities. Uber entered each city to jump‐start network effects by establishing c...
Emotions are central to social life and thus they should be central to organization theory. However, emotions have been treated implicitly rather than theorized directly in much of organization theory, and in some literatures, have been ignored altogether. This Element focuses on emotions as intersubjective, collective and relational, and reviews s...
What happens to nonelite workers’ meaning, belonging, and identity when work is “on-demand”? On-demand organizations, such as Uber and TaskRabbit, have ambiguous boundaries and locations of workers. This qualitative study investigated how organizational and societal boundary discourse and the organization of the work itself, constructed sometimes c...
