
Damon Jeremy PhillipsUniversity of Pennsylvania | UP · The Wharton School
Damon Jeremy Phillips
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July 2021 - present
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We advance gender inequality scholarship by drawing attention to a growing but understudied group: young, single women professionals (without children). Our thesis is that for women, singlehood is deemed incongruent with role expectations of leadership – both with masculine expectations of men as “ideal leaders”, but also compared to feminine expec...
Are female founding CEOs penalized when raising funds for their ventures based on industry served? Across an observational study conducted on ventures seeking funding (N = 392) and an experimental study conducted on investors allocating venture funding (N = 130), we find evidence for a "lack of fit" effect: Female-led ventures catering to male-domi...
This review integrates diverse characterizations of creativity from a sociological perspective with the goal of reinvigorating discussion of the sociology of creativity. We start by exploring relevant works of classical social theory to uncover key assumptions and principles, which are used as a theoretical basis for our proposed definition of crea...
Network affiliations have been extensively investigated as a way for new entrants to establish a foothold in markets. A commonly invoked mechanism is that of signaling, whereby affiliations provide exposure and improve a newcomer's odds of success. Our paper highlights a second mechanism that we argue is especially relevant in cultural markets: how...
This review integrates diverse characterizations of creativity from a sociological perspective with the goal of reinvigorating discussion of the sociology of creativity. We start by exploring relevant works of classical social theory to uncover key assumptions and principles, which are used as a theoretical basis for our proposed definition of crea...
This paper examines entrepreneurship as a way to overcome labor market discrimination. Specifically, we examine entrepreneurship as a career choice for formerly incarcerated individuals, a group of individuals who face substantial discrimination in the labor market. Using the United States National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, we find th...
We propose that the ambiguity of discourse around a category – rather than being problematic – improves the longevity of that category. This is especially true in the creative industries. Using methods and theories drawn from sociology and art history, we tested this thesis using swing as a case study. Based on three years of archival research we f...
This paper investigates how social influence can alter physiological, psychological, and functional responses to a placebo product and how such responses influence the ultimate endorsement of the product. Participants consumed a product, “AquaCharge Energy Water,” falsely-labeled as containing 200 mg of caffeine but which was actually plain spring...
Longitudinal regression model for changes in systolic blood pressure from min14 to min24, with time mean-centered at min14.
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All AquaChargeWater.com website pages.
The AquaCharge Energy Water website was designed specifically for the purposes of study by Gibbs Graphics. The website for the fictional product AquaCharge Energy Water was removed from the Internet after the study was complete. All website pages are reprinted under a CC BY license, with permission from Gibbs...
Full single-level regression models for average post-consumption levels of subjective alertness.
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Full single-level regression models for post-consumption levels of subjective alertness, separately at min24 and min29.
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Effects of condition on subjective alertness: longitudinal analyses.
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Longitudinal regression model for changes in subjective alertness from min13 to min29.
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Longitudinal regression model for changes in systolic blood pressure from min14 to min24, with time mean-centered at min19.
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Full single-level regression models for post-consumption levels of cognitive interference.
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Full single-level regression models for post-consumption levels of product endorsement.
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Additional information on measures and model fitting.
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Recent scholarship on the returns to labor market specialization often claims that being specialized is advantageous for job candidates. We argue, in contrast, that a specialist discount may occur in contexts that share three features: strong institutionalized mechanisms, candidate profiles with direct investments that signal their value, and a hig...
Recent scholarship on the returns to labor market specialization often claims that being specialized is advantageous for job candidates. We argue, in contrast, that a specialist discount may occur in contexts that share three features: strong institutionalized mechanisms, candidate profiles with direct investments that signal their value, and a hig...
In this essay, we pull together foundational research from the psychological, sociological, and medical sciences to illuminate the undeniable influence of the psychosocial context in constructing objective reality. From psychology, we review the growing body of research on how beliefs and expectations about common experiences (e.g., nutrition, stre...
Management research often looks in expected places for its lessons and theories: well-bounded firms, conventional employment relationships, and established industries. Studying unusual settings from the margins of organization and organizing is comparatively rare. This panel symposium brings together junior and senior scholars in an interactive dia...
This chapter explains why it matters that jazz was produced in sixty-seven cities worldwide. That is, jazz up to 1933 was primarily recorded in a small set of cities, including Chicago, London, and New York. Focusing on the mobility networks of musicians across these cities, the chapter examines how disconnectedness can have a unique role in social...
This book has shown which tunes had disproportionate long-run appeal based on social congruence, which gave a dynamic structure to jazz as a market category. In particular, it has examined the role of geography and organizations in determining which of those “million” have shaped jazz through their ascension into the discographical canon of recordi...
There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs—and not others—get re-recorded by many musicians? This book answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and marke...
This chapter examines why the long-run appeal of jazz music worldwide was related to the city of origin's network position with the exception of Berlin in what was then Weimar Germany. Between 1923 and 1933, Berlin produced more early jazz than any other city in Europe as the center of Weimar culture. And yet the lasting appeal of jazz music record...
This chapter examines the sociological congruence of record company deception. It explores deception through the lens of organizational role identities, where role identities are a function of when an organization was founded. It also discusses the role of pseudonyms by focusing on Victorian-era firms and the anti-jazz sentiments they faced. In par...
This chapter examines why there seems to be a disproportionate advantage for jazz recordings that emerged from more disconnected cities than when compared to the more central cities like New York. The previous chapter showed that disconnectedness in the network of geographic mobility has greater influence for how jazz is received than for how it is...
This chapter examines the sociological congruence of identity sequences and adoption narratives of cultural products, with a particular focus on the identities of the individual jazz recordings and groups in concert with the identities of record companies and labels. It first considers the role of adoption narratives in understanding long-term appe...
This chapter examines why the firms that introduced a type of recorded jazz that was successful switched to champion another type of jazz that was less successful. Using both qualitative historical and quantitative analyses, the chapter explores record company comparative advantage in the context of sociological congruence. It also considers the re...
This introductory chapter explains that the book examines the early years of the market for jazz in order to understand why some tunes had long-term appeal while others did not, and how the market boundaries of jazz evolved as a part of this process. Using empirical puzzles and focusing mostly on the period 1917–1933, the book investigates why some...
There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians?Shaping Jazzanswers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and mar...
Why are some diversified market identities problematic but others are not? We examine this question in the context of high-status corporate law firms, which often diversify into one low-status area of work— family law (FL) — but face a barrier (strong disapproval from existing clients) that prevents diversification into another such area— plaintiff...
In this research note, we reanalyze and extend Phillips and Zuckerman’s (2001) study of diversification among Silicon Valley law firms. Our goals are to bolster the evidence in Phillips, Turco, and Zuckerman (2013a) in two ways. First, we demonstrate that high-status law firm diversification is relatively common when it involves Family Law (FL) (as...
Purpose – This study is intended to extend scholarship on the management of organizations by examining the long-term performance of orphaned products.
Design/methodology/approach – This study uses the historical context of the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression to examine the long-run appeal (performance) of orphaned products – produc...
The study of organizations and markets suffers from the underdevelopment of disconnected producers. This article emphasizes the imputed identities of sources to argue that difficult-to-categorize outputs were appealing when associated with a source high in disconnectedness. Worldwide data on recordings and mobility with detailed data on Midwest rec...
We explore how the long-run success of cultural products is affected by the identities of the product's originators and early adopters. Using U.S. jazz recordings from 1920 to 1929, we found that songs were more likely to be later covered from 1944 to 2004 if they followed a pattern of having black originators and white early adopters. Moreover, we...
This paper theoretically and empirically engages the relationship between organizational identity and deception using the market for early jazz recordings as a setting. In this setting, pseudonyms (where a recording is reissued under a fictitious name) were used deceptively as a way to preserve a firm's identity while selling profitable but identit...
Most entrepreneurs emanate from established firms, but the impact of these employment histories on entrepreneurial outcomes
is poorly understood. We argue that work experiences in the prior firm shape both the entrepreneur's competence in and commitment
to the entrepreneurial role. We focus on the effects of employer size on the prospective entrepr...
Using a study on foundings of Silicon Valley law firms, I propose and test an organizational theory on the genealogical persistence of gender inequality that emphasizes the routines (or blueprints) and experiences that founders transfer from their parent firms to their new firms. This transfer links the parent firm's gender hierarchy to women's adv...
Explanations of gender inequality typically emphasize individual characteristics, the structure of internal labor markets, or pressures from the institutional environment. Extending the structuralist and institutional perspectives, this article argues that the demographic composition of an organization's exchange partners can influence the demograp...
We examine recorded jazz as a musical innovation of the early twentieth century. Consistent with much research on radical innovations, the dominant incumbent record companies exhibited hesitance and limited competence in offering jazz in its radical form. In contrast to much research, these same incumbent firms were first movers in recording an “il...
n this study, we address the topic of interorganizational network change by exploring factors that affect the choice of alliance and interlock partners. While many studies have been devoted to investigating various factors driving network partner choice, there is also an interesting and unexplored tension in this body of work. On the one hand, much...
While the scholarship on internal labor markets and promotion chances has contributed substantially to the sociology of organizations
and labor markets, it has not developed a rich understanding of how career trajectories are influenced by the firm's competitive
position in its product market. Our central claim is that a firm's implicit bargaining...
Data on Silicon Valley law firms over a 50-year period were used to study the genealogy of organizational populations and its consequences for organizational life chances when a member of an existing firm leaves to found a new firm. Hypotheses and subsequent analysis suggest that the transfer of resources and routines between a parent organization...
This article aims to reestablish the long-standing conjecture that conformity is high at the middle and low at either end of a status order. On a theoretical level, the article clarifies the basis for expecting such an inverted U-shaped curve, taking care to specify key scope conditions on the social-psychological orientations of the actors, the ch...
This article argues that there is a "promotion paradox"—a negative relation between firm life chances and employee promotion chances. I argue that this is due to a firm's bargaining power, which increases with the firm's competitive strength. I find strong support using data on 50 years of Silicon Valley law firms and attorneys. Young, small, speci...
This paper examines the growth (and decline) of organizational status. It is argued that an organization's status is determined by two factors: past performance outcomes and the status of the organization's affiliates. The better the past performance outcomes and the higher the status of the affiliates, the greater the organization's growth in stat...
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992. Title as it appears in the June, 1992 MIT Graduate List: Optical measurement of random size water droplets in wing-tip wake vortices. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-122). by Damon J. Phillips. M.S.
and audiences at MIT, the University of Chicago, and the American Sociological Association. The fault for any remaining errors lies entirely with the authors.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-159). Photocopy.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-159). Microfiche.