The @orgscience.bsky.social AI taskforce released an editorial analyzing 6 yrs of AI use in submission/review data: AI-written papers are lower quality, nearly all rejected, and explain 42%⬆️ submits. We're seeing more rather than better research. Humans are reviewing machines & we're getting tired.

Very astute: "If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational ... they are mistaken. Much as lawyers are guardians of the rule of law, presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms"

I’m a speech to the faculty yesterday, Chancellor Martin made it very clear that he would not consider any agreements that violated the independence and academic freedom of WashU. This is absolutely the right decision.

We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior. 📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

Those of us watching this market have seen this and delinquencies coming. Any small shock to cash flow, such as unemployment rising, was going to blow up consumer credit.

Very excited to see our paper "Like Stars: How Firms Learn at Scientific Conferences" out in print in Management Science! (with Stefano Baruffaldi - yet to join over here) pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start. If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

Shockingly, the slashing of the NIH indirect rate is illegal goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

End capitulation. fox4kc.com/sports/chief...

Please go check out our performance report. We focus heavily on transparency and want scholars to update their beliefs about what they would experience in the review process. I don't ever want to hear someone say "don't send to Org Science because it's slow" again.

Developing a list of Org Scholars and Scholarship. Let me know if you would like to be added!!! @aomconnect.bsky.social @aomsim.bsky.social @orgscience.bsky.social @orgstudies.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

In a new paper at OrgSci, we find gendered responses to expressions of passion—a commonly used criterion in evaluating potential—both penalizes women and advantages (unexceptional) men in high-potential selection 1/8 w/ Joyce He (UCLA) & Celia Moore (Imperial) pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

In competition for shortest title, does this one by David Card, @jrothst.bsky.social , & Moises Yi count as one-word? BTW: An early Berkeley grad school memory was hearing Jesse debate our micro professor & realizing that, like in music, I would not be on the right tail of the econ theory curve.

Working at my sabbatical office in Coma Cafe, the students beside me appear to have deployed Snorlax in their online team battle, then returned to quizzing one another on organic chemistry. The kids are alright, at least in the opinion of this old guy.

With the end of the year, we'll close submissions from Dec 23 to Jan 2. You can still access ScholarOne if you want; you just cannot flood @lamarpierce.bsky.social's inbox w/ submissions. See our Substack for details, cat photos, & music references. Thanks to all for your contributions this year!

AMD published an interesting editorial presenting complementary AOM journals as a "value cycle"--almost a model of knowledge production and application. Many good thoughts in here, and I agree with the general principle. As always, I have many thoughts, if I don't screw this thread up again. (1/1)

This terrible barrier is made even worse because the alternative of having a male coauthor can reduce the credit that non-male authors receive. We need to analyze whether is true in management journals and conferences too. @orgscience.bsky.social

Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

Nice to see Social Issues in Management Division of Academy of Management here: @aomsim.bsky.social. Hopefully the broader AOM org and its journals will join soon. My own attempts at motivating this have been. . . well. . . about as successful as my attempts to publish in a top-5 economics journal.

This 1952 AJS Donald Roy paper was what first excited me about ethnography. I assign it to PhD students w/classic org econ theory. I've always wanted to ask Bob Gibbons, Baker, Holmstrom, Milgrom, Roberts, ect. if they had read this. Ethnography is a wellspring of theory & policy. #orgsky #econsky

My long-time plumber is replacing the toilets with his 16-year-old nephew learning the trade. My immediate thought was that this is a career with good prospects. Hard to replace with AI or robotics, requires years of training, and has high willingness-to-pay. Tough, important, & well-paid work.

#Orgsky friends: This is a great example from economics of why org scholars should study the public sector. Consider the welfare impact of better government orgs in development settings. @orgscience.bsky.social hopes to see papers on questions like this from a diverse set of fields/disciplines.

Another great resource for our community. If you want to be on the list, reach out to @jocelynl.bsky.social to be added. Thanks Jocelyn for doing our community a great service.

I've been following this mental health work by @barbarabiasi.bsky.social, Michael Dahl, and @pmoser.bsky.social for awhile. Great to see the first paper out! #Orgsky peeps: there's a lot here for you: creativity, job choices, mental health, and social standing/resources.

Before you see your next NFL game, read the 2023 AJS paper by @chrisrider.bsky.social, Wade, Swaminathan, & Schwab-exec hiring discrimination is fruit of poisoned tree. tinyurl.com/2ppfxu3z Also see Babcock @anarecalde.bsky.social, Vesterlund, & Weingart AER paper. Non-promotable jobs vs tasks.

Some great folks to follow. Let me know if you're faculty and would like to be added - or if there's anyone you think should be added #academicsky #academicchatter

Exciting news, organizational researchers! @orgstudies.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! And so are our co-editors-in-chief: @tzilber.bsky.social and @paoloquattrone.bsky.social

Just out in @orgscience.bsky.social, a great candidate for the Best Title Award, by Rodolphe Durand, Henning Piezunka, and Philipp Reineke. At last, a new variant of difference in differences that didn't require me to relearn my econometrics. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Our new November-December is live! Check it out for a great mix of topics, settings, and methods. pubsonline.informs.org/toc/orsc/cur.... Read more about it, plus our outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region, in our Substack post. See our EIC's ongoing struggle with spelling in AI images too!

This paper demonstrates an important question in replication and investigation--through which process should we select papers for reevaluation? I would love to know if market is biased based on status or demographics, but the scale/cost of that study would be astronomical. @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social.

@dynarski.bsky.social and her dogs now represent over 50% of my feed--a notable improvement from that other site.

For any organizational researchers migrating to Bluesky, here is a starter pack to help us find each other. Will update, when I find more folks on here. go.bsky.app/H7TKNwu

This is one of my favorite papers ever: Carrell, Sacerdote, & West (2013). Having studied peer effects, I love how this field x shows econometric models don't always translate to policy--here due to endogenous sorting. This explains the labor economist saying "but endogenous hiring" 40x in my talk.

I spoke of the fallibility of editors on a webinar last night. The funniest case for me was when a resubmitting author answered my empirical criticism with: "I talked to Guido Imbens and he says you're wrong" (true). Reminded me of grad school justifying models w/ "Bronwyn (Hall) says it's OK!"

New PNAS paper out compiling the results of a multi-decade, international effort to consistently measure the adoption of structured management practices across the world. I am so grateful to all the coauthors who have worked for over a decade to get to this point. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

It’s a three-hour wait to vote here in the blue part of Missouri, despite zero competitive races. Abortion rights on the ballot. Turnout could be quite different this year.

Here's a nice AMJ editorial on a "research canvas"--a template of important elements in management papers. I do think the harder challenge is evaluating a paper's strengths & weaknesses in each as a package. I imagine every editor and journal weighs these differently.

Our new Substack post presents four forthcoming papers and includes a detailed report on the Org Science Dissertation Competition Finals by organizer Rebecca Ponce de Leon of Columbia. Congratulations to winner @susiechoe.bsky.social of Michigan and runner-up Nick Otis of Berkeley!

Butterburger, Chief Editorial Cat at @orgscience.bsky.social , after looking at my ScholarOne dashboard. . .

Econ peeps! @orgscience.bsky.social publishes papers by economists on organizations, too. I'm new to doing threads here, so I'll try to share some recent examples here: Here’s a newly accepted paper by Xiang Hui, Oren Reshef, and Luofeng Zhou on how AI impacts labor markets for freelancers.

Here at @orgscience.bsky.social we're excited about the growing migration of social scientists here, and hope to help bring in much of the broader b-school community too. We'll be posting here regularly now with paper alerts and other content. Get our full feed at Substack. Tell your friends!

We are super excited to present our 2024 Annual Report. It was a big year due to the efforts of authors, reviewers, editors, and staff. Check out the stats, plans, and inefficient sentence structure on Substack at: orgsci.substack.com/p/its-the-an... Sign up for future news and content!

Great to see Tracy Chapman performing Fast Car--one of the best songs of the last 40 yrs. Growing up surrounded by endless wheatfields, it captured the spirit of turning 16 and flying across roller coasters of dirt roads in my buddy's 1969 white 307 El Camino, pretending we were headed somewhere.

Our new issue is now online, made up of scholars from 4 continents and a diversity of fields/methods. Access the issue and our Substack writeup below. In the next weeks we'll release 2023 journal stats, policies, and more. pubsonline.informs.org/toc/orsc/cur... orgsci.substack.com/p/the-januar...

The 2023 Organization Science Outstanding Reviewer Awards are out! Over 1,000 papers go out each year for three reviews each, so this work is crucial. The awardees represents particularly exceptional service, but are only a small % of our many committed reviewers. See Substack for the winners:

The new Issue 6 is live! This special issue on Experiments in Org Theory is full of great papers, including a beautiful introduction by the editors. pubsonline.informs.org/toc/orsc/cur.... Our Substack newsletter presenting it and other exciting things is here: orgsci.substack.com/p/a-special-....