
The Wellspring
Emerging Research from
Organization Science and Beyond
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The Wellspring presents Organization Science papers from 2022 to 2025 organized into distinct research streams. We also feature select emergent papers from other journals with the goal to provide a dynamic knowledge base spotlighting the newest advances in theory and evidence. The canon of our field should be ever-changing, advancing theory and policy rather than simply enshrining the best work of yesterday. We hope you’ll read and cite these newer works and the advances, updates, and even corrections they proffer, as well as use them to update your doctoral readings to represent the state of the art in organizational research.
Featured Research Streams
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Misconduct and Ethics
Curated by Lamar Pierce.
Zyung, J. D. (2025).Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency andCommunion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
Kundro, T. G., Tedder-King, A., Walker, O. M., & Shandell, M. (2025).Reject or protect? Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
Keum, D. D., & Meier, S. (2024).License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs. Organization Science, 35(3), 994-1014.
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Corporate Strategy and Governance
Curated by Mark DesJardine and Emilie Feldman.
Chen, G., Huang, R., Mei, S., & Tan, K. J. K. (2025). CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions. Organization Science, 36(1), 65-87.
Li, W., Xu, Q., & Zhu, Q. (2025). CEO Hometown Preference in Corporate Environmental Policies. Management Science, Articles in Advance.
DesJardine, M. R., Shi, W., & Marti, E. (2024). The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity. Organization Science, 35(2), 644-666.
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Gender and Work
Curated by Jennifer Merluzzi.
Daviss, C., & Leung, M. D. (2025). Reactions, Revisions, and Rehiring: Changes in Employers' Gendered Preferences in Online Labor Markets. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
Doering, L. & Tilcsik, A. (2025). Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-Site Work. Organization Science, 36(2), 547-571.
He, J. C., Jachimowicz, J. M., & Moore, C. (2025). Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
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Entrepreneurship
Curated by Martin Ganco.
Santamaria, S., & Breschi, S. (2025). On Resource Complementarity Among Startups, Accelerators, and Financial Investors: A Large-Scale Analysis of Sorting and Value Creation. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
Agarwal, R., Bacco, F., Camuffo, A., Coali, A., Gambardella, A., Msangi, H., Sonka, S., Temu, A., Waized, B., & Wormald, A. (2025). Does a Theory-of-Value Add Value? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Tanzanian Entrepreneurs. Organization Science 36(2), 601-625.
Conti, A., Peukert, C., & Roche, M. (2025). Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub. Organization Science, Articles in Advance.
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Compensation and Incentives
Curated by Claudine Gartenberg and Lamar Pierce.
Gutierrez, C., Obloj, T., & Zenger, T. (2025). Pay transparency and productivity. Strategic Management Journal, 46(8), 1831-1860.
Dakhlallah, D. (2024). Bribery in the Workplace: A Field Experiment on the Threat of Making Group Behavior Visible. Organization Science, 35(4), 1203-1223.
Cowgill, B., Agan, A., & Gee, L. K. (2024).The gender disclosure gap: Salary history bans unravel when men volunteer their income. Organization Science, 35(5), 1571-1588.
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Worker Health
Curated by Hengchen Dai and Helen Wanqi Zhang.
Evans, J., & Silbey, S. S. (2022). Co-Opting Regulation: Professional Control Through Discretionary Mobilization of Legal Prescriptions and Expert Knowledge. Organization Science, 33(5), 2041-2064.
Shi, W., Xia, C., & Meyer-Doyle, P. (2022).Institutional investor activism and employee safety: The role of activist and board political ideology. Organization Science, 33(6), 2404-2420.
Lee, J. W., Quintane, E., Lee, S. Y., Ruiz, C. U., & Kilduff, M. (2024). The strain of spanning structural holes: How brokering leads to burnout and abusive behavior. Organization Science, 35(1), 177-194.
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Emerging Markets
Curated by Nilanjana Dutt.
Koo, W. W. Y., & Eesley, C. E. (2025). Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship. Organization Science, 36(3), 1202-1220.
Nava, L., Chiapetti, J., da Rocha, R. B., & Tampe, M. (2025).Die Now of Hunger or Later of Thirst: Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Decisions in Vulnerable Contexts. Strategic Management Journal, 46(8), 1861-1893.
Eaglin, F. C. (2025). The Perils of a Soft Start: Initial Conditions, Early Strategy Selection, and Small Firm Performance. Strategic Management Journal, Early View.
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AI and Robotics
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Strategic Human Capital
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Sustainability
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Science and Innovation
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Organizational Change and Learning
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Healthcare Organizations
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Ethnography
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Teams
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Networks
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Decision Making
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Organization Design
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Resource Redeployment
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Methodological Advancements
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Geography and Remote Work