Publications



“Entrepreneurship as a Mobility Process” (with Amanda Sharkey). American Sociological Review.  Forthcoming.


“Sociology and Strategy” (with Glenn Carroll). In David Teece and Mie Augier (eds.) Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Forthcoming.


“The Perils of False Certainty: A Comment on the ASA Amicus Brief in Dukes vs. Wal-Mart” (with Amanda Sharkey). Sociological Methods and Research}: 40: 635-645.  2011.


“Competence and Commitment: Employer Size and Entrepreneurial Endurance”  (with Damon Phillips). Industrial and Corporate Change 20: 1277-1304. 2011.


“Organizations as Fonts of Entrepreneurship.” (with Magali Fassiotto). Organization Science 22: 1322-1331.  2011.


“Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship” (with Ramana Nanda). Management Science 56: 1116-1126. 2010.


•“Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry.”  Administrative Science Quarterly 52: 387-412.  2007.


•“Corporate Demography and Income Inequality”  (with Olav Sorenson). American Sociological Review 72: 766-783. 2007.


“The Interplay of Theory and Methods” (with John Van Maanen and Terence R. Mitchell). Academy of Management Review  32: 1145-1154.  2007.


“Closure and Exposure: Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Self-employment.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 25: 83-124. 2007.


“Organizational Diversity, Labor Markets and Wage Inequality.” The American Behavioral Scientist 50: 659-676.  2007.


“Two-Dimensional Models of Sex Segregation: Industries and Occupations” (with Kimberly A. Weeden).  Pp. 245-294 in Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men, by Maria Charles and David B. Grusky (eds.).   Stanford: Stanford University Press.  2004.


•"The Organizational Demography of Racial Employment Segregation."  American Journal of Sociology 110: 626-671.  2004.


•"Recruitment-based Competition between Industries: A Community Ecology."  Industrial and Corporate Change 13: 149-170.  2004.


•"Promoting from a Position of Weakness: Firm Strength and the Rate of Internal Promotion" (with Damon Phillips). Social Forces 81: 819-841. 2003.


•Review of The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, by Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer (eds.). Administrative Science Quarterly 38: 534-537. 2003.


•"From Conception to Birth: Opportunity Perception and Resource Mobilization in Entrepreneurship" (with Olav Sorenson).  Advances in Strategic Management 20: 89-117.  2003.


•"The Strength of Corporate Culture and the Reliability of Firm Performance" Administrative Science Quarterly 47: 70-91.  2002.


•"Coming from Good Stock: Career Histories and New Venture Formation" (with M. Diane Burton and Christine Beckman). Research in the Sociology of Organizations 19: 229-262.  2002.


•"The Use and Misuse of the Coefficient of Variation in Organizational Demography Research” Sociological Methods and Research 30: 475-491.  2002.


•"Finding the Right Mix: Organizational Learning, Plural Forms and Franchise Performance” (with Olav Sorenson). Strategic Management Journal 22: 713-724. 2001.

 

•"Aging, Obsolescence and Organizational Innovation” (with Toby E. Stuart). Administrative Science Quarterly 45: 81-112. 2000.


•"The Longitudinal Effect of Group Tenure Composition on Turnover” American Sociological Review 65: 298-310. 2000.

 

•"Are There Big Social Classes?" (with David B. Grusky). Pp. 183-194 in David B. Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Second Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview. 2000.


•"The Case for Realism in Class Analysis" (with David B. Grusky and Kimberly A. Weeden). Political Power and Social Theory 14: 291-306. 2000.

 

•"The Ecology of Organizational Demography: Managerial Tenure Distributions and Organizational Competition ." Industrial and Corporate Change 8: 713-744. 1999.

 

•"Executive Migration and Interorganizational Competition ." Social Science Research 28: 289-315. 1999.


•" Can Class Analysis be Salvaged?” (with David B. Grusky). American Journal of Sociology 103: 1187-1234. 1998.


•"Zero-inflated Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models." Stata Technical Bulletin 46: 24-28. 1998.


•Review of Organizations in America: Analyzing their Structures and Human Resource Practices, by Arne L. Kalleberg, David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden and Joe L. Spaeth. Social Forces 76: 719-720. 1997.


•"Career Mobility in Microscopic Perspective" (with David B. Grusky). Pp. 83-114 in Social Differentiation and Social Inequality, James N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman, (eds.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1996. 


•"Locating Class Cleavages in Intergenerational Mobility: Cross-National Commonalities and Variations in Mobility Patterns." European Sociological Review 8: 267-282. 1992. 

 

•"'More Matter, with Less Art': A Rejoinder to Erikson and Goldthorpe." European Sociological Review 8: 307-310. 1992.

 

•"Perceptions of Women's Opportunity in Five Industrialized Nations." European Sociological Review 6: 151-164. 1990. Excerpted as pp. 346-351 of Haves and Have-Nots: An International Reader on Social Inequality, James Curtis and Lorne Tepperman (eds.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1994.