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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Growing up in a 19th century northern farmhouse mostly heated by a wood stove, it was cold at night. 8 heavy quilts made for a nice weighted blanket, and yeah, it was the best way to sleep.

Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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.

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Organization Science @orgscience.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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!

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Thanks again to the authors for showing how a set of journals can collectively facilitate knowledge generation and dissemination. I'm grateful for the many organizations and journals that help support a broader cycle of understanding and improving organizations. 7.479/7

It's great to show AOM journals covering many parts of a cycle, but there are parts their (or any set of) journals don't cover. We should indeed go beyond "within paper" or "within scholar." But we should also explicitly show any cycle as going beyond the journals of specific orgs or fields. 7/7

I appreciate and agree with much of this piece, but would encourage future work to not bound the model or discussion at the org level. I would want emerging scholars to think of value cycles across orgs, fields, and disciplines. . . 6/7

Incorporating this makes for a much messier model figure without a clean cycle, but a more realistic/productive model for knowledge generation, dissemination, & application. Theoretically, it's not clear why the boundary of the firm/organization (AOM) is crucial here. 5/7

If the paper ends up at SMJ, @orgscience.bsky.social ASQ, JOM, ect., it should still remain in the cycle of AOM (and other) journals. Same with papers that are never submitted to AOM journals, from across fields & disciplines. They should remain part of this cycle, with no less importance. . .4/7

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One problem is that orgs like AOM tend to lack redundancy across journals. That's understandable, but it highlights why noisy editorial decisions can exclude knowledge from this process. Great papers get rejected all the time. If AMJ/AMD rejects one, we don't want it leaving the cycle...(3/7)

It's understandable to conceptualize this cycle using only AOM journals, both for organizational and parsimony reasons, but it seems to me crucial to also discuss why such an AOM focus, even in an AOM journal, leaves big holes in what we would hope would be "full cycle." (2/7)

From a Portfolio of Journals to a System of Knowledge Production | Academy of Management Discoveries

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)

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If the paper ends up at SMJ, @orgscience.bsky.social, ASQ, JOM, ect., it should still remain in the cycle of AOM (and other) journals. Same with papers that are never submitted to AOM journals, from across fields & disciplines. They should remain part of this cycle, with no less importance. . .4/7

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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There are big costs to blinding editors, particularly in avoiding COI for reviewers. I prefer to invest effort in picking and retaining the right editors, which also requires improving diversity. No solution is perfect in expert evaluation. I know our team is really trying.

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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

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2024

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

How has the risk of dying from cancer changed in the United States?

To understand this, we can look at national cancer death rates in the United States.

The gray line shows the crude rate, which is the rate of deaths from cancer per 100,000 people. It has risen between 1950 and 1990 and has fallen slightly since then.

However, cancer death rates rise sharply with age, and the age of the US population has increased since 1950, so we would expect cancer death rates to rise for that reason alone.

What if we adjust for the increased age of the US population?

The red line, the age-standardized rate, shows this. It shows the cancer death rate if the age structure of the US population was held constant throughout.

This shows a slight rise until 1990 and then a significant decline; rates have fallen by one-third.

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

This comes from several factors: better screening and earlier diagnosis, medical advances in cancer treatments, and public health efforts to reduce risk factors like smoking and exposure to carcinogens.

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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Never played a Fazioli. What’s your impression?

Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Huh…I don’t see the University of Puget Sound on there. I guess I’m doomed to global non-elite status, or local elite status, or something even worse. Now I know why all those parents are stressing out their kids so much.

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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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.

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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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

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Donald Roy, Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 5, The Sociological Study of Work (Mar., 1952), pp. 427-442

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Lamar Pierce @lamarpierce.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Exactly. At the @orgscience.bsky.social Winter Conference in Zurich we brought in the head of a major Swiss insurer…to talk about climate change. This will dramatically impede entrepreneurship and force business relocation before anything else. #orgsky

At least for hematology/oncology, this patient shift is also tied to clinical trials, as research hospitals seek more participants and patients seek trials. I wonder how the increased patient share at hospitals affects costs, efficiency, and accuracy of clinical trials.

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Totally. Stigma & status are barriers to entry. It also reminds me of Drew Carton's 2018 ASQ paper on meaningfulness of work. tinyurl.com/mr3r3cr Racial discrimination by unions and customers also a big barrier to minority entry into plumbing. Aruna Ranganathan found similar barriers in India.

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“Collaborating” with AI: Taking a System View to Explore the Future of Work | Organization Science

@orgscience.bsky.social published an insightful 2023 piece by Callen Anthony, Beth Bechky, & (senior editor) Anne-Laure Fayard on what it means to work "with" AI and how ethnography can build a much richer framework of complementarities vs. substitution across diverse job types and settings.

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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.

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