Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work / Open Topics on Organizations, Occupations, and Work (4 sessions)

Ken-Hou Lin, University of Texas-Austin

Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

Laura Doering, University of Toronto

Ryan Finnigan, University of California, Davis

Adilia E.E. James, Endicott College

Tania M. Jenkins, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Credibility Tactics Among the “Questionably”-Professional: The Communicative work of Fiction Critics and Management Consultants - Phillipa K. Chong, McMaster University

Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Field of Postwar Industrial Relations: Incumbent Mobilization at the General Electric Company - Caroline Hanley, William & Mary

Prêt-à-Quitter: Career Mobility and Entrepreneurship in the Global Fashion Industry, 1945-2010 - Frederic Clement Godart, INSEAD; kim claes, INSEAD; Stanislav D. Dobrev, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Signing to Signal: Examining Factors behind Proactive Corporate Activism - Anna Eileen McKean, Northwestern University; Brayden G. King, Northwestern University

Testing the Lehman Sisters' Hypothesis: Gender, Professionals, and Risk in the Finance Sector - Hazel Hollingdale, University of British Columbia