Sage Business & Managment

Karen Vinton and Donella Caspersz discuss a qualitative study exploring how a leadership intervention in a group context developed positivity in leaders of family businesses.

Frederick Oswald interviews Gerd Gigerenzer about his article co-authored with Julian N. Marewski on the “Bayesian revolution” and the dangers of an apparently universal inference procedure.

Kathryn LaTour and Lewis Carbone discuss their article on assessing memory for the customer experience. The paper was the winner of Cornell Hospitality Quarterly's 2014 Best Article Award. http://cqx.sagepub.com/content/55/4/342.full.pdf+html

In this Special Issue of Human Relations key current trends and employment issues are explored through a collection of papers on China, edited by Guest Editors Dr Eli Friedman and Dr Sarosh Kuruvilla from Cornell University. In this podcast Human Relations Associate Media Editor,  Hazel Westwood introduces the special issue with Dr Friedman.

Robert E. Pitts discusses the study he and co-authors Julie E. Blose and Rhonda W. Mack performed in Charleston, SC which examined participants’ opinion of how they would respond to various message frames.

Michael Lynn and Zachary W. Brewster discuss their article on the tipping behaviors of racial and ethnic minorities.

Maryam F. Yepes discusses her study that used mobile tablet technology to compare menu selections by millennial-age respondents and test the effects of five different menu nutrition labeling formats for attractiveness, perceived influence, and actual influence on the students’ food choices.

Associate Professor Rebecca Mitchell discusses her research into tension in the workplace and how this can sometimes be a good thing. Posted May 2014

The issue of a published literature not representative of the population of research is most often discussed in terms of entire studies being suppressed. However, alternative sources of publication bias are questionable research practices (QRPs) that entail post hoc alterations of hypotheses to support data or post hoc alterations of data to support hypotheses. Using general strain theory as an explanatory framework, we outline the means, motives, and opportunities for researchers to better their chances of publication independent of rigor and relevance. We then assess the frequency of QRPs in management research by tracking differences between dissertations and their resulting journal publications. Our primary finding is that from dissertation to journal article, the ratio of supported to unsupported hypotheses more than doubled (0.82 to 1.00 versus 1.94 to 1.00). The rise in predictive accuracy resulted from the dropping of statistically nonsignificant hypotheses, the addition of statistically significant h

Dr Erik Dane and Dr Bradley J. Brummel discuss their research on workplace mindfulness, published in Volume 67 Issue 1. http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/1/105.full

Dr Charlotta Levay discusses her research on obesity in organizational contexts.

Stefan Klaussner discusses his paper on abusive supervision and how supervisor-subordinate interaction can escalate in organisations.

Emma Su of the Asian Family Enterprise Forum in Canada talks with Karen Vinton about her article on knowledge sharing among advisors, co-authored by Junsheng Dou of Zhejiang University in China and published in the FBR September 2013 issue.

Ritch Sorenson of the University of St. Thomas talks with Karen Vinton about his article on the family business "landscape," co-authored by Andy Yu, G. T. Lumpkin, and Keith H. Brigham. The paper was published in the March 2012 issue of FBR, and received an honorable mention for the journal's best paper award.

Carlo Salvato of Bocconi University talks with Karen Vinton about his paper on family enterprise advisors, co-authored by Guido Corbetta of Bocconi University.

Ryan Sheales introduces the special issue on reinventing retirement. Co-guest editor Leisa Sargent explores critical perspectives on international and European policy on work and retirement with Simon Briggs.

Guest Editor, Joanne Ciulla, interviews Osam Edim Temple on the challenges, metaphysical and otherwise, of leadership in Africa.

Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier and Sukanya Sengupta discuss their special issue on broadening the horizons of International HRM.

Glenn Withiam talks to Vincent Magnini about his article, "Identifying the Attributes of an Effective Restaurant Chain Endorser" published in the May 2010 issue of Cornell Hospitality Quarterly.