Paul Adler was Program Chair for the 2013 meeting of the Academy of Management in Orlando, Florida, in August. In this capacity, he organized the “All-Academy Theme” component of the meeting program, helped by a committee of Tom Kochan (MIT), Jerry Davis (U. Michigan), Carrie Leana (U. Pittsburgh), and Stella Nkomo (U. Pretoria). The theme was “Capitalism in Question.” The essay below is an edi...

Konstantin Severinov,1,2,3* Ekaterina Semenova,1 Alexey Kazakov,4 Teymur Kazakov1,2,5 and Mikhail S. Gelfand4,6** Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123182, Russia. Institute for Information Transmission ...

The Qiāng language occupies a privileged place among Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China. It is one of the few languages in the area to have been uninterruptedly studied in the complexity of its dialects for almost a century by many non-Chinese and Chinese scholars, including some of the most eminent and prolific Sino-Tibetanists in China, such as Sūn Hóngkāi and Huáng Bùfán. Linguistic fiel...

This paper examines the determinants of foreign box office revenue for English language movies. The sample consists of 449 films released during 2006-2008. Regression results indicate the primary determinants of foreign box office revenue for English language movies are U.S. domestic box office revenue, action movies, children’s movies, sequels, Academy Award wins, and production budget. Specif...

Research on academic plagiarism has typically focused on students as the perpetrators of unethical behaviors, and less attention has been paid to academic researchers as likely candidates for such behaviors. We examined 279 papers presented at the International Management division of the 2009 Academy of Management conference for the purpose of studying plagiarism among academics. Results showed...