All Outputs (7)

Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors (2023)
Journal Article

Research Summary: Little is known about how governments secure discrete resources from global corporations over which they have limited direct control. Utilizing declassified archival sources, we examine how the UK government influenced Moody's and S... Read More about Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors.

Rethinking sovereign default (2021)
Journal Article

Scholars continue to debate why states repay their debts to foreign creditors. The existing literature stresses the short-term economic and political costs that deter default, focusing on reputational damage, creditor reprisals, spillover costs, and... Read More about Rethinking sovereign default.

Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation (2019)
Journal Article

Organizational scholars increasingly view institutionalization as a process through which actors adapt or translate seemingly successful practices in a field to create variations that are specific to their own organization. Yet little is known about... Read More about Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation.

Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques (2017)
Journal Article

Organizational scholars increasingly recognize the value of employing historical research. Yet the fields of history and organization studies struggle to reconcile. In this article, we contend that a closer connection between these two fields is poss... Read More about Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques.

Reconsidering the value of covert research: the role of ambiguous consent in participant observation (2017)
Journal Article

In this article, we provide a nuanced perspective on the benefits and costs of covert research. In particular, we illustrate the value of such an approach by focusing on covert participant observation. We posit that all observational studies sit alon... Read More about Reconsidering the value of covert research: the role of ambiguous consent in participant observation.

The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific (2015)
Journal Article

This article explains the origins of the Australia–New Zealand–United States (ANZUS) Treaty by highlighting U.S. ambitions in the Pacific region after World War II. Three clarifications to the historiography merit attention. First, an alliance with A... Read More about The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific.

Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8 (2015)
Journal Article

The UK received its first sovereign credit ratings in 1978. Despite having required financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund only 18 months earlier, the British government managed to secure ‘triple-A’ ratings from both Standard and P... Read More about Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8.