Forrest Briscoe

Professor of Management and Organization at Smeal College of Business

Biography

Smeal College of Business

Forrest Briscoe is Professor of Management and Organization, and Frank & Mary Jean Smeal Research Fellow, in the Smeal College of Business. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology.

Much of Dr. Briscoe's research focuses on organizations adopting new practices and strategies, as their industries and fields experience change. He is especially interested in how organizational decision makers behave when new changes are controversial, with stakeholders advocating both for and against them. He has examined a range of new practices for this purpose, including those related to corporate social responsibility (CSR), resource allocation, workforce diversity, and supply chain management. Dr. Briscoe also studies the effects that new and changing organizational practices have on employees. In those studies, he is particularly interested in how changes are affecting professional employees, whose traditional ways of working are often being challenged and disrupted.

Dr. Briscoe has published research articles in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and many other scholarly journals. He serves (or has served) as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Annals and Administrative Science Quarterly, and on the editorial boards of journals including Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Professions and Organization. He also recently served on the executive committee of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) division of the Academy of Management.

Dr. Briscoe's research has often been mentioned in the media, including outlets such as the Financial Times, Fortune, and The American Lawyer.

Education:

Ph.D., Management, MIT Sloan, 2003 BA, Environmental Science, Harvard, 1995

Selected Publications

  • Briscoe F. S., Ajunwa I., Gaddis A., McCormick J., "Evolving public views on genomic database governance: New survey findings." PLOS ONE, 2020.
  • Gupta A., Briscoe F. S., "Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, 2020, pp. 524-563.
  • Anderson T., Bidwell M., Briscoe F. S., "External Factors Shaping Careers." (Routledge), 2019, pp. 180-200
  • Anteby M., Briscoe F. S., Jennings P., Karim S., Kaul A., Lazzarini S., Ozkazanc-Pan B., Donnelly P., Rasche A., Tsui A., Wright T., Zenger T., "Politics, governance, and Leadership: What can we learn from the Academy of Management's response to EO13769." vol. 28, no. 3, 2019, pp. 283-290
  • Gupta A., Briscoe F. S., Hambrick D. C., "Evenhandedness in Resource Allocation: Its Relationship with CEO Ideology, Organizational Discretion, and Firm Performance." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 61, no. 5, 2018, pp. 1848-1868
  • Briscoe F. S., Leitzinger J., King B., "Integrating Research Perspectives on Business and Society-Market Strategy." (Emerald Publishing), vol. 56, 2018
  • Briscoe F. S., Joshi A., "Bringing the Boss's Politics In: Supervisor Political Ideology and the Gender Gap in Earnings." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 60, no. 4, 2017, pp. 1415-1441.
  • Gupta A., Briscoe F. S., Hambrick D. C., "Red, Blue and Purple: Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Social Responsibility." Strategic Management Journal, vol. 38, no. 5, 2017, pp. 1018-1040.
  • Briscoe F. S., Gardner H., "Review of Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind: The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts." vol. 62, no. 4, 2017, pp. NP42-NP44
  • Briscoe F. S., Rogan M., "Coordinating Complex Work: Knowledge Networks, Partner Departures, and Client Relationship Performance in a Law Firm." Management Science, vol. 62, no. 8, 2016, pp. 2392-2411
  • Briscoe F. S., von Nordenflycht A., "The Effectiveness of Inheritance vs. Rainmaking Strategies in Building Books of Business for Female and Minority Partners.." (Cambridge University Press), 2016, pp. 328-356
  • Briscoe F. S., "Paradox and Contradiction in Organizations: Introducing Two Articles." vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-3
  • Briscoe F. S., Gupta A., "Social Activism In and Around Organizations.." Academy of Management Annals, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 671-727
  • Briscoe F. S., Gupta A., Anner M. S., "Social Activism and Practice Diffusion: How Activist Tactics Affect Non-Targeted Organizations." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, 2015, pp. 300-332
  • Briscoe F. S., "STATA Heterogeneous Diffusion Model Software." 2015
  • Briscoe F. S., Chin M., Hambrick D. C., "CEO Ideology as an Element of the Corporate Opportunity Structure for Social Activists." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 57, no. 6, 2014, pp. 1786-1809
  • Briscoe F. S., "Review of The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation." vol. 59, no. 3, 2014, pp. NP10-11
  • Briscoe F. S., "Review of The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation, edited by Michael L. Barnett and Timothy G. Pollock." 2014
  • Briscoe F. S., von Nordenflycht A., "Which Path to Power? Workplace Networks and the Relative Effectiveness of Inheritance and Rainmaking Strategies for Professional Partners." Journal of Professions and Organization, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 33-48
  • Bidwell M., Briscoe F. S., Fernandez-Mateo I., Sterling A., "The Employment Relationship and Inequility: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations." The Academy of Management Annals, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 61-121
  • Briscoe F. S., Murphy C., "Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity, Third-Party Responses, and the Interorganizational Diffusion of Controversial Practices." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 4, 2012, pp. 553-584
  • Briscoe F. S., Tsai W., "Overcoming Relational Inertia: How Organizational Members Respond to Acquisition Events in a Law Firm." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, 2011, pp. 408-440
  • Briscoe F. S., Sawyer S., Wardell M., "Membership Has Its Privileges? Independent Contracting and Workers’ Flexibility to Set Work Hours and Work from Home." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 64, no. 2, 2011, pp. 258-282
  • Briscoe F. S., Kellogg K., "The Initial Assignment Effect: Local Employer Practices and Positive Career Outcomes for Flexible-Work Program Users." American Sociological Review, vol. 76, no. 2, 2011, pp. 291-319
  • Briscoe F. S., Safford S., "Employee Affinity Groups: Their Evolution from Social Movement Vehicles to Employer Strategies." Perspectives on Work, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010
  • Bidwell M., Briscoe F. S., "The Dynamics of Inter-organizational Careers." Organization Science, vol. 21, no. 5, 2010, pp. 1034-1053
  • Briscoe F. S., "The Design of Work as a Key Driver of Work-Life Flexibility for Professions." Work-Life Policies that Work, (Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press), 2009, pp. 83-93
  • Briscoe F. S., "Review of "The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America" by Ann Boulis & Jerry Jacobs." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 63, no. 1, 2009
  • Bidwell M., Briscoe F. S., "Who Contracts? Determinants of the Decision to Work as an Independent Contractor Among IT Professionals." Academy of Management Journal, vol. 52, no. 6, 2009, pp. 148-168
  • Briscoe F. S., Safford S., "The Nixon-in-China Effect: Activism, Imitation and the Institution." Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3, 2008, pp. 460-491
  • Briscoe F. S., "The Upside of Bureaucracy: Unintended Benefits for Careers in Professional Services." The White Collar Workplace: New Models for the 21st Century, (Cambridge University Press), 2008, pp. 223-256
  • Briscoe F. S., "From iron cage to iron shield? How bureaucracy enables temporal flexibiliy for professional service workers.." Organization Science, vol. 18, no. 2, 2007, pp. 297-314
  • Briscoe F. S., Konrad T. R., "HMO Employment and African-American Physicians." Journal of the National Medical Association, vol. 98, no. 8, 2006, pp. 1318-1325
  • Briscoe F. S., "Temporal Flexibility and Careers: The Role of Large-Scale Organizations in the Practicing Physician Labor Market." Industrial & Labor Relations Review, vol. 60, no. 1, 2006, pp. 67-83
  • Maxwell J., Briscoe F. S., Temin P., "Corporate Health Care Purchasing and the Revised Social Contract with Workers." Business & Society, vol. 39, no. 3, 2000, pp. 281-303
  • Maxwell J., Briscoe F. S., Davidson S., Robbins M., Temin P., Young C., "Managed Competition in Practice." Health Affairs, vol. 17, no. 1, 1998, pp. 216-226
  • Maxwell J., Rothenberg S., Briscoe F. S., Marcus A., "Green Schemes: Corporate Environmental Strategies and their Implementation." California Management Review, vol. 39, no. 3, 1997, pp. 118-134
  • Briscoe F. S., Gupta A., "Employee Activism: A New Kind of Disruption." Stanford Social Innovation Review

Courses Taught

Read about executive education

Other experts

Looking for an expert?

Contact us and we'll find the best option for you.

Something went wrong. We're trying to fix this error.