Working papers!

I've been on sabbatical this academic year. One of the side effects of that is I've actually been writing. Thus I should share two "new" papers.

The first is a draft that I posted in November and then forgot to mention: Culture as Entropy Reduction: Finding the 'Organizational' in Organizational Culture. Apologies for the lame name. This is my ongoing effort to develop an empirical approach for examining whether and when it makes sense to talk about an organizational culture as such, rather than a concatenation of national, occupational, or other cultures. It adapts the basic approach to measuring segregation that I've used elsewhere in service of the task.

The second, which I finished drafting today, I'm a little embarrased by. Not because it's bad--though go easy on the discussion, I just needed to finish the damned thing!--but because I've been nominally working on this one forever. I presented a sort of 80-percent draft of this here at ESMT (where I'm visiting) in 2022. When I arrived last month, I still had that 80-percent draft. I will not dwell too much on that though, and will instead bask in the happy feeling of being able to share a draft, at 5.30 on a Friday afternoon no less!

Same Planet, Different Worlds? Shifting Firm Boundaries and Racial Employment Segregation. This presents a theory I've been working on for a while: that the rise of external contracting, combined with the correlation of race and occupation in the United States, has let between-firm segregation rise even as measured within-firm occupational segregation has fallen and the typical workplace has come to seem more diverse. The meat is an adaptation of segregation metrics I've used elsewhere to add a spatial component and to show how the spatially-weighted metrics diverge from the aspatial ones in ways consistent with the theory.

As always, comments are welcome.