Catherine J Turco
Biographic Data
| ID | 281817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine J Turco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine J |
| FAMILY NAME | Turco |
| SIGNATURE | TURCO C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Verstehen for Sociology: Comment on Watts
So You Think You Can Dance? Lessons from the US Private Equity Bubble
This article develops a sociologically informed approach to market bubbles by integrating insights from financial-economic theory with the concepts of voice and dissimulation from other cases of distorted valuation studied by sociologists (e.g., witch hunts, unpopular norms, and support for authoritarian regimes). It draws on unique datalongitudinal interviews with private equity market participants during and after that market's mid-2000s bubble…
Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms
Why are some diversified market identities problematic but others are not? We examine this question in the context of high-status corporate law firms, which often diversify into one low-status area of work—family law (FL)—but face a barrier (strong disapproval from existing clients) that prevents diversification into another such area—plaintiffs’ personal injury law (PIL). Drawing on a qualitative study of the Boston legal market, we argue that t…
Difficult Decoupling: Employee Resistance to the Commercialization of Personal Settings
The market’s tendency to organize personal spheres of life is not always unfettered, and while past studies have identified public discomfort as a bar to market expansion, this study considers a commercialization project that gained public acceptance yet nevertheless failed. The study’s key theoretical insight is that the organizational decoupling required for successful commercialization may complicate companies’ ability to gain employee accepta…
Cultural Foundations of Tokenism: Evidence from the Leveraged Buyout Industry
Existing explanations of tokenism predict similar experiences for all numerically small, low-status groups. These explanations, however, cannot account for variation in the experiences of different low-status minority groups within the same setting. This article develops a theory of tokenism that explains such variation. Drawing on 117 interviews in the leveraged buyout industry (LBO) and a comparison of the differing experiences of female and Af…
Cultural Foundations of Tokenism: Evidence from the Leveraged Buyout Industry
Existing explanations of tokenism predict similar experiences for all numerically small, low-status groups. These explanations, however, cannot account for variation in the experiences of different low-status minority groups within the same setting. This article develops a theory of tokenism that explains such variation. Drawing on 117 interviews in the leveraged buyout industry (LBO) and a comparison of the differing experiences of female and Af…
Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms
Why are some diversified market identities problematic but others are not? We examine this question in the context of high-status corporate law firms, which often diversify into one low-status area of work—family law (FL)—but face a barrier (strong disapproval from existing clients) that prevents diversification into another such area—plaintiffs’ personal injury law (PIL). Drawing on a qualitative study of the Boston legal market, we argue that t…
Difficult Decoupling: Employee Resistance to the Commercialization of Personal Settings
The market’s tendency to organize personal spheres of life is not always unfettered, and while past studies have identified public discomfort as a bar to market expansion, this study considers a commercialization project that gained public acceptance yet nevertheless failed. The study’s key theoretical insight is that the organizational decoupling required for successful commercialization may complicate companies’ ability to gain employee accepta…
Verstehen for Sociology: Comment on Watts
So You Think You Can Dance? Lessons from the US Private Equity Bubble
This article develops a sociologically informed approach to market bubbles by integrating insights from financial-economic theory with the concepts of voice and dissimulation from other cases of distorted valuation studied by sociologists (e.g., witch hunts, unpopular norms, and support for authoritarian regimes). It draws on unique datalongitudinal interviews with private equity market participants during and after that market's mid-2000s bubble…
Cultural Foundations of Tokenism: Evidence from the Leveraged Buyout Industry
Existing explanations of tokenism predict similar experiences for all numerically small, low-status groups. These explanations, however, cannot account for variation in the experiences of different low-status minority groups within the same setting. This article develops a theory of tokenism that explains such variation. Drawing on 117 interviews in the leveraged buyout industry (LBO) and a comparison of the differing experiences of female and Af…
Difficult Decoupling: Employee Resistance to the Commercialization of Personal Settings
The market’s tendency to organize personal spheres of life is not always unfettered, and while past studies have identified public discomfort as a bar to market expansion, this study considers a commercialization project that gained public acceptance yet nevertheless failed. The study’s key theoretical insight is that the organizational decoupling required for successful commercialization may complicate companies’ ability to gain employee accepta…
Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms
Why are some diversified market identities problematic but others are not? We examine this question in the context of high-status corporate law firms, which often diversify into one low-status area of work—family law (FL)—but face a barrier (strong disapproval from existing clients) that prevents diversification into another such area—plaintiffs’ personal injury law (PIL). Drawing on a qualitative study of the Boston legal market, we argue that t…
So You Think You Can Dance? Lessons from the US Private Equity Bubble
This article develops a sociologically informed approach to market bubbles by integrating insights from financial-economic theory with the concepts of voice and dissimulation from other cases of distorted valuation studied by sociologists (e.g., witch hunts, unpopular norms, and support for authoritarian regimes). It draws on unique datalongitudinal interviews with private equity market participants during and after that market's mid-2000s bubble…
Verstehen for Sociology: Comment on Watts
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Betrayal (1 works)