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Forrest Briscoe

Assistant Professor of Management
Department: Management and Organization
Office: 450 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-0746
Fax: 814-863-7261
E-mail: fsb10@psu.edu

Personal Homepage:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/fsb10/

Current Research

Professor Briscoe's research asks how new employment practices become institutionalized and widely diffused across organizations, particularly when social movements are involved.  A related stream of research considers the consequences of those new organizational employment practices for workers, careers, and labor markets.

Expertise

Organizational employment practices
Institutional change
Professional organizations and careers

Publication List

M. Bidwell and F. Briscoe, "Who Contracts? Determinants of the Decision to Work as an Independent Contractor among IT Workers",  Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming.

F. Briscoe and S. Safford, "The Nixon in China Effect: Activism, Imitation, and the Institutionalization of Contentious Practices",  Administrative Science Quarterly, Fall 2008, 53, 460-491.

F. Briscoe, "From Iron Cage to Iron Shield? How Bureaucracy Enables Temporal Flexibility for Professionals",  Organization Science, March 2007, 18, 297-314.

F. Briscoe, "Temporal Flexibility and Careers: The Role of Large-Scale Organizations",  Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Fall 2006, 60, 67-83.

F. Briscoe, J. Maxwell and P. Temin, "H.R. Versus Finance: Who Controls Corporate Health Care and Does it Matter?",  Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations, 2005, 14, 1-32.

Education

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