Mike Maffie

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations @CornellSHA. Find me on Bluesky: @maffie.bsky.social

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

"Which journals have a fast turnaround time?" is a frequent question in academia. Most of the time, people answer based on anecdotes (or grudges). My lab at Cornell decided to build a Chrome plugin, what we are calling Coauthor, to crowdsource an answer: https://t.co/CPPRCQszgp

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

If you would like to contribute data, you can download the Coauthor plugin from the Google Chrome store:
https://t.co/noEX9S63Nh

We also have a step-by-step guide to using the plugin on our website: https://t.co/VHMwUYGQXE

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

"Which journals have a fast turnaround time?" is a frequent question in academia. Most of the time, people answer based on anecdotes (or grudges). My lab at Cornell decided to build a Chrome plugin, what we are calling Coauthor, to crowdsource an answer: https://t.co/CPPRCQszgp

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

We use these data to calculate the average (and standard deviation) days to first decision, percentage of initial submissions that receive an R&R, and the conditional acceptance percentage based on receiving a first R&R. These data are available at: https://t.co/CPPRCQszgp

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

@julesterpak @Cornell Thanks again for coming to talk with the class. I know everyone really enjoyed it.

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

Sure, Biden is walking a picket line, but honestly, if anything is going to jumpstart the labor movement, it’s Taylor Swift dating a guy in a union

[ILR Review @ILRReview]

New! Adversaries or Cross-Organization Co-workers? Studying Instacart shoppers @maffiemd finds algorithmic management pushes them to mistreat in-store staff. Yet frequent interactions lead to cooperative, cross-organization co-worker relationships.
https://t.co/hao8zvSZ0B

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

Others, however, are cooperative and demonstrate how workers form mutually-beneficial bonds across organizational divides.

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

New Publication! 🥳

How does the gig economy affect adjacent occupations, such as service workers?

https://t.co/EkEAVUY0Oo
@ILRReview

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

This paper helps us understand how the gig economy is creating new relationships across organizations. Some of these relationships are adversarial and show how the design of gig work can contribute to undesirable behaviors, such as customer incivility...

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

In identifying how platforms shape workers' exposure to market risk, this paper helps answer the question -- what distinguishes gig platforms from other types of platforms -- and shows how platforms can use their "visible hands" to shape worker behavior.
https://t.co/ag5JNwrLqv

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

Custodians of the Internet (@TarletonG) has been one of the most important influences on my research. I still remember reading "And moderation is, in many ways, the commodity that platforms offer." Platforms are not neutral; their primary role is to curate the user experience.

[Mike Maffie @maffiemd]

...these behaviors are "pushed" to the periphery by platforms' "visible hands". For example, Instacart's "diamond shopper" status gives some workers early access to high value work, reducing the chances these workers will take low-value jobs.