Forrest S Briscoe

About

Forrest S Briscoe is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the ILR School at Cornell University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of organization theory and strategic management. His research explores how companies and institutions evolve to reflect a changing society, how social movements influence organizations, and how employment practices affect people's careers and societal inequality. His work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, and Strategic Management Journal, and has been covered in media outlets including the Financial Times, Forbes, and Fast Company. Forrest has served as an Associate Editor for ASQ and the Academy of Management Annals, and as the Chair of the Organization & Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. Prior to his current position, he was a Professor of Management at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business. His industry experience includes consulting for John Snow Inc. in Boston, focusing on healthcare, automotive industries, and environmental strategy and implementation. He holds a PhD in Management from MIT Sloan, a BA in Environmental Sciences from Harvard College, and an IB Diploma from San Diego High School.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Public relations
• Business
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Internet privacy
• Biology
• Law
• Finance

Selected publications

• Workplace genetic testing: which employees are likely to participate, what are their concerns with employer sponsorship, and which design features could reduce barriers and increase participation?

  Frontiers in Genetics · 2024-12-04 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Voluntary genetic testing (GT) leverages low-cost DNA sequencing and other testing methods to provide genetic risk screening for healthy individuals. Given the potential to prevent disease and promote health, some employers now offer GT as an employee benefit (workplace GT, or wGT), but participation remains low. To investigate facilitators and barriers to wGT participation, we conducted one of the first representative surveys of working U.S. adults on this topic (n = 958). We assessed factors t…

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• How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education

  Organization Science · 2025-05-05 · 1 citations

  articleSenior author

  This study investigates the concept of ideologically opposed stakeholders and its implications for the adoption and justification of contentious organizational practices. When organizations face stakeholders who oppose the ideological content of a new organizational practice, we theorize that this opposition causes organizations to emulate prior adopters whose animating values resonate with these opposed stakeholders. We further argue that if they adopt the practice that their stakeholders oppos…

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• Interpreting Violence: How Community Context Shapes Corporate Responses to Street Protests

  Administrative Science Quarterly · 2026-02-19

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  Violence that erupts in communities invites complex interpretations that can create a dilemma for business leaders about how to respond. Investigating how organizations respond to violence in protests, we build on the community embeddedness literature and propose that business leaders’ responses to protest violence depend on their perceptions of whether the violence is justified. Leaders may view reported protest violence as evidence of either social disorder or a valid grievance in the communit…

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• Seeking Greener Pastures: Employee Turnover Following Corporate Stakeholder Violations

  Academy of Management Journal · 2026-01-09

  article1st authorCorresponding

  Are employees willing to leave when their employer violates societal norms? We develop an event-based framework for understanding employee turnover in response to stakeholder violations—publicly announced, regulator-sanctioned harms to stakeholders. We theorize that intense violations prompt some employees to reassess their affiliation due to reputational concerns, especially when violations are broad in scope, occur in rapid succession, or diverge from past patterns. These features increase the…

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• Genetic Privacy

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Barbara Gray

  17 shared

• Celeste Diaz Ferraro

  Pennsylvania State University

  17 shared

• Abhinav Gupta

  16 shared

• James Maxwell

  La Trobe University

  16 shared

• Brayden G King

  12 shared

• Jocelyn M. Leitzinger

  University of Illinois Chicago

  10 shared

• Walter W. Powell

  8 shared

• Shahzad Ansari

  University of Cambridge

  8 shared

Awards & honors

• Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professorship in Industri…

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