Weekly Research Digest

Weekly Research Digest is a weekly collation of new research on three themes: entrepreneurship, generative ai & work, organizations & inequality. It watches a curated list of management, sociology, economics and general-science journals, plus NBER, RePEc and arXiv working papers and email alerts, and is rebuilt automatically every Wednesday morning. See the sources page for the full list and how each is collected.

Topic tags and picks come from an automated classifier that reads each title and abstract; nothing else on the page is machine-written. Abstracts are the authors' own, reproduced from publisher metadata (via Crossref, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar) for discovery purposes, as on those services. Follow the link for the paper itself.

Zotero. Every entry carries citation metadata. With the Zotero Connector installed, click its toolbar icon on any issue page to save one or many papers at once, or subscribe to the paper feed as a Zotero feed.

AI assistants. Paste the address of the guide for AI assistants into your assistant with the request "Run the Weekly Research Digest custom digest workflow" to get a personalized reading list from the current issue.

Maintained by Jean Joohyun Oh. Modeled on Kevin Bryan's Useful Knowledge.

Topics

Entrepreneurship

New venture creation and growth, founders and founding teams, self-employment and small business, startup financing (venture capital, angels, accelerators, crowdfunding), firm entry and exit, entrepreneurial ecosystems and policy, who becomes an entrepreneur, and innovation and society: who becomes an inventor or innovator, the direction of innovation and whose needs it serves, social and institutional determinants of invention, and science-based and university ventures.

Generative AI & Work

How generative AI, large language models, and foundation models change work, tasks, occupations, labor markets, hiring, skills, productivity, creativity, management, and new venture creation.

Organizations & Inequality

Class and socioeconomic origins, stratification and social mobility, careers and promotion inside organizations, hiring and discrimination, pay gaps, elites, and how organizations and labor markets reproduce or reduce inequality; also inequality by race, ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status, income and wage inequality, occupational segregation, and diversity in organizations.

Search and filters

On any issue page, Search accepts AND, OR, NOT, parentheses and quoted phrases, with field boxes for author, title, abstract, issue number and journal. Filter narrows by topic, source type, source, or picks. Searching all issues loads the archive index on demand.

Data

Machine-readable copies: latest issue, issue list, sources, search index, and per-issue files under data/issues/. Feeds: one item per issue and one item per paper.