Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority

Both authors contributed equally to the paper. The authors thank Nancy Rothbard and three anonymous reviewers for very helpful feedback. The authors also appreciate comments from Jonathan Caulkins, Emilio Castilla, Roberto M. Fernandez, Carolyn Fu, Frank Hager, Oliver Hahl, Erin Kelly, Alex Kowalski, Minjae Kim, Aruna Ranganathan, Ray Reagans, Daniel Rock, Peter Sherer, Ben Shields, Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan, Susan S. Silbey, George Ward, and Emily Zitek as well as participants at the Wharton People and Organizations Conference (2019), the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2019), the Stockholm Sports Conference (2020), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economic Sociology Working Group (2020), and the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations Organizational Behavior Brown Bag series in 2021. Colette Boudreau, Tiffany Darabi, and Nick Mclaughlin provided valuable support.