Browsing by FAS Department "Organizational Behavior"
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Butchers, Bakers, and Barcharts: Gender and knowledge in a grocery chain
(2019-05-17)This dissertation investigates relationships between workers’ gender, technology-usage, and performance. Ample research has shown that differences in their relationships contribute to inequality between men and women at ... -
The Contingent Effects of Prior Ties on Network Dynamics: Essays on the Formation and Dissolution of Interorganizational Relationships in the Venture Capital Industry
(2015-05-11)This dissertation comprises three empirical chapters that investigate the limits of prior interorganizational ties in explaining patterns of tie formation and tie dissolution of interorganizational relationships in the ... -
Cross-Group Flouting and Territory Management: Navigating Cross-Group Terrain in Organizations
(2017-04-12)The tension for groups in organizations to be both differentiated and integrated with one another has long been recognized in literature. Differentiation allows groups – such as departments, business units and project teams ... -
Cultivating Inclusion: Navigating Diversity Through Expressing and Concealing Social Identity Differences in Interpersonal Interactions
(2018-05-11)As diversity becomes more common in the workplace, it is critical to understand how employees can navigate their differences and foster inclusion. My two dissertation chapters experimentally investigate how employees can ... -
Emotion as Performance Feedback: (Mis)Inferring Work Quality From Evaluators’ Affect
(2017-05-05)Evaluators often express emotion in evaluative situations (e.g., performance reviews, job interviews) for reasons both related and unrelated to the evaluation itself. This paper explores how evaluators’ emotional expressions ... -
Entrepreneurship in Developing Markets: Three Studies About Relational, Political, and Institutional Factors That Shape Entrepreneurial Performance in Togo
(2019-08-15)This dissertation is a study of the factors that affect business performance for entrepreneurs in developing countries. The studies in this dissertation use data from a field experiment, a longitudinal survey, coding of ... -
Facilitative Boundary Leadership: Enabling Collaboration in Complex, Multi-Organizational Work
(2015-05-11)Increasing complexity, flatter organizational structures and rapidly changing environments require coordination and collaboration with individuals and teams across organizations. As teams navigate these complex organizational ... -
Gender Differences in Professional Advancement: The Role of Goals, Perceptions, and Behaviors
(2016-05-19)Women are significantly underrepresented in senior-level positions within organizations. A great deal of research has provided evidence that both demand-side factors (e.g., bias and discrimination) and supply-side factors ... -
Institutional Leadership, Innovation, and Organizational Change During Technical Transitions: A Study of Digital Transformation in Public Radio
(2019-05-18)This dissertation explores how the pursuit of mission affects the process of innovation in a public service organization facing digital change. The dynamics of how firms manage innovation under conditions of technical ... -
The Ironic Effects of Motivational Tools on Attention and Decision Making
(2016-05-02)Decision makers often display bounded awareness – a tendency to miss or overlook easily accessible, critical information and contextual cues – and make suboptimal decisions. In popular parlance, these defective attentional ... -
Misguided Self-Presentation: The Ironic Consequences of Humblebragging, Backhanded Compliments and Namedropping
(2017-05-15)The ability to present oneself effectively to others is one of the most essential skills in social and organizational life. In this research, I identify unexamined yet ubiquitous self-presentation strategies—humblebragging, ... -
Organizational Culture Gone Awry: The Double-Edged Sword of Ambiguity
(2017-05-10)Scholars often conceptualize culture as a resource utilized by actors with strategic intention, and managers have long yearned to master organizational culture. In particular, organizational culture is seen as a crucial ... -
Organizing for Resilience: Mobilization by Sierra Leonean Diaspora Communities in Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis
(2017-09-07)The question of how social groups prepare for and respond to disasters has long been of interest to sociologists and organizational scholars. Although a catastrophe like the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak is a rare event, we ... -
The Personal and Interpersonal Benefits of Rediscovery
(2015-05-01)Individuals commonly fail to document their current experiences such that they often forget about these experiences altogether. In the context of learning, for example, experts may have difficulty remembering the experience ... -
Repair, Restoration, and Reintegration Following Work-Related Failures
(2018-09-06)It is almost inevitable that some organizational members will fall short of meeting important organizational standards, and organizations often have explicit procedures for disciplining employees after such violations. ... -
The Astute Communicator: Strategic Choices and Consequences of Goal-Oriented Workplace Communication
(2017-05-10)Whether the topic is persuading, selling, or negotiating, one of the key questions that employees, managers, and scholars have long asked is “What message will best accomplish my goal?” Yet, existing theory on goal-oriented ... -
The Dynamic Nature of Status Across Groups: Status Spillovers, Variance, and Disagreements
(2019-05-17)In an increasingly global world, where organizations are moving towards more cross-functional and flexible structures, a single individual may experience a range of different status levels across the various professional ... -
The Dynamics of New Venture Development: Scaling and Entrepreneurial Teams
(2019-05-16)This dissertation seeks to enhance our understanding of entrepreneurial ventures as dynamic social organizations, focusing on topics related to scaling and entrepreneurial teams. It is motivated by two contemporaneous ... -
Unexpected Distractions: Stimulation or Disruption to Creativity
(2015-05-19)This dissertation examines when and how unexpected distractions stimulate or disrupt the creative process. Specifically, I argue that these distractions could introduce useful information and initiate a cognitive break ... -
What You Heard vs. What I Said: Mis-Predicted Consequences in Goal Driven Interactions
(2019-05-16)As consequential negotiations pervade our personal and professional relationships, it is important to understand the shortcomings that stand in the way of our ability to communicate successfully in these goal driven ...