Browsing by FAS Department "Organizational Behavior"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ...