Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations
Faculty

Cameron P. Anderson
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in social/personality psychology,

Research: power, status, and influence processes, negotiation and conflict resolution, emotion and affect, groups and teams

Publication Highlights: "Knowing your place: Self-perceptions of status in social groups," with Anderson, C., Srivastava, S., Beer, J., Spataro, S. E., & Chatman, J. A. forthcoming, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology

"Affect from the top down: How powerful individuals’ positive affect shapes negotiations," with Anderson, C., & Thompson, L. L. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2004

Pino G. Audia
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from University of Maryland in organizational behavior

Research: entrepreneurship, organizational decision making, organizational change, industry evolution processes

Publication Highlights: "Reluctant to Change: Self-Enhancing Responses to Diverging Performance Measures," with Sebastien Brion, forthcoming 2006, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

“Success and Creativity Over Time: A Study of Inventors in the Hard Disk Drive Industry,” with Jack A. Goncalo, 2007 Management Science

Jennifer Chatman
Professor

Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in business administration

Research: organizational culture and post merger integration, managing diverse professionals, managing teams and cooperation

Publication Highlights: “When Do People Make the Place? Considering the Interactionist Foundations of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model”, with E. Wong
and C. Joyce, in press, (Editor: Brent Smith) A Festschrift to Benjamin Schneider

“The Effects of Inter-Organizational Competition on Individual Commitment: A Cross-Level Investigation,” with S. Spataro, in press, (Editors: C. Bartel, S. Blader, &
A. Wrzesniewski) Identity and the Modern Organization

Robert E. Cole
Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. from University of Illinois in sociology

Research: management of technology, Japanese organizations, quality, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational transformation

Publication Highlights: Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan (Co-editor with Hugh Whitakker) Oxford University Press, 2006

"Telecommunications Competition in World Markets: Understanding Japan’s Decline," 2006, How Revolutionary was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology in the Digital Era

Waverly W. Ding
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from University of Chicago in business administration

Research: entrepreneurship, management of technology and innovation, alliances, social network, sociology of science

Publication Highlights: "Gender Differences in Patenting in the Academic Life Sciences," with F. Murray and T. E. Stuart, August 4, 2006 Science

"When Do Scientists Become Entrepreneurs? The Social Structural Antecedents of Commercial Activity in the Academic Life Sciences," with T. E. Stuart, July 2006 American Journal of Sociology

Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior

Research: emotion and culture in the workplace

Publication Highlights: "Predicting Workplace Outcomes from the Ability to Eavesdrop on Feelings," with Ambady, N., Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002

"Universals and Cultural Differences in Recognizing Emotions" with Ambady, N., Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2003

John H. Freeman
Professor

Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in sociology

Research: strategic alliances and evolution of technology in biotechnology, semi conductor manufacturing, and radio broadcasting; entrepreneurship in high technology; dynamics of firm growth and survival

Publication Highlight: "Things Change: Dynamic Resource Constraints and System- Dependent Selection in the Evolution of Organizational Populations," with Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen, June 2005 Management Science

Laura J. Kray
Associate Professor

Ph.D. from University of Washington, Seattle in psychology (social)

Research: negotiation, stereotype activation, counterfactual mind-sets, group decision making, organizational justice

Publication Highlights: "Thinking inside the box: The relational processing style elicited by counterfactual mind-sets," with A.D. Galinsky, and E. Wong, in press, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

“Implicit negotiation beliefs and performance: Longitudinal and experimental evidence,” with M. Haselhuhn, in press, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Jonathan S. Leonard
Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University in economics

Research: employee incentives, affirmative action, job creation, workplace regulation

Publication Highlights: "The Effect of Diversity on Turnover: A Large Case Study," forthcoming, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

"Do birds of a feather shop together? The effects on performance of employees’ similarity with one another and with customers," with David I. Levine and Aparna Joshi, September 2004 Journal of Organizational Behavior

David I. Levine
Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University in economics

Research: how industrialization affects families and communities in developing nations, effects of workplace diversity on workers and employers, rigorous evaluations of development projects

Publication Highlights: How New is the ‘New’ Employment Contract?, with Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica Groshen, and K.C. O’Shaughnessy, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI, 2002

Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1995.

James Lincoln
Professor

Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin in sociology

Research: networks and organization, Asian management, organizational theory

Publication Highlights: "Dyad and Network: Models of Manufacturer- Supplier Collaboration in the Japanese TV Manufacturing Industry," with Didier Guillot, 2004 Advances in International Management special issue on Changing Japan

Japan’s Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change, with Michael Gerlach, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Barbara Ann Mellers
Professor

Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in psychology

Research: psychological models of decision making, effects of emotions on judgment and choice, perceptions of fairness:

Publication Highlights: "What can we learn from our mistakes?" with C. Locke, 2006 Advances in Decision Analysis

"Emotions and cooperation in economic games," with M. Haselhuhn, 2005 Cognitive Brain Research

Trond K. Petersen
Professor

Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison in Sociology

Research: comparative gender inequality in the workplace, hiring, promotions, wages, quantitative methods

Publication Highlights: "Getting Hired: Sex and Race," with Ishak Saporta and Marc-David L. Seidel, July 2005 Industrial Relations

"The Opportunity Structure for Discrimination," with Ishak Saporta, January 2004 American Journal of Sociology

Jo-Ellen Pozner
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in management and organizations
Research: corporate governance; symbolic management; organizational misconduct; ethics and leadership; power and political behavior; social movements; organizational legitimacy
Publication Highlights: “Vox Populi: Resource Partitioning, Organizational Proliferation and the Cultural Impact of the Insurgent Micro-Radio Movement,” with H. Greve and H. Rao, 2006 American Journal of Sociology

“Fighting a Common Foe: Enmity, Identity and Cooperative Strategy,” with Hayagreeva Rao, 2006, Ecology and Strategy. (Editors: J. Baum, S. Dobrev and A. van Witteloostuijn Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 23).

Karlene A. Roberts
Professor

Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in psychology

Research: the design and management of organizations and systems of organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences.

Publication Highlight: "Designing for High Reliability: The Birth and Evolution of a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit," with P. Madsen, V. Desai, K.H. Roberts and D. Wong, 2006 Organization Science 17

Barry M. Staw
Professor

Ph.D. from Northwestern University in organizational behavior

Research: escalation of commitment to organizational decisions, emotional expression in the workplace, dispositional approaches to job attitudes, creativity and organizational innovation, work motivation

Publication Highlights: "Affect and Creativity at Work," with Teresa M. Amabile, Sigal G. Barsade, and Jennifer S. Mueller, September 2005 Administrative Sciences Quarterly

"The dispositional approach to job satisfaction: more than a mirage, but not yet an oasis," Barry M. Staw, Yochi Cohen-Charash, February 2005 Journal of Organizational Behavior

Philip Tetlock
Professor

Ph.D. from Yale University in psychology

Research: learning from experience, designing accountability systems, de-biasing judgment and choice

Publication Highlights: Expert Political Judgment: How Good is It? How Can We Know? September 2006, Princeton University Press

"Conflicts of Interest and the Case of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction and Strategic Issue Cycling," with Don A. Moore, Lloyd Tanlu, and Max H. Bazerman, January 2006 Academy of Management Review

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