Most Recent Publications

2025

Bailyn, L., Bear, J. B., Beckman, C. M., Carboni, I., Clair, J., De Vos, A., ... & Wittman, S. (2025). The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion. Journal of Management Inquiry, 10564926241311511.

Balachandran, Sarath, Sungyong Chang, and Sukhun Kang. (2025). How Do Investors Shape Startups’ Response to New Market Opportunities?. Academy of Management Proceedings. Vol. 2025. No. 1. Valhalla, NY 10595: Academy of Management, 2025.

Battilana, J., Beckman, C. M., & Yen, J. (2025). On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(2), 297-327.

Beane, M. I., Leonardi, P. M. (2025). Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing. Journal of Management Studies, 62(5), 2025-2052.

Garud, R., Snihur, Y., Thomas, L. D., & Phillips, N. (2025). The Dark Side of Entrepreneurial Framing: A Process Model of Deception and Legitimacy Loss. Academy of Management Review, 50(2), 299-317.

Leonardi, P. M. (2025). Homo Agenticus in the Age of Agentic AI: Agency Loops, Power Displacement, and the Circulation of Responsibility. Information and Organization, 35(3), 100582.

Lepine, B., Weerantunga, G., Kim, J., Mishkin, P., & Beane, M. (2025). Evaluations at Work: Measuring the Capabilities of GenAI in Use. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10742.

Phillips, N., Lawrence, T. B., Caza, B. B., Heaphy, E. D., & Leroy, H. (2025). Extending the Turn to Work: New Directions in the Study of Social‐Symbolic Work in Organizational Life. Journal of Management Studies.

Santana, J. J., & Kim, S. (2025). From Values to Codes: A Computational Text Analysis of the Codification of Occupational Ethics. Organization Studies, 01708406251317255.

2024

Beane, M. (2024). The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines. HarperCollins.

Beane, M., & Anthony, C. (2024). Inverted Apprenticeship: How Senior Occupational Members Develop Practical Expertise and Preserve Their Position When New Technologies Arrive. Organization Science, 35(2), 405-431.

Bernstein, E. S., Gupta, P., Mortensen, M., & Leonardi, P. M. (2024). Collective Attention and Relational Overload: A Theory of Transactive Control in High-Permeability Intraorganizational Environments. Research in Organizational Behavior, 44, 100209.

Dailey, S. L., Pierce, C. S., Bailey, D. E., Leonardi, P. M., & Nardi, B. (2024). Being Creative Within (or Outside) the Box: Bridging Occupational Identity Gaps. Management Communication Quarterly, 38(1), 86-116.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2024). Artificial Intelligence as a Mechanism of Algorithmic Isomorphism. In Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making in Organizations (pp. 342-358). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Euchner, J., & Beane, M. (2024). Designing Technology that Preserves Skill Development: A Conversation with Matt Beane. Research-Technology Management, 67(6), 12-18.

Flyverbom, M., Leonardi, P. M., & Navick, N. (2024). Digital Forensics: A Guide to Conducting Qualitative Research on Organizational Communication and Digital Technology. Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication, 589.

Hartmann, M., & Beane, M. (2024). Haunted Adoption: How Applied Experts Can Drive Organizations to Incorporate Technology without Strong Managerial Support. Available at SSRN 4925724.

Kalvapalle, S. G., Phillips, N., & Cornelissen, J. (2024). Entrepreneurial Pitching: A Critical Review and Integrative Framework. Academy of Management Annals, 18(2), 550-599.

Leonardi, P. M., & Leavell, V. (2024). How the Map Becomes the Territory: Prediction, Performativity and the Process of Taking Digital Twins for Granted. Journal of Organization Design, 13(3), 101-112.

Leonardi, P. M., Parker, S. H., & Shen, R. (2024). How Remote Work Changes the World of Work. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 11(1), 193-219.

Leonardi, P. M., Pilny, A., Treem, J. W., & Sharma, N. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Communication. Theory and Research, 445.

Mindel, V., Overstreet, R. E., Sternberg, H., Mathiassen, L., & Phillips, N. (2024). Digital Activism to Achieve Meaningful Institutional Change: A Bricolage of Crowdsourcing, Social Media, and Data Analytics. Research Policy, 53(3), 104951.

Monaco, L., Letinturier, M. C. V., Aketa, N., Athanassiou, D., el Hajjar, J., Frost, S., ... & Hartman, A. L. (2024). The Complexity of Funding Rare Disease Research: An IRDiRC Assessment of the Landscape. Rare Disease and Orphan Drugs Journal, 3(4), N-A.

Muzio, D., Dalpiaz, E., Jancsary, D., Moser, C., Leixnering, S., Höllerer, M., ... & Meyer, R. (2024). Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation. Journal of Management Studies, 61(8), 3786-3792.

Perkmann, M., & Phillips, N. (2024). Institutional Theories of Innovation. Editors, Olav Sorenson and Patricia H. Thornton, Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Phillips, N., Kalvapalle, S., & Kennedy, M. (2024). Beyond the Turing Test: Exploring the implications of generative AI for category construction. Organization Theory, 5(3), 26317877241275113.

Phillips, N., & Moser, C. (2024). The Biological Basis of the Symbolic: Exploring the Implications of the Co‐evolution of Language, Cognition and Sociality for Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies, 61(8), 3793-3823.

Rhee, L., & Leonardi, P. (2024). Borrowing Networks for Innovation: The Role of Attention Allocation in Secondhand Brokerage. Strategic Management Journal, 45(7), 1326-1365.

2023

Adler, P. S., Adly, A., Armanios, D. E., Battilana, J., Bodrožić, Z., Clegg, S., ... & Sheppard-Jones, K. (2023). Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion. Journal of Management Inquiry, 32(1), 3-20.

Beane, M. (2023). Resourcing a Technological Portfolio: How Fairtown Hospital Preserved Results While Degrading Its Older Surgical Robot. Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), 691-733.

Beckman, C. M., Rosen, J., Estrada-Miller, J., & Painter, G. (2023). The Social Innovation Trap: Critical Insights into an Emerging Field. Academy of Management Annals, 17(2), 684-709.

Cavotta, V., & Phillips, N. (2023). All that Glitters: A Call for More Research on Corrupt Entrepreneurship. Innovation, 25(4), 348-370.

Jarrahi, M. H., Monahan, K., & Leonardi, P. (2023). What Will Working with AI Really Require. Harvard Business Review.

Kang, S. (2023). Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear: The Impact of Public Scientific Map on Organizational Search. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2023, No. 1, p. 10312). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Kennedy, M. T., & Phillips, N. (2023). The Participation Game. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12700.

Keppler, S. M., & Leonardi, P. M. (2023). Building Relational Confidence in Remote and Hybrid Work Arrangements: Novel Ways to Use Digital Technologies to Foster Knowledge Sharing. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(4), zmad020.

Keppler, S., & Leonardi, P. M. (2023). Developing Capabilities for Resourcing: A Comparative Study of the Relationship Between Problemistic and Opportunistic Resourcing in Schools. In Developing Capabilities for Resourcing: A Comparative Study of the Relationship Between Problemistic and Opportunistic Resourcing in Schools: Keppler, Samantha; Leonardi, Paul M.. [Sl]: SSRN.

Lane, J. N., Leonardi, P. M., Contractor, N. S., & DeChurch, L. A. (2024). Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance. Small Group Research, 55(1), 139-183.

Leonardi, P. (2023). Affordances and Agency: Toward the Clarification and Integration of Fractured Concepts. MIS Quarterly, 47(4).

Leonardi, P. (2023). Helping Employees Succeed with Generative AI. Harvard Business Review, 1.

Nelson, A., Anthony, C., & Tripsas, M. (2023). “If I Could Turn Back Time”: Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories, and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer. Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(2), 551-599.

Rallens, T., Lawrence, T., & Phillips, N. (2023). A Social-symbolic Work Perspective on Strategy as Practice: The Objects of Strategy Work.

Santana, J. J., & Nelson, L. K. (2023). How Machine Learning Is Reviving Sociological Theorization.

Sergeeva, A., Argote, L., Alexy, O., Leonardi, P., & Faraj, S. (2023). Special Issue of Strategic Organization: “The Question of Intelligent Technology: Implications for Strategy and Organization”. Strategic Organization, 21(3), 733-734.

2022

Bailey, D. E., Faraj, S., Hinds, P. J., Leonardi, P. M., & von Krogh, G. (2022). We are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing. Organization Science, 33(1), 1-18.

Beane, M. (2022). Today's Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees into Spectators: Medical Training in the Robotics Age Leaves Tomorrow's Surgeons Short on Skills. IEEE Spectrum, 59(8), 32-37.

Beane, M. I., & Leonardi, P. M. (2025). Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing. Journal of Management Studies, 62(5), 2025-2052.

Besharov, M. L., & Mitzinneck, B. C. (Eds.). (2020). Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Dodgson, M., Ash, S., Andrews, J., & Phillips, N. (2022). Managing Technology-Enabled Innovation in a Professional Services Firm: A Cooperative Case Study. Academy of Management Discoveries, 8(4), 509-530.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and Impression Management: Consequences of Autonomous Conversational Agents Communicating on One’s Behalf. Human Communication Research, 48(3), 462-490.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2022). Keep Them Apart or Join Them Together? How Identification Processes Shape Orientations to Network Brokerage. Communication Research, 49(1), 61-92.

Faraj, S., & Leonardi, P. M. (2022). Strategic Organization in the Digital Age: Rethinking the Concept of Technology. Strategic Organization, 20(4), 771-785.

Henriques, I., & Beckman, C. M. (2022). Researching Social Innovation: How the Unit of Analysis Informs the Questions We Ask. Researching Social Innovation: How the Unit of Analysis Informs the Questions We Ask (July 1, 2022). Rutgers Business Review, 7(2), 153-165.

Kellogg, K. C., Leonardi, P., Lifshitz-Assaf, H., & Shaikh, M. (2022). The Future of Work is Here: Algorithmic Automation, Augmentation and the Way AI is Changing Work. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 12919). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Leonardi, P. M. (2022). Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Big Data on the Dairy Farm: Relational Transformations across Agricultural Occupations and Organizations with the Rise of Digital Technologies. NSF Award Number 2211942. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 22(2211942), 11942.

Leonardi, P. M., Barley, W. C., & Woo, D. (2022). Why Should I Trust Your Model? How to Successfully Enroll Digital Models for Innovation. Innovation, 24(1), 47-64.

Neeley, T., & Leonardi, P. (2022). Developing a Digital Mindset. Harvard Business Review, 100(5-6), 50-55.

Perkmann, M., Phillips, N., & Greenwood, R. (2022). Institutional Arbitrage: How Actors Exploit Institutional Difference. Organization Theory, 3(2), 26317877221090313.

Phillips, N., & Moser, C. (2022, May). Materiality and the Extended Mind: An Essay on Re-thinking the Boundary Between the Cognitive and the Material in Organizations. In 16th Organization Studies Summer Workshop.

Phillips, N., & Thomas, L. D. (2022). Where to from Here? A Note from the New Editorial Team. Innovation, 24(1), 1-3.

Santana, J. J. (2022). Positive Business Closure. Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 3(2), 106-117.

Santana, J. J. (2022). Remedial Boundary Work and Gatekeeper Centrality in a Virtual Entrepreneur Community. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 753329.

Snihur, Y., Thomas, L. D., Garud, R., & Phillips, N. (2022). Entrepreneurial Framing: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(3), 578-606.

Weiss, T., Perkmann, M., & Phillips, N. (2022). Scaling Technology Ventures in Africa: New Opportunities for Research. Innovation, 24(4), 552-567.

2021

Beckman, C. M. (Ed.). (2021). Carnegie Goes to California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Castro, A., Rodrigues, S., & Phillips, N. (2021). Bribe and Co.-The Institutionalization of Corruption in a Multinational. AOM.

Caza, B., Heaphy, E., Lawrence, T., Phillips, N., & Leroy, H. (2021). Extending the Turn to Work: New Directions in the Study of Social-symbolic work in Organizational Life. Journal of Management Studies, 18(1), 1-8.

Chen, Z., Chen, W., Smiley, C., Shah, S., Borova, I., Langdon, D., ... & Wang, W. Y. (2021). Finqa: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00122.

George, A., Mirza, M., Semerjian, A., Kim, J., Beane, M., Peabody, J., & Ghani, K. R. (2021). Leveraging Video Review to Improve Technique in Urological Surgery. AUANews, 26(5).

Kacperczyk, A., Kang, S., & Paik, Y. (2021). The Double-Edged Sword of Female Political Leadership: Gender Diversity-Inducing and Gender Diversity-Reducing Effects in Organizations. Available at SSRN 3866169.

Kang, S., Chang, S., Ross, J. S., & Miller, J. E. (2021). Implementation of 21st Century Cures Act Expanded Access Policies Requirements. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 110(6), 1579-1584.

Kavanagh, B., Perkmann, M., & Phillips, N. (2021). Collective Identity and the Limits of Innovation: A Review and Research Agenda. Innovation, 23(1), 1-16.

Keppler, S. M., Smilowitz, K. R., & Leonardi, P. M. (2021). Contextual Trustworthiness of Organizational Partners: Evidence from Nine School Networks. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 23(4), 974-988.

Leonardi, P. M., Woo, D., & Barley, W. C. (2021). On the Making of Crystal Balls: Five Lessons about Simulation Modeling and the Organization of Work. Information and Organization, 31(1), 100339.

Leonardi, P. (2021). Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration. MIT Sloan Management Review, 92(3), 13-20.

Leonardi, P. M. (2020). COVID‐19 and the New Technologies of Organizing: Digital Exhaust, Digital footprints, and Artificial Intelligence in the Wake of Remote Work. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 249.

Muller, L., & Santana, J. (2021, February). Entrepreneurship and Its Challenges to Sociology: Accounting for Failure, Achieving Success. In IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021). ISA.

Phillips, N. (2021). Digital Leadership: Meeting the Challenge of Leading in a Digitally Transformed World. Journal of Financial Transformation, 52, 8-15.

Simpson, S. S., Beckman, C. M., Martin, G. S., & Shapiro, D. L. (2021). Preventing and Controlling Corporate Crime: The Dual Role of Corporate Boards and Legal Sanctions, United States, 1996-2013.

ter Hoeven, C. L., Stohl, C., Leonardi, P., & Stohl, M. (2021). Assessing Organizational Information Visibility: Development and Validation of the Information Visibility Scale. Communication Research, 48(6), 895-927.

Treem, J. W., Barley, W. C., & Leonardi, P. M. (2021). Resourcing Expertise: How Existing Schemas and Communication Processes Shape the Meaning of Expert Work in a Global Organization. Communication Monographs, 88(2), 237-262.

Villani, E., & Phillips, N. (2021). Formal Organizations and Interstitial Spaces: Catalysts, Complexity, and the Initiation of Cross-field Collaboration. Strategic Organization, 19(1), 5-36.

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Achieving consensus: What the path to a code of ethics says about communication

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

As the usage of AI becomes more widespread, so do discussions about its ethics in the workplace and beyond. Many modern industries, such as the medical industry with the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics, have established rules for appropriate practice that serve wider society, its clientele, and peers.

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How the STEP framework can streamline AI usage in the workplace

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The truth is, AI-enabled digital tools don’t operate like the technological tools of the past. Number one, they’re widely available and easy to use. Number two, they spread like wildfire and keep users from learning from each other or establishing patterns of expertise. Learn more in the following article about Paul Leonardi's study!

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Redefining management & organization through a symbolic lens

Monday, September 9, 2024

It might seem strange to study the symbolic outside of the humanities, like anthropology or linguistics. However, if we consider symbolism to be biological, it makes sense that a foundational part of what makes us human also contributes to how we bond and work.

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The Code to Building Skills in Our Modern Workplace

Monday, April 29, 2024

UCSB assistant professor Matt Beane writes a book on how to protect skills in a world filled with AI and robots.  Researcher and technologist Matt Beane, an assistant professor in the Technology Management Department at UC Santa Barbara, is calling attention to an immediate and hidden concern in the modern workplace — and offering a surprising path forward.

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