Innovation at the Boundary: Where Strategy Meets Organization.
Featured Working Papers
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Enactment at the Boundary: How Organization–Team Dynamics Shape Innovation Spaces
Ready for submission; targeted for Administrative Science Quarterly. Introduces structural serendipity, a system’s capacity to turn unexpected cues into durable innovation. Best Student Paper Award, ASAC 2025.
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The Symphony of Authority: Can the Private Sector Embrace Public-Sector Innovation Freedom?
A three-year ethnographic study of innovation within a team spanning multiple government institutions and ministries, examining why and how breakthroughs emerged in an unexpected public-sector setting.
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Inspired by Purpose: How Social Imperatives Drive Cross-Industry Collaborations
With M. H. Naghavi. An interview-based and historical study of how a shared social purpose united universities, government, and the private sector to give rise to a developing country’s biopharmaceutical industry.
Manuscripts Under Review
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Visible But Not Seen: How Remote and Hybrid Work Disrupts Mutual Recognition
With S. Mantere. Under review at Organization Science. Examines how remote and hybrid work disrupt the mutual recognition that underpins relational coordination among colleagues.
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Informal Uses of Formal Authority: Startup Culture and the Management of Conflict
Under review at Strategic Organization. Explores how managers wield authority informally to manage conflict as startup culture collides with the shift to remote work.
Ongoing Projects
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Dialogues with the Future: Conversational AI and Team-Driven Innovation
An ethnographic study of how conversational AI integrates into team environments, reshaping team dynamics, managerial relationships, and innovation toward sustainability.
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The Innovation Dialectic: Quebec's Language Law and Team Collaboration
An ethnographic study of how Quebec’s language law shapes social cohesion, inclusion, and collaboration within teams tasked with sustainability innovation.