Publications and Working Papers
The faculty of the Work and Organization Studies group are studying work and employment practices and outcomes, institutions and organizations, public policies, negotiations and conflict resolution, organizational design and implementation, leadership, change, and many other key issues. Below are samples of their research.
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"AI and Negotiation."
Curhan, Jared R., and Jonathan Gratch. Negotiation Journal. Forthcoming.
"Coercion from Autonomization: How (Art) Market Platforms Necessitate Participation via a Fear of Not Being Recognized."
Riley, James W. and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. Socio-Economic Review. Forthcoming.
Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment.
Osterman, Paul. Harvard University Press, Forthcoming.
"Does Voice Gap Influence Workers’ Job Attitudes and Well-Being? Measuring Voice as a Dimension of Job Quality."
Díaz-Linhart, Yaminette, Thomas Kochan, Arrow Minster, Dongwoo Park, and Duanyi Yang. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Forthcoming.
"Environmental Sustainability in Cardiovascular Practice: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Scott McAlister, Jason Jay et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Forthcoming.
"From Coase to Culture: Visible Hands Build Equilibria."
Gibbons, Robert. Economica. Forthcoming.
"Organizational Learning with Generative AI: New Modes of Knowledge Search, Creation, Retention, and Transfer."
Wiesenfeld, Batia Mishan and Katherine C. Kellogg. Strategic Organization. Forthcoming.
"Personality Engineering: Optimizing AI Personas for Objective and Subjective Value in Negotiation."
Curhan, Jared R., and Michelle Vaccaro. Current Opinion in Psychology. Forthcoming.
"The Social Class Gap in Negotiation: Lower-class Individuals Negotiate Less and Face more Backlash."
Lu, Jackson G., Ying Lin, and Michele J. Gelfand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming.
"The Strong Week Argument for the Existence of a (Gift-Bestowing, Biblical) God."
Lebens, Samuel and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. Faith & Philosophy. Forthcoming.
"Effectiveness of a Participatory Voice Intervention on Psychological Well-Being Among Warehouse Workers: Results From the Fulfillment Center Intervention Study, United States, 2021‒2023."
Siebach, Kirsten F., Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, Laura Kubzansky, Lisa Berkman, Molin Wang, Lin Ge, Alexander Kowalski, Hazhir Rahmandad, and Erin L. Kelly. American Journal of Public Health Vol. 116, No. 4 (2026): 522-532. Download Paper.
"It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression."
Jackson, Summer R. and Basima Tewfik (equal authorship; authors listed alphabetically). Academy of Management Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (2026): 348-375. ResearchGate.
"Rising to the Challenge: The Interactive Effect of Role Overload and Workplace Impostor Thoughts on Effort and Subsequent Job Performance."
Tewfik, Basima A. Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 111, No. 4 (2026): 419-441. APA. ResearchGate.
"Earnings Effects of Direct Worker Voice in Production."
Nelson, Dylan and Nathan Wilmers. ILR Review Vol. 79, No. 1 (2026): 36-58. Preprint.
"Large Language Models Require a New Form of Oversight: Capability-based Monitoring."
Kellogg, Katherine C., Bingyang Ye, Yifan Hu, Guergana K. Savova, Byron Wallace, and Danielle S. Bitterman. npj Digital Medicine Vol. 9, No. 375 (2026).
"Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages."
Buchanan, Erin M., Kelly Cuccolo ... Jackson G. Lu et al. Nature Human Behaviour Vol. 10, (2026): 182-201.
"Superhumanization as Social Creativity: Positive Exemplars and Cultural Appropriation Concerns Shape Identity Management."
Halevy, Nir, Chelsea R. Lide, Preeti Vani, Alexander P. Landry, and Elizabeth Miclau. Social Psychological and Personality Science (2025).
"Cyborgs, Centaurs and Self-Automators: The Three Modes of Human-GenAI Knowledge Work and Their Implications for Skilling and the Future of Expertise."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Randazzo, Steven, Katherine C. Kellogg, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Ethan R. Mollick, François Candelon, Karim R. Lakhani, and Lila Lifshitz-Assaf, Working Paper. December 2025. Fortune Article. Video Summary.
Keywords: Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Work, Co-creation, Human-AI Interaction, Future of Work, Responsible AI
"Better Labor Market Options Reduce Workplace Injuries."
Park, R. Jisung, Paul Stainier, and Anna Stansbury, Working Paper. October 2025.
Keywords: Workplace Health And Safety, Labor Markets, Outside Options
"Achieving an Intelligent HealthScience System: Aligning Science, Health, Business, Policy and Technology for Patients and Society."
Synergy Forum (including John D. Sterman). Learning Health Systems Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025): e70020.