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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"Comment: How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?"
Brady, David, Aliza Luft, and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. American Sociology Review. 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.
"Earnings Effects of Direct Worker Voice in Production."
Nelson, Dylan and Nathan Wilmers. ILR Review. 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.
"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. Forthcoming. 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. Forthcoming. APA. ResearchGate.
"The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion."
Bailyn, Lotte, Julia B. Bear ... Erin L. Kelly et al. Journal of Management Inquiry. Forthcoming.
"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. Video Summary.
Keywords: Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Work, Co-creation, Human-AI Interaction, Future of Work, Responsible AI
"Large Language Models Require a New Form of Oversight: Capability-based Monitoring."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Kellogg, Katherine C., Danielle S. Bitterman et al, Working Paper. November 2025. SSRN.
Keywords: Capability-based Monitoring, Large Language Models, Healthcare Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI Oversight and Safety
"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
"GenAI as a Power Persuader: How Professionals Get Persuasion Bombed When They Attempt to Validate LLMs."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Steven Randazzo, Akshita Joshi, Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, and Karim R. Lakhani, Working Paper. October 2025.
Keywords: Knowledge work,Persuasion, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence
"Designing Adaptive Backbones: Organizational Choices to Enable Systems Change."
Topic: Sustainability
Fumi, Alessandro and Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7321-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Backbone Organization, Collective Impact, Investing for Systems Change, Impact Investing, Sustainable Finance, Socio-Technical Systems
"Firms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Market Advantage."
Engzell, Per and Nathan Wilmers. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 131, No. 2 (2025): 322-370.
The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them.
Castilla, Emilio J. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2025.
There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work.
Repenning, Nelson P. and Donald C. Kieffer. Basic Venture, 2025.
"Systemic Investing for Social Change: A Starter Kit."
Topic: Sustainability
Khan, Hibah, Jason Jay, and Kirsten Andersen, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7327-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Sustainable Finance, Systems Change, Socio-Technical Systems, Impact Investing, Climate Finance, Action Learning
"Are Decredentialed Jobs a Route to Upward Mobility?"
Lyttelton, Thomas, Dylan Nelson, and Nathan Wilmers, Working Paper. August 2025.
"Employer Concentration and Wages: Evidence from Large Firms' Hiring Shocks."
Topic: Economy
Schubert, Gregor, Anna Stansbury, Bledi Taska, and Matthew Dey, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7334-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2025.
Keywords: Labor, Monopsony, Labor Markets, Concentration, Market Definition
"The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia."
Topic: Diversity
Stansbury, Anna and Kyra Rodriguez, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7130-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Socioeconomic Background, Class, Labor Market Disparities