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.
"Cultural Tendencies in Generative AI."
Lu, Jackson G., Lesley Luyang Song, Lu Doris Zhang. Nature Human Behaviour. 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.
"Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence—But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured."
Guilbeault, Douglas, Austin van Loon, Katharina Lix, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"Firms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Market Advantage."
Engzell, Per and Nathan Wilmers. American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming.
"From Coase to Culture: Visible Hands Build Equilibria."
Gibbons, Robert. Economica. Forthcoming.
"How and for Whom Using Generative AI Affects Creativity: A Field Experiment."
Sun, Shuhua, Angelina Zhuyi Li, Maw Der Foo, Jing Zhou, Jackson G. Lu. Journal of Applied Psychology. 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.
"The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion."
Bailyn, Lotte, Julia B. Bear ... Erin L. Kelly et al. Journal of Management Inquiry. Forthcoming.
"The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations."
Broska, David, Michael Howes, and Austin van Loon. Sociological Methods and Research. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
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, Forthcoming.
"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
The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them.
Castilla, Emilio J. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 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
"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
"Building a Research Agenda for Systemic Investing."
Topic: Sustainability
Genç, Janset Nil, Jason Jay, Idongesit Sampson, and Johan Schot, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7326-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Sustainable Finance, Systems Change, Socio-Technical Systems, Transition Studies, Sustainability, Regenerative Economics, Ecological Economics, Impact Investing, Field Formation, Research Agenda, Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Responsible Investment, Climate Finance
"An Unusual Harassment Training that was Warmly Received—and, as well, Inspired Bystanders—an Organizational Ombuds Story."
Rowe, Mary. Journal of the International Ombuds Association Vol. 16, No. 2 (2025).
"Declining Earnings Inequality, Rising Income Inequality: What Explains Discordant Inequality Trends in the United States?"
Parolin, Zachary, Lukas Lehner, and Nathan Wilmers. Journal of Public Economics Vol. 244, (2025): 105337.