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.
"Offline Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Support in AI-Assisted Decision-Making."
Buçinca, Zana, Siddharth Swaroop, Amanda E. Paluch, Susan A. Murphy, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 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 Strong Week Argument for the Existence of a (Gift-Bestowing, Biblical) God."
Lebens, Samuel and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. Faith & Philosophy. Forthcoming.
"Experimentalist Intensification Governance: Managing Worker Negative Consequences Associated with Generative AI Innovation Work."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Karunakaran, Arvind, Katherine C. Kellogg, and Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7382-26. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2026.
Keywords: GenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Work Intensification, Experimentation, Qualitative, Ethnography, Organizational Theory, Sociology, Management, Future of Work, Organizational Change, Technological Change, Healthcare, Innovation, Technology
"Who Pays for Unions?"
Topic: Economics
Dodini, Samuel, Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén, Working Paper. April 2026. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16697.
Keywords: Unions, Pricepass-through, Firms, Market Power, Labor Costs
"Designing for Impact: Engaging Stakeholders With System Dynamics Models."
Kapmeier, Florian, Andrew P. Jones, and John D. Sterman. System Dynamics Review Vol. 42, No. 2 (2026): e70024.
"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.
"Building a Science of the Social Field: Deep Sensing for Regeneration in Times of Rupture."
Scharmer, Otto and Eva Pomeroy, Working Paper. March 2026.
"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.