research

My research interests cut across organization theory, media, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. The point being to understand how innovations in information technology impact organizations, societies, and financial economies.

IN PARTICULAR:

  • As “thinking machines” become increasingly intelligent, how does work change and what forms of organizing emerge?
  • The mixture of human and machine thinking that now jointly contribute to organizational information processing. How might we “see” these augmented forms of organization?
  • The organizing of uncertain opportunities. The side of entrepreneurship I feel is most overlooked. You might call it a random walk down Sandhill Road.
WORKING PAPERS
Moral imagination as a dynamic capability of the firm. (W/ Jason Stansbury). Under review
The paradox of entrepreneurship: Enterprising and the challenge of organizing unknown opportunity.

Towards a Complex Understanding of Making Sense within Augmented Organizations.

Organizational information asymmetry, media sociability and structural design.

Social graffiti and the hazardous exchange of adjectives.

PUBLICATIONS
Tepper, S., Hargittai, E., & Touve, D. 2007. Music, Mavens, and Technology. In Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. New York: Routledge
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PRESENTATIONS
Organizational information asymmetry, media sociability and structural designAcademy of Management conference. August, 2007

Reconsidering the consequences of influence tactics: Returning to the work of Falbe and Yukl. Academy of Management annual conference. August, 2006.

Social graffiti and the hazardous exchange of adjectives: new forms of social information and identity in online spaces. American Sociological Association annual conference. August, 2006.

Music, mavens and technologyTepper, S., Hargittai, E., & Touve, D. American Sociological Association, annual conference. August, 2005.

Have you tried this yet? How college kids sample new music and books.Tepper, S., Hargittai, E., Touve, D. Eastern Sociolocal Association annual conference, December, 2005