research
My research interests engage a combination of organization theory, technology, entrepreneurship and social issues in management. In particular, I am focused upon the relationships among automation, the nature of work and the social structure of organizations.
In the years prior to the PhD, I held management roles in a series of technology-based startups, resulting in experience across the life cycle of organizations- from idea to acquisition (and at times, failure). This experience informs both the research questions I pursue and the approaches I bring to the classroom.
DISSERTATION
Ghosts in the shell: Towards an understanding of augmented organizations.
Committee: Bruce Barry [chair], Richard Daft, Bart Victor
My dissertation involves a large-sample inquiry into the relationships among automation, the nature of work and the social structure of organizations – issues with direct implications for organizational theory, managerial practice, and public policy. I present and test hypotheses that emerge from conflicting expectations that have persisted within the organizational theory literature. The model is tested by way of data collected within the O*NET project’s broad survey of work context, based on information provided by more than 25,000 individuals across 800 occupations within the United States.
WORKING PAPERS
Stansbury, J. & Touve, D. A theory of moral imagination as a dynamic capability of the firm. (under review)
Touve, D. A theory of the technologies for meaningful organizations.
Touve, D. Organizational complexity, media sociability and structural design.
Touve, D. Organizing unknown opportunity: Towards an understanding of the paradox of entrepreneurship.
PUBLICATIONS
Chen, Y. & Touve, D. Conformity, political participation, and economic rewards: The case of Chinese private entrepreneurs. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, in press.
Tepper, S., Hargittai, E., & Touve, D. 2007. Music, Mavens, and Technology. In S. Tepper & B. Ivey (Eds.), Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life: 71-193. New York: Routledge.
PRESENTATIONS
Stansbury, J. & Touve, D. Moral imagination as a dynamic capability of the firm. Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago.
Touve, D. 2008. A theory of the technologies for meaningful organizations. Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim.
Touve, D. 2007. Organizational information asymmetry, media sociability and structural design. Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia.
Touve, D. 2006. Reconsidering the consequences of influence tactics: Returning to the work of Falbe and Yukl. Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta.
Touve, D. 2006. Social graffiti and the hazardous exchange of adjectives: new forms of social information and identity in online spaces. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal.
Tepper, S., Hargittai, E., & Touve, D. 2005. Music, mavens and technology. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.
Tepper, S., Hargittai, E., Touve, D. 2005. Have you tried this yet? How college kids sample new music and books. Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, Washington.
