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Michael Pratt

O'Connor Family Professor

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Michael Pratt

Contact

Fulton Hall 424C

Telephone: 617-552-6992

Email: michael.pratt.1@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • BS, University of Dayton
  • MA, University of Michigan
  • Ph.D, University of Michigan

Research Interests

Identity and Identification; Meaningful Work; Ambivalence; Intuition/Nonconscious Processes.

Expertise

  • Decision Making & Decision Sciences
  • Institutions, Culture, and Identity
Curriculum Vitae

Department

Management and Organization

Profile

Prior to joining the Department of Management and Organization at 艾可直播 College in 2008, Pratt was a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Illinois. He currently enjoys a courtesy appointment with the Department of Psychology.聽He聽is an Academy of Management Fellow.

His research is problem-centered and consequently he tends to engage in process-oriented, cross-level research. His interests include how individuals connect with the work that they do, as well as to the organizations, professions, occupations, and other collectives in which they find themselves. Theoretically, his research draws heavily from theories of identity and identification, meaning, emotion, intuition, trust, and culture (e.g., artifacts). Methodologically, while he has published work that utilizes lab research and surveys, much of his work is ethnographic or otherwise qualitative in nature. Recent research projects center on identity polarization in organizations and how to manage it, collective interventions into interpersonal trust formation and trust repair, and examining different pathways to meaningful work.聽

His work has appeared in various outlets, including the聽Academy of Management Annual Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Management Learning, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Science, Qualitative Inquiry, Science, Small Group Research, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, and in numerous edited books. He also has co-edited the books:聽Artifacts and Organizations: Beyond Mere Symbolism (with A. Rafaeli, 2006, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and聽The Handbook of Organizational Identity聽(with M. Schultz, B. Ashforth, and D. Ravasi, 2016, Oxford University Press). Dr. Pratt was a recipient of the 2007 Best Paper Award for the Academy of Management Review (with Erik Dane).

Selected Appointments and Awards

  • 2025-2029: Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Organizational Psycology and Organizational Behavior聽
  • 2025: Guest Editor, Journal of Management
  • 2024:聽Distinguished Service Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Managemen
  • 2022: Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award, Carroll School of Management, 艾可直播 College
  • 2020: Best Paper Award Finalist, Academy of Management Journal
  • 2018: Distinguished Service Award, Carroll School of Management, 艾可直播
  • College
  • 2016: Distinguished Scholar Award, Management and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management
  • 2014: Induction as an Academy of Management fellow
  • 2010 - present Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis [CARMA] International Advisory Board
  • 1999 鈥� 2013 Editorial Board of the聽Academy of Management Journal; 2001 鈥� 2004 Editorial Advisory Committee
  • 2012 鈥淒iamond in the Rough鈥� Award for Best Faculty Proposal in the Cognition in the Rough Workshop, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management
  • 2007听Academy of Management Review, Best Paper Award
  • 2007 Small Groups Research, Best Paper Award Finalist
  • 2000 Paper named to list of 17 most interesting publications in organizational and management literature from the past 100 years.聽Academy of Management Journal聽Editorial Board Survey
  • 听鈥淭he Best Lecturer鈥� Award, UIUC-University of Warsaw Executive MBA Program, University of Warsaw

Selected Publications

  • "聽(With Eliana Crosina and Hila LIfshitz.) Organization Science,聽35 (6), 2198-2222. November-December 2024.
  • "" (With Luke Hedden, Hamza Khan, Gabriel Sala, and Shannon Scriarappa.)聽Academy of Management Collections,聽3 (2), 17-34.聽
  • "." (With Gabriel Sala.) Academy of Managment Journal,聽66 (4), 1263-1293. August, 2023.聽
  • "." (With Luke Hedden.) Strategy Science, 8 (2), 182-192. June, 2023.聽
  • 鈥溾�� (With Scott Sonenshein and Martha Feldman.) Organizational Research Methods, 25 (2), 211-238. 2022.聽聽

  • 鈥� (With Douglas Lepisto and Erik Dane.) Administrative Science Quarterly, 64 (2), 398-434. April, 2018.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Eliana Crosina.) Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1), 66-98. February, 2019.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Teresa Cardador.) Academy of Management Journal, 61 (6), 2053-2080. December, 2018.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Curtis LeBaron, Paula Jarzabkowski and Greg Fetzer.) Organizational Research Methods, 2 (2), 239-260. April, 2018.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Douglas Lepisto.) Organizational Psychology Review, 7 (2), 99-121. May, 2017.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Silvia Bonaccio.) Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 94 (4), 693-715. 2016.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With David Hekman and Daan van Knippenberg.) Human Relations, 69 (3), 753-780. March, 2016.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Naomi Rothman, Laura Rees and Timothy Vogus.) Academy of Management Annals, 11, 33-72. 2017.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Teresa Amabile.) In B. Staw & A. Brief (Eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 157-183. 2016.

  • 鈥溾�� (With Eliana Crosina.) Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 3, 321-347. 2016.聽

  • 鈥溾�� In Kimberly Elsbach and Roderick Kramer鈥檚 (Eds.) , 177-185. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge. December, 2015.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Abhijeet Vadera.) In Donald Palmer, Kristin Smith-Crowe and Royston Greenwood (Eds). , 337-369. Cambridge University Press. July, 2016.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Douglas Lepisto and Eliana Crosina.) In Ana Maria e silva and Miriam Aparicio (Eds., 1-37. Rosemead, CA: Scientific & Academic Publishing.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Kevin Rockmann.) Academy of Management Discoveries, 1 (2), 150-164. January, 2015.

  • 听鈥�.鈥� Journal of Management Inquiry, 24 (3), 340-344. July, 2015.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Mirdita Elstak, Cees van Riel, Mamta Bhatt and Guido Berens.) Journal of Management Studies, 51 (1), 32-62. September, 2014.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Christopher Michaelson, Adam Grant and Craig P. Dunn.) Journal of Business Ethics, 12 (1), 77-90. 2014.

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Heather Vough, Jeffrey Bednar, Teresa Cardador and Erik Dane.) Academy of Management Journal, 56 (4): 1050-1080.

  • 鈥淚ntuitive Decision Making.鈥� In Eric Kiesler (Ed), , 401-404. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. March, 2013.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Abhijeet Vadera and Pooja Mishra.) Journal of Management, 39 (5), 1221-1276. July, 2013.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Camille Pradies and Douglas Lepisto.)聽 In Bryan Dik, Znita Byrne and Michael Steger鈥檚 (Eds.) , 173-196. Washington, D.C., APA Books. 2013.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Abhijeet Vadera.) Organization Science, 24 (1), 172-188. January-February 2013.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With C. Marlebe Fiol and Edward O鈥機onnor.) Academy of Management Review, 34 (1), 32-55. January, 2009.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� Organizational Research Methods, 11 (3), 481-509. July, 2008.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Erik Dane.) Academy of Management Review, 32 (1), 33-54. December, 2017.聽

  • 鈥溾�� (With Kevin Rockmann and Jeffrey Kaufmann.) Academy of Management Journal, 49 (2), 235-262. April, 2006.聽

  • 鈥溾�� Administrative Science Quarterly, 45 (3), 456-493. September, 2000.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Peter O. Foreman.) Academy of Management Review, 25 (1), 18鈥�42. January, 2000.聽

  • (With Anat Rafaeli.) Academy of Management Journal, 40 (4), 862-898. 1997.

    Books

  • 鈥溾�� (Edited with Majken Shultz, Blake Ashforth and Davide Ravasi.) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. September, 2016.聽

  • 鈥�.鈥� (Edited with Anat Rafaeli.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2006.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Pratt served as an associate editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly from 2013-2022. Prior to that, he was the inaugural qualitative associate editor for the聽Academy of Management Journal聽and was a Nontraditional Research Editor at the聽Journal of Management Inquiry. He has also been a guest editor for聽Organizational Research Methods. He has been an active member of the Academy of Management. He is a former Division/Program/PDW Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, and former representative-at-large for the Research Methods Division, of the Academy of Management. He has also served on numerous committees including the Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, the Organizational Behavioral Award, the Best Paper in the聽Academy of Management Review, and the Best Paper in the聽Academy of Management Journal. He has also been a judge for the INFORMS dissertation proposal competition.

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