Lisa Cohen
PhD, Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA
MBA, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
BA, Sociology, Kalamazoo College, USA
Human Resources
Talent Management
Negotiations
Prior to joining听Desautels, Lisa Cohen has听been a faculty member听at London Business School, the Yale School of Management and the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine, where she听taught in the areas of听strategic human resources, organizational behavior and communications.
Following postgraduate studies at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Lisa Cohen enjoyed a successful consultancy career. She worked as Principal Consultant at Terranova Consulting Group/Right Management Consultants, a human resource and management consulting firm working to improve organizations鈥� potential through their people.
Sociology of work
Jobs and job design
Top management in entrepreneurial organizations
贬颈谤颈苍驳听
Stratification
London Business School
Yale School of Management
Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Monteiro, Pedro, Davide Nicolini, Ingrid Erickson, Lisa Cohen, Gina Dokko, Greetje Corporal, Arvind Karunakaran, Beth Bechky, and Siobhan O鈥橫ahony. 2024. 鈥淏eyond the buzz: Scholarly approaches to the study of work.鈥� Journal of Management Inquiry.
Cohen, Lisa E. and Sara Mahabadi. 2020 "In the midst of hiring: Pathways of Anticipated and Accidental Job Evolution During Hiring."听Organization Science, 33(5): 1938-1963.
Spataro, Sandra and Lisa E. Cohen. 2020. 鈥淕lossing over: How magazine fact checkers use conditional self-presentation to straddle glamour and dreariness in their work.鈥� Journal of Organizational Psychology.
Ferguson, Amanda J., Lisa E. Cohen, M. Diane Burton, and Christine M. Beckman. 2016. 听鈥淢isfit and milestones: Structural elaboration and capability reinforcement in the evolution of entrepreneurial top management teams.鈥� Academy of Management Journal, 59: 1430-1450.
Cohen, Lisa E. 2016. 鈥淛obs as Gordian Knots: A New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations and Institutions.鈥� Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 47: 25-59.
Cohen, Lisa E.,and Joseph P. Broschak. 2013. 鈥淲hose jobs are these? The impact of the proportion of female managers on the number of new management jobs filled by women versus men.鈥� Administrative Science Quarterly, 58: 509-542 .听
Cohen, Lisa E. 2013. 鈥淎ssembling jobs: A model of how tasks are bundled into and听across jobs.鈥� Organization Science, 24: 432-454.
Haveman, Heather A., Joseph P. Broschak, and Lisa E. Cohen. 2009. 鈥淕ood times, bad听times: The impact of organizational dynamics on the careers of male and female听managers.鈥� Research in the Sociology of Work, 18: 119-148.
Zatzick, Christopher, Marta M. Elvira, and Lisa E. Cohen. 2003. 鈥淲hen is more better?听The effects of racial composition on turnover.鈥� Organization Science, 14:483-496.
Elvira, Marta M. and Lisa E. Cohen. 2001. 鈥淟ocation matters: A cross-level analysis of听the effects of organizational sex composition on turnover.鈥� Academy of Management听Journal, 44: 591-605.
Cohen, Lisa E., Joseph P. Broschak, and Heather A. Haveman. 1998. 鈥淎nd then there听were more? The effect of organizational sex composition on hiring and promotion.鈥澨鼳merican Sociological Review, 63: 711-727.听Reprinted in Wood, John C. (ed.) 2011. Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Taylor & Francis:听Abingdon.
Haveman, Heather A., and Lisa E. Cohen. 1994. 鈥淭he ecological dynamics of careers:听The impact of organizational founding, dissolution, and merger on job mobility.鈥澨鼳merican Journal of Sociology, 100: 104-152.
Chapters in Books
Cohen, Lisa E., and H. Le Bui. Forthcoming. 鈥淭he coevolution of tasks and expertise.鈥� Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Cohen, Lisa E., Gina Dokko and Sara Mahabadi. Forthcoming. 鈥淭he creation of routines and roles in startups.鈥� Olav Sorenson & Patricia H. Thornton (eds), De Gruyter Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Cohen, Lisa E. 2020. 鈥淏ringing Moonlighting in to the Study of Workers, Jobs, and Careers.鈥� Advances in Strategic Management, 41.
Cohen, Lisa E. 2020. 鈥淭he Dis-similar Effects of Similarity.鈥� Advances in Strategic Management, 41.
Burton, M. Diane, Lisa E. Cohen and Michael Lounsbury. 2016. 鈥淏ringing Jobs Back In: Towards a New Multi-level Approach to the Study of Work and Organizations.鈥� Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 47: 1-22.
Lacey, Rodney, and Lisa E. Cohen. 2016. 鈥淯sing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as descriptive numerical Method in support of Narrative Methods.鈥� In Kimberly D. Elsbach and Roderick M. Kramer (Eds.) Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Research Methods: Pathways to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers.
Banks, Cristina G. and Cohen, Lisa. 2004. 鈥淲age and hour litigation: I-O psychology鈥檚听new frontier.鈥� In F.J. Landy (Ed), Employment Discrimination Litigation. Jossey-听Bass/Pfeiffer.
Cohen, Lisa E., and Barry M. Staw. 1998. 鈥溾�楩un鈥檚 over. Fact checkers are here鈥�: A听Case study of institutionalized dissent in the magazine publishing industry.鈥� Advances in听Qualitative Organizational Research, 1: 100-135.
Awards
2016-2021: Desautels Faculty Fellow
2013: Best paper award from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada OT division (with Heather Haveman)
2012: Nominee for Dexter Award for best international paper submitted to AOM OMT听division
2011: Honorable Mention from ASAC OT division for best paper (with Heather听Haveman)
1997:听Max Weber Award of the OOW Section of the American Sociological听Association for best paper (with Heather Haveman)
1995: Finalist for INFORMS/Organization Science best dissertation award
Fellowships
1996-1997: UC Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1993-1994: Sasakawa Fellowship, Haas School of Business
1992-1993: American Association of College Schools of Business Doctoral Fellowship
1991-1992: VanderWeide Fellowship, Fuqua School of Business
1990-1991: Fuqua School Fellowship, Fuqua School of Business
Grants
2020-2025: SSHRC Insight Grant,听Task Mobility
2013-2018: SSHRC Insight Grant,听Beyond Warm Bodies听听
2013: SSHRC Connections Grant for workshop on the Structure and Structuring of听Work in and around Organizations
2009-2010: London Business School Research and Materials Development Grant
2008-2010: London Business School Research and Materials Development Grant
2007-2009: London Business School Research and Materials Development Grant
2006-2008: London Business School Research and Materials Development Grant
Professor Cohen's current research focuses on questions about how tasks are bundled into jobs and jobs bundled into organizations: how and why 听jobs and organizations look the way they do,听how they change, and how they influence organizational success?听 Most recently she has examined these issues in startups. 听She has ongoing projects examining hiring and unusualness in top management structure of startups.听She has published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Organization Science.
