Joel M. Podolny
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Dean, and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management
Professor of Sociology
Joel Podolny is the Dean of the Yale School of Management and Professor of Sociology. His research is in the areas of economic sociology, complex organizations, and social networks. The research for which he is best known is that in which he brings the sociological conception of status to the study of market competition. He has examined status dynamics in a variety of industries, including investment banking, semiconductors, shipping, venture capital, and the wine trade. In addition to his work on status, he has conducted research on the role of social networks in mobility and information transfer within organizations. His current research seeks to explicate how leaders infuse meanings into their organizations.
Prior to Yale SOM, Podolny was professor and director of research at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He also spent 11 years on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also served as senior associate dean of academic affairs and was head of the school’s organizational behavior group.
Recent Publications
Books
- Podolny, Joel (2005). Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition. Princeton University Press.
- Podolny, Joel (with Garth Saloner and Andrea Shepard) (2001). Strategic Management. John Wiley & Sons.
Articles
- Podolny, Joel M. (with R. Khurana and M. Hill-Popper) (forthcoming). “Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership,” Research in Organizational Behavior.
- Podolny, Joel M. (2003). “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Symbols: A Sociologist’s View of the Economic Pursuit of Truth,” American Economic Review, 93 (2): 169-174.
- Podolny, Joel M. (with F. Scott Morton) (2002). “Love or Money?: The Effects of Owner Motivation in the California Wine Industry,” Journal of Industrial Economics, 50 (4): 431-456.
- Podolny, Joel M. (2001). “Networks As the Pipes and Prisms of the Market,” American Journal of Sociology, 107 (1): 33-60.
Achievements and Honors
- Invited to Deliver Clarendon Lectures in Management, Said Business School, Oxford University, 2004
- Most Influential Article or Chapter, Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management, 1999
- Business School Trust Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1999
- Grant (with Michael Morris), Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council, 1994
- Best Article Award, International Association of Conflict Management, 1994
- Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1993
- Grant (with Jim Baron), Women’s Education Foundation, Santa Clara County, 1992
Editorships (past and present)
- Member of Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2005.
- Associate Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change, 1999–present.
- Member of Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999–2000.
- Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1992–1994.