Gerardo Okhuysen

About

Gerardo Okhuysen joined The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, in July 2012 as a Professor of Organization and Management. His teaching focuses on Organizational Behavior, Effectiveness of Groups and Teams, and Decision Making, with a primary concern for enhancing leadership and management skills necessary for effective influence on group and organizational functioning. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. His research primarily examines managing groups in different decision situations, emphasizing the management of task and environmental uncertainty. His work has explored negotiation settings, groups working on ambiguous or uncertain tasks, the role of context in group work, and small organizations operating under high uncertainty. Current projects investigate group dynamics, group success, and the embedding of emotion in decision-making activities. His scholarly contributions have been published in prominent journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Epistemology
• Political Science
• Management
• Social psychology
• Library science
• Public relations
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Swimming in a Sea of Shame: Incorporating Emotion into Explanations of Institutional Reproduction and Change

  Academy of Management Review · 2014-01-16 · 310 citations

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  We theorize the role in institutional processes of what we call the “shame nexus,” a set of shame-related constructs: felt shame, systemic shame, sense of shame, and episodic shaming. As a discrete emotion, felt shame signals to a person that a social bond is at risk, and it catalyzes a fundamental motivation to preserve valued bonds. Systemic shame we conceptualize as a form of disciplinary power, animated by persons' sense of shame—a mechanism of ongoing intersubjective surveillance and self-r…

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• Perspective—Discovery Within Validation Logic: Deliberately Surfacing, Complementing, and Substituting Abductive Reasoning in Hypothetico-Deductive Inquiry

  Organization Science · 2018-03-29 · 196 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  We propose a more explicit role for abductive reasoning, or the development of initial explanation, in hypothetico-deductive (H-D) inquiry. We begin by describing the roots of abduction in pragmatism and its role in exploration and discovery. Recognizing that pragmatism treats abductive reasoning as inevitable, we argue that it can also be a deliberate form of reasoning in scientific inquiry, articulating the unique place it can have in hypothetico-deductive theorizing. We explain the opportunit…

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• Theories of Work and Working Today

  Academy of Management Review · 2013-10-01 · 80 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  The article discusses conceptions of work as a focus of research in the area of organization and management. We consider obstacles in the study of work, including different disciplinary lenses used in research. We discuss the contributions of the articles in this special topic forum, as well as questions generated from them. We end by examining how different disciplines may approach new questions about work, and call for an engaged and rich consideration of work as a dynamic phenomenon

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• A Place in the World: Vulnerability, Well-Being, and the Ubiquitous Evaluation That Animates Participation in Institutional Processes

  Academy of Management Review · 2020 · 56 citations

  We explain how and why people become motivated to participate in institutional processes. Responding to recent efforts to address the micro and meso in institutional analysis, we introduce two interrelated constructs, a person’s embodied world of concern and a community’s shared world of concern, which shape how people experience, evaluate, and participate in institutional arrangements. The world of concern, which is the product of people’s sedimented experiences of thriving and suffering, becom…

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• Introduction: Into the FourthDecade

  2017-01-01 · 56 citations

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  The first edition of this Handbook appeared in 2008. 1 Its contents and introductory chapter covered the evolution of institutional thinking from 1977 up to that date. In the introductory chapter of the second edition, we will not repeat nor reinterpret these three decades, but rather expand on what we see as important directions and developments in institutional theory since then and suggest what we regard as the most promising future research avenues. Most of the themes identified in the first…

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Frequent coauthors

• Bryant A. Hudson

  Institut d'Economie Scientifique Et de Gestion

  43 shared

• Kristin Smith‐Crowe

  Boston University

  29 shared

• W. E. Douglas Creed

  University of Rhode Island

  27 shared

• R. Mark Greenwood

  21 shared

• Roy Suddaby

  Washington State University

  21 shared

• Michael Lounsbury

  University of Alberta

  15 shared

• Thomas B. Lawrence

  University of Oxford

  12 shared

• Rodolphe Durand

  HEC Paris

  12 shared

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