Pamela Hinds
· ProfessorStanford University · Science, Technology, and Society
Active 1977–2026
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About
Pamela J. Hinds is the Rodney H. Adams Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where she is also a Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Co-Director of the Center on Work, Technology, and Organization, and a member of the Director's Council for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Science and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the effect of technology on teams, collaboration, and innovation, with extensive work on the dynamics of cross-boundary work teams, especially those spanning national borders. She explores issues related to culture, language, identity, conflict, and the role of site visits in promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration. Pamela has also conducted research on human-robot interaction in work environments and the dynamics of human-robot teams. Recently, her work has examined the changing nature of work in response to emerging technologies, including coordination in open innovation, the impact of 3D-printing on work and organizing, and the activities of data analysts. She is a Senior Editor of Organization Science and co-editor of the book Distributed Work (MIT Press).
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Social Science
- Political Science
- Computer Security
- Data science
- Knowledge management
- Public relations
- Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
Selected publications
Organization Science · 2022 · 243 citations
Technologies are changing at a rapid pace and in unpredictable ways. The scale of their impact is also far-reaching. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, robotics, digital platforms, social media, blockchain, and 3-D printing affect many parts of the organization simultaneously, enabling new interdependencies within and between units and with actors that many organizations have typically considered to be outside their boundaries. Consequently, today’s emerging technologi…
Special Issue of<i>Organization Science:</i>Emerging Technologies and Organizing
Organization Science · 2019-05-01 · 89 citations
articleOpen accessOrganization Studies · 2020 · 72 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingWe investigated connectivity demands as a work design characteristic and how its different enactments affect interpersonal relationships and outcomes in global work. Work design theory has seen a resurgence over the last decade as both work and the expectations of workers have evolved. Emerging technologies, in particular, have fueled higher levels of autonomy, greater interdependence, and more global collaboration. These trends, in turn, have sparked increasing recognition among scholars of the…
Generative AI, Emerging Technology, and Organizing: Towards a theory of progressive encapsulation
Organization Theory · 2024-10-01 · 19 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingGenerative AI is upon us and is changing organizations and organizing. In this essay, we extend the relational perspective on technology, which argues for moving away from an entity-based view of technology to one that focuses instead on the evolving relations and functions between people, technologies, and organizations. We do so by introducing the concept of “progressive encapsulation” which captures GenAI’s potential ability to increasingly expand the “black box” and reduce visibility into an…
Organization Science · 2023 · 12 citations
Prior studies that examine how new expertise becomes integrated into organizations have shown that different occupations work to legitimate their new expertise to develop credibility and deference from other organizational groups. In this study, we similarly examine the work that an expert occupation did to legitimate their expertise; however, in this case, they were legitimating practices that they actually considered illegitimate. We report findings from our 20-month ethnography of data analys…
Recent grants
NSF · $205k · 2002–2007
NSF · $500k · 2017–2022
Collaborative Research: DHB: Human Dynamics of Robot-Supported Collaborative Work
NSF · $248k · 2006–2010
Frequent coauthors
- 27 shared
Sara Kiesler
Carnegie Mellon University
- 13 shared
E. Gulian
- 12 shared
F. Fallside
- 8 shared
Catherine Durnell Cramton
George Mason University
- 8 shared
Vanessa Evers
University of Twente
- 6 shared
Rebecca D. Pentz
Emory and Henry College
- 6 shared
Margie D. Dixon
Emory University
- 6 shared
Melissa A. Alderfer
Awards & honors
- Fellowship Appointment (2016-2019)
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