Faculty Directory

Vanessa Conzon

Assistant Professor

Department

Management and Organization

Profile

Professor Conzon'sresearch explores the relationship between employees’ autonomy with organizational goals, and how this relates to diversity and (in)equality. Empirically, her work often focuses on employee control of work time and tasks, and how this intersects with gender and social class.Professor Conzon primarily uses qualitative methods—particularly ethnography—and she incorporates quantitative methods into her field studies.

Publications & Pieces Under Review

  • (WithRuthanne Huising.)Organization Science (forthcoming). 2024.
  • Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(4), NP65-NP67. December, 2023.
  • Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), 648-690. May, 2023.
  • (With Lindsey Cameron, and Bobbi Thomason.) Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (12), 1821-1833. 2021.
  • “Collaborative Commensuration: Reconciling Temporal Flexibility and Client Satisfaction in Professional Work.” (With James Mellody.) Organization Science.

Appointments, Awards, and Honors

  • 2024Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship
  • 2023Academy of Management Above and Beyond the Call of Duty reviewer award
  • 2022 Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, runner up
  • 2022 Academy of Management Conference, best paper (top 10%)
  • 2022Work Family Researchers Network’s Kathleen Christensen Dissertation Award
  • 2022Industry Studies Association Dissertation Award finalist
  • 2021 MIT Sloan Women 4 Women: Recognition as inspiring woman, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • 2014-2021 Zannetos Memorial Scholarship for academic achievement, MIT Sloan School of Management