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Micki Eisenman
Assistant Professor of Management
646-312-3659
micki.eisenman@baruch.cuny.edu
Education:
BA Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1996 MBA A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University 1999 PhD Columbia Business School, Columbia University 2006
Areas of Expertise:
Technological industries in which firms innovate by increasing the aesthetic dimensions of their products (in particular, Personal Computer and Cellular Telephone industries); Fashion and Symbol-intensive competition; Sociology of fashion; Management fashions; Production of cultural goods; Content analysis methods
Selected Publications:
Abrahamson, Eric & Micki Eisenman. 2008. “Employee-Management Techniques: Transient Fads or Trending Fashions?” Administrative Science Quarterly 53(4): 719-744.
Cardon, Melissa, Rachel Shinnar, Micki Eisenman, & Edward G. Rogoff. 2008. “Segmenting the Population of Entrepreneurs: A Cluster Analysis Study.” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13(3): 293-314.
Shelton, Lois, Sharon Danes, & Micki Eisenman. 2008. “Role Demands, Difficulty in Managing Work-Family Conflict, and Minority Entrepreneurs.” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13(3): 315-342.
Abrahamson, Eric & Micki Eisenman. 2001. "Why Management Scholars Must Intervene Strategically in the Management Knowledge Market", Human Relations, 54(1): 67-76.
Eisenman, Micki. 2007. Cultivating Taste: Constructing the Importance of Product Aesthetics in Technological Industries. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643.
Eisenman, Micki. 2004. Aesthetic Interfaces: "A Theory of Symbolic Differentiation". In D.H. Nagao (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643. Paper selected for Best Student Paper Session, MOC Division
Eisenman, Micki. 2004. "Dynamics of Symbol Imitation in the Personal Computer Industry". In C. Combes, D. Grant, T. Keenoy, C. Oswick, I. Sabelis, M. Veenswijk, and S. Ybema (Eds.), Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts, Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference, ISBN 1 900089 06 8.
Professional Activities:
Member, Academy of Management, 2000-present
Member, European Group of Organizational Studies, 2006-present
Awards, Honors, etc.:
Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Grant, 2008
“Cultivating Taste: Constructing the Importance of Product Aesthetics in Technological Industries”.
William H. Newman Award Nominee, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 2007Organization and Management Theory Division Best Reviewer Award: OMT ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Award.
Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 2007PSC-CUNY Research Grant 2006; 2007; 2008
William Stewart Travel Grant 2007
First Place, INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2004
Graduate Fellow, Columbia Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, 2004-2006
“Aesthetic Interfaces: A Theory of Symbolic Differentiation”.
Finalist for Best Student Paper, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management Conference, New Orleans, LA. 2004“Pay Attention to Beauty: The Effects of the Increasing Prevalence of Beautiful Products on the Personal Computer Industry”.
Runner up for Best Student Submission Award, the 7th Annual Cognition in the Rough Workshop, Academy of Management Conference, New Orleans, LA. 2004
