Publications

Featured
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects

American Sociological Review, 2023 (with Aayan Das)
* Featured in: HBR, Haas

When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks Affects Worker Productivity

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2023

Identification and Worker Responses to Workplace Change: Evidence from Four Cases in India

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021

Work-Family Programs and Non-Work Networks: Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment

Organization Science, 2020 (with David Pedulla)
* Featured in: Clayman Institute News

Getting Their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work

Management Science, 2020 (with Ranjitha Shivaram)

A Numbers Game: Quantification of Work, Auto-Gamification and Worker Productivity

American Sociological Review, 2020 (with Alan Benson)
* Featured in: WSJ, GSB

The Production of Merit: How Managers Understand and Apply Merit in the Workplace

Organization Science, 2020 (with Emilio Castilla)
* Featured in: IEDP

Train Them to Retain Them: Work-Readiness and the Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India

Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
* Editor’s Summary
* Featured in: ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, King Center , Responsible Research in Management and Business Article

The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price-Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India

Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
* Editor’s Summary
* Featured in: ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, ASA Economic Sociology Interview, ASA Work In Progress Blog, VoxDev

Professionalization and Market Closure: The Case of Plumbing in India

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013

Globalization and Outsourcing: Confronting New Human Resource Challenges in India’s BPO Industry

Industrial Relations Journal, 2010 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)

Economic Development Strategies and Macro and Micro Level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India's Outsourcing Industry

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)

In a Class of Their Own: Using Cultural Capital to Win Jurisdiction 

Working paper (with Joshua Hurwitz)

Singing Your Own Praises: Digital Cultural Production and Gender Inequality

Working paper (with Abhishek Nagaraj)

Remote Control: How Organizations Decide Whether to Adopt Remote Work

Working paper (with Rebecca Hinds)

Full-Cycle Methodology: Opportunities and Challenges for Organization Research

Working paper (with Jennifer Chatman)

Home Team Disadvantage: Nonstandard Work, Solidarity and Collective Mobilization

Working paper (with Aayan Das)