I explore the influence of culture and meaning structures on organizations and their audiences. Adopting a cultural perspective, I use quantitative text analysis and econometric models to examine phenomena such as institutional persistence and social evaluation. My empirical settings include social housing and cultural experiences. For example, I examined how public housing has persisted as an institution for nearly a century in Vienna by continually drawing on and adapting cultural elements, using dynamic modeling of discourse (DMD) to reveal how external environments shape its meaning in a coauthored paper published in Organization Studies.
I am an organizational researcher and a PhD candidate at EM Lyon Business School, where I teach Strategy and Microeconomics in the
PGE program.
In my research, I use machine learning techniques such as word embeddings and structural/dynamic topic modeling to identify patterns in large corpora.
I am a part of the Strategy & Organization (STORM) and
(InvEnt) research centers at EM Lyon.
Previously, I worked as a research analyst at École normale supérieure (ENS) and Edelman Intelligence in Paris.
I studied economics at Allameh Tabataba'i University (BA) and the University of Amsterdam (MSc), as well as innovation and management at SKEMA Business School (MSc).
I’m excited to share that our paper (w/ Christof Brandtner and Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan) on how an ambitious idea like affordable public housing survives a century of political, economic, and cultural changes is now out!
How do expert endorsements influence laypeople's evaluations?
How did the institution of public housing persist for nearly a century? A paper on the “Dynamic Persistence of Institutions" (with C. Brandtner and B. Srinivasa Desikan). Nominated for the Best Paper Awards.
How did the institution of public housing persist for nearly a century? A paper on the “Dynamic Persistence of Institutions" (with C. Brandtner and B. Srinivasa Desikan)
Presented a paper on expert endorsements looking at Google Maps review data.
I was selected to participate in SCANCOR PhD workshop in institutional theory in Oslo.
Our paper on the “Dynamic Persistence of Institutions" (with C. Brandtner and B. Srinivasa Desikan) provides a theory-method package that tackles the question of how institutions persist.
I presented a paper on how expert endorsements influence how laypeople evaluate organizations.
I presented a paper on status shock and audience evaluation.
To better understand the complexity of the publication process, Li Ben, Taha Ebrahimnazari, Cristian Taborda, and I interview top scholars in the field. Check out the STORM Youtube Channel.
I presented my Supervised Research Project (SRP) paper on how various groups of audiences evaluate jurisdictional claims in the context of Gain-of-Function research.
I owe immense gratitude to the brilliant colleagues who have shared this journey with me, each contributing unique insights and guidance. For a deeper understanding of my work and approach, these individuals are the best to ask. At emlyon, I’ve had the honor of collaborating with Bernard Forgues, Christof Brandtner, Tao Han, and Thinley Tharchen. Beyond emlyon, my work has been enriched through collaboration with Anne Christophe and Naomi Havron at École Normale Supérieure, Felix Schoeller at MIT’s Media Lab, and Gönül Doğan at the University of Cologne.
I love capturing the bold lines and contrasts— explore my photography and share in that joy.