PhD student in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Biography
Before joining the EROB group as a PhD student, Chris has been studying in Germany, France and Mexico, obtaining an MSc in Management from IÉSEG School of Management in France as well as an MSc in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour (Research) from LSE. During these studies, he also did two fully funded summer courses at Queen's University and the University of Sherbrooke (both Canada).
Before venturing into academia, he has been working for a utility company in Germany and a management consultancy in Mexico. There, his area of expertise included competency modelling as well as projects in organisational climate, design and transformation.
At LSE, he has been working as a research analyst, interviewing 40 social entrepreneurs in Spain for the Social Entrepreneurs as Lead Users for Service Innovation project. He is also acting as the PhD-representative for the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour group in the Department of Management.
Research Interests
Chris’s research focuses on the sociology of rhetorical devices, especially rankings. His particular interest is the impact of rhetorical legitimacy, reputation and status devices like accreditations, audits, awards, certifications, metrics, ratings and rankings on organisational fields. For his most recent papers he is drawing on perspectives from New Institutional Theory as well as the sociology of quantification and commensuration literatures.
Supervisors
Teaching
Currently, he is teaching five undergraduate classes on the ID200 Organisational Theory and Behaviour course. His teaching experience also includes lecturing on Human Capital and Knowledge Management at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City.
Publications and Papers
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“Hatchery and Conditioning in the 65 after Ford: Do rankings trigger isomorphism?” Paper presented at the 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
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“Do rankings trigger isomorphic change in the higher education field?” Paper presented at the 2012 European Group for Organisation Studies Colloquium, Helsinki.
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Participant in the Pre-Colloquium PhD Workshop at the 2012 European Group for Organisation Studies Colloquium, Helsinki.