Dr Sarah Otner

About

I am a behavioral scientist focused on how individuals gain and maintain social status for themselves, and how they judge deservingness to allocate social status to others. My principal research interests combine organization theory, strategy, networks, and innovation; I use approaches from economic sociology, social psychology, and economics. I adopt interdisciplinary research tools – including experimentation, computational social science, and mixed-methods approaches. Building on Robert K. Merton's theories of status and competition, I endeavor to identify pathways to impact for society to solve its "wicked problems", especially inequality.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour

Qualifications

  • Ph.D.
  • FHEA
  • CMBE
  • FRSA

Teaching and learning

I teach courses at all levels (Undergraduate through Executive MBA) in organizational behavior, organization theory, negotiations, networks, innovation, and leadership.

Qualifications and expertise

  • External Examining (AdvanceHE)
  • Case Method (Harvard Business Publishing)
  • #IamRemarkable (Google)
  • Writing Retreat Facilitator (Rowena Murray Method)

Undergraduate courses taught

Research

My  research  focuses  on  awards  and  prizes.  I  study  the  design  of,  and  the  mechanisms  that  drive,  competitions.  My  current  work  involves  peer  effects  among  elites,  and  invisible  status  effects  during  blinded  judging.  A  second  stream  of  my  research  examines  innovation  tournaments,  and  particularly  Grand  Challenge  prizes.  My  ongoing  projects include:  prize  scarcity,  prize  sharing,  establishment  of  new  prizes,  and  prize  refusals.

Refereed Publications - http://bit.ly/ScholarSMGO

Areas of specialism

  • Status
  • Prizes
  • Networks
  • Culture
  • Innovation

Scholarly affiliations

  • Academy of Management (USA)
  • American Sociological Association
  • British Academy of Management
  • Women in Business Education

Publications

Number of items: 9.

Article

Betancourt, Nathan, Jochem, Torsten and (2022) Research Policy, 52(1), p. 104624. ISSN (print) 0048-7333

Schweinsberg, Martin, Feldman, Michael, Staub, Nicola, van den Akker, Olmo R., van Aert, Robbie C.M., van Assen, Marcel A.L.M., Liu, Yang, Althoff, Tim, Heer, Jeffrey, Kale, Alex, Mohamed, Zainab, Amireh, Hashem, Venkatesh Prasad, Vaishali, Bernstein, Abraham, Robinson, Emily, Snellman, Kaisa, Amy Sommer, S., , Robinson, David, Madan, Nikhil, Silberzahn, Raphael, Goldstein, Pavel, Tierney, Warren, Murase, Toshio, Mandl, Benjamin, Viganola, Domenico, Strobl, Carolin, Schaumans, Catherine B.C., Kelchtermans, Stijn, Naseeb, Chan, Mason Garrison, S., Yarkoni, Tal, Richard Chan, C.S., Adie, Prestone, Alaburda, Paulius, Albers, Casper, Alspaugh, Sara, Alstott, Jeff, Nelson, Andrew A., Ari帽o de la Rubia, Eduardo, Arzi, Adbi, Bahn铆k, 艩t臎p谩n, Baik, Jason, Winther Balling, Laura, Banker, Sachin, AA Baranger, David, Barr, Dale J., Barros-Rivera, Brenda, Bauer, Matt, Blaise, Enuh, Boelen, Lisa, Bohle Carbonell, Katerina, Briers, Robert A., Burkhard, Oliver, Canela, Miguel-Angel, Castrillo, Laura, Catlett, Timothy, Chen, Olivia, Clark, Michael, Cohn, Brent, Coppock, Alex, Cuguer贸-Escofet, Nat脿lia, Curran, Paul G., Cyrus-Lai, Wilson, Dai, David, Valentino Dalla Riva, Giulio, Danielsson, Henrik, Russo, Rosaria de F.S.M., de Silva, Niko, Derungs, Curdin, Dondelinger, Frank, Duarte de Souza, Carolina, Tyson Dube, B., Dubova, Marina, Mark Dunn, Ben, Adriaan Edelsbrunner, Peter, Finley, Sara, Fox, Nick, Gnambs, Timo, Gong, Yuanyuan, Grand, Erin, Greenawalt, Brandon, Han, Dan, Hanel, Paul H.P., Hong, Antony B., Hood, David, Hsueh, Justin, Huang, Lilian, Hui, Kent N., Hultman, Keith A., Javaid, Azka, Ji Jiang, Lily, Jong, Jonathan, Kamdar, Jash, Kane, David, Kappler, Gregor, Kaszubowski, Erikson, Kavanagh, Christopher M., Khabsa, Madian, Kleinberg, Bennett, Kouros, Jens, Krause, Heather, Krypotos, Angelos-Miltiadis, Lavbi膷, Dejan, Ling Lee, Rui, Leffel, Timothy, Yang Lim, Wei, Liverani, Silvia, Loh, Bianca, L酶nsmann, Dorte, Wei Low, Jia, Lu, Alton, MacDonald, Kyle, Madan, Christopher R., Hjorth Madsen, Lasse, Maimone, Christina, Mangold, Alexandra, Marshall, Adrienne, Ester Matskewich, Helena, Mavon, Kimia, McLain, Katherine L., McNamara, Amelia A., McNeill, Mhairi, Mertens, Ulf, Miller, David, Moore, Ben, Moore, Andrew, Nantz, Eric, Nasrullah, Ziauddin, Nejkovic, Valentina, Nell, Colleen S, Arthur Nelson, Andrew, Nilsonne, Gustav, Nolan, Rory, O'Brien, Christopher E., O'Neill, Patrick, O'Shea, Kieran, Olita, Toto, Otterbacher, Jahna, Palsetia, Diana, Pereira, Bianca, Pozdniakov, Ivan, Protzko, John, Reyt, Jean-Nicolas, Riddle, Travis, (Akmal) Ridhwan Omar Ali, Amal, Ropovik, Ivan, Rosenberg, Joshua M., Rothen, Stephane, Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Michael, Sharma, Nirek, Shotwell, Gordon, Skarzynski, Martin, Stedden, William, Stodden, Victoria, Stoffel, Martin A., Stoltzman, Scott, Subbaiah, Subashini, Tatman, Rachael, Thibodeau, Paul H., Tomkins, Sabina, Valdivia, Ana, Druijff-van de Woestijne, Gerrieke B., Viana, Laura, Villes猫che, Florence, Duncan Wadsworth, W., Wanders, Florian, Watts, Krista, Wells, Jason D, Whelpley, Christopher E., Won, Andy, Wu, Lawrence, Yip, Arthur, Youngflesh, Casey, Yu, Ju-Chi, Zandian, Arash, Zhang, Leilei, Zibman, Chava and Luis Uhlmann, Eric (2021) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, pp. 228-249. ISSN (print) 0749-5978

Landy, Justin F., Jia, Miaolei (Liam), Ding, Isabel L., Viganola, Domenico, Tierney, Warren, Dreber, Anna, Johannesson, Magnus, Pfeiffer, Thomas, Ebersole, Charles R., Gronau, Quentin F., Ly, Alexander, van den Bergh, Don, Marsman, Maarten, Derks, Koen, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan, Proctor, Andrew, Bartels, Daniel M., Bauman, Christopher W., Brady, William J., Cheung, Felix, Cimpian, Andrei, Dohle, Simone, Donnellan, M. Brent, Hahn, Adam, Hall, Michael P., Jim茅nez-Leal, William, Johnson, David J., Lucas, Richard E., Monin, Beno卯t, Montealegre, Andres, Mullen, Elizabeth, Pang, Jun, Ray, Jennifer, Reinero, Diego A., Reynolds, Jesse, Sowden, Walter, Storage, Daniel, Su, Runkun, Tworek, Christina M., Van Bavel, Jay J., Walco, Daniel, Wills, Julian, Xu, Xiaobing, Yam, Kai Chi, Yang, Xiaoyu, Cunningham, William A., Schweinsberg, Martin, Urwitz, Molly, The Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests Collaboration, ..., , ... and Uhlmann, Eric L. (2020) Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), pp. 451-479. ISSN (print) 0033-2909

(2018) Journal of Management Inquiry, 27(4), pp. 374-377. ISSN (print) 1056-4926

(2018) Journal of Management Inquiry, 27(4), pp. 359-361. ISSN (print) 1056-4926

Betancourt, Nathan, Kov谩cs, Bal谩zs and (2018) Network Science, 6(3), pp. 319-347. ISSN (print) 2050-1242

Conference or Workshop Item

(2023) In: 39th EGOS Colloquium : Pre-Colloquium Development Workshop (PDW) : Social Evaluations in Organization Studies; 06-08 Jul 2023, Cagliari, Italy. (Unpublished)

(2022) In: The Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS); 15-16 Sep 2022, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Adorjani, Roland and (2022) In: 14th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS); 26-27 May 2022, Florence, Italy. (Unpublished)

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