Marc-David Seidel
Associate Professor
Research Classification
New Technology and Social Impacts
Impacts of New Information Technologies
Media and Society
Social Networks
Social Organization and Political Systems
Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations
Entrepreneurship
Socio-Economic Conditions
Economic Systems
Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.)
Research Interests
Organizational Theory
Distributed Trust Technologies (Blockchain, etc.)
Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes
Social networks and organizational decision making
Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship
Relevant Degree Programs
Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters
Research Methodology
Sociological perspective and methods
Recruitment
Master's students
Doctoral students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Any time / year round
Primarily interested in students with an interest in developing projects about the organizational theory of distributed trust technologies (such as blockchain) and its impacts on society.
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Doctoral Student Supervision (Jan 2008 - Nov 2019)
The Virtualization of Free Space and Action: Advancing a Modernized Model of Power Inequity Attenuation and the Free Space Index (2014)
No abstract available.
News Releases
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Publications
- Caught in the middle? Strategic information governance disruptions in the era of blockchain and distributed trust (2020)
Records Management Journal, - Hypergrowth Exit Mindset: Destroying Societal Wellbeing Through Venture Capital Biased Social Construction of Value (2020)
Journal of Management Inquiry, - Results from the 2016 Census: Examining the effect of public pension benefits on the low income of senior immigrants (2019)
Statistics Canada Insights on Canadian Society, - “The Backstory” (2018)
Journal of Management Inquiry, 27 (2), 176-177 - Escape From Abilene: The Developmental Opportunity of the Review Process (2018)
Journal of Management Inquiry, 27 (2), 140-143 - Questioning Centralized Organizations in a Time of Distributed Trust (2018)
Journal of Management Inquiry, 27 (1), 40-44 - The Role of Conferences in the Emergence of Developmental Professional Culture (2018)
Journal of Management Inquiry, 27 (2), 149-153 - Emergence (2017)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, - Emergence: How novelty, growth, and formation shape organizations and their ecosystems (2017)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 50, 1-27 - Network opportunity emergence and identification (2017)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 50, 141-168 - Open-Source Software (2017)
Encyclopedia of Big Data, , 1--4 - Overcoming Time Compression Diseconomies of Organizational Emergence through Family Business Work (2017)
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017 (1), 11448 - The Distributed Network of Cooperating Teams (DNCT) : A Multi-Level Initiative for Organizational Change (2017)
- The Impact of Adolescent Work in Family Business on Child–Parent Relationships and Psychological Well-Being (2017)
Family Business Review, 30 (3), 242-261 - Variety, dissimilarity, and status centrality in MBA networks: Is the minority or the majority more likely to network across diversity? (2017)
Academy of Management Learning and Education, 16 (3), 349-372 - Why has Vancouver been so slow to join the sharing economy? (2017)
- The thin red line between success and failure: Path dependence in the diffusion of innovative production technologies (2015)
Strategic Management Journal, 36 (4), 475-496 - Adolescent Experiences and Adult Work Outcomes: Connections and Causes (2014)
Research in the Sociology of Work, 25, 1-10 - Being Early Beats Being Better (2014)
Harvard Business Review, - Being early beats being better (2014)
Harvard Business Review, (JUN) - Beneficial "child labor": The impact of adolescent work on future professional outcomes (2014)
Research in the Sociology of Work, 25, 191-220 - In and out of the ethnic economy: A longitudinal analysis of ethnic networks and pathways to economic success across immigrant categories (2012)
International Migration Review, 46 (2), 310-361 - AN INITIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE C-FORM (2011)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, - Getting hired: Sex and race (2005)
Industrial Relations, 44 (3), 416-443 - Motivation and opportunity: The role of remote work, demographic dissimilarity, and social network centrality in impression management (2005)
Academy of Management Journal, 48 (3), 401-419 - Research Impact: How Seemingly Innocuous Social Cues in a CEO Survey Can Lead to Change in Board of Director Network Ties (2004)
Strategic Organization, 2 (3), 227-270 - Second-Order Imitation: Uncovering Latent Effects of Board Network Ties (2001)
Administrative Science Quarterly, 46 (4), 717 - Friends in High Places: The Effects of Social Networks on Discrimination in Salary Negotiations (2000)
Administrative Science Quarterly, 45 (1), 1 - Offering a job: Meritocracy and social networks (2000)
American Journal of Sociology, 10 (3), 763-816 - Legitimation, geographical scale, and organizational density: Regional patterns of foundings of american automobile producers, 1885-1981 (1997)
Social Science Research, 26 (4), 377-398 - The fates of de novo and de alio producers in the American automobile industry 1885-1981 (1996)
Strategic Management Journal, 17 (SUPPL), 117-137
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