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I am currently a PhD candidate in the Organization and Management Department at Boston College, on the job market this year.
Broadly speaking, my research explores how social cultural and motivational settings shape renewal within and of organizations. To do so, I explore the interrelated processes of creativity, learning, and change, utilizing a diverse set of quantitative and qualitative methods.
My dissertation is situated at the intersection of these three processes. It explores how and why organizations may engage in on-going learning, re-craft past unsuccessful change, and bring forth its novel recurrence in ways that both build on and transcend past change frames.
Hope you enjoy this peek into my world.
Reut
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Education
Boston College, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Degree: PhD in Organizational Studies, proposal defended, March 2011, expected completion summer 2012.
Dissertation title: “Change Resurrected: How and Why Change Initiatives Re-emerge.”
Dissertation Committee: Jean M. Bartunek (Chair, CSOM, BC), Teresa M. Amabile (HBS), William B. Stevenson (CSOM, BC), Patrick J. McQuillan (Lynn School of Education, BC).
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Haifa, Israel.
Degree: MSc. in Organizational Research, August 2004.
Ben-Gurion University. Behavioral Science Department, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Degree: B.A. in Behavioral Science. Magna cum laude, August 2000
Overview of Research
My research program explores the phenomenon of renewal within and of organizations. Renewal represents a central paradox of learning (Smith & Lewis, 2011) that requires individuals, teams and/or organizations to simultaneously build on and transcend their past. In my research, I weave together theories of change, learning and creativity to explore how and why renewal can be achieved.
In my dissertation work I explore the processes leading to renewal and examine how and why change initiatives can re-emerge.
My extra-dissertation research addresses antecedents of renewal in and of organizations. It explores how the motivational, social and cultural settings in which individuals and firms are embedded can be leveraged to create renewal.
To this end, I employ a variety of data collection techniques including naturalistic observations, interviews, archival data and laboratory experiments. My analysis is anchored by a diverse set of quantitative and qualitative analytic tools, including multidimensional scaling, generalized estimating equations and content analysis.
Publications
Cotton, R. D., Shen Y. & Livne-Tarandach R. 2011 On becoming extraordinary: The content and structure of the developmental networks of Major League Baseball hall of famers. Academy of Management Journal, 54(1): 15-46.
Jones C., Livne-Tarandach, R. & Balachandra L. 2010 Rhetoric that wins clients: entrepreneurial firms use of institutional logics when competing for resources. In W. S. Sine & R. J. David (Eds.) Research in the sociology of work, 21: 183-218. New Milford: Emerald Group Publishing.
Torbert, B, Livne-Tarandach R, Herdman-Barker. E., Nicolaides, A. & McCallum, D. 2010 Developmental action inquiry: A distinct integral theory that integrates developmental theory, practice, and research in action. In S. Esbjörn-Hargens, (Ed.) Integral theory in action: Applied, theoretical, and critical perspectives on the AQAL Model: 413-430. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Livne-Tarandach R. & Bartunek J. M. 2009. A new horizon for organizational change and development scholarship: connecting planned and emergent change. In Woodman, R. Pasmore, W. & Shani A. B. (Eds.) Research in organizational change and development, 17: 1-36. Bingley, UK: Emerald. [This paper won the outstanding author contribution award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010]
Jones, C. & Livne-Tarandach R. 2008 Designing a frame: Rhetorical strategies of architects. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29: 1075–-1099.
Erev, I. & Livne-Tarandach, R. 2003 Experiment-based exams and the difference between the behavioral and the natural sciences. In R.Zwick, &, A. Rapoport, (Eds.). Experimental business research: Marketing, accounting and cognitive perspectives, 3: 297-308, Dordrecht: Springer.
Please Note: All papers included here are protected by copyright laws and are provided for educational instruction only. Any infringing use may be subject to disciplinary action and/or civil or criminal liability as provided by law. Follow links to publishers of each paper (images on the right of the screen) for details of permissions of use.
on becoming extraordinary_Reut_AMJ 2011.pdf
Rhetoric_that_win _clients.pdf
DAI_chapter.pdf
RLT_New horizon.pdf
Planned and emergent change_ROCD_IN_PRESS.pdf
RLT-designing.pdf
RLT_Exp.pdf
Recent Presentations
Livne-Tarandach, R. 2011. Change resurrected: introducing a complexity theory perspective to change re-emergence. Presented at the 28th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Gothenberg, Sweden.
Livne-Tarandach R. 2011. The Emergence of Change Re-emergence: Introducing a Connecting Platform of Radical and Incremental Change. Presented at the 8th International Conference on Complex Systems, Quincy, MA.
Livne Tarandach R. & Bartunek, J. M. 2010. Change vitality as a moment by moment perspective on change processes. Presented at the Second International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Rhodes, Greece.
Jones, C. & Livne-Tarandach, R. 2010. Word play: Creative professionals rhetorical and signaling strategies. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Livne-Tarandach, R. Harrison, S.H. 2010. Creativity as process, creativity as social accomplishment. Co-chair and co-organizer for symposium sponsored by the Organizational Behavior and Technology and Innovation Management Divisions presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Livne-Tarandach R. & Erev, I. 2009. Turning enemies into allies, the effect of performance contingent rewards on creative performance. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, IL.
Livne-Tarandach R. 2009. A new horizon for organizational change and development scholarship: Connecting planned and emergent change. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, IL.
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Boston College, USA.
Course: Organizational Behavior, UG level, Spring 2008.
Received students online evaluation ratings of 4.33 (Departmental Average 3.97).
Lecturer & Facilitator, Boston College, USA and Technion, Israel.
Workshop: Technology Applications in Qualitative Research, PhD seminar, 2007/9.
Teaching Assistant to Assistant Professor Fabio Fonti, Boston College, USA. Course: Organizational Behavior, UG level, Spring 2007.
Teaching Assistant to Assistant Professor Michael B. OLeary, Boston College, USA. Course: Managing Individuals and Organizations, MBA level, Fall 2006.
Teaching assistant to Professor Ido Erev, Technion, Israel.
Course: Experimental Psychology for Engineers, UG level, 2002-2004.
Taught 14, 50 minutes weekly classes (average of 100 students
enrolled in a class) for 3 semesters. Received students
evaluation ratings of 4.6 (Fall 2002), 4.7(Spring 2003), 4.6 (Fall
2003-4) on a 5 points scale. Won the Sago Sandor Award for
excellence in teaching for the Fall 2004 sessions.
RLT_MB021_syllabus.pdf
Awards & Honors
Best Reviewer Award 2011, Academy of Management, Organization Development and Change Division
Invited to participate in the Post-Doctoral and Early Career Scholars Workshop European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2011
Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010 for the book chapter: Livne-Tarandach R. & Bartunek M 2009 A new horizon for organizational change and development scholarship: Connecting planned and emergent change. In Woodman, R. Pasmore, W. & Shani A. B. (Eds.) Research in organizational change and development, 17: 1-36. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Best paper award of the 1st Biennial Integral Theory Conference, San Francisco, CA for Torbert, W., Livne-Tarandach R., McCallum, D., Nicolaides, A., Herdman-Barker E. 2008 Developmental action inquiry: An approach that actually integrates developmental theory, practice, and research.
Sago Sandor Award for excellence in teaching from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, 2004.
Award for excellence in B.A. studies from the Department of Behavioral Sciences Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2001.
Award for excellent academic achievement in third year of B.A. studies from the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 2000.
Service & Affiliations
Academy of Management Review ad hoc reviewer 2010, 2011.
Academy of Management Conference reviewer 2006-Present (OB, TIM, OCD, SAP Divisions).
European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Creative Industries sub-theme reviewer 2006, 2007.
Boston College, Doctoral student liaison, 2006-2007.
Boston College, founder and coordinator of the Letter for International Students Initiative, 2006-Present.
Boston College, founder and the coordinator of the Boston College Organization Studies Advanced Students Forum, an informal mini-community of and for advanced PhD students 2010-present.
Member of the Academy of Management (OB, SAP, ODC divisions), INFORMS, EGOS, Society for Organizational Learning.
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RLT_CV_FINAL.pdf
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