Research

Publication

Dimara, Evanthia, Harry Zhang, Melanie Tory, and Steven Franconeri. “The Unmet Data Visualization Needs of Decision Makers within Organizations.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021). Scopus IF: 7.596

Work in Progress

Stream 1 - Middle Managers' Role in Organizational Design and Governance (Dissertation)

Zhang, Harry, “Structure-as-Practice: the Decentralized Organizational Design by Middle Managers in a High Growth Technology Company ” (Job market paper)

Zhang, Harry, “Resource Allocation and Organizational Integration During High Growth: The Effects of Middle Managers’ Brokerage Roles”

Zhang, Harry, Ning Li, Jingzhou Pan, “A Network Approach on How Control and Coordination Mechanisms Affect Organizational Resilience”


Stream 2 - Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Hybridity

Zhang, Harry, Edward Zajac, Jianhua Ge, Di Zhu, “The Diffusion of Commercialization Among Non-profits in China”, (Title withheld, under review at Administrative Science Quarterly)

Zhang, Harry, William Ocasio, Jianhua Ge, “Responding to the State Power: Organizational Hybridity and Symbolic Dexterity in China’s Emerging Civil Sector”, (Preparing for submission to Organization Science)

Thornton, Patricia, Harry Zhang, “Cultural Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Opportunities”, (Preparing for submission to Academy of Management Review)

Data

Project 1 – A social media technology company

  • Fast growth from 3000 to 14000 employees from 2019.1 to 2021.4. Peak market cap during study > 100 billion USD.

  • HR data from 2019.1 to 2021.4:

    • demographics

    • reporting structure

    • performance rating

    • function

    • job level

    • department ID, etc.

  • Communication data from 2020.1 to 2021.4:

    • Individual chat

    • group chat

    • meeting


Project 2 – An education technology company

  • One of the largest K-12 tutoring business companies in China; severely hit by a regulative change in July 2021 that prohibits all for-profit tutoring business

  • HR Data of 2021: demographics, performance, function, job level, reporting structure, department ID, etc.

  • Communication data of 2021:

    • Messaging (weekly & daily)

    • Offline meeting (weekly)

    • Online meeting (weekly)

    • Weekly report (# of times b reads a’s report)

    • OKR alignment (# of times a’s OKR @ b)

  • Cloud-based Document Sharing System data of 2021:

    • Editing times by each employee (weekly and daily)

    • Number of characters entered by each employee

    • View times by each employee

    • Comment times by each employee

    • Like times by each employee

  • OKR data

    • Assignee of Objective/Key results

    • Parent OKR

    • Date