Technology and Work

Hood, E.A., Hood, J.N., Garrett, L. Working in the Age of Ubiquitous Scrutiny: How External Monitoring Legitimates Organizational Monitoring. 

Published in Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.18361

• Through a qualitative study of a U.S. police department, we develop theory unpacking how the presence of external monitoring and workers' use of the organizational monitoring technology may legitimate organizational monitoring in the eyes of workers.

Hood, E.A. & Rouse, E.D. [Managing experiences of dangerous work]. 

Revise and Resubmit at Academy of Management Journal.

• We theorize how workers calibrate danger and play to sustain engagement in dangerous work. Our empirics are rooted in an ethnographic study of snowmakers, workers who routinely operate technologies capable of causing serious injury or death.

Technology and Markets

Hood, E.A., Yau, T., Grandy, J., York, J., & Hiatt, S. [Navigating the hype cycle]. 

Revise and Resubmit at Academy of Management Journal.

• This paper explores how multiple communities align and misalign in how they frame the new technology of ocean energy to navigate the ups and downs of the hype cycle.

Hood, E.A., & Grodal, S. From cessation device to party drug: How producers and users collectively shape market evolution. 

Drafting manuscript. [Target: Organization Science]

• We theorize how the distinct social worlds of producers and users facilitate divergent understandings and uses of a product, shaping market evolution within the context of the e-cigarette industry.

Hood, E.A., Liu, T., Nelson, A., & Rouse, E.D. Composting the dead: How organizations introduce and frame taboo innovations. 

Drafting manuscript. [Target: Administrative Science Quarterly]

• We unpack how organizations frame a taboo innovation to facilitate technology adoption by examining the context of human composting, an alternative form of death care.

Projects in Data Collection Stage

Hood, E.A., Yau, T., Hiatt, S. Shaping emotions in the nuclear industry. 

Data collection. [Target: Organization Science]

• Study on how organizations and audiences frame emotions related to technology. Archival data collection in progress.

Hood, E.A. The soul of skiing: Navigating nostalgia and a resurgence of small independent ski areas. 

Data collection. [Target: Academy of Management Journal]

• Qualitative study on how organizations transform legacy technologies from a hindrance to an advantage through evoking nostalgia. Interviews, observations, and archival data collection in progress.