Candace Jones received her AB from Smith College with honors, and a Master of Human Resource Management and PhD in Business Administration from the University of Utah. She joined the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College as an Assistant Professor in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999. Before receiving her PhD, she worked for small businesses for five years and focused on linking human resource practices with the organizations' strategic needs. Professor Jones has been a visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Tillburg University in the Netherlands, Cologne University, Cologne, Germany and SDA Bocconi in Milan Italy. She is currently on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies, where she has been a Senior Editor since 2008. She was elected Representative at Large for the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management , 2008-2010.

Her research interests focus on networks, careers, and project-based organizing in creative industries and professions. She is particularly interested in cultural meaning and social structures. Her current research projects include the forms of capital that lead to cultural consecration as Gold Medal winners in the architectural profession, creativity as a competitive resource for architectural firms, vocabularies and logics of action in the medical and architectural professions. Currently she is co-editing the Handbook of Creative Industries for Oxford University Press which is due out 2012. Her recent publications include:

Dunn, M.B. & Jones, C. 2010. Institutional logics and institutional pluralism: the contestation of care and science logics in medical education, 1967-2005. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55: 114–149.  

Jones, C. 2010. Finding a place in history: Social and symbolic networks in creative careers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31: 726–748.

Jones. C. & Volpe, E.H. 2010. Organizational identification: Extending our understanding of social identities through social networks.  Journal of Organizational Behavior, forthcoming.

Jones, C. & Livne-Tarandach, R. 2008. Designing a frame: Rhetorical strategies of architects. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29: 1075-1099.

Jones, C. & Lichtenstein, B.B. 2008. Types of Inter-organizational Projects: Managing Uncertainty through Temporal and Social Embeddedness: In Cropper, S. Ebers, M. Huxham, C. & Ring, P. (Editors). Handbook of Interorganizational Relations: 231-255. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dr. Jones has taught courses at the undergraduate level, MBA and PhD levels. She currently teaches Organizational Theory at the PhD level, Managing People and Organizations at the MBA level, and careers at the undergraduate level.

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