Faculty Directory
Michael Pratt
O'Connor Family Professor
Michael Pratt
Contact
Fulton Hall 424C
Telephone: 617-552-6992
Email: michael.pratt.1@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-2917-1781
Education
- B.S., University of Dayton
- M.A., University of Michigan
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests
Identity and identification; meaningful work; ambivalence; intuition/nonconscious processes.
Expertise
- Decision Making & Decision Sciences
- Institutions, Culture, and Identity
Department
Selected Appointments and Awards
- 2022: Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award, Carroll School of Management,
- Boston College
- 2020: Best Paper Award Finalist, Academy of Management Journal
- 2018: Distinguished Service Award, Carroll School of Management, Boston
- College
- 2016: Distinguished Scholar Award, Management and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management
- 2014: Induction as an Academy of Management fellow
- 2010 - present Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis [CARMA] International Advisory Board
- 1999 – 2013 Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal; 2001 – 2004 Editorial Advisory Committee
- 2012 “Diamond in the Rough” Award for Best Faculty Proposal in the Cognition in the Rough Workshop, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management
- 2007 Academy of Management Review, Best Paper Award
- 2007 Small Groups Research, Best Paper Award Finalist
- 2000 Paper named to list of 17 most interesting publications in organizational and management literature from the past 100 years. Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board Survey
- “The Best Lecturer” Award, UIUC-University of Warsaw Executive MBA Program, University of Warsaw
Selected Publications
Recent Articles
- Pratt, M.G., Sonenshein, S. & Feldman, M. S. 2022. Moving Beyond Templates: A Bricolage Approach to Conducting Trustworthy Qualitative Research. Organizational Research Methods, 25(2): 211-238.
- Pratt, M.G., Lepisto, D. & Dane, E. 2019. Exploring the Hidden Side of Trust: Supporting and Sustaining Leaps of Faith among Firefighters. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2): 398-434.
- Crosina, L. & Pratt, M.G. 2019. Toward a Model of Organizational Mourning: The Case of Former Lehman Brothers Bankers. Academy of Management Journal, 62(1): 66-98
- Cardador, T. & Pratt, M.G. 2018. Becoming Who We Serve: A Model of Multi-Layered Employee-Customer Identification. Academy of Management Journal, 61(6): 2053-2080.
- LeBaron. C., Jarzabkowski, P., Pratt, M.G., & Fetzer, G. 2018. An Introduction to Video Methods in Organizational Research. Organizational Research Methods, 2(2): 239-260.
- Lepisto, D. A., & Pratt, M. G. 2017. Meaningful work as realization and justification Toward a dual conceptualization. Organizational Psychology Review, 7(2): 99-121.
- Lepisto, D. A., & Pratt, M. G. in-press. Meaningful work as realization and justification Toward a dual conceptualization. Organizational Psychology Review.
- Pratt, M.G. & Bonaccio, S. 2016. “Qualitative Research in I/O Psychology: Myths, Maps and Moving Forward.” Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 94(4): 693-715.
- Hekman, D., van Knippenberg, D. & Pratt, M.G. 2016. Channeling Identification: How Perceived Regulatory Focus Moderates the Influence of Organizational and Professional Identification on Professional Employees’ Diagnosis and Treatment Behaviors. Human Relations, 69(3): 753-780.
- Rothman, N., Pratt, M.G., Rees, L. & Vogus, T. 2017. Understanding the dual nature of ambivalence: Why and when ambivalence leads to good and bad outcomes. Academy of Management Annals, 11: 33-72.
- Amabile, T.M. & Pratt, M.G. 2016. The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning. In B. Staw & A. Brief (Eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, 36: 157-183.
- Pratt, M.G. & Crosina, E. 2016. The Nonconscious at Work. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 3: 321-347.
- Pratt, M.G. 2016. Crafting and Selecting Research Questions and Contexts in Qualitative Research. In K. Elsbach & R. Kramer’s (Eds.) The Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research (pp. 177-185). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
- Vadera, A. & Pratt, M.G. 2016. “Is it me, or is it me?” The role of coactivated multiple identities and identifications in promoting or discouraging workplace crimes. In D. Palmer, K. Smith-Crowe & R. Greenwood (Eds). Organizational Wrongdoing: Key Perspectives and New Directions (pp. 337-369). Cambridge University Press.
- Lepisto, D. A., Crosina, E., & Pratt, M. G. 2015. Identity Work Within and Beyond the Professions: Toward a Theoretical Integration and Extension. In A. Desilva and M. Aparicio (Eds.), International Handbook of Professional Identities (pp. 11-37). Rosemead, CA: Scientific & Academic Publishing.
- Rockmann, K. & Pratt, M.G. Contagious offsite work and the lonely office?: The Unintended Consequences of Distributed Work. Academy of Management Discoveries, 1: 150-164.
- Pratt, M.G. 2015. Assessing Candidate Quality: Lessons from Ethnography (and Accountants). Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(3): 340-344.
- Elstak, M., van Riel, C., Bhatt, M., Pratt, M.G. & Berens, G., 2015. Organizational Identification during Change: The Role of Self-Enhancement and Uncertainty Reduction Motives, Journal of Management Studies, 51(1): 32-62
- Michaelson, C., Pratt, M.G., Grant, A. & Dunn, C. P. Meaningful Work: Connecting Business Ethics and Organizational Studies. Journal of Business Ethics, 12 1: 77-90. 2014.
- Vough, H., Bednar, J., Cardador, T., Dane, E. & Pratt, M.G. 2013. What Clients Don’t Get about my Profession: A Model of Perceived Role-Based Image Discrepancies. Academy of Management Journal, 56(4): 1050-1080.
- Pratt, M.G. 2013. Intuitive Decision Making. In E. Kiesler (Ed), Encyclopedia of Management Theory, Volume 1 (pp. 401-404), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Vadera, A., Pratt, M.G., & Mishra, P. 2013. Constructive Deviance in Organizations: Integrating and Moving Forward. Journal of Management, 39(5): 1221-1276.
- Pratt, M.G., Pradies, C. & Lepisto, D. 2013. Doing Well, Doing Good, and Doing With: Organizational Practices for Effectively Cultivating Meaningful Work. In B. Dik, Z. Byrne & M. Steger’s (Eds.) Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace (pp. 173-196), Washington, D.C., APA Books.
- Vadera, A.K. & Pratt, M.G. 2013. Love, Hate, Ambivalence, or Indifference?: A Conceptual Examination of Workplace Crime and Organizational Identification. Organization Science, 24(1): 172-188.
Others
- Fiol, C.M., Pratt, M.G., & O’Connor, E. 2009. Managing Intractable Identity Conflicts. Academy of Management Review, 34 (1): 32-55.
- Pratt, M.G. 2008. Fitting Oval Pegs into Round Holes: Tensions in Evaluating and Publishing Qualitative Research in Top-Tier North American journals. Organizational Research Methods, 11 (3): 481-509.
- Dane, E. & Pratt, M.G. 2007. Intuition: Its Boundaries and Role in Organizational Decision-Making. Academy of Management Review, 32(1): 33-54.
- Pratt, M.G., Rockmann, K, & Kaufmann, J. 2006. Constructing Professional Identity: The Role of Work and Identity Learning Cycles in the Customization of Identity among Medical Residents. Academy of Management Journal,49(2): 235-262.
- Pratt, M.G. 2000. The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Managing Identification Among Amway Distributors. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3): 456-493. {Editor’s Choice selection, ASQ)
- Pratt, M.G. & Foreman, P.O. 2000. Classifying Managerial Responses to Multiple Organizational Identities. Academy of Management Review, 25(1): 18 – 42.
- Pratt, M.G. & Rafaeli, A. 1997. Organizational Dress as a Symbol of Multilayered Social Identities. Academy of Management Journal, 40(4): 862 - 898.
Books
- Pratt, M. G., Shultz, M., Ashforth, B. & Ravasi, D. (Eds.) 2016. Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Rafaeli, A. & Pratt, M.G. (Eds.) 2006. Artifacts and Organizations: Beyond Mere Symbolism. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Pratt served as an associate editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly from 2013-2022. Prior to that, he was the inaugural qualitative associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal and was a Nontraditional Research Editor at the Journal of Management Inquiry. He has also been a guest editor for Organizational Research Methods. He has been an active member of the Academy of Management. He is a former Division/Program/PDW Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, and former representative-at-large for the Research Methods Division, of the Academy of Management. He has also served on numerous committees including the Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, the Organizational Behavioral Award, the Best Paper in the Academy of Management Review, and the Best Paper in the Academy of Management Journal. He has also been a judge for the INFORMS dissertation proposal competition.