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Vanessa Conzon

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Vanessa Conzon

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Fulton Hall 434

Telephone: 617-552-8205

Email: conzon@bc.edu

ORCID 0000-0002-1765-7020

Education

BA, McGill University
SM, MIT Sloan School of Management
Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management

Research Interests

Autonomy; Control; Diversity; Inequality; Professional and Expert Work; and STEM Work.

Expertise

Organizational Behavior and Theory
Work, Occupations, and Family

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Department

Management and Organization

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Professor Conzon's research explores the relationship between workers’ autonomy and (in)equality. Empirically, her work often focuses on employee control of work time, space, and tasks, and how this intersects with gender and class.

Publications & Pieces Under Review

"Concerted Quantification: How Knowledge Workers Limit Overwork While Maintaining Client Satisfaction." (With James Mellody.) Organization Science. In Press, 2025.

“Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict through Interactional Control.” (With Ruthanne Huising.) Organization Science, 35 (6): 2117-2140. 2024.

"Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research." Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(4), NP65-NP67. December, 2023.

“The Equality Policy Paradox: Gender Differences in How Managers Implement Gender Equality-Related Policies.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), 648-690. May, 2023.

“Risky Business: Gig Workers and the Navigation of Ideal Worker Expectations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” (With Lindsey Cameron, and Bobbi Thomason.) Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (12), 1821-1833. 2021.

Appointments, Awards, and Honors

Selected participant of Stanford CASBS Summer Institute, 2025
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award, 2024
Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship, 2023
Academy of Management Above and Beyond the Call of Duty reviewer award, 2023
Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, runner-up, 2022
Academy of Management Conference, best paper (top 10%), 2022
Work Family Researchers Network’s Kathleen Christensen Dissertation Award, 2022
Industry Studies Association Dissertation Award finalist, 2022
MIT Sloan Women 4 Women: Recognition as inspiring woman, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2021
Zannetos Memorial Scholarship for academic achievement, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2014-2021

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