Balazs Kovacs
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management
Biography
Yale School of Management
Professor Kovács studies various topics in organization theory and strategy, including social networks, learning, diffusion, organizational identity, and status. He has investigated these issues in a variety of settings, including restaurants, movies, book publishing, innovation and patenting, and banks. His current work investigates the effects of category spanning and innovation in technological domains. Professor Kovács typically uses large-scale, “big data” approaches to study these questions, analyzing online reviews and social networks. His research appears in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Management Science, and Social Networks.
Professor Kovács received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Yale School of Management, he was an assistant professor at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Education
PhD , Stanford University, 2009
Selected books
Concepts and Categories: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis M. T. Hannan, G. Le Mens, G. Hsu, B. Kovács, G. Negro, L. Pólos, E. Pontikes, and A. J. Sharkey Columbia University Press 2019
Selected articles
The Many Gifts of Status: How Attending to Audience Reactions Drives the Use of Status A. Sharkey and B. Kovács Management Science Forthcoming
Co-opt or co-exist? A study of medical cannabis dispensaries identity-based responses to recreational use legalization in Colorado and Washington G. Hsu, B. Kovács, and O. Kocak Organization Science Forthcoming
Too hot to reject: The effect of weather variations on the patent examination process at the United States Patent and Trademark Office B. Kovács Research Policy Forthcoming
Gender differences in obtaining and maintaining patent rights K. Jensen, B. Kovács & O. Sorenson Nature Biotechnology 2018
What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption A. Goldberg, M. Hannan, and Balázs Kovács American Sociological Review 2016
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