Brandy Aven

PHONE

412-268-6347

OFFICE

POS - Posner Hall - Room 378

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Organizational Behavior and Theory

EDUCATION

Stanford University - Ph D (Sociology) - 2010
Stanford University - MA (Sociology) - 2004
University of California at Los Angeles - BA (Sociology) - 2000

PUBLICATIONS

• The Paradox of Corrupt Networks: An analysis of organizational crime at Enron

Organization Science 26(4), 2015; 980–996

• Fragmented Networks And Entrepreneurship In Late Imperial Russia

(author(s): Henning Hillmann, Brandy Aven) American Journal Of Sociology 117(2), 2011; 484-538

WORKING PAPERS

• Appreciation or Awareness? Differential Preferences for Category Spanning in an Online Community of Product Reviewers

(author(s): Brandy Aven, Ming Leung, Evelyn Zhang)

• Knowledge Transfer or Knowledge Transformation? The Effects of Cost on Organizational Learning

(author(s): Brandy Aven, Evelyn Zhang)

• Structural Role Complementarity in Entrepreneurial Teams

(author(s): Brandy Aven, Henning Hillmann)

• Disentangling embedded ties: How liking and trust influence economic partner selection and fraud

(author(s): Brandy Aven, Taya Cohen, Jin Wook Chang)

• The Effects of Communication Networks and Membership Stability on Transactive Memory Systems and Team Performance

(author(s): Linda Argote, Brandy Aven, J. Kush)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Gerald L. Thompson Excellence in Teaching Award (2012)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• MBA Pro Bono Teams, Faculty Advisor, Mentoring pro bono team projects (2011 - 2012)
• Bosch MBA Case Competition Judge (2010 - 2010)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member, Academy of Management
• Member, American Sociological Association
• Member, International Network for Social Network Analysis

COURSES TAUGHT

• Managing Networks and Organizations (45741) 2016 Mini 4 Section: A, B, C, F
  2015 Mini 4 Section: A, F
  2014 Mini 1 Section: A, B
  2014 Mini 4 Section: A, F
  2013 Mini 1 Section: A, B
  2013 Mini 4 Section: A, F

• Seminar in Organizational Theory (macro) (47892) 2015 Mini 2 Section: A
  2014 Mini 1 Section: A
  2013 Mini 1 Section: A
  2012 Mini 2 Section: A
  2012 Mini 3 Section: A

• Special Topics in OB&T: Organizations & Networks (47891) 2015 Mini 2 Section: A

• Organizational Behavior (70311) 2012 Section: A, B
  2011 Section: C, D