Irina Cojuharenco

Irina Cojuharenco earned PhD and MSc degrees in Economics and Management at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain). She joined the University of Surrey in 2017 as Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Leadership and Decision Making. Irina has taught courses in leadership, negotiation, organisational behaviour, organisation theory and decision making at different levels of instruction in Europe (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) and in the US (Northeastern University, Johns Hopkins University). She was a visiting scholar with the department of psychology at the University of Maryland and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She currently teaches managerial decision making and research methods at Surrey Business School. Her research focuses on individual judgment and decision-making in organisations, subjective well-being and organisational justice. Her work has been published in international academic journals Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Group and Organization Management, Judgment and Decision Making, Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Journal of Mathematical Psychology, and presented at numerous international conferences.

Research interests

• Decision Making, Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, Negotiation

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002 — 2007)
• Master of Science (MSc) Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2001 — 2002)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (2007)
• Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (2013 — 2013)
• International Faculty Fellow MIT Sloan School of Management (2012 — 2012)
• Visiting Researcher University of Maryland (2008 — 2010)
• Visiting Researcher University of Maryland (2008 — 2010)
• International Faculty Fellow MIT Sloan School of Management (2010 — 2010)
• Research Assistant Experimental Economics Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2004 — 2007)
• Teaching Assistant Universitat Pompeu Fabra - UPF (2001 — 2007)
• Economist National Investment Promotion Agency (1998 — 2000)

Publications

• Eugene Sadler-Smith, Irina Cojuharenco (2021)Business Schools and Hubris: Cause or Cure?, In: Academy of Management learning & education20(2)pp. 270-289
• Irina Cojuharenco, Natalia Karelaia (2020)When leaders ask questions: Can humility premiums buffer the effects of competence penalties?, In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes156pp. 113-134 Elsevier
• Irina Cojuharenco, T. Marques, D. Patient (2017)Tell me who, and I’ll tell you how fair: A model of agent bias in justice reasoning, In: Group and Organization Management42(5)pp. 630-656 SAGE Publication
• D Patient, T Marques, Irina Cojuharenco (2017)The 'Who' of Organisational Justice: Source effects on justice judgments, In: C Moliner, R Cropanzano, V Martinez-Tur (eds.), Organizational Justice: International perspectives and conceptual advances, Emerging Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology Series Routledge, Taylor, & Francis
• Irina Cojuharenco, JW Van Prooijen, D Patient (2017)The role of memory in judgments of organizational justice, In: SW Gilliland, DD Steiner, DP Skarlicki (eds.), Emerging Perspectives on Organizational Justice and Ethics Information Age Publishing
• Irina Cojuharenco, M Fortin, H German (2017)Organizational justice and time: A review of the literature on justice reactions over time and directions for future research, In: A Shipp, Y Fried (eds.), Time and Work, Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology Series1 Psychology Press
• D Patient, Irina Cojuharenco, M Fortin (2017)The “when” of justice events and why it matters, In: R Cropanzano, M Ambrose (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Justice in the Workplace Oxford University Press
• Irina Cojuharenco, Gert Cornelissen, Natalia Karelaia (2016)'Yes, We Can!': Self-construal, Perceived Ability to Make a Difference, and Socially Responsible Behavior, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology48pp. 75-86 Elsevier
• Harpeet Singh, Rohit Aggarwal, Irina Cojuharenco (2015)Strike a happy medium: The effect of IT-knowledge on VCs’ overconfidence in IT-investments, In: MIS Quarterly39(4)pp. 887-908 University of Minnesota, Management Information Systems Research Center
• Marion Fortin, Irina Cojuharenco, David Patient, Hayley German (2014)It is time for justice: How time changes what we know about justice judgments and justice effects, In: Journal of Organizational Behavior37pp. S30-S56 Wiley
• Irina Cojuharenco, Francesco Sguera (2014)When Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking Matter for Ethical Judgment: The Role of Time Hurriedness, In: Journal of Business Ethics130(3)pp. 717-725 Springer Verlag
• Irina Cojuharenco, David Patient (2013)Workplace fairness versus unfairness: Examining the differential salience of facets of organizational justice, In: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology86(3)pp. 371-393 Wiley
• Irina Cojuharenco, Garriy Shteynberg, Michele Gelfand, Marshall Schminke (2011)Self-Construal and Unethical Behavior, In: Journal of Business Ethics109(4)pp. 447-461 Springer Verlag
• Irina Cojuharenco, David Patient, Michael R. Bashshur (2011)Seeing the “forest” or the “trees” of organizational justice: Effects of temporal perspective on employee concerns about unfair treatment at work, In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes116(1)pp. 17-31 Elsevier
• Irina Cojuharenco, Dmitry Ryvkin (2008)Peak–End rule versus average utility: How utility aggregation affects evaluations of experiences, In: Journal of Mathematical Psychology52(5)pp. 326-335 Elsevier
• Irina Cojuharenco (2007)Lay intuitions about overall evaluations of experiences, In: Judgment and Decision Making2(1)pp. 40-47 European Association for Decision Making