Lindsey Cameron

Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how changes in the modern workplace (e.g., algorithms/machine learning, short-term employment contracts, variable pay) affect work and workers. Professor Cameron has an on-going, five-year ethnography of the largest employer in the gig economy, the ride-hailing industry, exploring how algorithms are fundamentally reshaping the nature of managerial control and how workers navigate this new workplace. Professor Cameron also studies gig workers and technology on a variety of other platforms (e.g., TaskRabbit, Instacart, Amazon Flex). She is currently studying how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting gig workers as well as examining how ride-hailing workers on three continents navigate disputes. Professor Cameron’s research is published or forthcoming in a number of leading journals including, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Academy of Management. Insights from her research have also appeared in top popular press outlets, including NPR’s Marketplace, Forbes, Kiplinger’s, Fast Company and People+Strategy.

In her prior career, Lindsey spent over a decade in the U.S. intelligence and diplomatic communities as a technical and political analyst and completed several overseas assignments in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Michigan, MS in Engineering Management from the George Washington University, and an SB from Harvard University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She also studied Arabic intensively at the American University of Cairo. She has trained in large group facilitation, and is an experienced practitioner and teacher in mindfulness and non-dual awareness practices, holding lineage in a tradition and having trained at several centers in the US.

Research Interests:

Algorithms, gig economy/future of work, contemporary careers, financial well-being, labor issues, field research

Education

• University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business Ph.D, Business Administration (Management and Organizations), 2020.
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Pre-doctoral Fellow (Funded Visiting Student) 2017 - 2018.
• George Washington University M.S., Engineering Management, Focus: Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management, 2009.
• Harvard University S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Minor: French, Arabic; 2005.

Academic Appointments

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Management 2019 +
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology (by courtesy) 2022 +

Institute of Advanced Studies

• Fellow (Member), School of Social Sciences 2023-2024

Data and Society

• Faculty Fellow , Race, Technology, and the Quantified State 2022-2023

Awards and Honors

• Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor, Poets & Quants, 2023
• Aspen Ideas Fellow, 2022
• AOM HR Division Best Overall Paper Award, 2022
• AOM Showcase Symposium, 2021-2022
• MOC Best Symposium Award, 2021
• OMT Best Paper Award (top 10% of submissions), 2021
• OCIS Best Paper Award (top 10% of submissions), 2021
• Winner, Industry Studies Dissertation Award, 2021
• Runner-Up, Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper, 2021
• Finalist, Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2021
• Industry Studies Association’s Giarratani Rising Star Award, 2020
• MOC Division Best Paper Award Nominee, 2020
• Wharton Dean’s Research Grant, 2020
• Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award, 2020
• Likert Dissertation Prize, 2020
• Mack Institute Research Fellowship for Innovation Management, 2019
• Center for Advanced Studies of the Behavioral Sciences Summer Institute, Stanford University, 2019
• OMT Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Reviewer Award, 2019
• Ruth and Gilbert Whitaker Doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2019
• OB Doctoral Student Consortium, 2018
• Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2017-2018
• Bouchet Honor Society, 2017
• AOM Showcase Symposium, 2014
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, 2005
• Coca Cola National Scholar, 2001
• USA Today All-Academic Team, 2001
• Siemens-Westinghouse (formerly Intel) Competition, Semi-finalist, 2001
• Bill Gates Millenium Scholar, 2000

Publications

• Cameron, L.,* Lamars, L., Leicht-Deobald, U., Lutz, C., Meijerink, J & Mohlmann, M.*. Algorithmic Management: Its Implications for Information Systems Research. Communications of the Association of Information Systems. *Authorship Alphabetical
• Cameron, L. Chan, C. & Anteby, M. 2022. “Heroes from Above But Not (Always) From Within: Gig Workers Responses to the Public Moralization of their Work.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Cameron, L.* & Meuris, J.* 2022. “The Perils of Pay Variability: The Determinants of Worker Aversion to Variable Compensation in Low and Middle Wage Jobs” In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561. *Shared First Authorship
• Cameron, L. 2022. ““Making Out” While Driving: The Relational and Efficiency Game in the Gig Economy.” Organization Science.
• Cameron, L*. & Rahman, H*. 2022. “Expanding the Locus of Resistance: The Constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy”. Organization Science. *Shared First Authorship
• Cameron, L., Thomason, B., & Conzon, V. 2021. “Risky Business: Gig Workers and the Navigation of Ideal Worker Expectations During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Journal of Applied Psychology
• Cameron, L. 2021. “(Relative) Freedom in Algorithms: How Digital Platforms Repurpose Workplace Consent.” In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.
• Cameron, L*. & Rahman, H.* 2021. “(Not) Seeing Like an Algorithm: Managerial Control and Worker Resistance in the Platform Economy” In Sonia Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561. *Shared First Authorship
• Cameron, L. 2020. “Allies or Adversaries?: Making Meaning of Work in the ‘New’ Gig Employment Relationship.” In Guclu Atinc (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.
• Cameron, L.* & Hafenbrack, A.* Spreitzer, G., Noval, L., Zhang, C. & Shaffakat, S. “Helping Others by Being in the Present Moment: Mindfulness and Prosocial Behavior at Work” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes *Shared First authorship
• Cameron, L., Garrett, L.E, Spreitzer, G.M. (2019) Contingent, Contract, and Alternative Work Arrangements. Oxford Bibliographies in Management.
• Kamaswaren, V., Cameron, L., Dillahunt, T. (2018) Support for Social and Cultural Capital Development in Real-time Ridesharing Services. Computer-Human Interactions. CHI 2018: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. [Acceptance Rate 25%]
• Spreitzer, G.M., Cameron, L., & Garrett, L.E. (2017). Alternative Work Arrangements: Two Images of the New World of Work. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4: 473-499.