Research

Selected Projects

"Gender differences in creative returns from professional and family ties" (Title disguised to preserve the peer review process - with Elisa Operti, ESSEC Business School)

Under review

“Parenthood homophily, gender, and tie formation” (Title disguised to preserve the peer review process - with Jill Perry-Smith - Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Massimo Maoret - IESE, Lucas Dufour - Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University)

Under review

"Gender, entrepreneurship and start-up incubators" (Title disguised to preserve the peer review process - with Elisa Operti, ESSEC Business School)

Preparing for submission

"Out of the Lab, into the Field: A multi-disciplinary meta-analysis of
gender-based differences in competitiveness and outcomes." (with Elisa Operti, ESSEC Business School, and Stoyan Sgourev)

Research attributes women's under-representation in leadership positions to gender differences in competitiveness and performance in competition. To establish the magnitude and boundary conditions of these differences, we perform a meta-analysis of studies in economics, management, and psychology, published between 2003 and 2021. We find that the gender gap in competitiveness is significantly larger in laboratory studies than in field studies. A meta-regression confirms that the discrepancy between laboratory and field results cannot be reduced to differences in research quality or contextual factors. We find no gender differences in performance in competition after controlling for self-selection. From our findings, we advocate for wider use of “real-world” settings to understand the interplay between gender and competition.

Handbook of Organizational Creativity, 2023

We consider creativity as a social process that is shaped by interactions with others and that is assessed by others’ judgment. We review the emerging body of research that employs a social network perspective of creativity and that considers various phases of the creative idea journey. We hint at embryonic evidence of a gender impact on creativity through social network differences. Considering the scarce research that explicitly integrates social networks, creativity, and gender simultaneously, we review two separate streams of research—literature exploring social networks from a gender perspective and literature investigating gender differences in creativity. We conclude with directions for future research investigating how gender advances a social network perspective of creativity.