Tomasz OBLOJ

Associate Professor, on leave of absence

Strategy and Business Policy

Biography

Tomasz Obloj is the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Chaired Associate Professor of Strategy and Chair of the Strategy and Business Policy department at HEC Paris.

At HEC, he teaches strategy and organization design courses in the PhD, MSc, and EMBA programs. He earned his PhD from INSEAD in 2011.

His research interests include the economic theory of incentives, organizational design, organizational and individual learning. He has published his work, among others, in journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

In 2017 he was selected by Poets&Quants as one of the best 40 Professors under 40 and in 2015, he was awarded the BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award. He is a winner of the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award and finalist of the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition.

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Scientific articles

Ownership as a Bundle of Rights: Antecedents of the Wedge Between Control and Cash-Flow Rights Within Firms

Strategy Science, Forthcoming, (in coll. with M. Sengul)

Flipping the Coin Again – Redefining Strategy Through a Relational Class Approach

Advances in Strategic Management, 2023, vol. 43, pp 115-139, (in coll. with R. DURAND, P.-A. KREMP)

The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality, and the performance-basis of pay

Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, pp 646-655, (in coll. with T. R. Zenger)

Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Tradeoffs in Dual-Purpose Companies

Academy of Management Review, April 2022, vol. 47, n° 2, pp 237-258, (in coll. with J. Battilana, A.-C. Pache, M. Sengul)

Better to have led and lost than never to have led at all? Lost leadership and effort provision in dynamic tournaments

Strategic Management Journal, April 2021, vol. 42, n° 4, pp 774-801, (in coll. with C. Gutierrez, D. H. Frank)

What Do Multiple Objectives Really Mean For Performance? Empirical Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector

Strategic Management Journal, December 2020, vol. 41, n° 13, pp 2518-2547, (in coll. with M. SENGUL)

The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry

Organization Science, March - April 2020, vol. 31, n° 2, pp 308-329, (in coll. with C. GUTIERREZ, T. ASTEBRO)

Initial prejudices create cross-generational intergroup mistrust

PLOS One, 2018, vol. 13, n° 4, pp 1-14, (in coll. with E. L. UHLMANN, A. KORNIYCHUK)

Better Safe than Sorry: Subsidiary Performance Feedback and Internal Governance in Multiunit Firms

Journal of Management, November 2017, vol. 43, n° 8, pp 2526-2554, (in coll. with M. SENGUL)

Organization Design, Proximity, and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison

Organization Science, January-February 2017, vol. 28, n° 1, pp 1-18, (in coll. with T. ZENGER)

Chapters in edited books

(Unavoidable) dynamics in incentive design

Handbook Of Research On Strategic Human Capital Resources, A. J. Nyberg, T. P. Moliterno, Edward Elgar Publishing, 7 , 434-446

Proceedings

Goals & Decision-making: Exploring the Current State & Future Agenda for Goals Research

2022 AOM Conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (S. Gai, S. Maric, P. BROMILEY, G. P. Latham, D.-N. PHAM, Z. Shapira, N. Hays, D. Levinthal)

Working papers

Delegation of Decision Rights and Inertia in Capital Reallocation

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2022

Interdependencies and Ownership: The Impact of Relatedness and Multimarket Contact on Cash Flow Rights in Multiunit Firms

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2022

Better to Have Led and Lost than Never to Have Led at All? Lost Leadership and Effort Provision in Dynamic Tournaments

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

The influence of pay transparency on inequity, inequality, and the performance-basis of pay in organizations

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

What Do Multiple Objectives Really Mean for Performance? Empirical Evidence from the French Manufacturing Sector

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Better to Have Led and Lost than Never to Have Led at All? Competitive Dethronement, the Endowment Effect, and Risk Taking

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

A Bias to an End: Misconceived Complexity and Dual Aspirations

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Organization Design, Proximity, and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Simulating Stigma: Initial Prejudices are Sufficient to Create an Intractable Underclass

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Case Studies

All in Flour Bakery: Making Bread or Making Money?

2022