Published

Harmon, D. & Mariani, M. (2024) Divergent Market Reactions to Abstract Language: A Multicountry Event Study of European Bank Communications. Academy of Management Journal. Published online.

Naumovska, I. & Harmon, D. (2024) Communication under Uncertainty and the Role of Founders’ Information Advantage: Evidence from SPACs. Strategy Science. Published online.

Frake, J. & Harmon, D. (equal authorship) (2024). Intergenerational Transmission of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department. Management Science, 70(6), 3856-3878.

Harmon, D., Rhee, E., & Cho, Y. (2023). Building a Bridge to the Future: Prospective Legitimation in Nascent Markets. Strategic Management Journal, 44(11), 2597–2633.

  • Nominated for best paper 2019 EGOS conference (sub-theme 29 social evaluations)

Newman, D., Fast, N., & Harmon, D.  (2020) When Eliminating Bias Isn't Fair: Algorithmic Reductionism and Procedural Justice in Human Resource Decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 160, 149-167.

  • Blog post

  • Wharton People Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition, 2nd place (2018)

Harmon, D.  (2019). When the Fed Speaks: Arguments, Emotions, and the Microfoundations of Institutions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(3), 542-575.

  • The Hidden Cost of Transparency Pledges

  • ASQ Blog, a behind the scenes interview by Micah Rajunov (Boston University) and Elisabeth Yang (Yale)

  • Winner of Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation Award (2019)

  • Blog post by ASQ Editor Henrich Greve.

  • Winner of the 2017 Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award (OMT Division, AOM)

  • Nominated for the William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation (AOM 2017)

  • Finalist for the Wiley Blackwell Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research Award (BPS Division)

  • Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017)

Harmon, D., Haack, P., & Roulet, T. (2019). Microfoundations of institutions: A matter of structure vs. agency or level of analysis? Academy of Management Review, 44(2), 464-467.

Harmon, D. (2019). Arguments and Institutions. In The Microfoundations of Institutions. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Glaser, V., Fast, N., Harmon, D., & Green, S. (2016). Institutional Frame Switching: How Institutional Logics Shape Individual Action. In How Institutions Matter! (pp. 35-69), Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Harmon, D., Green, S., & Goodnight, G. (2015). A Model of Rhetorical Legitimation: The Structure of Communication and Cognition Underlying Institutional Maintenance and Change. Academy of Management Review, 40(1): 76–95.

Harmon, D., Kim, P., & Mayer, K. (2015).  Breaking the Letter vs. Spirit of the Law: How the Interpretation of Contract Violations Affects Trust and the Management of Relationships. Strategic Management Journal, 36(4): 497-517.  

Kim, P. & Harmon. D. (2014).  Justifying One’s Transgressions: How Rationalizations Based on Equity, Equality, and Need Affect Trust After its Violation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(4), 365-379.

Kim, P., & Harmon, D. (2012). The nature of collective reactions to potential transgressions. In Neale, M.A., & Mannix, E.A. (Eds.), Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Looking Back and Moving Forward (Volume 15). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Harmon, D. (2022) [Review of the book Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis, by Mitchel Abolafia]. Administrative Science Quarterly.

Harmon, D. (2020). The Hidden Cost of Transparency Pledges. London School of Economics Business Review.

UNDER REVIEW & IN PROCESS

How Historical Context Shapes Field-level Frames: A Comparative Study of France and Germany’s Shale Gas Debates, 2nd round R&R @ Organization Studies, Special Issue on “Enhancing Organizations Research Involving Meaning and Culture Using Computational Text and Image Analyses” (with Helen Etchanchu, Ana Gutierrez, & Shaz Ansari).

The Goldilocks effect: Entrepreneurial market leadership claims and investor evaluations in nascent markets. Under review @ Journal of Business Venturing (with Xiumei Li, Jade Lo, & VK Narayanan).

Beyond Deterrence: Emotional Reactions to Punishing Misconduct in the Chicago Police Department (with Sarah Gordon & Justin Frake).

Ambiguous Entrepreneurial Communication and Mobilizing Audience Support for Novel Ideas (with Jamie Song).

COVID-19’s Effect on the Legitimacy of Business Regulation (with Anna Jasinenko & Patrick Haack).

How Future-oriented Talk Constricts Action: Forward Guidance of the Federal Open Market Committee.

The Nature of Taken-for-grantedness.