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Ph.D. Columbia University, MSc University of Oxford, BA Northwestern University
Eric Anicich studies the forms and functions of social hierarchy within groups.
His research has been published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Psychological Science. Additionally, accounts of his work have appeared in numerous popular media and business outlets including Forbes, The Economist, CNN, New York Times, TIME, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review.
In 2021, Poets & Quants recognized him as one of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors.”
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INSIGHT + ANALYSIS
Op-Ed: We're Headed for a Great Gig Divide. Here's Why We Should Be Worried
Eric Anicich, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, offers thoughts on how the gig economy continues to influence the economy for Newsweek.
Op-Ed: Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug
Eric Anicich, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, explores what the increase in contract work means for the people doing the work for the Harvard Business Review.
Quoted: Eric Anicich in the Wall Street Journal
Eric Anicich, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, is quoted by the Wall Street Journal about the best office designs to lure workers back into the office. [paywall]
Quoted: Eric Anicich in CEO Magazine
Eric Anicich, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, is quoted by CEO Magazine about new ways of thinking about designing a more open workplace.
RESEARCH + PUBLICATIONS
Based on an autoethnographic field study involving 130 h of work as a food delivery driver in the on-demand economy, semi-structured interviews (N = 40), and observations in company meetings and online forums, I developed a model specifying how the sociotechnical context of app-work (independent contracting, technologically-mediated task environment, no coworkers) simultaneously threatens workers’ ability to constitute and animate their narrative identities and creates conditions for workers to attenuate that threat. Specifically, the same characteristics that workers experienced as depersonalizing reduced interpersonal accountability concerns, allowing workers to self-servingly construe identity-implicating experiences through narrative flexing, a form of narrative identity work that workers enacted intrapersonally (through narrative structuring, fantasizing, rationalizing) and interpersonally (through storytelling in online communities). Overall, this work reveals how certain technological and social constraints and opportunities affect the identity dynamics of a vast, yet understudied class of workers who are neither fully tethered to nor fully untethered from traditional organizations.