Florenta Teodoridis

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Building
HOH
Room / Office
520

Ph.D., University of Toronto; MBA, York University; BS University of Bucharest

Florenta's main areas of interest are the economics of innovation, creativity and the impact of technology on society. Her research agenda is composed of two research streams: factors influencing the process of knowledge production at the individual researcher level, and the relationship between knowledge advancement and markets. Through her first research stream, she examines various factors influencing the rate and direction of technological advancements, such as research tools, breadth and depth of expertise, collaboration and ideology. As part of her second stream, she is interested in the impact of technological advancement on business strategy, productivity and labor markets.

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Frank Nagle, Florenta Teodoridis () "In R&D, Generalists Are More Valuable Than You Think ,"  Harvard Business Review.
Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska, Florenta Teodoridis () "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare? Evidence from Online Job Postings ,"  AEA Papers and Proceedings.
Florenta Teodoridis () "Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics ,"  Under review.
Jeffrey Furman, Florenta Teodoridis () "Machine Learning Could Improve Innovation Policy ,"  Nature Machine Intelligence.
Jeff Furman, Florenta Teodoridis () "Automation, Research Technology and Researchers’ Trajectories: Evidence from Computer Science and Electrical Engineering ,"  Organization Science  31(2): 330-354.
Joe Raffiee, Florenta Teodoridis () "Does the Political Ideology of Patent Examiners Matter? An Empirical Investigation ,"  Under review.
Frank Nagle, Florenta Teodoridis () "Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversity in New Distant Knowledge Integration ,"  Strategic Management Journal  41: 55-85.
Florenta Teodoridis () "Startup Commercialization Strategies of Disruptive Technologies: Implications for the Rate of Scientific Discovery ,".
Keyvan Vakili, Florenta Teodoridis, Michael Bikard () "The Collaboration Credit Premium and the Case of Detrimental Collaborations: Evidence from Economics ,"  Working Paper.
Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska, Florenta Teodoridis () "Could Machine Learning Be a General-Purpose Technology? Evidence from Online Job Postings ,"  Under review.
Florenta Teodoridis, Michael Bikard, Keyvan Vakili () "Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains ,"  Administrative Science Quarterly  64, 894-927.
Frank Nagle, Florenta Teodoridis () "Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversity in Knowledge Integration ,"  Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings .
Florenta Teodoridis () "Understanding Team Knowledge Production: The Interrelated Roles of Technology and Expertise and Specialists ,"  Management Science  64, 3469-3970.
Michael Bikard, Keyvan Vakili, Florenta Teodoridis () "When Collaboration Bridges Institutions: The Impact of Industry Collaboration on Academic Productivity ,"  Organization Science  30, 426-445.
Florenta Teodoridis, Michael Bikard, Keyvan Vakili () "When Generalists Are Better Than Specialists, and Vice Versa ,"  Harvard Business Review.
Florenta Teodoridis, Michael Bikard, Keyvan Vakili () "The Pace of Change and Creative Performance: Specialist and Generalist Mathematicians and the Fall of the Soviet Union ,"  Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings .
Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, Florenta Teodoridis () "Understanding the Changing Structure of Scientific Inquiry ,"  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics  8, 100-128.