Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations
Expert on new forms of organizing
About
Andreea Gorbatâi is an Assistant Professor in Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. She currently teaches the Leading People course in the evening MBA program. Her research focuses on social mechanisms related to knowledge production and information sharing and on the role of language and emotions in markets. Organizational theory research has examined the various social mechanisms and structures that play a role in knowledge diffusion and the characteristics of this knowledge. However, the perspective of information as a public good and the unintended consequences of different modes of free knowledge production and sharing have been underexplored in this field. In response to this issue, Gorbatai’s work seeks to answer questions such as: Under what conditions do collective producers make useful goods? How do social networks of collective production affect social norm infringement and enforcement? Under what conditions does conflict improve the quality of collective goods? When does entrepreneurship emerge from free knowledge production settings, and what strategies do entrepreneurs adopt in relation to the community they emerged from? How does media make sense of information about new organizational forms, and under what conditions does it contribute to their legitimization?
Gorbatâi received her PhD in organizational behavior from the Harvard Business School and was a finalist of the 2011 INFORMS / Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. She earned her a master’s degree in sociology from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in economics and sociology from Dartmouth College. Before her academic career, she worked in economic consulting for National Economic Research Associates (NERA), a Marsh & McLennan company, and in strategy and operations consulting for Deloitte Consulting. Her work spanned a wide range of projects—from estimations of intellectual property damage in biotech and competitive analyses for antitrust trials in the software industry to IT merger and integration planning, consumer packaged goods process redesign, and performance management system design for the publishing industry. She has extensive international experience and is fluent in five languages.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Collective Entrepreneurship
- Mechanisms of Collective Production
- Open Innovation
- Collective Action Participation
- Social Structures
- Social Norms
- Andreea Gorbatâi and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski. Testing Coleman’s Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia. American Journal of Sociology.
2017 - Andreea Gorbatai, Dariusz Jemielniak, and Mathieu O’Neil. Management and the Future of Open Collaboration. Journal of Organizational Change Management.
2016 - Andreea Gorbatâi and Laura Nelson. Linguistic Advantage: Gender and the Language of Crowdfunding. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.
2015 - Andreea Gorbatâi and Sonali K. Shah. Structural Sampling: A Technique for Exposing Social Structure. Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Research Methods: Pathways to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers.
2015 - Andreea Gorbatâi and Cyrus Dioun. Enchanting Fields: Collective Events and Emotion as Value-Amplifiers during the Emergence and Institutionalization of the Maker Movement. Social Science Research Network.
2015 - Andreea Gorbatâi. The Paradox of Novice Contributions in Collective Production: Evidence from Wikipedia. Social Science Research Network.
2014
At Haas since 2012
2012 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
- Professional Membership: Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, International Network for Social Network Analysis
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer: International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, 2009 – 2012
- English
- French
- Italian
- Romanian
- Spanish
Research Enabling Grant, Committee on Research, UC Berkeley
Spring 2013-2017
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program funding, UC Berkeley
2012-2017
Garwood Center, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
2013-2014
Research Program on the Economics of Knowledge Contribution grant
2013
Research Assistantship in the Humanities, Committee on Research, UC Berkeley
Summer 2013 – 2014
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Harvard University
Wyss Doctoral Fellowship
Harvard Business School
Truxal Award, Sociology Department
Dartmouth College
Phi Beta Kappa
Dartmouth College
Rufus Choate Scholar
Dartmouth College
Presidential Scholar Research Grant
Dartmouth College
- Billionaire toy mogul answers critics who say his crowdfunding campaign to save Toys R Us is a stunt, Los Angeles Times, 03/28/2018
- Here’s Why Crowdfunding Is a Good Bet For Female Founders, Inc., 02/21/2018
- Women Are Better Crowdfunders Than Men. Here’s Why., Entrepreneur, 06/16/2016
- Crowdfunding Is A Female Founder’s Best Friend, Forbes, 03/16/2016
- Where Women Entrepreneurs Raise More Money Than Men, Elle, 03/14/2016
- Introduction to Organizational Behavior, UGBA 105
- Leading People, EWMBA 205