Kurt Sandholtz

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Education

• PhD, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2013
• Master of Organizational Behavior, Brigham Young University, 1988
• Bachelor of Arts, English, Brigham Young University, 1983

Group Affiliations

• European Group for Organizational Studies — 2016–0
• American Sociological Association — 2010–0
• Academy of Management — 2008–0

Selected Publications

• "Challenges in BCOM: Student and Faculty Perceptions on English as an Additional Language", Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, Page 27, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2020
• "The Double-Edged Sword of Jurisdictional Entrenchment: Explaining HR professionals’ failed strategic repositioning", Organization Science, Edition 6, Volume 30, Pages 1349-1367, INFORMS, Catonsville, MD, Gautam Ahuja, 2019
• "Management Communication", Kurt Sandholtz, 2017
• "Compliance Police or Business Partner? Institutional Complexity and Occupational Tensions in Human Resource Management", Research in the Sociology of Organizations: The Structuring of Work in Organizations, Volume 47, Pages 161-191, Emerald Group, Bingley, Lisa E. Cohen, M. Diane Burton, Michael Lounsbury, 2016
• "Standardizing Knowledge Work: How "Homegrown" Standards Overcome Resistance among Professional Employees", Effective Standardization Management in Corporate Settings, Pages 162-183, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, Kai Jakobs, 2016
• "Chance, Necessite, et Naivete: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form", The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, Pages 379 - 433, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell, 2012
• "Amphibious Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of Organizational Forms", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Edition 2, Volume 6, Pages 94-115, Strategic Management Society, Chicago, IL, 2012
• "Making Standards Stick: A Theory of Coupled vs. Decoupled Compliance", Organization Studies, Edition 5-6, Volume 33, Pages 655-679, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2012
• "Amphibious Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Invention", The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, Jeff Reuer and Sharon Matusik

Awards

• 2020 Best Paper Award - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategic Management Society (SMS), 2020

Languages

• Spanish

BYU Citizenship

• Advanced Written & Oral Communication Committee — Committee/Council Member — September 2013–September 2020