Research

My research focuses on team formation, entrepreneurship, and social networks. I employ a variety of methods including archival data, field surveys, qualitative methods, and experimental designs.

Publications

Gray, S. M., Howell, T., & Sackett, E. (in press). Talking past each other: Construal level, utilitarian motives, and entrepreneurial team formation. Organization Science.

Gray, S. M., Howell, T., Strassman, J., & Yamamoto, K. (in press). Credentials or chemistry? Entrepreneur gender and cofounder selection. Academy of Management Journal.

Gray, S. M., Boumgarden, P., Ranganathan, R., & Huang, L. (2023). An altercentric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates. Strategic Organization.

Gray, S. M., Bunderson, J. S., Van der Vegt, G., Rink, F., & Gedik, Y. (2023). Leveraging knowledge diversity in hierarchically differentiated teams: The critical role of hierarchy stability. Academy of Management Journal. 66(2), 462-488.

Jo, J. K., Harrison, D. A., & Gray, S. M. (2021). The ties that cope? Reshaping social connections in response to pandemic distress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(9), 1267–1282.

Gray, S. M., Knight, A.P., & Baer, M. (2020). On the emergence of collective ownership in new creative teams, Organization Science, 31(1), 141-164.

Gray, S. M., Bunderson, J. S., Boumgarden, P., & Bechara, J. P. (2019). Engineering interaction: Structural change, locus of identification, and the formation and maintenance of cross-unit ties, Personnel Psychology, 72, 599-622.

Gray, S.M., Knight, A.P., Baer, M. 2020. What kind of startup founder are you? Harvard Business Review Digital.

Other Work

Gray, S. M., Milovac, M. Playing the Part: Strategic concealment of functional titles in mixed gender founder teams under review

Janardhanan, N., Zhang, S., Yuxin, & Gray, S. M. “Identity dynamics in startup teams.” under review