Luke N. Hedden

I am an Assistant Professor in the Management Department of the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami.

I study how individuals, occupations, and organizations manage values conflicts and how this affects workers' identities, sense of meaningfulness, and ability to get work done. As an ethnographer and field researcher, I often take a qualitative approach to building new theory. 

My recent work has examined how line workers decide who to trust in high-risk work, how innovators manage obstacles to their innovative work, how career advisers navigate value tensions with clients, and how opinion moralization can foster intense conflict at work. By studying individuals at work, their interactions with others, and their occupational contexts, I take a cross-level approach to building theory in these areas.

My research has been published in several leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategy Science. 

I earned my PhD in Organization Studies from Boston College.