Published
Harmon, D. & Mariani, M. Divergent Market Reactions to Abstract Language: A Multicountry Event Study of European Bank Communications. Academy of Management Journal. Accepted.
Naumovska, I. & Harmon, D. Communication under Uncertainty and the Role of Founders’ Information Advantage: Evidence from SPACs. Strategy Science. Accepted.
Harmon, D., Rhee, E., & Cho, Y. (2023). Building a Bridge to the Future: Prospective Legitimation in Nascent Markets. Strategic Management Journal, 44(11), 2597–2633.
Nominated for best paper 2019 EGOS conference (sub-theme 29 social evaluations)
Frake, J. & Harmon, D. (equal authorship) (2023). Intergenerational Transmission of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department. Management Science. Published online.
Newman, D., Fast, N., & Harmon, D. (2020) When Eliminating Bias Isn't Fair: Algorithmic Reductionism and Procedural Justice in Human Resource Decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 160, 149-167.
Wharton People Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition, 2nd place (2018)
Harmon, D. (2019). When the Fed Speaks: Arguments, Emotions, and the Microfoundations of Institutions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(3), 542-575.
ASQ Blog, a behind the scenes interview by Micah Rajunov (Boston University) and Elisabeth Yang (Yale)
Winner of Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation Award (2019)
Blog post by ASQ Editor Henrich Greve.
Winner of the 2017 Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award (OMT Division, AOM)
Nominated for the William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation (AOM 2017)
Finalist for the Wiley Blackwell Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research Award (BPS Division)
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017)
Harmon, D., Haack, P., & Roulet, T. (2019). Microfoundations of institutions: A matter of structure vs. agency or level of analysis? Academy of Management Review, 44(2), 464-467.
Harmon, D. (2019). Arguments and Institutions. In The Microfoundations of Institutions. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Glaser, V., Fast, N., Harmon, D., & Green, S. (2016). Institutional Frame Switching: How Institutional Logics Shape Individual Action. In How Institutions Matter! (pp. 35-69), Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Harmon, D., Green, S., & Goodnight, G. (2015). A Model of Rhetorical Legitimation: The Structure of Communication and Cognition Underlying Institutional Maintenance and Change. Academy of Management Review, 40(1): 76–95.
Harmon, D., Kim, P., & Mayer, K. (2015). Breaking the Letter vs. Spirit of the Law: How the Interpretation of Contract Violations Affects Trust and the Management of Relationships. Strategic Management Journal, 36(4): 497-517.
Kim, P. & Harmon. D. (2014). Justifying One’s Transgressions: How Rationalizations Based on Equity, Equality, and Need Affect Trust After its Violation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(4), 365-379.
Kim, P., & Harmon, D. (2012). The nature of collective reactions to potential transgressions. In Neale, M.A., & Mannix, E.A. (Eds.), Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Looking Back and Moving Forward (Volume 15). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Harmon, D. (2022) [Review of the book Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis, by Mitchel Abolafia]. Administrative Science Quarterly.
Harmon, D. (2020). The Hidden Cost of Transparency Pledges. London School of Economics Business Review.
UNDER REVIEW & IN PROCESS
Framing as Referencing: How Context Enables Framing Success in the Shale Gas Debate. R&R @ Organization Studies, Special Issue on “Enhancing Organizations Research Involving Meaning and Culture Using Computational Text and Image Analyses” (with Helen Etchanchu, Ana Gutierrez, & Shaz Ansari).
The Goldilocks effect: Entrepreneurial market leadership claims and investor evaluations in nascent markets. Under review @ Journal of Business Venturing (with Xiumei Li, Jade Lo, & VK Narayanan).
Unintended Consequences of Punishment: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department. Under review @ Academy of Management Journal (with Sarah Gordon & Justin Frake).
A Sneaking Suspicion: Examining Counterproductive Responses to Perceptions of Manager Information Withholding. Working paper, target: Organization Science (with Elizabeth Trinh).
COVID-19’s Effect on the Legitimacy of Business Regulation. Working paper, target: Academy of Management Journal (with Anna Jasinenko & Patrick Haack).
English as the Language of Business: How the Native Language of Investors Affects Market Reactions Across the Eurozone. Data analysis, target: Administrative Science Quarterly (with Pete Aceves).
Situating Language in Relationships: How Discursive Robustness Influences Support for Innovations. Data analysis, target: Administrative Science Quarterly (with Jamie Song).
The Nature of Taken-for-grantedness. Early stages, target: Academy of Management Review.
How Future-oriented Talk Constricts Action: Forward Guidance of the Federal Open Market Committee. Data analysis, target: Administrative Science Quarterly.