May 29 & 30, 2026 Eleventh Organizational Economics Workshop
Berkeley-Padova-Paris Eleventh Organizational Economics Workshop
May 29 and 30, 2026
The Haas School of Business (University of California-Berkeley), the Sorbonne Business School and the University of Padova are organizing a series of workshops on Organizational Economics.
11th edition of the workshop will be held in Berkely
11th Berkeley-Padova-Paris Organizational Economics Conference
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
May 29–30, 2026
Preliminary schedule – Last update: March 25, 2026
Format: 1 hour per paper (30 min presentation, 20 min discussion, 10 min Q&A)
Friday, May 29
08:15 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00
Virginia Minni (Booth)
Reorganizing Work Inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption
Discussant: Zoe Cullen (HBS)
10:00 – 11:00
Mitch Hoffman (UCSB)
Empowering Inclusive Work
Discussant: Achyuta Adhvaryu (UCSD)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Guido Friebel (Frankfurt)
On Self-Organization: The Formation of Volunteer Fire Brigades in 19th-Century Baden
Discussant: Charles Angelucci (MIT)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Namrata Kala (MIT)
Power to the Personnel? The Impacts of Managerial Discretion vs. Worker Democracy in Employee Recognition
Discussant: Giorgio Zanerone (Lausanne)
15:00 – 16:00
Jin Li (HKU)
Toward Bad Jobs: AI and Job Design
Discussant: Sam Kapon (Haas)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
Bob Gibbons (MIT) — Keynote
17:30 – 18:30
Reception (Chou Hall Terrace)
19:00
Dinner (Berkeley — invitation only)
Saturday, May 30
08:15 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00
Erika Deseranno (Bocconi)
Managers, Remote Work and Productivity in the Public Sector
Discussant: Emma Harrington (UVA)
10:00 – 11:00
Ricard Gil (IESE)
What Does Governance Do?
Discussant: Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Ameet Morjaria (MIT)
Product Conflation and Deconflation: An Anatomy of a Commodity Marketplace Reform
Discussant: Decio Coviello (HEC)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch and adjourn
