Valery Yakubovich Faculty Profile

Valery Yakubovich
Associate Professor of Management

PhD, Stanford University, 2001; MA, University of Warwick, 1994; MS, Moscow University, 1985

Research Areas
Labor markets; technology-mediated governance mechanisms; social networks; organizations and management in emerging markets

Current Projects
Motivation, performance, and learning in technology-mediated work environments; the relationship between work activities, accumulation of knowledge, and development of social networks in organizations; the determinants of status in the Russian job market for top-managers; the interplay between formal and informal organizational structures in large Russian firms.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2006-present. Previous appointment: University of Chicago GSB

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fellow of the Summer Institute, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2006; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, Social Science Research Council, 2000-2002

Representative Publications
(with R. Burg)
“Network-Based HR Strategies.” In Network-Based Strategies and Competencies. Edited by Paul R. Kleindorfer and Yoram Wind. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing. 2009.

(with D. Lup)
”Stages of the Recruitment Process and the Referrer’s Performance Effect.” Organization Science 17.6 (2006).

“Passive Recruitment in the Russian Urban Labor Market.” Work and Occupations 33.3 (2006).

“Weak Ties, Information, and Influence: How Workers Find Jobs in a Local Russian Labor Market.” American Sociological Review 70.3 (2005).

(with S. Ashwin)
“Cherchez la Femme: Women as Supporting Actors in the Russian Labor Market.” European Sociological Review 21.2 (2005).