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; virtual organizations; social networks; post-socialist economies

Current Projects
Motivation, performance, and learning in firms characterized by arm’s-length employment relationships; the impact of organizational hierarchies and cliques on performance in post-socialist 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 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).

(with M. Granovetter and P. McGuire)
“Electric Charges: The Social Construction of Rate Systems.” Theory and Society 3.5-6 (2005).