Tomasz OBLOJ

Associate Professor, on leave of absence

Strategy and Business Policy

obloj@hec.fr
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Biography

Tomasz Obloj is the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Chaired Associate Professor of Strategy and Chair of the Strategy and Business Policy department at HEC Paris.

At HEC, he teaches strategy and organization design courses in the PhD, MSc, and EMBA programs. He earned his PhD from INSEAD in 2011.

His research interests include the economic theory of incentives, organizational design, organizational and individual learning. He has published his work, among others, in journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

In 2017 he was selected by Poets&Quants as one of the best 40 Professors under 40 and in 2015, he was awarded the BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award. He is a winner of the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award and finalist of the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition.

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Scientific articles

Organization Design, Proximity, and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison

Organization Science, January-February 2017, vol. 28, n° 1, pp 1-18, (in coll. with T. ZENGER)

Value Creation and Value Capture under Moral Hazard: Exploring the Micro-Foundations of Buyer-Supplier Relationships

Strategic Management Journal, August 2015, vol. 36, n° 8, pp 1146-1163, (in coll. with P. ZEMSKY)

Firm-Specific Human Capital, Adverse Learning, and Agency Costs: Evidence from Retail Banking

Strategic Management Journal, September 2014, vol. 35, n° 9, pp 1279-1301, (in coll. with D. FRANK)

Incentive life-cycles: Learning and the division of value in firms

Administrative Science Quarterly, June 2012, vol. 57, n° 2, pp 305-347, (in coll. with M. Sengul)

Role of Resource Gap and Value Appropriation: Effect of Reputation Gap on Price Premium in Online Auctions

Strategic Management Journal, April 2011, vol. 32, n° 4, pp 447-456, (in coll. with L. Capron)

Dominant Logic and Entrepreneurial Firms Performance in a Transition Economy

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, January 2010, vol. 34, n° 1, pp 151-170., (in coll. with M. Pratt)

Diminishing Returns from Reputation: Do Followers have a Competitive Advantage?

Corporate Governance: an International Review, Winter 2007, vol. 9, n° 4, pp 213-224, (in coll. with K. Oblój)

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

The problem of horizons

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Flipping the Coin: Strategy as Trade-off Resolution

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Incentives, Social Comparison Costs, and the Proximity of Envy's Object

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Value Creation and Value Capture with Agency: The Micro-foundations of Buyer-Supplier Relationships

INSEAD Working Paper , 2012

Case Studies

Scientific articles

The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry

Organization Science, March - April 2020, vol. 31, n° 2, pp 308-329, (in coll. with C. GUTIERREZ, T. ASTEBRO)

What Do Multiple Objectives Really Mean For Performance? Empirical Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector

Strategic Management Journal, December 2020, vol. 41, n° 13, pp 2518-2547, (in coll. with M. SENGUL)

Initial prejudices create cross-generational intergroup mistrust

PLOS One, 2018, vol. 13, n° 4, pp 1-14, (in coll. with E. L. UHLMANN, A. KORNIYCHUK)

Better Safe than Sorry: Subsidiary Performance Feedback and Internal Governance in Multiunit Firms

Journal of Management, November 2017, vol. 43, n° 8, pp 2526-2554, (in coll. with M. SENGUL)

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

What Do Multiple Objectives Really Mean for Performance? Empirical Evidence from the French Manufacturing Sector

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Better to Have Led and Lost than Never to Have Led at All? Competitive Dethronement, the Endowment Effect, and Risk Taking

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

A Bias to an End: Misconceived Complexity and Dual Aspirations

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Case Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management, INSEAD - France
  • M.S. in Management, INSEAD - France
  • 2001-2006 Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw - Poland
  • M.S. in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics - Poland
  • Management Department, Lund University Management Department - Sweden

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2022- Associate Professor, on leave of absence, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Representative at large of the Strategic Human Capital SMS Interest Group
  • Member, Research Committee of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS), Division of the Academy of Management
  • Member, Academy of Management
  • Member, Strategic Management
  • Member, INFORMS

Editorial activities

  • November 2016- Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal
  • Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal
  • Reviewer, Journal of Organizational Design
  • Reviewer, Journal of Management Studies
  • Reviewer, Organization Science
  • Reviewer, Management Science
  • Reviewer, Strategic Management Journal
  • Reviewer, Administrative Science Quarterly

    • Conference organisation

  • 2015-2015 Co-organizer, Strategy Research Forum conference, Oxford
  • Organizer, BPS Managing your Dissertation Workshop

    • Awards & honors

    • 2017 Poets Quants: Best 40 Under 40 Professors
    • 2015 BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award
    • 2012 Winner, Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award of the BPS division of the Academy of Management
    • 2012 AOM HR Divisions Scholarly Achievement Award, Finalist