GABRIEL SALA
*Based on a survey of my research community
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
WORKING PAPERS & WORK IN PROGRESS
• Sala, G.R., Out of Service? Individual Experiences of an Existential Identity Threat. Working paper. (empirical – job market paper)
• Crosina, E., Sala, G.R.*, Fisher, G., Bartunek, J., On Individual-Level Imprinting: What, When, How & Why Care. Working paper. Babson College. (theory paper)
*equal authorship
• Sawyer, K., Clair, J., Khan, H., Sala, G.R., The Dark Side of Organizational Hope. Working paper. (theory paper)
• Sciarappa, S.L., Sala, G.R., Ambiguous Loss in Professional Relationships. Work in progress (data collection: interviews)
• Sala, G.R., Patience, Frustration and Resilience in High-Risk Context: Interventions of the Quebec SWAT Team. Work in progress. (data collection and analysis: interviews and observations)
• Sala, G.R., Rocheville, K., Navigating Field Work in Emotionally Challenging Contexts. Work in progress. (methods paper)
REVISE AND RESUBMIT & UNDER REVIEW
• Sala, G.R., Do, B., Harrison, S., Bartunek, J., Review of Surprise in Organization (title removed while under review), Under 2nd Review at the Journal of Applied Psychology
• Ladge, J., Holm, A. L., Sala, G.R., Work Re-entery (title removed while under review), Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Applied Psychology
• Harrison, S., Sala, G.R., Do, B., Bartunek, J., Agents and Audiences of Surprise (title removed while under review), Revise and Resubmit at the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
IN-PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
• Pratt, M.G., Hedden, L.N., Khan, H., Sala, G.R., Sciarappa, S.L. (2024) Identity In And Of Organizations: Docents’ Guide Through The Academy of Management Journals, Academy of Management Collections, 3(2), 17-37 https://doi.org/10.5465/amc.2022.0005
• Sala, G.R., Pratt, M.G., (2023) How Organizations Influence Interpersonal Trust Repair: The Case of a French Antiterrorist Unit, Academy of Management Journal, 66(4), 1263-1293 https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2020.1093
• Pratt, M.G., Sala, G.R.* (2021). A Researcher's Toolkit for Observational Methods. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.283
*equal authorship
• Sala, G., Haag, C. (2016). Comment vaincre l’anxiété en situation extrême? Les secrets de la Force Intervention du GIGN, unité d’élite de la gendarmerie nationale (Taming anxiety in high-risk situations: the secrets of the GIGN). Revue Française de Gestion, 42(257), 129-147
DISSERTATION
Research has long known about the important implications of the risk of losing one’s work (the risk of layoff, the possible “death” of one’s organization or an incapacitating accident). But what about when an occupational community’s existence is at stake? Indeed, occupations and professions can be threatened to the point of non-existence. Such a potential loss is likely to not only influence “who I am?” but more broadly one’s place in the social order, that is “why am I here?” As such, it poses an existential threat. Existential threats from occupational demise can come from the emergence of a new competitor, a new way of working, a crisis (e.g., disaster or financial crisis) and technology, just to name a few. Such existential threats can have important consequences on occupational members’ lives, particularly on relationships, emotions and mental health. Yet, our current theories still fall short to understand how individuals experience this threat. In an inductive qualitative study of Les Clefs d’Or concierges in the USA, my dissertation aims at uncovering what that these impacts and experiences are.
OUT OF SERVICE ? INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES IN AN OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY EXISTENTIAL THREAT