WORKIEWICZ Maciej

Maciej Workiewicz is an Associate Professor of Management at ESSEC, where he teaches strategy and strategic management courses in the school's Masters in Management, GMBA, and Executive Programs as well as strategy, organization theory, computer simulation, and machine learning in the school's doctoral program. In his research he focuses on how organizational structure influences the way companies adapt to industry change and innovate. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Organization Design and the Journal of Management Inquiry. Before joining ESSEC in 2016, professor Workiewicz received his MBA from INSEAD, and later earned a PhD in Management (Strategy) from the same school. Prior to INSEAD, professor Workiewicz worked at Deloitte in Canada and at Siemens in Germany.

Personal Website

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Behavioral Strategy Wiki

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• 2017 : Ph.D. in Management (INSEAD, France)
• 2012 : M.Sc., Management (INSEAD, France)
• 2008 : MBA (INSEAD, France)
• 2002 : M.A., International Economics and Politics (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2019 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2016 - 2019 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2020 - 2021 : Academic Director in charge of the Global MBA program (ESSEC Business School, France)

Professional appointments

• 2009 : Manager, Finance Excellence Program (Siemens, Germany)
• 2004 - 2007 : Coordinator of the Canadian Energy & Resources Practice (Deloitte, Canada)

• 2019 : Honorable Mention for the paper "A Cognitive Model of Problemistic Search" (with T. Keil and H. Posen) for the Behavioral Strategy IG at the 39th SMS Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN, October 2019
• 2012 : Awarded “Passed with Distinction” in the Ph.D. Strategy Comprehensive Exam (INSEAD, France)

• 2017 : Nominated for a Best Conference Paper Award at the 2017 SMS Annual Conference in Houston, October 2017, for the article: Project Screening and Resource Allocation in Boss-less Organizations
• 2017 : Nominated for the Academy of Management Meeting Best Paper (BPS Division) for the “The Origin of Capabilities? A Microfoundational Theory of Firm Heterogeneity” (with Vikas A. Aggarwal and Hart E. Posen)
• 2017 : Nomination for the 2017 SMS Houston Best Paper Prize for “Project screening and resource allocation in boss-less firms”
• 2017 - 2018 : Received the ESSEC Foundation’s Teaching Award (ESSEC Foundation, France)
• 2016 : Outstanding Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society, Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group, 2016
• 2016 - 2017 : Rated among the three most favored professors in the 2016-2017 Academic year (ESSEC Foundation, France)
• 2014 : Outstanding Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society, Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group, 2014
• 2013 : OMT Division ABCD Award 2013 (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) - best reviewer

• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2023). On fads, fashions, and follies of flat organizing and why managers still matter. Journal of Organization Design, In press.
• KETKAR, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2022). Power To The People: The Benefits And Limits Of Employee Self-Selection In Organizations. Strategic Management Journal, 43(5), pp. 935-963.
• KEIL, T., POSEN, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2022). Aspirations, Beliefs and a New Idea: Building on March’s Other Model of Performance Feedback. Academy of Management Review, In press.
• LEVINTHAL, D.A. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2018). When Two Bosses Are Better Than One: Nearly Decomposable Systems and Organizational Adaptation. Organization Science, 29(2), pp. 207-224.
• AGGARWAL, V.A., POSEN, H.E. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2017). Adaptive capacity to technological change: A microfoundational approach. Strategic Management Journal, 38(6), pp. 1212-1231.
• BURTON, R.M., DØJBAK HÅKONSSON, D., NICKERSON, J., PURANAM, P., WORKIEWICZ, M. and ZENGER, T. (2017). Github: Exploring the Space Between Boss-Less and Hierarchical Forms of Organizing. Journal of Organization Design, 6(10).
• DONG, J., MARCH, J.G. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2017). On organizing: an interview with James G. March. Journal of Organization Design, 6(14), pp. 1-19.
• ALMEIDA-COSTA, A., WORKIEWICZ, M. and SZULANSKI, G. (2016). On the Foundations of Organizational Knowledge: Interview with Professor Sidney G. Winter. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(2), pp. 223-231.

• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2017). Project Screening and Resource Allocation in Bossless Organizations. In: 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Academy of Management.
• AGGARWAL, V., POSEN, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2015). The origin of capabilities? A microfoundational theory of firm heterogeneity. In: Academy of Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Academy of Management.

• PHAM, D.N., RIOS, L. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2022). Remote Access Memories: How Remote Work Will Impact Organizational Learning and What Firms Can Do About It. In: Vienna Conference on Strategy, Organization Design, and Innovation. Vienna.
• WORKIEWICZ, M. and HYUNJIN, K. (2021). Tenure Package: How Do Letter Writers Read and Evaluate It? In: 2021 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference. Toronto.
• PHAM, D.N., RIOS, L. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2020). Organizational Learning on Rugged Landscapes: Reconciling Opposing Views on the Benefits of External Talent. In: 2020 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
• KEIL, T. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2019). A Cognitive Model of Problemistic Search. In: 39th Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference.
• KEIL, T., POSEN, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2019). A Cognitive Model of Problemistic Search. In: 2019 Conference in Honor of Jim March.
• FANG, C., MARENGO, L. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2019). PDW: Using Computational Models in Behavioral Strategy Research. In: 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• KETKAR, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2018). Project Screening and Resource Allocation. In: 2018 Strategy Science Conference.
• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2018). Project Screening and Resource Allocation in Bossless Organizations. In: 2018 Strategy Science Conference.
• KETKAR, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2018). Project Selection and Resource Allocation in Boss-less Organizations. In: 2018 Academy of Management Specialized Conference.
• WORKIEWICZ, M., BERGENHOLZ, C. and MARENGO, L. (2018). Using Computational Models in Behavioral Strategy Research. In: 78th Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• WORKIEWICZ, M. and LEVINTHAL, D. (2017). Near Decomposability and Organizational Structure: The Adaptive Rationality of Multi-Authority. In: 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2017). Project Screening and Resource Allocation in Boss-less Organizations. In: 2017 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2017). Using Computational Models in Management Research. In: 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• KETKAR, H. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2016). A Formal Model for Self-organizing and Self-governing Teams within Firms. In: 36th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).
• LEVINTHAL, D.A. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2016). Are Two heads Better than One? The Multi-Authority Form and Organizational Adaption. In: 36th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).
• WORKIEWICZ, M. (2016). Formal Models of Self-Selections and Self-Governance in Non-Hierarchical Organizations. In: 36th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).
• HAKKANSON, D.D. and WORKIEWICZ, M. (2016). The Case of GitHub: an Account of One Firm’s Experiment and Reversal of Non-Hierarchical Organizing. In: 36th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).

• WORKIEWICZ, M. and BILLINGER, S. (2019). Fading hierarchies and the emergence of new forms of organization. Journal of Organization Design, 8(17), pp. 1-6.

• DONG, J., MARCH, J.G. and WORKIEWICZ, M. 2017. On Organizing: An Interview with James G. March. December.