Alex Pham

Innovation · Technology · Organizational Evolution
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I am Alex (Hoang-An) Pham, a first-year PhD student at the Bernard M. and Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies, School of Management, Binghamton University.

My research interests mainly focus on the dynamics of organizational innovation and identity. I particularly study how innovation and evolution happen at the firm level and what impacts it can have across the organization, such as changes in power structure and human resources.

My primary concentration is innovation. My first-year paper is about the response of firms regarding innovation performance feedback, taking attention to the development of new technology as an activator. The paper addresses the silence on the Attention-Based View’s level of analysis. Another projects related to innovation that I am currently working on are related to how innovation happens in high-paradigm areas (e.g., hard science), where the publishing, working process, and methods are well-established and agreed upon.

In my secondary line of research, I leverage big data and develop models to examine the evolution of organizations. One of my representative projects is about how strategic attention changes results in the change of power structure, which is presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2026 in Pennsylvania. The study leverages computational modeling and simulation to visualize the theory. Other organizational evolution projects I am working on are related to how industry changes lead to organizational adaptation regarding human resources.

In my studies, I am trying to utilize both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. For instance, my favorite methods, such as Polynomial Regression and Hierarchical Linear Modeling, are used to test hypotheses. Besides that, I present and ground theories using qualitative methods, computational models, and simulation.

Before joining Binghamton University, I got my MBA from Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business and had 5 years of experience in the entertainment industry as a media content distribution and acquisition strategist.