Alex Pham

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 happens at the firm level and what impacts it can make across the organization, such as employee knowledge inequality and human resources change. Besides that, I study how identities are formed between and within organizations.

My primary concentration is innovation. My first-year paper is about the fear-of-missing-out behavior in terms of patent priority, which is formed by the peer firms. In the paper, I study the mediation role of attention to innovation in the relationship between peer firms' performance and innovation outcomes in terms of patents. Other projects that I am currently working on are related to how firms change their strategy based on the economic environments, and how innovation happens in high-paradigm areas.

In my secondary line of research, I develop models to examine the identity of organizational entities. One of my representative projects is on the team’s identity, considering the team’s internal capital and the relationship with other external factors. Through this project, I introduce a new definition called an influential team, which identifies between-team differences in terms of the influence it assumes over other teams.

In my studies, I utilize quantitative methodologies to test hypotheses, and I build 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 strategy and acquisition specialist.