Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
Adecco Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
I work in the field of Economic Sociology. My academic research focuses on identifying the processes by which relationships shape economic outcomes - particularly in the labor market. In my work to date I have tackled this question by collecting longitudinal, proprietary field-based data. This approach allows me to isolate novel theoretical mechanisms that allow individuals and organizations to create and capture economic value from their relationships.
Much of my work focuses on understanding the functioning of labor market brokers, such as temporary help agencies and executive search firms. These organizations play a key role in matching individuals to jobs in the labor market, and they do so by managing their relationships with both groups of actors. Studying them offers rich theoretical and empirical insights into the role that relationships play in the operation of markets.
I am also interested in how relationships affect individual labor market outcomes, such as hiring, wages and career advancement. In particular, I examine how these may be different for men and women (e.g., do women obtain different returns than men from their affiliation with executive search firms?).
I teach courses on competitive strategy and "the value of social networks," both in core MBA and executive education programs.
Please find below links to my published papers. For a copy of my CV, click here.
Publications
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Fernandez-Mateo, I.; & King, Z. (2011). "Anticipatory Sorting and Gender Segregation in Temporary Employment." Management Science. |
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Bidwell, M.; & Fernandez-Mateo (2010). "Relationship Duration and Returns to Brokerage in the Staffing Sector." Organization Science. |
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Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2009). "Cumulative Gender Disadvantage in Contract Employment." American Journal of Sociology. |
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Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2007). "Who Pays the Price of Brokerage? Transferring Constraint through Price-Setting in the Staffing Sector." American Sociological Review. |
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Fernandez, R., & Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2006) "Networks, Race and Hiring." American Sociological Review. Modified versions reprinted in: Grusky, D. (Ed.). Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Third Edition. Westview Press, 2008, and Koput, K. & J. Broschak (Eds.). Social Capital in Business. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming. |
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Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2005) "Beyond Organizational Careers. Information, Learning and Trust in Mediated Employment Arrangements." Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings. |
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Bidwell, M., & Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2008). "Three is a Crowd? Understanding Triadic Employment Relationships." In Cappelli, P. (Ed). Employment Relationships: New Models of White Collar Work. Cambridge University Press. |
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Muñoz-Bullón, F., & Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2005) "Temporary Workers and Temporary Help Agencies: An Exploration of Labor Market Outcomes." In Cabrera, A. & Bonache, J. (Eds.). Dirección Estratégica de Personas, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall-Financial Times. |
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Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2002). "Career Management." In Cabrera, A. & Bonache, J. (Eds.). Dirección Estratégica de Personas. Prentice Hall-Financial Times. |
Research in progress (selected projects)
Feel free to contact me if you would like information on any of these projects.- "Relationship Duration and Tie Persistence in Mediated Markets: Evidence from the Staffing Sector." Working paper.
- "Competing for Brokerage Margins: The Relationships Trade-off." Data analysis in progress.
- "Filling the Managerial Pipeline: Gender Sorting in the Executive Search Sector." (with Marko Coh). Working paper.
- "Prior Rejections and Dyadic Relationship Evolution." (with Marko Coh). Data analysis in progress.
- "Relationships and Pricing in the Champagne Industry."(with Amandine Ody) Data analysis in progress.
Contact details
Email ifernandezmateo@london.edu
Tel +44 (0)20 7000 8714 (Assistant)
Fax +44 (0)20 7000 8701