PhD Candidate (2009)
david.touve@owen.vanderbilt.edu
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Biography:
David Touve is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Studies at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, specializing in Organizational Theory. He anticipates completion of his Ph.D. in 2009.
David’s research intersects organization theory, technology and entrepreneurship. His dissertation involves a large-sample inquiry into the relationships among automation, the nature of work and the social structure of organizations – issues with direct implications for organizational theory, managerial practice, and public policy. His research contributes to our understanding of technology within organizations by providing ways to investigate and explain how it might be that automation has had seemingly contradictory consequences for work and organizations.
In the years prior to the PhD, David held management roles in a series of technology-based startups, resulting in experience across the life cycle of organizations- from idea to acquisition. Prior to this startup experience, he spent a number of years as a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, making markets in international currency and index options.
Disciplines:
- Organizational Theory
- Entrepreneurship
- Management in Technology
Research Interests:
- Automation
- Organizational Information processing
- Technology-based entrepreneurship
- Social Issues in technology
Education:
- Ph.D candidate in Organizational Studies, Vanderbilt University, Current
- Coursework, New York University: Stern School of Business, 2004
- M.B.A. Australian Graduate School of Management, 2004
- B.A., Economics, Northwestern University, 1990
