Dali Ma, PhD

Dali Ma’s special interests are organization theory, entrepreneurship, social networks, sociology of science and technology, and Chinese organizations. His current quantitative projects examine the role of supporting actor in collaborative tie formation, knowledge diversity in terms of heterogeneity and status inequality and R&D team innovation, and the paradoxical impact of founding team diversity on business discontinuation in late Imperial Russia. His qualitative projects use archival data to understand the switching of component and system logics in framing the relationship between a new component and the rest of the system (Boeing 737-MAX), organizational members’ sensemaking after catastrophes (Apollo, Challenger, and Columbia accidents), and the social processes leading to a successful US-USSR space collaboration (Apollo–Soyuz) during the Cold War.

His work has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Social Forces, Social Networks, and Social Studies of Science. He is serving as Senior Editor of *Management and Organization Review *(MOR) published by Cambridge University Press, and received the Best Senior Editor and Best Reviewer awards from MOR.

He received the Louis Pondy Award from the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division and the William Newman Award from the Academy of Management, both for best paper based on a dissertation. His research on the restructuring of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received the MOR Young Scholar Award; and his research on Boeing’s framing game prior to the 737-MAX crashes received the Responsible Research Award from the OMT Division.

He was a Batten Fellow of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and a Visiting Fellow of Princeton University’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.