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RESEARCH

Refereed Journal Articles

Erickson, C. L., & Norlander, P. (2022). How the past of outsourcing and offshoring is the future of post-pandemic remote work: A typology, a model and a review. Industrial Relations Journal, 53 (1), 71– 89. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12355

Norlander, P. (2021). Do guest worker programs give firms too much power? IZA World of Labor. https://wol.iza.org/articles/do-guest-worker-programs-give-firms-too-much-power

Norlander, P., Varma, A., Jukic, N., & Nestorov S. (2021). The Effects of Technological Supervision on Gig Workers: Organizational Control and Motivation of Uber, Taxi, and Limousine Drivers, International Journal of Human Resource Management. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2020.1867614

Norlander, P. Ho, G.C., Shih, M., Walters, D.J. & Pittinsky, T.L. (2020) The Role of Psychological Stigmatization in Unemployment Discrimination, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, DOI:10.1080/01973533.2019.1689363.

Gibbons, E., Greenman, A., Norlander, P., and Sørensen, T. (2019). Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs. Antitrust Bulletin, 64: 540-565. doi:10.1177%2F0003603X19875040.

Norlander, P, Varma, A. (2019). H‐1B and L‐1 visa‐sponsored guest workers in the USA: An analysis of the strategic impact of Indian and other firms. Thunderbird Int. Bus. Rev. 2019; 61: 565– 579. doi: 10.1002/tie.22044.

Norlander, P., Sørensen, T.A. (2018). 21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States. Migration Letters; Vol. 15, Iss. 3: 409-422. doi:10.33182/ml.v15i3.362.

Depew, B., Norlander, P. & Sørensen, T.A. (2017). Inter-firm mobility and return migration patterns of skilled guest workers. Journal of Population Economics. 30: 681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-016-0607-y.

Norlander, P., Erickson, C. L., Sarosh, K., Rangapriya, K.-N. (2015). India’s outsourcing industry and the offshoring of skilled services work: a review essay. E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies. http://www.adapt.it/EJCLS/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/view/255.

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles, August 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Management at Anderson Graduate School of Management

Cornell University, May 2005
Bachelor of Science, School of Industrial and Labor Relations

GRANTS RECEIVED

External Grants

Russell Sage Foundation, $38,750, June 2022, “A Public Dataset of Firm-Level Employment Practices”

Economic Security Project, Antimonopoly Fund, January 2022. $25,000 for “Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts.”

Internal Grants

Competitive Summer Research Grant, 2022, $7,000, Loyola University Chicago

Quinlan Research Grant, $2,500, 2021-2022, Quinlan School of Business

Loyola University Chicago, December 2021. $7,000 summer research stipend for “Documents to Datasets: A Firm Level Dataset.”

Loyola Rule of Law Institute, June 2021. $6,500 for research on applying machine learning to find common clauses in employment documents (handbooks, contracts, collective bargaining agreements).

Summer Research Grant, Loyola Quinlan School of Business, May 2021. $2,500 for applying machine learning to job postings data.

Book Chapters

Norlander, P. (2019). Individualism, Democracy and Conflict in the USA. In International Comparative Employee Relations, Eds. Pietro Manzella and Karl Koch. Edward Elgar. London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973229.00018

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Dasgupta, B. Norlander, P. (2019). Living in India: Western and Indian Thinking. In Indian Business: Understanding a rapidly emerging economy. Budhwar, P., and Varma, A. (eds.). Routledge: London.

Norlander, P. and Varma, A. (2019). Performance Information. In Performance Management Systems: An Experiential Approach. Eds. A. Varma and P. Budhwar. Sage. London, UK.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). Performance Management Practices in Asia.. Routledge Handbook of HRM in Asia (pp. 19). Routledge.

Varma, A., Budhwar, P., Norlander, P. (2017). Performance Management and Motivation (278-301). Human resource management: Strategic and International Perspectives (Second Edition ed., pp. 278-301). Sage.

Book Reviews

Norlander, P. (2017). The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni. A Review. The Co-Operative Firm Keywords, edited by Andrea Bernardi and Salvatore Monni..

Norlander, P. (2015). The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization by Jacob Morgan. A Review.

Norlander, P. (2014). Organizing Migrations: People and Knowledge Flows in the Global Economy. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles.

Public Writing

Norlander, P. “Addressing long-term U.S. unemployment requires confronting the stigma against the unemployed amid the coronavirus recession.” Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Issue Brief. October 22, 2020.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Context Rule Assisted Machine Learning (CRAML). Beta Version. Joint work with Stephen Meisenbacher. July 2022. https://github.com/sjmeis/CRAML_Beta

WORKING PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Sauerwald, S. and Norlander, P. “When Trump Said Jump: Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers. Under review at Academy of Management Journal.

WORKING PAPERS IN MANUSCRIPT FORM

Norlander, P and DeVaro, J. “Labor Law Violations, Economic Conditions, and Labor-Market Power:

The Case of Wage Theft Against H-1B Workers.” Revising to submit to the Journal of Human Resources. Working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3858061.

Erickson, C., and Norlander, P. “Institutional and Task Teleworkability Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic .“ Finalizing for submission to Industrial Labor Relations Review.

Meisenbacher, S., and Norlander P. “Documenting Employer Collusion Using A Novel Method for Transforming Unstructured Text to Data.” Finalizing for submission to general science journal.

WORKING PAPERS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Norlander, P. “A Firm-Level Dataset of Employment Practices.” Analyzing data.

Norlander, P. “Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts.” Collecting Data.

PRESENTATIONS GIVEN

2022

Sauerwald, S. and Norlander, P. “When Trump Said Jump: Political Directors and the Recruitment of Foreign Workers. Strategic Management Society. September 17-20, 2022.

Erickson, C., and P. Norlander, “Institutional and Technological Predictors of Remote Work Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Strategic Management Society. September 17-20, 2022.

Erickson, C., and P. Norlander, “Institutional and Technological Predictors of Remote Work Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Academy of Management. August 7, 2022.

Erickson, C., and P. Norlander, “Institutional and Technological Predictors of Remote Work Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Labor and Employment Relations Association. June 2, 2022.

Norlander, P., and Meisenbacher, S. “Building a Firm-level Dataset of Employment Practices with Context Rule Assisted Machine Learning (“CRaML”)”.” Symposium on Using Text Data to Study Work and the Labor Market . Labor and Employment Relations Association . June 2, 2022.

Norlander, P. “Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts.” Midwestern Economic Association. Minneapolis, MN. March 25, 2022.

Norlander, P. Understanding the Rule of Law in the Workplace: The Case of No Poach Clauses in Outsourcing Agreements.” Loyola Rule of Law Institute. Chicago, IL. February 21, 2022.

2021

Norlander, P. “Workers and Organizations in Labor Markets Transformed by Information and Communication Technology.” Organization Design Community – UN Panel on Technology & Labor. Zoom Webinar.  Invited speaker. December 16, 2021.

Erickson, C., and.Norlander, P. How the Past of Outsourcing and Offshoring is the Future of Post- Pandemic Employment Relations: Bargaining Power, Work Restructuring, and the New Equilibrium. Wharton People and Organizations Conference. September 25, 2021.

Erickson, C., and.Norlander, P. How the Past of Outsourcing and Offshoring is the Future of Post- Pandemic Employment Relations: Bargaining Power, Work Restructuring, and the New Equilibrium. 7th Regulating for Decent Work Conference. International Labor Organization. July 6-9, 2021.

Erickson, C., and.Norlander, P. How the Past of Outsourcing and Offshoring is the Future of Post- Pandemic Employment Relations: Bargaining Power, Work Restructuring, and the New Equilibrium. 7th Regulating for Decent Work Conference. International Labor Organization. July 6-9, 2021.

Norlander, P. Confronting Challenges: Hiring and Retaining Your Workforce. Loyola University Chicago, Quinlan School of Business. Leadership Hub. Invited speaker. June 1, 2021.

2020

Harris, D., and Norlander , P. 15 Years Later: The Pipeline to the Top at Best Practice and Matched Comparison Firms. Strategic Management Society. London, UK. (October 24-27, 2020)

Norlander, P., Academy of Management, “Does Competition Protect Guest Workers from Wage Theft?,” Virtual. (Aug, 2020).

Norlander, P., International Labor and Employment Relations Association, “Individualism, Democracy and Conflict in the USA,” Virtual. (June 25-27, 2020).

Norlander, P., Labor and Employment Relations Association, “Does Competition Protect Guest Workers from Wage Theft?,” Virtual. (June 13-16, 2019).

2019

Norlander, P., Southern Economics Association, “Does Competition Protect Guest Workers from Wage Theft?,” Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA. (Nov 26, 2019).

Norlander, P., Wharton People and Organizations Conference, “Does Competition Protect Guest Workers from Wage Theft?,” Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (May 22, 2019).

Harris, D. A. (Author), Norlander, P. (Author & Presenter), 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, “Where the Glass Ceiling Cracks: Features of U.S. Organizations Where Women Rise to the Top,” Boston, MA, USA. (August 2019).

Norlander, P., Wharton Conference on Migration, Organizations, and Management, “Does Competition Protect Guest Workers from Wage Theft?,” Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (May 22, 2019).

2018

Norlander, P., Varma, A., Jukic, N., Nestorov, S. E. Academy of Management Discoveries Conference. “Minimal Management in the Gig Economy.” Michigan State University (October 23, 2018).

Norlander, P., Does, S., Shih. M. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, The Absence of Positive Experiences: Examining Disparities in the Workplace (August 14, 2018).

Norlander, P., Varma, A., Jukic, N., Nestorov, S. E., Organization Science Winter Conference. “Effectance-Enhancing Monitoring in the Gig Economy: When Technology Increases Control and Motivation.” (March 1, 2018).

2017

Harris, D. A., Norlander, P. (Author), Strategic Management Society 37th Annual International Conference, “Ten Years Later: The Pipeline to the Top at Best Practice Firms,” Strategic Management Society, Houston, TX, USA. (October 31, 2017).

Norlander, P., Varma, A., Jukic, N., Nestorov, S. E., Academy of Management Annual Meeting, “Minimal Management: Control Variation in the Ride-Sharing Industry,” Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, USA. (August 7, 2017).

Sorensen, T., Norlander, P. (Author), 92nd Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, “Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP,” Western Economic Association International, San Diego, CA, USA. (June 29, 2017).

2016

Norlander, P., “The Role of Psychological Stigmatization in (Un)employment Discrimination,” Presentation to Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Colloquium Series, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. (November 22, 2016).

Norlander, P., Varma, A., Jukic, N., 9th Annual People and Organizations Conference, “Minimal management and control variation in the taxi and ride-sharing industries,” The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US. (October 2016).

Norlander, P., Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting doctoral students, “Marketization and Management,” LERA, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (May 26, 2016).

Norlander, P., Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting, “The Role of Psychological Stigmatization in (Un)employment Discrimination,” LERA, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (May 26, 2016).