Hagay C. Volvovsky

I study how individuals and organizations cooperate, adapt, and innovate when their interests do not fully align.

My research sits at the intersection of organizational theory, strategy, ecosfsfdasdfas fasdf asdf asdf senomic sociology, and law and economics. I combine social network analysis, organizational learning, contract theory, large-scale online experiments, and econometric methods to examine questions such as: How do people and organizations build and sustain cooperation? When and how do social networks shape the spread of reputational information in markets? And how do organizations and contractual partners adapt when environments change?

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One stream of my work examines how actors develop shared understandings of what counts as cooperation or defection in complex, changing environments. This work shows that collaboration depends not only on incentives, trust, or formal contracts, but also on the ability to build a shared understanding of what cooperation means in a changing and complex environment. A second stream examines how managers build shared cognitive frameworks—and how those frameworks can both facilitate and constrain organizational adaptation. A third stream uses large-scale longitudinal data to examine how individuals’ prosocial behavior shapes their position in their community’s social network.

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Before joining the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, I completed my PhD at MIT Sloan. I previously worked as a corporate lawyer and hold an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School, as well as an LL.B. and a B.A. in Accounting from Tel Aviv University.