Ryan Quinn

Ryan W. Quinn
Associate Professor of Business Administration
University of Louisville College of Business
ryan.quinn@louisville.edu
(502) 852-4873

Related Research Interests

My research focuses on the question of what people do to make a difference in and through their organizations. I work out of a tradition that assumes that organized phenomena are constituted in communication, which means, that in order to make a difference, people communicate differently. It is this focus on communication that makes my research relational. When I study how people talk, I study how people find courage in their relationships, how relationships of power change, how people learn in relational settings, and how people come together, in relationships, to accept some ideas but not others. In fact, the reason I teach people to how to change their identities and psychological states as a way to change the world is because I see the world as fundamentally relational: we cannot change ourselves without changing others, and we cannot change others without changing ourselves.

Related Publications

  • Quinn, Ryan W., Crane, Bret D., Thompson, Travis J., Quinn, Robert E. (Forthcoming). “Why Real-Time Leadership Is So Hard: Four Obstacles and How to Overcome Them.” Harvard Business Review.
  • Quinn, Ryan W., Crane, Bret, Harris, Jared, Manikas, Andrew (2023). “Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning from Success.” The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 59(3): 391-425.
  • Quinn, Ryan W., Myers, Christopher G., Kopelman, Shirli, and Simmons, Stefanie (2021, In-Press). “How did you do that? Exploring the Motivation to Learn from Others’ Exceptional Success.” Academy of Management Discoveries, https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amd.2018.0217
  • Most read article of the Academy of Management Discoveries, 2021
    Quinn, Ryan W., Baker, Wayne E. (2021). “Positive Emotions, Instrumental Resources, and Organizational Network Evolution: Theorizing via Simulation Research.” Social Networks, 64: 212-224.