Mark Fichman's Home Page

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815.

Welcome to my home page, which is always under construction.

I teach several courses here at the Tepper School.

Introduction to Organizational Behavior, 70-311.. This course is an undergraduate course introducing concepts in organizational behavior and theory.
Organizational Power and Influence, 45-891 is an elective Masters course that explores political and influence processes in organizations.
Seminar in Organizational Behavior, 47-890 is a doctoral level seminar course that introduces students to the area of micro organizational behavior. Micro organizational behavior is the study of individual behavior in organizations. For the last several years, I have co-taught this course with Professor Carrie Leana at the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Here is a listing of some of my recent activities.

Today's Edisons or weekend hobbyists: technical merit and success of inventions by independent inventors This paper appears in the journal Research Policy . It looks at independent and corporate invention in the tennis racquet industry.

Straining towards trust: Some constraints on the study of trust This is a paper that appears in the J. of Organizational Behavior in 2003. My musings on an evolutionary view of trust in organizations.

Multiple Imputation for Missing Data: Making the Most of What You Know. . A paper with Jonathon Cummings on proper methods for dealing with missing data that appeared in Organizational Research Methods (2003). The technique is demonstrated using data from HomeNet. Here are slides from the presentation of the paper.

Seeking Compliance Across Organizational Boundaries: What Happens when the Credit Collector Calls? . A paper with Bud Gibson on credit collections as a boundary spanning task. It is scheduled to appear in Cognition and Emotion

Finding Patterns in Sequences; Applying Sequence Comparison Techniques to Study Behavior Processes studies techniques for analyzing behavioral sequence data. Presented at the 1999 Academy of Managment

A multilevel analysis of trust in interorganizational customer-supplier ties presented at the 1997 Academy of Management meetings, analyzes issues of trust between firms.

Variance Explained: Why size does not (always) matter analyzes proper and improper uses of the concept of explained variance. This has appeared in Research in Organizational Behavior, 1999.

Learning in Dynamic Decision Tasks: a computational model and empirical evidence with Bud Gibson and David Plaut studies dynamic decision making using both computational methods and experimental methods(published in OBHDP in 1997).

My current research interests are primarily in the areas of dynamic decision making and interorganizational relations.