Reut Livne-Tarandach

Dr. Livne-Tarandach's research program is centered around humanistic management. In contrast to the economistic view of management that sees people as tools to attain organizational goals, humanistic management assumes that people matter, and thus call our attention to explore conditions and processes that promote human dignity, human flourishing, and organizations as caring ecologies that enliven rather than deplete the life of organizational members. Inspired by this perspective on management, my scholarly work focuses on three broad themes within humanistic management, namely (1) compassion, (2) dignity and (3) community experiences in organizations. 

Her recent research explores how organizations can promote compassion, how a sense of community can emerge in temporary organizations, and how organizations can create a social architecture that enables the recruitment and retention of those we often see as unemployable. 

Dr. Livne-Tarandach's research has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Academy of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Research in organizational Change and Development, Institution and Entrepreneurship: Research in the sociology of work, Humanistic Management Journal, Integral theory in action and Experimental business research: Marketing, accounting and cognitive perspectives and Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Research Methods: Innovative pathways and methods. 

Reut is passionate about cultivating engaged scholarships that can create a new vision of organizations as life-giving sites focusing on human dignity, compassion, and a sense of community.

Livne-Tarandach, R., Pychlau, S., Grotto, A., & Arora, P. (In press). The social consequences of compassion: An examination of compassion and gender on subsequent leader emergence. Accepted for publications at the Journal of Organizational Behavior (ABDC A*)

Laasch, O., Livne‐Tarandach, R., Qu, Q., Fu, P., & Pirson, M. 2025. How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices. Journal of Management Studies. http://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13244 (ABDC A*)

Livne-Tarandach, R. & Jazaieri H. 2024. How to support an employee in distress, Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2024/09/how-to-support-an-employee-in-distress

Livne-Tarandach, R., Ball, J., Arora, P., Yemiscigil., A. & Kandampully, J. 2024. A 5C Model of Responsible Service Leadership: Learning from Living Systems to Play the Infinite Game. Journal of Service Management (ABDC, A). 

Livne-Tarandach R., Jazaieri H. & Rabelo-Caridad V. 2024. Previously endured distress reduces the quality of the compassion extended toward sufferers of workplace distress. Journal of Organizational Behavior.   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/job.2799  (ABDC, A*). 

 Kabadayi, S. Livne-Tarandach, R. & Pirson, M. 2023.  Dignity-Vulnerability Approach Framework to Maximize Well-Being Outcomes by Transformative Service Initiatives (TSIs). Journal of Service Marketing. 37(9), 1151-1166.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JSM-03-2023-0110/full/html (ABDC, A). 

Livne-Tarandach R. Steckler, E. Leigh J. & Smith Wheeler, S. 2021 Cultivating organizations as healing spaces:  A typology for responding to suffering and advancing social justice. Humanistic Management Journal. 6, pages 373–404 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41463-021-00112-2

Livne-Tarandach, R. & Jazaieri, H. 2021. Swift Sense of Community: Resourcing Artifacts for Rapid Community Emergence in a Temporary Organization. Academy of Management Journal. 64 (4):1127- 1163. (ABDC A*) https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0410

Livne-Tarandach, R., Pychlau, S. Grotto, A., Arora, P. 2021. Examining the moderating effect of gender on compassion and leader emergence. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings.   https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.10647abstract 

Laasch, O., Livne-Tarandach, R. Pirson, M. 2021. Responsible Management unfiltered: Bakers on a Mission to Scale open Hiring. In Laasch (Ed.) Principles of Management: Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability. pp. 970-978. Sage: London.

Pirson, M & Livne-Tarandach, R. 2020. Restoring Dignity with Open Hiring- Greyston Bakery and the Recognition of Value. Rutgers Business Review: Special Issue on Social Innovation. Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 236-247

Laasch, O., Livne-Tarandach, R.., Fu, P. Qu, Q,  Pirson, M. Dierksmeier, C. 2019 Humanistic Management Performativity “in the wild’: The role of performative bundles of practices. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2019(1):13357

Kabadai S., Alkire, L. Broad G., Livne-Tarandach, R., Wasieleski, D. & Puente, A. M. 2019 Humanistic Management of Social Innovation in Service (SIS): An Interdisciplinary Framework Humanistic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-019-00063-9

Livne-Tarandach R., Plews J. E. & Rabelo-Caridad V. 2018. I know exactly how you feel or do I?: Why prior experience with another’s distress reduced the quality of compassion action. Academy of Management Conference Proceedings.

Livne-Tarandach, R., Hawbaker, B., Lahneman, B. & Jones, C. 2015. Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Opportunities for Case-based Research. Elsbach, K. and Kramer, R. (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research Innovative Pathways and Methods

Cotton, R. D., Shen Y. & Livne-Tarandach R. 2011. On becoming extraordinary: The content and structure of the developmental networks of Major League Baseball Hall of Famers. Academy of Management Journal, 54(1): 15-46.

Jones C., Livne-Tarandach, R. & Balachandra L. 2010. Rhetoric that wins clients: Entrepreneurial firms’ use of institutional logics when competing for resources. In Sine W. & David R. J. (Eds.) Institution and Entrepreneurship: Research in the sociology of work, 21: 183-218. New Milford: Emerald Group Publishing.

Torbert, B., Livne-Tarandach R., Herdman-Barker. E., Nicolaides, A. & McCallum, D. 2010. Developmental action inquiry: A distinct integral theory that integrates developmental theory, practice, and research in action. In S. Esbjörn-Hargens (Ed.) Integral theory in action: Applied, theoretical, and critical perspectives on the AQAL Model: 413-430. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Livne-Tarandach R. & Bartunek J. M. 2009. A new horizon for organizational change and development scholarship: connecting planned and emergent change. In Woodman, R., Pasmore & Shani A. B. (Eds.) Research in organizational change and development, 17: 1- 36, Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Jones, C. & Livne-Tarandach R. 2008. Designing a frame: Rhetorical strategies of architects. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29: 1075–1099.

Erev, I. & Livne-Tarandach, R. 2005. Experiment-based exams and the
difference between the behavioral and the natural sciences. In Zwick, R. & Rapoport, A. (Eds.). Experimental business research: Marketing, accounting and cognitive perspectives, 3: 297-308, Dordrecht: Springer.

Louis F. Capalbo Chair of Business Administration. 2023- Present

Faculty affiliate of the Center of Positive Organizations, Ross Business School, University of Michigan. 2023 - Present

Best Community Building PDW Award, OB Division, Academy of Management (2025) “A Call for Bringing Antisemitism into the Agenda on Inclusion in the Workplace and the Academy”

Associated Editor, Journal of Service Management (ABDC A), 2025 - Present

Guest editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior (ABDC A*), Special Issue titled “Advancing Our Understanding of Grief in Organizations”. December 2024- Present

Honorary mention 2022 from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, Outstanding publishes article in organization organizational scholarship competition, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, for the paper - Livne-Tarandach, R. & Jazaieri, H. 2021. Swift Sense of Community: Resourcing Artifacts for Rapid Community Emergence in a Temporary Organization. Academy of Management Journal. 64 (4):1127- 1163. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0410.

Associate Editor of the Business and Society Review Journal 2021 - Present

Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board 2016 - Present

International Humanistic Management Research Fellow 2019 - 2021

Awarded the Manhattan College Summer Research Grant for research of the performativity of humanistic management, 2022

Awarded the Lundquist College of Business Research Grant for research in the field of diversity, 2017

Awarded the John and Emiko Kageyama Endowment Research Grant, 2017

Awarded the Lundquist College of Business Summer Research Support, 2017

Awarded the Global Oregon Collaboration Fund, 2016

Awarded the Lundquist College of Business Summer Research Support, 2016

Awarded the John and Emiko Kageyama Endowment Research Grant, 2016

Awarded the John and Emiko Kageyama Endowment Research Grant, 2015

Awarded the John and Emiko Kageyama Endowment Research Grant, 2014

Honorable mention 2013 from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship,
Michigan Ross School of Business, for the 2011 AMJ paper "On becoming
extraordinary: The content and structure of the developmental networks of
Major League Baseball Hall of Famers".