Luke N. Hedden

I am an Assistant Professor in the Management Department of the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami.

I study professions and occupations who do highly important work but are rarely recognized. As an ethnographer and field researcher, I often take a qualitative approach to building new management theory. My recent work has examined how line workers decide who to trust in high-risk work, how career advisers navigate value tensions with clients, and how opinion moralization can foster intense conflict at work. By studying individuals at work, their interactions with others, and their occupational contexts, I take a cross-level approach to building theory in these areas.