Ben A Rissing

People/Faculty
Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior
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133 Statler Dr
393 Ives Hall Faculty Wing
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

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+1 (607) 2552751
Overview

Professor Ben A. Rissing studies regulatory, mobility, and social processes that operate behind the scenes to shape important facets of modern careers. These topics include how government regulators affect immigrant hiring and compensation, the performance implications of worker mobility, and the functioning of new organizational recruitment systems reliant on social connections. For his research, he negotiates access to, and analyzes, unique personnel data within U.S. government agencies, for-profit businesses, and university admissions systems, which often encompass millions of observations. Using modern data analytics, he builds datasets by joining disparate administrative, application, and employee records. Rissing uses these data to test theories with key implications for governments, workers, and practitioners.

Dr. Rissing earned his doctorate in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management; master’s degrees in management science and engineering management from MIT and Duke University, respectively; and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia. Before joining Cornell University, Ben was the Hugh W. Pearson Visiting Professor of Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship at Brown University and a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies. He also previously conducted research as a Wertheim Fellow with the Harvard Law School.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , & . . The Need for Speed: The Role of Employers in Immigrant Work Visa Regulatory Prioritization. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1-60. (DOI:10.1177/00197939241287182)
  • , & . . Collecting, Coding, and Analyzing Observational Records from Real Organizations: “Best in Class” Analytical Techniques. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Business & Management, 1-26. (DOI:10.4135/9781529667370)
  • , & . . Inside Jobs: Salary Setting for Immigrants Crossing Establishment, Organizational, and National Boundaries. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 75(2), 1159-1188. (DOI:10.1177/00197939211041301)
  • . . Trust but Sometimes Verify: Regulatory Enforcement in Attestation-based Immigration Programs. Regulation & Governance, 16(1), 327-354. (DOI:10.1111/rego.12321)
  • , & . . Strength from Within: Internal Mobility and the Retention of High Performers. Organization Science, 31(6), 1313-1620. (DOI:10.1287/orsc.2020.1362)
  • , & . . Best in Class: The Returns on Endorsement in Business School Admissions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(1), 230–270. (DOI:10.1177/0001839218759965)
  • , & . . Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorization. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 69(5), 1081–1113. (DOI:10.1177/0019793916639550)
  • , & . . House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals. American Sociological Review, 79(6), 1226-1255. (DOI:10.1177/0003122414553656)
  • , , & . . Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 51(3), 519-552. (DOI:10.1111/bjir.12003)
  • , , & . . Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1). Sociology Compass, 7(12), 999-1012. (DOI:10.1111/soc4.12096)
  • , , & . . Social Networks and Employment: Outcomes (Part 2). Sociology Compass, 7(12), 1013-1026. (DOI:10.1111/soc4.12095)
  • , & . . Off to a Green Start? How State Agents Shape the Employment of Foreign Nationals by Citizenship. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings. (DOI:10.5465/AMBPP.2012.260)
  • , , , , & . . How Many Highly Skilled Foreign-Born are Waiting in Line for U.S. Legal Permanent Residence?. International Migration Review, 44(2), 477-498. (DOI:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00812.x)
  • , , , & . . Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China and India. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(1), 13-25. (DOI:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00950.x)

Book Reviews

Book Chapters

Honors and Awards

  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY: The State University of New York.
  • Best Paper Proceedings Recipient, Academy of Management.
  • Shah Family Dean’s Excellence Funding Award, Cornell University.
  • MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching and Advising, Cornell University.
  • Best Paper Proceedings Recipient, Academy of Management.
  • OMT Best Paper Finalist, Academy of Management.
  • Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University.
  • Giarratani Rising Star Award, Industry Studies Association.
  • Finalist, Research Paper Competition, Wharton People and Analytics Conference.
  • Class of 2017 Faculty and Staff Award, Cornell University.
  • Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, Brown University.
  • National Finalist, White House Fellows Program.
  • Best Paper Proceedings Recipient, Academy of Management.
  • Award Recipient, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Research Paper Program.
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