Research

Refereed Journal Publications

2021 | Sarta, A., Durand, R., Vergne, J.-P. Organizational AdaptationJournal of Management. 47(1): 43–75. 🔗 

Organization Adaptation Interactive Topic Model

Refereed Book Chapters

2020 | Grace, C., Sarta, A. “The Future of Digital Wealth Management”.  The Technological Revolution in Banking: How Bank and Fintech Customers Win Together. Ed. Michael King and Richard Nesbitt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 🔗 

2018 | Sarta, A., Vergne, J.-P., Durand, R. “Organizational Adaptation”.  Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. Ricky W. Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press. 🔗

Working Papers

[A Paper on Strategy in FinTech] (sole-author)
Current Status: Under review

(Book Chapter) Imagination or Validation: Using Futuring Techniques to Enhance AI’s Relevance in Strategy-Making (with A. Aristidou)
Current Status: Under review at Research Handbook on AI and Decision Making in Organizations

[A Paper on Heterogeneous Managerial Beliefs] (sole-author)
Current Status: Under review

Bottom-Up Diffusion: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Practice Adaptation to Patient Needs in the Healthcare Sector (with A. Aristidou)
Current Status: Drafting manuscript for submission

Attention-based Rivalry: The Competitive Implications of Public Attention (with M. Sadri)
Current Status: Drafting manuscript for submission

Research in Development

When Adaptation Gets in the Way of Performance: The Case of Financial Advisors in Canada
Current Status: Data collection completed, empirical analysis underway.

Virtual Healthcare Practice Evolution (with A. Aristidou)
Current Status: Data collection and survey analysis

Willingness to Adapt: A Multilevel Adaptation Framework for the Sustainable Organization (with J.P. Vergne)
Current Status: Ideation and conceptual modelling underway.

Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

Bottom-Up Diffusion: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Practice Adaptation to Patient Needs in the Healthcare Sector (with A. Aristidou and G.R. Baker)
Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta (2022)
↪QCA Conference of the Americas, Houston, United States (2022)

Sarta.A, “Novelty and the Onset of Strategic Agenda Shifts: A Bayesian Perspective
↪81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual (2021). Best Paper Proceedings, STR Division
Gies School of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Virtual (2021)
↪Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Virtual (2020)
↪80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management | Virtual (2020) 🔗

Sarta.A, “Technological Prisms: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Cognition, Robo-Advice, and Adaptation
↪QCA Conference of the Americas, Los Angeles, United States (2023)
81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual (2021). Best Paper Proceedings, MOC Division
↪4th International QCA Paper Development Workshop | Virtual (2020). Finalist, Best Paper Award
↪40th Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society | Virtual (2020). Nominated for Best Student Paper Award
↪Strategic Management Society Special Conference: Hits and Misses: Strategic Decisions in an Uncertain World | Frankfurt, Germany (2019)

Sarta, A., Durand, R., Vergne, J.-P. “Reset: Stock-Taking and Rethinking Organizational Adaptation as Congruence”
↪Advancing New Understandings of History in the Management Field Symposium | 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management | Boston, United States (2019) 🔗

Sarta, A. “Cognition, Market Velocity, and Attentional Shifts: A Multi-level Study of FinTech’s Emergence”
↪79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management | Boston, United States (2019) 🔗
↪35th EGOS Colloquium | Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2019)
↪The Second Toronto FinTech Conference | Toronto, Canada (2019)
↪38th Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society | Paris, France (2018)
↪78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management | Chicago, United States (2018) 🔗
↪The First Toronto FinTech Conference | Toronto, Canada (2017)