Kevin W. Lee
Kevin W. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at UBC Sauder School of Business (with an affiliation with the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group). His research interests center on the future of work, with an emphasis on technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. His overarching concern has been for what the people experiencing this future have been evaluating as worthy enough about what exists to the preserved and not be lost. He has mostly examined these issues of late while studying artificial intelligence (AI) at work, focusing on what workers have valued as human about work and how they have been navigating what might happen to this humanness. He has drawn primarily on organization studies, the sociology of work and occupations, and scholarship on technology and has mainly utilized ethnographic and interviewing methods. He received his PhD in Management and Organization from NYU Stern and his BA from Columbia University.
Selected Publications
- Lee, Kevin W. & Watkins, Elizabeth A.* (2021). “From Performativity to Performances: Reconsidering Platforms’ Production of the Future of Work, Organizing, and Society.” Sociologica, 14(3): 205-215.