Patrick (Pat) Reilly
Pat Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at UBC Sauder School of Business. His research examines how social structure shapes creativity, work, organizations, and careers, especially when evaluation and opportunity are uncertain. Using ethnographic, interview, longitudinal, network, computational, and mixed methods, he studies how relationships, audiences, and systems of evaluation influence who is valued, credited, selected, and given opportunities to continue. His work has examined stand-up comedy, film, television, intellectual property, creative collaboration, nepostism, and project-based labor markets, and has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Discoveries. Pat teaches organizational behaviour, negotiations, power and politics, and qualitative methods across undergraduate, MBA, Professional MBA, and doctoral programs. His teaching has been recognized with UBC Sauder's CPA Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award. He also coordinates teaching initiatives for the Academy of Management's OMT Division.
Selected Publications
- Reilly, Patrick (2026). "Playing to the audiences: How creative producers manage and reconcile different and co-present valuation standards." Organization Science 37(4): 1487-1510.
- Harrison, Spencer, Reilly, Patrick, Song, Yanbo & Kim, Khwan (2026). "Point break? The impact of collaborative breakdowns on creative careers. Academy of Management Journal 69:504-534.
- Patterson, Kelly, Reilly, Patrick, and Kashkooli, Keyvan (2024). "Must See TV or Must Keep TV: The Nuances of Creative Performance and Team Composition in Television." Academy of Management Discoveries 11.423-447.
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Reilly, Patrick (2018) “No Laughter Among Thieves: Authenticity and the Enforcement of Community Norms in Stand-Up Comedy.” American Sociological Review 83:933-958.
- Reilly, Patrick (2017) “The Layers of a Clown: Career Development in Cultural Production Industries.” Academy of Management Discoveries 3:145‐164.