My projects are grounded in the principle that the right insight, delivered at the right time and in the right manner, facilitated by digital technologies, can mean the difference between life and death, and between having a voice or being repressed.
Publications and Under Review:
Sharma, S. and Aristidou, A. “Coordinative Convergence and Divergence: How human-AI teams traverse tightropes of trust and agency ambivalence in humanitarian crisis contexts.” (Accepted for special issue: Interpretive Approaches to Data Science in Management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, forthcoming January 2025).
Sharma, S. “Seeking emancipation from the vulnerability vortex via digital technologies” (Accepted for special issue: Tales of Cultural Marginalization, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, forthcoming 2025)
Sharma, S. and Aristidou, A. “AI responsibility rifts and realignments: lessons from high-risk humanitarian crisis contexts” (Under Review at MISQ Executive)
Working Papers and Projects:
Sharma, S. “I did not see it coming: Intentional Efforts and Unintentional Effects in Institutional Change.” (Manuscript complete, Target journal: Academy of Management Journal)
Sharma, S. and Ravasi, D. “Processes of Resisting Discriminatory Institutions”. (Target journal: Academy of Management Annals)
Sharma, S. and Aristidou, A. “Synchronized sixth sense: How crisis response teams decode data deserts, data deluge and data mirages.”
Industry Reports:
Sharma, S., and Piztorizzi, V., ‘AI safety across the digital divide’. To be published on United Nations (UN-OCHA) open access repository for humanitarian decision making.