Beth Schinoff
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Title Assistant Professor of Management
Email schinoff@nospam699b61f375be6.udel.edu
Office 222 Alfred Lerner Hall
Phone (302) 831-0949
Biography
Biography
Beth Schinoff is an assistant professor of management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on how our work and nonwork lives collide to shape both how we understand ourselves and interact with others. She has published numerous articles in top management outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organizational Science. Her work has been covered by media outlets such as Time Magazine, Investor’s Business Daily, and NBC Boston. Dr. Schinoff earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, she was on faculty at Boston College.
Education
- Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Arizona State University
- M.B.A. in management, University of Illinois at Chicago
- B.S., in communication studies, Northwestern University
Select Publications
- Schinoff, B.S., Rocheville, K., Feldman, E., & Thomas, N. Reckoning with the ideal worker body: A qualitative study of workers in chronic pain. Academy of Management Journal: In press.
- Hedden, L., Schinoff, B.S., Wellman, N., & Blanchard, R. A Tight, loose, or denied holding: How interpersonal holding shapes innovators’ responses to identity-threatening obstacles. Organization Science: In press.
- Schinoff, B.S., Pillemer, J., Rogers, K.M., & Petriglieri, J. (2025). Blurring work-nonwork boundaries in coworker relationships: How a nonwork setting becomes a relational holding environment. Organization Science: In press.
- Hardin, A., Schinoff, B.S., Byron, K., & Balven, R. (2025). A window into coworkers’ worlds: The relational outcomes of learning vivid, unintentional, and nonwork-related information about coworkers. Academy of Management Journal, 68, 267-296.
- Ashforth, B.E., Schinoff, B.S., Rogers, K.M., & Lange, D. (2024). Being Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Role-based identity foils in organizational life. Organization Science, 35, 232-258.
- Rogers, K.M., & Schinoff, B.S. (2022). Disrespected Employees Are Quitting. What Can Managers Do Differently? MIT Sloan Management Review.
- Schinoff, B.S., Ashforth, B.E., & Corley, K.G. (2020). Virtually (in)separable: The centrality of relational cadence in the formation of virtual multiplex relationships. Academy of Management Journal, 63: 1395-1424.
- Ashforth, B.E., Schinoff, B.S., & Brickson, S.L. (2020). “My company is friendly,” “mine’s a rebel”: Anthropomorphism and shifting organizational identity from “what” to “who.” Academy of Management Review, 45: 1-29.