Beth Schinoff
Biography
Beth Schinoff is an associate professor of management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware and a UD-SWUFE Joint Institute fellow. Her research examines how our work and nonwork lives intersect to shape how we understand ourselves and connect with others. Her work explores topics including relationships at work, identity and the ways people navigate the boundaries between work and nonwork life.
Dr. Schinoff has published in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. Her research has been featured in media outlets including Time, Investor’s Business Daily and The Conversation. She serves as an elected representative-at-large for the organizational behavior division of the Academy of Management and on the editorial boards of multiple leading management journals, for which she has won several reviewer awards.
Dr. Schinoff earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, her MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her B.S. from Northwestern University. Before joining the University of Delaware, she was a faculty member at Boston College. Prior to academia, she worked in communications for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
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. 2026. Reckoning with the ideal worker body: A qualitative study of workers in chronic pain. Academy of Management Journal, 69: 772-801.
- Hedden, L, Schinoff, B.S., Wellman, N., & Blanchard, R. 2026. Tight, Loose, or Denied Holding: How Interpersonal Holding Shapes Innovators’ Responses to Innovation Obstacles. Organization Science, 37: 616-637.
- 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, 36: 2061-2479.
- 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.