Eriselda Danaj
BIOGRAPHY
Eriselda received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from University of Tirana in July 2012. After her undergraduate studies she lived and studied in Italy, Slovenia and USA. Before entering the Management doctoral program at IESE Business School, she pursued her passion for teaching by volunteering as a teacher of UN Sustainable Development Goals for pre-college students in Aveiro, Portugal and as a mentor and teaching assistant for the UPPER BOWND Math and Science Pre-College Program at University of Delaware.
Her dissertation work aims to contribute to the nascent but growing literature on micro-foundations of paradox, by zooming in to investigate the hidden costs of paradox. Across several projects, combining surveys, experiments and ESM studies, she examines the boundary conditions of adopting paradox leadership and paradox mindset as an effective approach to managing organizational tensions. In particular, she explores how leader’s and follower’s paradox cognition affect the dynamic between them, and consequently, both their experience of paradox and work outcomes such as withdrawal, silence or insubordination.
She examines more in-depth individuals’ ethical behavior at work in her secondary line of research. Specifically, she explores how individuals use job stressors – such as time scarcity – or individuals’ job functions as a source of justification to engage in counter productive work behavior and how paradox cognition shapes individuals’ ability to rationalize these behaviors in the presence of stressors.
PhD Candidate
Academic Area
Managing People in Organizations
Dissertation Director
Prof. Sebastian Reiche
Education
• Ph.D. in Management (IESE Business School, Spain), 2019-Present
• Visiting Student at the Max Planck Center for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany, 2019-2020
• Master of Research in Management (IESE Business School, Spain), 2019
• MS in Financial Services Analytics, MS in International Business (University of Delaware, United States), 2017
• Double Degree MS in Finance (University of Siena, Italy) and MS in Finance and Money (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), 2016
• BS in Finance and Accounting (University of Tirana, Albania), 2012
Research Interests
Paradox cognition; workplace ethics; leadership; self-justifications; time-scarcity.