Research Students
Legacy & Mentorship
Prof. Erez has advised more than 110 graduate students on their master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Several of her former doctoral students are now faculty members in Israel, the United States, and Europe.
Doctoral Students (Ph.D.)
Aharon Shita. The board members' crucial role in initiating innovation in the classical industry.
2023 Shelly Lev-Koren. Know what you do, and do what you know: the effect of new ventures' pre-entry knowledge and learning acquisition on success in early-stage accelerators.
2021 Moran Lazar. (Co-advisor: Ella Miron-Spektor). Entrepreneurial team formation.
2019 Irit Chudner. (Co-advisors: Dr. Haled Karkbi; the late Prof. Margalit Goldfracht).
2018 Manal Hariv. (Co-advisor: Prof. Ido Erev). Video surveillance and the impact of feedback.
2016 Ella Glikson. Opening the black box of communication in culturally diverse, globally dispersed virtual teams.
2014 Raveh Harush. The influence of global versus local identity on behaviors towards others in the local versus global environment.
2014 Rikki Nouri. Culture and Innovation.
2011 Alon Lisak. Global Leadership: a proposed model for leadership effectiveness in multi-cultural teams.
2009 Tali Sivan. (With Avi Fiegenbaum and Uzi De-Haan). The multi-level impact of incubator's and new ventures' resources on performance: The Israeli experience.
2009 Iris Arbel. Leveraging work-style heterogeneity and team reflexivity to team innovative performance.
2007 Sarit Rashkovitz. Initiating change through knowledge sharing by decentralizing the information system in a health care organization.
2006 Efrat Shokef-Gati. (With Uzi De-Haan). A global culture: global effects on corporate culture in a multinational corporation.
2006 Dana Vashdi-Feigin. (With Peter Bamberger). The impact of team reflexivity and peer assessment on staff- and quality-related outcomes in a tertiary health care center and turnover.
2006 Ella Miron-Spektor. (With Eitan Naveh). The cultural balance of innovation, attention-to-detail, and outcome orientation and its effect on performance. Awarded the 2007 Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) division best student paper award finalist; awarded Fulbright post-doc fellowship.
2000 Ester Unger-Aviram. Team learning and team performance.
2000 Ester Brainin-Porat.
1997 Anat Drach-Zahavy. Difficult goals, a challenge or a threat: the effects of situational conditions and personality dispositions on cognitive appraisal processes and the performance of complex tasks.
1995 Eitan Naveh. Development and implementation of a model of total quality at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
1994 Anit Somech. Motivational aspects of social-loafing and extra-role behavior as cultural phenomena.
1991 Gila Budesco. (Co-advisor: Bilha Mannheim). A cultural-ecological analysis of the service encounter between the organization and its customers.
Master's Students (M.Sc.)
Yuval Klein. Home sweet home: the impact of working from home on innovation processes.
Yotam Phung. The meaning of paradoxical leadership and its relationship to innovative behaviors in China versus Western cultures.
Netanel Gal. The relationship between IT affordances, exploration and exploitation leadership, and organizational culture to innovative behavior of employees, innovation performance, and company performance.
Jasmin Bader-Weingarten. The role of advanced technology affordances in enhancing productivity and innovation.
2020 Rotem Gershoni. (Co-advisor: Kinneret Teodorescu). Exploration, spatial tasks, and creativity: the effect of different search environments on creativity.
2020 Nastia Afanassiev. Facilitators and inhibitors of innovation in the manufacturing plant as moderated by ambidextrous leadership.
2020 Ronny Lavi. Adopting new technologies from the lens of the employees' absorptive capacity.
2020 Michael Feivush. How does bureaucracy affect innovation in a global Chinese organization?
2017 Dean Peer. Culture-dependent meaning of creativity and its impact on creative outcomes.
2017 Ori Ronen. (Co-advisor: Prof. Gabi Goldschmidt). Problem-structuring and creativity: effects of problem types and cognitive factors.
2017 Dvorah Morgenstern. Could bureaucracy enhance innovation in Chinese high-tech firms?
2016 Yael Zeidberg. (Co-advisor: Prof. Ella Miron-Spektor). Climbing up the accelerator on the fast track to innovation.
2016 Oded Cohen. The effect of goal type and sequential goals on novelty and errors in creative performance in different creativity types.
2014 Dana Gershon-Gamliel. (With Naomi Bitterman). Cognitive and creative abilities of systems engineers and industrial designers and the moderating effect of training.
2013 Arielle Sullum. Innovation, issue-selling, and women: are gender differences in negotiation outcomes attenuated when women sell an innovative idea on behalf of a team?
2011 Yifat Modan-Yaacov. Global identity in motion: the relationship between personal characteristics and the development of individual global identity in multi-cultural teams.
2010 Alon Dinur. Organization attraction in the global world: the effect of individual's global identity on the relationship between organization personality and organization attraction.
2010 Eddie Skripnik. Going global.
2010 Daria Tal-Bilgori. Level of difficulty of creative task on creative performance.
2010 Michal Lokiec. The chronicle of an idea.
2010 Keren Hazan. Self-Awareness across cultures.
2009 Yaara Ben-Nachum. The effect of national, organizational and team culture on two types of innovation: breakthrough and adaptation.
2009 Anat Hershkovitz-Rotstein. Immigrants' employment status: a longitudinal study of personal and cultural effects.
2008 Noa Bergman. (With Uzi De-Haan and Zehava Rosenblatt). Young entrepreneurs: personal and situational effects.
2008 Rikki Nouri. Creativity in multicultural teams: the effects of cultural diversity and situational strength on creative performance.
2008 Lee Leshem. Multicultural work teams and situation strength: effects on team performance, emotional exhaustion, and team processes.
2007 Keren Bavly. Firgun as a component of an organizational culture.
2007 Ifat Cochavi. The development of global identity in the global work environment.
2006 Sivan Kremer. Mission impossible: the trade-off between efficiency and creativity within the frame of goal setting theory.
2006 Galit Lev-Run. (With Avi Fiegenbaum, 1st advisor). Competitive absorptive capacity and superior performance: the impact of environmental dynamism and organizational learning culture.
2006 Tamar Varch. (With Peter Bamberger). Pay secrecy: impact of compensation openness on pay satisfaction and performance.
2005 Danny Vatnik. (With Avi Fiegenbaum). Competitive absorptive capacity: the role of top management teams.
2005 Dana Van Raalte. (With Peter Bamberger). The impact of peer assessment on perceived team processes: The case of hospital medical teams.
2005 Oshrat Kremmer. (With Avi Fiegenbaum). Entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation: the criteria for evaluation and the effects of experience and personality characteristics.
2005 Vered Segal. (With Eitan Naveh). The effect of leadership, team structure and processes on team performance of innovation, quality, and efficiency.
2005 Yulia Veinberg. Motivational and cultural effects on the performance of tasks by teams and individuals.
2004 Uzi Venkert. Motivational effects on innovation and attention to detail.
2004 Reut Livne. (With Ido Erev). The effect of performance-contingent reward, goal level, and personal characteristics on creativity.
2004 Ella Kaplan. (With Ido Erev). The effect of goal setting, goal orientation and regulatory focus on a complex task.
2004 Iris Arbel. Multi-disciplinary aspects of teamwork in the process of development of conceptual design.
2003 T. Tsur. The learning organization: implications on goal-setting theory.
2003 Ella Miron. (With E. Naveh). Innovation versus attention to details: competing versus complementary factors.
2003 Efrat Gati. The process of value change as a function of the pay-off system.
2002 O. Shoham. The leadership style, cultural values and organizational change.
2002 L. Green. Knowledge management in teams: mechanisms of pooling unique information.
2002 Noa Erez-Rein. (S. Maital co-advisor). Preventing crisis in international structural cooperations: a system approach for gap identification.
2001 E. Verdsheim. Implementation of financial incentives: crisis and change in the kibbutz' work culture.
1999 Tamar Pnueli. The impact of culture on the meaning retained from messages.
1998 Ronit Hammer. The influence of organizational culture on the profile of the effective leader in organizations from different sectors.
1998 Gilad Paz. Culture as a growing resource.
1998 Dalit Even-Or. Expectations, products, and processes: the influence of motivation methods on group performance.
1996 Meirav Nakash. Preferences for motivational techniques as affected by cultural values and self-perception.
1994 Ilan Laufer. Career aspirations and intentions to emigrate of doctoral graduates in Israel.
1994 Iris Shoshani. Quality culture in the organization as shaped by total quality management (TQM).
1994 Tal Katz. Cultural effects on collective efficacy and group performance of interdependent and independent tasks.
1994 Ester Baavur. Feedback seeking as a function of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and managerial style.
1994 Hadas Haramati. Early career-related characteristics of Ph.D.'s in sciences and engineering in Israel.
1993 Navot Ziv-Av. The influence of participation in communication and information on extra-role behavior.
1993 Libi Kahana-Davidson. Career self-management: individual and organizational factors.
1993 M. Gat. Retraining courses for Russian immigrant scientists and engineers: correlates of course success and subsequent employment.
1991 Amos Tafla. The effect of self-efficacy on the quantity-quality trade-off in different goal conditions.
1991 Bilha Peleg. The effect of personal goals and vocational counseling on persistence in vocational choice.
1991 Yael Livnee. The effects of motivational factors on the balance between work performance and safety.
1990 Sarit Bar. (Co-advisor: Eliezer Rosenstein). Antecedents of success of quality circles.
1989 Ester Nevo. Managers' perception of important factors in managerial promotion.
1989 Irit Malach. The effects of goals, strategies, and effort on performance.
1989 Lior Shochat. Successful managerial careers: personal characteristics, goals, and strategies.
1989 Ronit Edelding. Tacit knowledge, veridical perception, and psychological characteristics as predictors of successful entrepreneurship.
1986 Hannah Gavish. The effects of self-expectations and goal level on performance.
1986 Orit Borochov. (Co-advisor: Bilha Mannheim). Social desirability, sex roles, and work values.
1985 Dorit Shachaf. Ability-performance relationships under different levels of time pressure.
1985 Sara Tzezana. Boundary conditions of the effect of participation in goal-setting on performance.
1985 Nachum Faber. (Co-advisor: Eliezer Rosenstein). Second career patterns for Israeli merchant sea officers.
1984 David Sima. Effectiveness of participation in decision-making on superintendent's performance.
1984 Revital Arad. Information, involvement in decision-making, and social interaction as factors in participative goal-setting.
1984 Nira Arzi. (Co-advisor: Daniel Gopher). Effects of self-control and payment on cognitive resource allocation.
1984 Irit Keidar. Tactics that are used to influence superiors, co-workers, and subordinates.
1984 Michal Grezikov (Dravsky). A cross-cultural comparison of participation in goal-setting.
1983 Efrat Melamed. (Co-advisor: Eliezer Rosenstein). Personnel management: theory and practice.
1982 Isaac Zidon. Task difficulty, goal acceptance, and performance.
1982 Yona Miller. A development of a performance appraisal system for research employees.
1981 Judy Shier-Barazani. Norms, sex-role stereotypes, and vocational behavior: the case of Israeli high-school students.
1980 Anat Stern (Harari). Women's orientations towards men's occupations.
1980 Tova Liba. The differential effect of feedback on performance for women versus men in competitive situations.
1980 Lee Kulik. Situational and personality factors in perceived academic stress and its behavioral correlates.
1980 Daphna Levinkron. The prediction of ability-performance relationship under moderating effects of goal-setting conditions and job design.
1979 Yafa Rachamim. The moderator effect of organizational climate on the individual characteristics-performance relationships.
1979 Tova Shinitsky. Investigating the relationships between the perception of the environment and its physical form in student housing.
1977 Zehava Schneorson. Attractivity of vocational choice among academic personnel on the basis of role characteristics and occupations.
1975 Rachel Israeli. Professional orientations and differentiation of tasks and rewards for teachers.
1973 Shimon Scherman. Biographical and personality characteristics as predictors of academic achievement at the Technion for students who completed the special preparatory course for soldiers. (Substitute research supervisor).
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Hadar Ram (Summer 2021 – Dec. 2022). Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Tali Hadassa Blank (2014). Global leadership.
Carlos Augusto França Vargas, visiting doctoral student, University of São Paulo, Brazil (November 2018 – March 2019).
Dr. Julia Bear (2010–2012). The ways in which conflict-avoidant behavior is interpreted during cross-cultural negotiations.
Dr. Dina Van Dijk (2003). Promotion-prevention focus.
Dr. Efrat Neter (2002). Promotion-prevention focus.