Legacy & Mentorship

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.