POLLY RIZOVA
Associate Professor of Management
B.A.,M.A., Higher Institute of Economics (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Diploma, International Statistics Program Center
M.A., State University of New York, Albany
Ph.D., Boston University

EML:  prizova@willamette.edu

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Polly Rizova serves as Associate Professor of Management at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Rizova came to Willamette from the Department of Sociology and The College of General Studies at Boston University. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Wellesley College and Tufts University in Massachusetts.

A native of Bulgaria, Dr. Rizova began her career as a Regional Manager and Data Analyst at the Central Statistical Office in Sofia. In the United States, she first worked at the Office of Institutional Research and Policy Analysis at the State University of New York in Albany. She then moved to Boston where she has been an internal consultant for the Gillette Company. Her work there involved several studies into the design of the business processes and organizational structure of the company’s Corporate Research and Development Division .

Dr. Rizova earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Economics from the Higher Institute of Economics in Bulgaria. She then received a Diploma through a United Nations Fellowship at the International Statistics Program Center in Washington, D.C. She also holds a Master of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Formal Organizations from Boston University.

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Formal organizations and social studies of science and technology, management of technological innovation.

Reviewer for Organization Science, Reviewer for the Organization and Management Theory Division, The Academy of Management, Reviewer for the Technology and Innovation Management Division, The Academy of Management

• Rizova, P. S. (2007). The Secret of Success: The Double Helix of Formal and Informal Structures in an R&D Laboratory, Stanford University Press.
• Stone, J., and Rizova, P. (2007). Rethinking Racial Conflict in an Era of Global Terror, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Special Issue edited by Ian Law and Bobby Sayyid, Vol. 30, (4): 534-45.
• Stone, J., and Rizova, P. (In Press). Race: Comparative Perspectives. In the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Richard T. Schaefer (Ed.), Sage Publications.
• Rizova, P. (2007). Technological Innovation and Scientific Research. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (Ed.), Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 10: 4952-4955.
• Rizova, P. (2007). Organizational Learning. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (Ed.), Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 7: 3307-3310.
• Rizova, P. (2007). Balkanization. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (Ed.). Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 1: 239-240.
• Stone, J., and Rizova, P. (2007). Racial and Ethnic Conflict. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (Ed.), Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 2: 659-662.
• Rizova, P. S. (2006). Are You Networked for Successful Innovation? MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 49-55.
• Stone, J., and Rizova, P. (2006). The Ethnic Enigma: Nationalism, Racism, and Globalisation. In Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism, A. Leoussi and S. Grosby (Eds.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 31-41.
• Smith-Doerr, L., Manev. I., and Rizova, P. S. (2004). The Meaning of Success: Network Position and the Social Construction of Project Outcomes in an R&D Lab, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Vol. 21, pp. 51-81.

Referred Publications in Conference Proceedings:

• Rizova, P. (2005). The Double Helix of Formal and Informal Structures: Project Design for R&D Success. In K. Mark Weaver (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management , ISSN 1543-8643.
• Gordon, G., Bush, J.B., & Rizova, P. (1997). Management of Technical Innovation, Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET ’97) 27-31 July.