Dylan Nelson
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Educational Background
- M.A., Statistics, The University of Michigan, 2022
- Ph.D., Sociology, Economic Sociology & Organizations, The University of Michigan, 2022
- M.S., Honors, Sociology, Political Sociology, The London School of Economics, 2013
- B.A., Honors, Music, Brown University, 2011
Positions Held
- Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
- Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, 2022-2024
Recent Publications
- Lyttelton, T., Nelson, D., & Wilmers, N. Forthcoming. Are Decredentialed Jobs a Route to Upward Mobility? Nature Human Behaviour, Springer Nature.
- Nelson, D., & Wilmers, N. (2026). Racial Inequality and Bureaucracy in U.S. Manufacturing. Management Science, INFORMS. link >
- Nelson, D., & Wilmers, N. (2026). Earnings Effects of Direct Worker Voice in Production. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, SAGE Publications. link >
- Huybrechts, B., Nelson, D., Nelson, T., O'Shea, N., & Dufays, F. (2025). Conform and Oppose through Numbers: Quantifying Hybrid Organizations at the International Cooperative Alliance. Journal of Management Studies, Wiley, 62 (7), 2487-2516. link >
Other Publications
Articles
- Nelson, T., Nelson, D., Huybrechts, B., Dufays, F., O'Shea, N., & Trasciani, G. (2016). Emergent Identity Formation and the Co-operative: Theory Building in Relation to Alternative Organizational Forms. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, (3-4), 286-309. link >
Honors and Awards
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (BADM 313, Spring 2025), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025
- Summer Institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, 2025
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (BADM 313, Fall 2024), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
Current Courses
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Strategic Human Res Management (BADM 313) Studies concepts and methods used by the staff personnel unit in building and maintaining an effective work force in an industrial organization; development of ability to design the personnel subsystem within the firm and to deal effectively with problems encountered in such areas as recruitment, selection, training, and wage and salary administration; and considerable emphasis on case analysis, role playing, and research.