Victoria Zhang

Victoria Y. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her Ph.D. in Economic Sociology from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an organizational theorist who studies how social inequality, segregation, and polarization influence organizational behavior and strategy. She is particularly interested in entrepreneurs in street-level, brick-and-mortar establishments, and their relationships with their local contexts and communities. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, and her dissertation was recognized as a finalist for the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Before entering academia, she was a product manager at a technology startup.