Halil Sabanci

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations • Professor

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Halil Sabanci is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. His research centers around strategic human capital, organization theory, and economic sociology. His current research projects focus on the sociology of labor markets, with particular emphasis on career mobility and inequality, as well as the interactions among organizations, workers, and social structures, including social networks and status hierarchies. His work has been published or is forthcoming in top-tier academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology, Nature Human Behaviour, and Organization Studies.

Professor Sabanci earned his PhD from IESE Business School with a summa cum laude distinction. He also holds a Master of Research degree in Management from IESE Business School and a BA in Management from Bogazici University. He has also held visiting appointments at the London Business School and MIT Sloan. Before joining academia, he worked in the industry at S&P 500 companies as a commercial specialist and a management consultant, as well as founding entrepreneurial ventures in the telecommunications industry.

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PUBLICATIONS

Godechot, O., Sabanci, H., et al., 2024. The Great Separation: Top Earners' Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies, American Journal of Sociology Vol. 130(2), pp. 439-495.

Maoret, M., Moreira, S., Sabanci, H., 2023. Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst Coverage, Stakeholder Attention, and Gender Differences in Executive Compensation, Organization Studies.

Sabanci, H., Elvira, M., 2023. The Outcomes of Cross-Category Career Moves: How Cross-Industry Mobility and Industry Prestige Jointly Impact Executive Compensation, Academy of Management Journal.

Godechot, O., Neumann, N., Sabanci, H., et al., 2023. Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality, Socio-Economic Review Vol. 21(3), pp. 1601-1627.

Penner, A., Petersen, T., Hermansen, A., Sabanci, H., et al., 2023. Within-Job Gender Pay Inequality in 15 Countries, Nature Human Behaviour (7) pp. 184-189.

Collis, M., Lu, X., Baldassari, D., Sterling, A., Sabanci, H., et al., 2023, Drivers of Racial and Gender Workplace Inequalities, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.

Balachandran, C., Choi, K., Dlouhy, K., Ivanova, O., Sabanci, H., et al., 2022, Macro Patterns of Employee Mobility: Learning from Large-Scale Employment Data, in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management.

Sabanci, H., Elvira, M., 2021, Temporary Employment, Precarity Trap in Low-paying Jobs, and Wage Inequality, in: Academy of Management Proceedings.

Sabanci, H., Elvira, M., 2020, Leaps of Faith: Cross-industry Mobility and Industry Status Effects on Executive Compensation, in: Academy of Management Proceedings.

Lu, X., Sabanci, H., McClean, E., 2023. A study on corporate-responsibility and sustainability-related recruitment.

Hermansen, A., Penner, A., Sabanci, H., et al., 2023. Immigrant pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs, not within-job pay disparities.

Sabanci, H., Elvira, M., 2023. Temporary Employment, Precarity Trap in Low-paying Jobs, and Wage Inequality.

Godechot, O., Apascaritei, P., Boza, I., Henriksen, L., Sabanci, H., et al., 2020. The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in High-Income Countries, MaxPo Discussion Paper 20/3.