Tom Grad

Tom Grad is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of Strategy and Innovation in Frederiksberg, Denmark. His primary research examines organizational dynamics, with particular focus on competition mechanisms in professional environments and platform economies.

Research interests include:

• Behavioral dynamics in competitive organizational settings
• Peer evaluation systems in crowdsourcing communities
• Impact of user-generated content on professional media
• Tax compliance behaviors in platform economies
• Reproducibility in management science research
• Symbolic incentive systems in online communities

His publications demonstrate a consistent focus on experimental and empirical analysis of competition dynamics, with recent work exploring how rivalry affects performance, peer evaluation in crowdsourcing, and behavioral economics in digital platforms. Research frequently appears in top-tier journals including Management Science and Organization Science.

Professional activities include panel participation at academic conferences, such as the 2022 session on 'The Consequences of Competition in Organizations' at the Academy of Management.