Associate Professor
Organization and Management
PhD, Sociology, Stanford University
BA, Economics, University of Chicago
Whistleblowing
Crime Reporting
Social Control
Wrongdoing
Social Networks
Associate Professor
Organization and Management
Whistleblowing
Crime Reporting
Social Control
Wrongdoing
Social Networks
Patrick Bergemann is an Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He studies the ways in which individuals, organizations, and states respond to wrongdoing, as they seek to stop its occurrence and hold those responsible accountable. One of his primary interests is whistleblowing, where he seeks to understand how social relations influence the willingness to report others, and what prevents some people from coming forward.
His research has been published in top management and sociology journals, including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Organization Science, Management Science, and the Academy of Management Review. His book, Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany, was published by Columbia University Press.
Prior to joining the Merage School, Patrick was an Assistant Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University.
Bergemann, Patrick. 2024. How Social Influence Affects Reporting: Toward an Integration of Crime Reporting, Whistleblowing, and Denunciation. Annual Review of Sociology, 50.
Piazza, Alessandro, Patrick Bergemann and Wesley Helms. 2024. Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance. Academy of Management Review, 49(2): 249-272.
Bergemann, Patrick and Austin Wright. 2023. “From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan.” Sociological Science, 10: 286-331.
Bergemann, Patrick and Brandy Aven. 2023. “Whistleblowing and Group Affiliation: The Role of Group Cohesion and the Locus of the Wrongdoer in Reporting Decisions.” Organization Science, 34(3): 1243-1265.
Moon, Ken, Patrick Bergemann, Daniel Brown, Andrew Chen, James Chu, Ellen A. Eisen, Gregory M. Fischer, Prashant Loyalka, Sungmin Rho and Joshua Cohen. 2023. “Manufacturing Productivity with Worker Turnover.” Management Science, 69(4): 1995-2015.
Moon, Ken, Prashant Loyalka, Patrick Bergemann and Joshua Cohen. 2022. “The Hidden Cost of Worker Turnover: Attributing Product Reliability to the Turnover of Factory Workers.” Management Science, 68(5): 3755-3767.
Bergemann, Patrick. 2019. Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia and Nazi Germany. Columbia University Press.
Bergemann, Patrick. 2017. “Denunciation and Social Control.” American Sociological Review, 82(2): 384:406.
Parigi, Paolo and Patrick Bergemann. 2016. “Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation Within Boardinghouses, 1825-1841.” American Journal of Sociology, 122(2): 501-531.
Professor Bergemann is interested in Ph.D. applicants who want to pursue doctoral training using quantitative methods to study topics related to wrongdoing by individuals and organizations, along with how individuals, organizations, and legal representatives respond to such behavior. He welcomes all applicants, including those with non-traditional backgrounds and from underrepresented groups.