I am an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business. 

My research centers on entrepreneurship, labor markets, culture and inequality. 

My recent work examines how investors and employers evaluate ventures and job candidates when information is limited, and how entrepreneurs adapt their strategies and cultural positioning. I study how market actors construct and interpret meaning and value under conditions of uncertainty, with a focus on cultural processes around evaluation and adaptation. This work underscores how evaluation operates through cultural sense-making and coordination processes, rather than neutral information processing alone- systematically shaping who gets resources. 

Methodologically, I use computational text analysis to measure cultural constructs as continuous dimensions, revealing patterns that binary measures miss. I also conduct process-oriented qualitative research with novel data that capture how cultural processes, including evaluation and adaptation, unfold over time. 

Before joining the University of Oregon, I received my Ph.D. in Business Administration (Organizational Behavior) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and my A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University. 

You can contact me at: novermey@uoregon.edu