Publications
Refereed Publications
Forthcoming, with Juan Santini, Alexis Cherem, and Marina Gonzalez. Shaping Police Officer Mindsets and Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Procedural Justice Training. Management Science. Online appendix available here.
2024, with Tony Sheldon, Mikaela Bradbury, and Charlie Cannon. Evidence in Practice: How Structural and Programmatic Scaffolds Enable Collaboration in International Development. Administrative Science Quarterly. Online appendix available here.
2020, with Olav Sorenson, Michael Dahl, and Diane Burton. Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long Run? Organization Science.
2019, with Minkyung Kim, K. Sudhir, and Kosuke Uetake. When Salespeople Manage Customer Relationships: Multidimensional Incentives and Private Information. Journal of Marketing Research.
2016. From Ideals to Institutions: Institutional Entrepreneurship in Small Business Credit in Mexico. Organization Science, 27(6) 1548-1573
2015. With Jason Greenberg. A Matter of (Relational) Style: Loan Officer Consistency and Exchange Continuity in Microfinance. Management Science.
2014. Weaving Straw into Gold: Managing Organizational Tensions between Standardization and Flexibility in Microfinance. Organization Science, 25 (1) 1-28.
2012. With Ramana Nanda. The Dark Side of Decentralized Banks. Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending. Journal of Financial Economics, 105 (2): 353-366.
2011. Rule Bending, Sociological Citizenship, and Organizational Contestation in Microfinance. Regulation and Governance, 5 (1): 90-117.
Book Chapters
Canales, Rodrigo with Alina Bitran and Vaughn Crandall (2024). Nurturing Community Vitality through Violence Reduction: An Organizational Change Approach. Yale Justice Collaboratory Notebook. Full Notebook available at https://www.justicehappenshere.yale.edu/the-notebook
Forthcoming. With Alexis Cherem. Citizen Trust and Legitimacy: Why is it necessary and how can we build it? IDB Publication on the Organization of Police in Latin America.
Canales, Rodrigo. (2012). “The Stranger as Friend: Loan Officers and Positive Deviance in Microfinance” Chapter 20 in Jane Dutton and Karen Golden-Biddle (eds), Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: 431-462. New York: Routledge.
Canales, Rodrigo and Ramana Nanda (2009). "Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues." Chapter 2.4 In Ricardo Hausmann, Emilio Austin, and Erene Mia (eds), Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009: 63-70. Boston: World Economic Forum.
Other Publications
Canales, Rodrigo with Marina Gonzalez, Helke Enkerlin, Said Muñoz, and Vaughn Crandall (2024). Alto al Fuego [Ceasefire]: Addressing Community Violence in Mexico City. IPA Policy Brief.
Canales, Rodrigo with Alina Bitran and Vaughn Crandall (2024). Nurturing Community Vitality through Violence Reduction: An Organizational Change Approach. Yale Justice Collaboratory Notebook.
Canales, Rodrigo with Tori Grieves, Brendan Lehan and Tony Sheldon (2019). Paying it Forward: “Currencies of Exchange” and Evidence Integration in Development Practice. Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Canales, Rodrigo (Editor) Developing Effective and Trusted Police Organizations in Latin America: An Integrated Model for Police Reform. Forthcoming. Inter American Development Bank.
Canales, Rodrigo et al (2018). Evidence in Practice. Project summary of research project with the Hewlett Foundation. Accessible at http://evidenceinpractice.yale.edu/
Canales, Rodrigo (2015). Los Mitos Fundacionales de México y el Modelo de Negocio de la Corrupción (Mexico’s foundational myths and the business model of corruption) Chapter 1.2.2 in IMCO’s 2015 International Competitiveness Index. Mexico City (p. 31-41)
2014. With Charlie Cannon, Christopher Fabian, Robert Fabricant, Erica Kochi and Rebecca Rabison. DIY Innovation: Creating an Innovation Capability within your Organization. Rotman Magazine.
Canales, Rodrigo (2014). Sin Transparencia no hay Seguridad (Without Transparency there will be no Security) Brujula Ciudadana (53: 19-23)
Canales, Rodrigo (2021). Erin Metz McDonnell: Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States Administrative Science Quarterly 66 (4), NP29-NP32.
Canales, Rodrigo (2012). “On Status in Management and Organizations” Book Review. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57 (3): 528-531.
Canales, Rodrigo (2010). “On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art” Book Review. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55 (3): p.518-521.
Canales, Rodrigo (2010). "Para Ganar la Guerra al Narco." (“To Win the War on Drugs”) Nexos, March 2010.
Canales, Rodrigo, Cade Massey and Amy Wrzesniewski. (2010). “Promises Aren't Enough: Business Schools Need to Do a Better Job Teaching Students Values” Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2010
Working Papers
Canales, Rodrigo, Mikaela Bradbury and Anthony Sheldon (2020) “Evidence in Practice: How Structural and Programmatic Scaffolding Enables Knowledge Transfer in International Development.” Second R&R.
Canales, Rodrigo (2021) “Shaping Police Officer Mindsets and Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Procedural Justice Training” Second R&R.
Canales, Rodrigo (2021) “Measuring management quality in police departments” R&R.
With Matthew Regele, Max Grosberg, and Nazanin Eftekhari (2019) “Falling Off the Unicorn: The structural shortcomings of startup employment.”
Canales, Rodrigo and Amy Wrzesniewski (2021) “How procedural justice training changes police officer behavior in the field: experimental evidence.” Yale SOM working paper.
Canales, Rodrigo, Jess Zarkin and Lluvia Gonzalez (2021) “From brave enforcer to trusted protector: Role evolution in Mexico City’s police department.” Yale SOM working paper.
Canales, Rodrigo with Juan Santini (2021) “Cooperation with the Police: Evidence from 911 Calls in Mexico City.” Yale SOM Working Paper.
Canales, Rodrigo (2019) “The Organizational Dynamics of Building Institutional Capacity in Local Police Forces.” Yale SOM working paper.
Canales, Rodrigo. 2009. “The Mechanisms of Institutional Change. Bringing the Agents (Back?) In.” Yale SOM working paper.
Canales, Rodrigo and Erica Dawson (2010). “From Buddha to the Boardroom: Leadership Education and the Four Pillars of Courageous Leadership.” Yale SOM working paper.
Ongoing Research Projects
Building Effective, Resilient, and Trusted Police Organizations in Mexico — Funded by the Merida Initiative (Data Collection, Data Analysis, Manuscript preparation)