Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management and the Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and holds an appointment in the sociology department. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Data and Society Research Institute in New York City, and a former fellow (member) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A scholar of the future of work, her research focuses on how algorithmic management and artificial intelligence is changing the modern workplace, with an emphasis on the gig economy. Professor Cameron has an on-going, eight-year ethnography of the largest sector of the gig economy, the ride-hailing industry, examining how algorithms management changes managerial control. She recently completed a study on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected workers on various gig platforms (TaskRabbit, Instacart, AmazonFlex, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash). She is currently completing a project on how the gig economy’s business model adapts in the Global South, with a focus on the implications for management and workers. Other ongoing research projects focus on workforce development, particularly as it relates to technology.

Professor Cameron’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Inquiry, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Research in Organizational Behavior, Platforms and Society, and proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery and the Academy of Management. She has won eighteen best paper awards and several teaching awards, including the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award. She has published opinion pieces in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Kiplinger’s, Labor and Employment Relations Association Perspectives, Newsweek, and the Society of Human Resource Management’s flagship magazine People & Strategy . Her research has been mentioned in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg, NPR’s Marketplace, Fast Company, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, Forbes, The Skim, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, and Inc.