Patrick Bergemann
Associate Professor of Organization and Management, Paul Merage School of Business
Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
Biography
Patrick Bergemann, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Organization and Management in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, with a courtesy appointment in Sociology. His research examines social control, focusing on how individuals report wrongdoing through denunciations, whistleblowing, and crime reporting across diverse contexts ranging from historical systems of mass denunciation to contemporary organizational settings. Bergemann received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University in 2014.
Bergemann is the author of Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia and Nazi Germany, published by Columbia University Press in 2019, which received the James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book from the Rationality & Society Section of the American Sociological Association. His research has appeared in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Management Science, and Academy of Management Review. His 2024 article in Academy of Management Review received the Best Paper Award in 2025.
Before joining UC Irvine in 2020, Bergemann was Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 2017 to 2020, and served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Management at Columbia Business School from 2014 to 2017. He serves on the editorial board of Organization Science.
Return to topEducation
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University, 2014
- B.A. in Economics, University of Chicago, 2004
Distinctions
- Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Review, 2025
- Junior Faculty Research Award, Paul Merage School of Business, UCI, 2023
- Dean's Honoree for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Paul Merage School of Business, UCI, 2022
- James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality & Society Section of the American Sociological Association, 2020
Areas of Expertise
- Organizational Theory and Sociology
- Whistleblowing and Crime Reporting
- Wrongdoing and Punishment
- Denunciation and Social Control
- Norm Emergence
- Behavior Change After Accusation
Recent Publications
- Patrick Bergemann, Christof Brandtner, “Territoriality and the Emergence of Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (opens in new tab), American Journal of Sociology, vol. 130, no. 5, pp. 1150-1216, 2025.
- Katrina Fincher, Patrick Bergemann, “Blindfolding, Perceptual Dehumanization and Tolerance for State-Sanctioned Killing: A Theory of Illegitimate Punishment” (opens in new tab), European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 762-773, 2025.
- Sharkey A., Young K., Brandtner C., Bergemann P., “Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers” (opens in new tab), American Sociological Review, vol. 90, pp. 1123-1166, 2025.
- Patrick Bergemann, “How Social Influence Affects Reporting: Toward an Integration of Crime Reporting, Whistleblowing, and Denunciation” (opens in new tab), Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 50, pp. 209-228, 2024.
- Alessandro Piazza, Patrick Bergemann, Wesley Helms, “Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance” (opens in new tab), Academy of Management Review, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 249-272, 2024.
- Patrick Bergemann, Brandy Aven, “Whistleblowing and Group Affiliation: The Role of Group Cohesion and the Locus of the Wrongdoer in Reporting Decisions” (opens in new tab), Organization Science, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1243-1265, 2023.
- Patrick Bergemann, Austin Wright, “From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan” (opens in new tab), Sociological Science, vol. 10, pp. 286-331, 2023.
- Ken Moon, Patrick Bergemann, Daniel Brown, Andrew Chen, James Chu, Ellen A. Eisen, Gregory M. Fischer, Prashant Loyalka, Sungmin Rho, Joshua Cohen, “Manufacturing Productivity with Worker Turnover” (opens in new tab), Management Science, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1995-2015, 2023.
- Ken Moon, Prashant Loyalka, Patrick Bergemann, Joshua Cohen, “The Hidden Cost of Worker Turnover: Attributing Product Reliability to the Turnover of Factory Workers” (opens in new tab), Management Science, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3755-3767, 2022.
- Patrick Bergemann, “Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia and Nazi Germany”, Columbia University Press, 2019.
- Patrick Bergemann, “Denunciation and Social Control” (opens in new tab), American Sociological Review, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 384-406, 2017.
- Paolo Parigi, Patrick Bergemann, “Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation Within Boardinghouses, 1825-1841” (opens in new tab), American Journal of Sociology, vol. 122, no. 2, pp. 501-531, 2016.
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Last updated on 5/4/2026.