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Daniel Armanios

Professor

Daniel Armanios PhD

Full member of Faculty

BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management

Saïd Business School Professorial Fellow

St Anne's College Full Member of Faculty

COLLEGE: St Anne's College

Biography

Daniel Armanios is the BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne’s College. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tsinghua University's Schwarzman College in China and a LabGov.City Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Law at LUISS in Italy.

Daniel’s research integrates civil engineering and organisational theory to better understand how organisations coordinate to build, manage, and maintain infrastructure amidst complexity. He focuses on complexity arising from national and subnational variation in institutions, heterogeneity in individual capabilities, and reforms that aim to transition infrastructure from one set of guidelines to another. His findings inform efforts to advance sustainable development and innovation, while also alleviating systemic and persistent inequities within such systems. His research implements a mixed methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative data to overcome constraints that have historically hindered empirical analyses in these settings.

His work is published in leading outlets across the engineering and social sciences including Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Sustainability, and the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Daniel holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Political Science (Economics Minor) (B.A), where he was a Goldwater and Truman Scholar. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Management Research and in Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He holds a PhD from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering, where he was a joint National Science Foundation and Stanford Benchmark Graduate Research Fellow.

Awards and Honours

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Current Projects

His current indicative projects include:

1. Using broadband and bridge networks as 'social sensors' to better enhance the resiliency and effectiveness of support for marginalized populations.

2. Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (with Kasey Faust at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at University of Texas-Austin) to combine Native Alaskan and engineering know-how to improve operator training and resilience of water systems in the Arctic: Award Abstract #2127354, Award Abstract #2127353

3. Understand the impacts of political turmoil, such as the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia and military coups in Thailand, on state ecosystem support of entrepreneurship, R&D, and innovation.

4. Project S³ that integrates research expertise from the Department of Engineering Sciences and the managerial and social sciences (Saïd Business School and Blavatnik School of Government) to stress test today's major programmes for tomorrow's challenges.

Publications

Uneven distribution in energy conservation services through performance contracts in China

Zheng S, Zhai H, Hsu S-C & Armanios DE (2024), Energy Policy, 187, 114024

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@article{unevendistribut-2024/4,
  title={Uneven distribution in energy conservation services through performance contracts in China},
  author={Zheng S, Zhai H, Hsu S-C & Armanios DE},
  journal={Energy Policy},
  volume={187},
  pages={114024},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2024"
}

Addressing Workforce Attrition, Retention, Absenteeism, and Recruitment in the Rural Alaska Water Sector

LaPatin M, Ritsch N, Armanios D, Albertson L, Katz L et al. (2024), 199-209

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@inproceedings{addressingworkf-2024/3,
  title={Addressing Workforce Attrition, Retention, Absenteeism, and Recruitment in the Rural Alaska Water Sector},
  author={LaPatin M, Ritsch N, Armanios D, Albertson L, Katz L et al.},
  booktitle={Construction Research Congress 2024},
  pages={199-209},
  year = "2024"
}

A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska

LaPatin M, Ritsch N, Armanios DE, Albertson L, Katz LE et al. (2024), ACS ES&T Water, 4(2), 575-590

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@article{astakeholdersys-2024/2,
  title={A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska},
  author={LaPatin M, Ritsch N, Armanios DE, Albertson L, Katz LE et al.},
  journal={ACS ES&T Water},
  volume={4},
  pages={575-590},
  publisher={American Chemical Society (ACS)},
  year = "2024"
}

Using broadband infrastructure as a social sensor to detect inequities in unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ritsch N & Armanios DE (2023), Scientific reports, 13(1), 22031

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@article{usingbroadbandi-2023/12,
  title={Using broadband infrastructure as a social sensor to detect inequities in unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic.},
  author={Ritsch N & Armanios DE},
  journal={Scientific reports},
  volume={13},
  pages={22031},
  year = "2023"
}

Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: A case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory

Gandy CA, Kang X, Ritsch N & Armanios DE (2023), Transportation Engineering, 13, 100198

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@article{evaluatinggeosp-2023/9,
  title={Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: A case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory},
  author={Gandy CA, Kang X, Ritsch N & Armanios DE},
  journal={Transportation Engineering},
  volume={13},
  pages={100198},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2023"
}

Social Equity of Bridge Management

Gandy CA, Armanios DE & Samaras C (2023), Journal of Management in Engineering, 39(5), 04023027

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@article{socialequityofb-2023/9,
  title={Social Equity of Bridge Management},
  author={Gandy CA, Armanios DE & Samaras C},
  journal={Journal of Management in Engineering},
  volume={39},
  pages={04023027},
  publisher={American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)},
  year = "2023"
}

Effects of redesigning the communication of low-income residential energy efficiency programs in the U.S.

Kleeman H, Fischhoff B & Armanios DE (2023), Energy Policy, 178, 113568

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@article{effectsofredesi-2023/7,
  title={Effects of redesigning the communication of low-income residential energy efficiency programs in the U.S.},
  author={Kleeman H, Fischhoff B & Armanios DE},
  journal={Energy Policy},
  volume={178},
  pages={113568},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2023"
}

Understanding Differences in User Preferences across Water Systems in Rural Alaska

Ritsch N, Tariq M, LaPatin M, Armanios D, Faust K et al. (2023), 509-518

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@inproceedings{understandingdi-2023/5,
  title={Understanding Differences in User Preferences across Water Systems in Rural Alaska},
  author={Ritsch N, Tariq M, LaPatin M, Armanios D, Faust K et al.},
  booktitle={World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2023},
  pages={509-518},
  year = "2023"
}

Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion

Adler PS, Adly A, Armanios DE, Battilana J, Bodrožić Z et al. (2023), Journal of Management Inquiry, 32(1), 3-20

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@article{authoritarianis-2023/1,
  title={Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion},
  author={Adler PS, Adly A, Armanios DE, Battilana J, Bodrožić Z et al.},
  journal={Journal of Management Inquiry},
  volume={32},
  pages={3-20},
  publisher={SAGE Publications},
  year = "2023"
}

Corrigendum: Estimating global demand for land-based transportation services using the shared socioeconomic pathways scenario framework (2022 Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain. 2 035009)

Nkiriki J, Jaramillo P, Williams N, Davis A & Armanios DE (2022), Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(4), 049501

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@article{corrigendumesti-2022/12,
  title={Corrigendum: Estimating global demand for land-based transportation services using the shared socioeconomic pathways scenario framework (2022 Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain. 2 035009)},
  author={Nkiriki J, Jaramillo P, Williams N, Davis A & Armanios DE},
  journal={Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability},
  volume={2},
  pages={049501},
  publisher={IOP Publishing},
  year = "2022"
}
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