Daphne Demetry

Daphne Demetry is an Associate Professor, Strategy & Organization, in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Her research focuses on Culture & Consumption, Economic Sociology, Entrepreneurship, and Organizational Theory. She joined the faculty in 2017 after a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Demetry holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to study how entrepreneurs and organizations create and negotiate meaning in interactions with their audiences, particularly in the craft and creative fields, including the culinary industry.

Daphne Demetry's research explores the intersection of entrepreneurship, authenticity, and organizational dynamics within the food industry. Her work examines how emerging entrepreneurial identities are shaped through evolving vocabularies of motive, particularly in the context of pop-up and underground restaurants. She investigates the production of authenticity in organizational settings, focusing on how these spaces negotiate temporalities and spatialities. Her studies also highlight the role of cultural and social capital in shaping low-income life and the dynamics of dining out in the 21st century. Through ethnographic and theoretical approaches, Demetry analyzes the strategic and improvisational aspects of organizational forms in creative industries.