Doctoral student Rachel Sturm and Management Department Chair, Leanne Atwater are two of the co-authors of the paper “Self-other rating agreement in leadership: A review.” The paper was published in the Leadership Quarterly in 2010 and has been voted as a finalist for the journal’s best article of the year award.
Management doctoral student, Cory Angert, and Assistant Professor Seemantini Pathak co-author the paper “The Institutional Environment and Gender Diversity on Boards of Directors”. The paper, which was presented at the annual meeting of the Strategic Management Society in Miami has been nominated for the Best Conference Paper Award.
Management doctoral student, Joon Park’s paper “Diversity and Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis" won the 2011 Robert J. Wherry Award for the Best Paper at the IOOB Conference.
Two MANA doctoral students won Best Reviewer Awards at the Academy of Management National Conference in 2010. Susana Velez-Castrillon was one of the Best Reviewers of the Business Policy & Strategy Division and Salar Mesdaghinia was one of the Best Reviewers of the Organizational Behavior Division.
The Decision Sciences Institute recognized MANA doctoral student Michael Banks, along with Dr. Louise Nemanich and Dr. Dusya Vera, as the winners of the 2009 Outstanding Empirical Research Paper award for their paper “Enhancing Knowledge Transfer in Classroom versus Online Settings: The Interplay among Instructor, Student, Content, and Context,” published in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.
Management doctoral student Susana Velez-Castrillon was the recipient of the Management Department Doctoral Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. Joon Park was the recipient of the Management Department Doctoral Student Award for Excellence in Research.
For the second year in a row, Susana Velez-Castrillon received a Best Reviewer Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the 2009 Academy of Management Conference.
Management doctoral students Marina Sebastijanovic and David Epstein were the recipients of the Management Department Doctoral Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. Susana Velez-Castrillon was the recipient of the Management Department Doctoral Student Award for Excellence in Research.
Management doctoral candidate, Michael Banks, received the award for the Best reviewer of the Business Policy track for the 2009 Southwest Academy of Management.
The Associate Editors of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education have chosen the paper “Enhancing Knowledge Transfer In Classroom Versus On-Line Settings: The Interplay Among Instructor, Student, Content, And Context,” coauthored by management department graduate Louise Nemanich, doctoral candidate Michael Banks, and Dr. Dusya Vera as one of the best empirical papers published in DSJIE during 2008-2009.
Susana Velez-Castrillon received a Best Reviewer Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the 2008 Academy of Management Conference.
Doctoral student Michael Banks, along with Dr. Dusya Vera and Dr. Louise Nemanich obtained the 2007 Best Paper Award of the Management Education Division of the Academy of Management Conference for their paper, "Knowledge transfer and enjoyment in classroom vs. on-line settings."
Conference Presentations
Elkins, T., Atwater, L., Callison, K., Latheef, Z., & Kim, K. Y. (2011). Gender, Conflict Handling Style, and Reactions to Abusive Supervision: An Exploratory Examination. Academy of Management Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Sturm, R. E. & Vera, D. Towards an expanded model of transcendent leadership: Supplements and the societal level. At Academy of Management Annual Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 2011.
Angert, C. J., & Pathak, S. The Institutional Environment and Gender Diversity on Boards of Directors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Strategic Management Society, Miami. Best Conference Paper Award Nomination, 2011.
Rude, D. & Lee, H. The Missing Link in Retirement Planning Research: The Human Resources (HR) Department. At Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making. Boulder, Colorado, 2011.
Lee, H. Strategic HRM: Building the Bridge between HR and Business Strategies. At Academy of Management Annual Conference. San Antonio, Texas, 2011.
Park, J. H. & Abbott, J. L. A new approach to expatriate effectiveness: A perspective-taking model for global assignments. At Academy of Management Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX, 2011
Park, J. H. & DeFrank, R. Job search objective as a mediator between job insecurity and job search behaviors. At American Psychological Association Annual Convention. Washington, D.C., 2011.
Angert, C. J., & Pathak, S. The Effects of the Institutional Environment on Gender Tokenism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, 2010.
Park, J. H. & DeFrank, R. 2010. Proactive personality and workplace bullying: A stressor- strain model. At Academy of Management Annual Conference. Montreal. Canada.
Park, J. H. & DeFrank, R. 2010. Coping with bullying in the workplace. At American Psychological Association Annual Convention. San Diego, CA.
Park, J. H. & Moon, H. K. 2010. Job embeddedness and subjective norms in an East Asian (Korean) context. At Southwest Academy of Management Annual Conference. Dallas. TX.
Park, J. H. 2010. Diversity and team performance: A meta-analysis. At IOOB Annual Conference. Houston. TX. (nominated for the Wherry Best Student Paper award)
Mesdaghinia, S., Atwater, L., and Keller, R.T. 2010. How Leadership Style Affects Performance of Distant Followers in Creative and Non-Creative tasks. Paper presented at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, August.
Abbott, J.L., Elkins, T., & Phillips, J.S. 2010. Using Compassion to Resolve Conflict: An Overview of Apologies and Apology Protection Laws. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Banks, M., Vera, D.M., and Pathak, S.M. 2010. Stakeholder Management at the Origin of Competitive Advantage. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Velez-Castrillon, S. Women in the Upper Echelons: How Do Female CEOs Influence the Top Management Teams? Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Welsh, E. T., Bhave, D., Kim, K. Y. 2010. Do Women Receive as Much Mentoring as Men? Unraveling the Disparity Between Theory and Results. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management, Montreal.
Welsh, E. T., Bhave, D., Kim, K. Y. 2010. Do Women Receive as Much Mentoring as Men? Unraveling the Disparity Between Theory and Results. Paper presented at the European Academy of Management, Rome, Italy.
The following papers, co-authored by management faculty and doctoral students, have been accepted for presentation at important national management conferences. Je'anna Abbott, Teri, Elkins-Longacre, and Jim Phillips will present “Mock Victims’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: Why and When Do They Blame the Organization?” and Susana Velez-Castrillon and Seemantini Pathak will present “Why Do They Serve? A Typology of Director Motives” at the National Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. Susana Velez-Castrillon will also present at the National Strategic Management Society Conference in Washington, DC, a paper co-authored with Dusya Vera and Ariff Kachra entitled “An Examination of the Effect of Improvisational Decision Making in Top Management Teams on Performance.” Finally, Je'anna Abbot and M. Dawson are presenting “Hospitality Culture and Climate: Keys to Retaining Hospitality Employees and Creating Competitive Advantage” at International CHRIE - The conference of the Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education. This paper has been recommended for a best paper award.
Susana Velez-Castrillon and William Zahn, "Could the Best Offense Be a Good Bankruptcy? A Study of Bankruptcy's Effect in the Airline Industry," accepted for presentation at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 8-13, 2008.
Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2008. “Stakeholder management, institutional forces, and performance: An examination of strategy content.” Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Marina Sebastijanovic presented a paper "The interactive effect of locus of control and desire for control on stress", co-authored with Dr. Richard DeFrank at the 2008 Academy of Management Conference in Anaheim, CA.
Rude, D. E., & Epstein, D. E. 2008. The Houston Retirement Project: A Plan to Increase the Aggregate Wealth of 1200 U of Houston Faculty by $1 Billion. Presentation to the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, CA.
Rude, D. E., & Epstein, D. E. 2008. The Comfort Zone Project. Presentation to the Southwest Business Administration Teaching Conference, Houston, TX.
Sweet, K.M. & Witt, L.A. Managing adaptive performers: The interactive effects of perceived organizational support and leader-member exchange. Presented at the 2008 Southern Management Association annual conference, St. Petersburg, FL.
Velez-Castrillon, S., Vera, D., & Kachra, A. 2008. “An improvisational model of strategic decision making.” Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2007. “Towards a typology of stakeholder management strategies.” Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. This paper also was included in the Best Paper Conference Proceedings.
Nemanich, L., Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2007. “Knowledge transfer and enjoyment in classroom vs. on-line settings.” Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA. This paper also was included in the Best Paper Conference Proceedings and won the Best Paper Award, Management Education Division that year.
Nemanich, L., Keller, R., & Vera, D. 2006. “Team absorptive capacity and the quality of innovations: A multi-level, multi-dimensional analysis.” Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Journal Publications
Aguinis, H., Werner, S., Abbott, J. L., Angert, C., Park, J. H., & Kohlhausen, D. (2010). Customer-centric science: Reporting research results with rigor, relevance, and practical impact in mind. Organizational Research Methods.13(3)515-539.
Fleenor, J., Smither, J., Atwater, L., Braddy, P., & Sturm, R. "Self-other rating agreement in leadership: A review." Leadership Quarterly.
Nemanich, L., Banks, M. & Vera, D. 2009. “Enhancing knowledge transfer in classroom versus on-line settings: The interplay among instructor, student, content, and context.’” Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, forthcoming.
Elkins, T.J. & Velez-Castrillon, S. 2008. “Victims’ and Observers’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: Implications for Employers’ Legal Risk in North America”. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19: 1435–1454.
Nemanich, Louise A.; Keller, Robert T. "Transformational leadership in an acquisition: A field study of employees. Leadership Quarterly", Feb2007, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p49-68.
Werner, S., Praxedes, M., & Kim, H.G. 2007. The Reporting of Nonresponse Analyses in Survey Research. Organizational Research Methods, 10(2): 287-295.
Berson, Yair; Nemanich, Louise A.; Waldman, David A.; Galvin, Benjamin M.; Keller, Robert T. "Leadership and organizational learning: A multiple levels perspective". Leadership Quarterly, Dec2006, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p577-594.
