PhD Student Accomplishments

Awards

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Dr. Steve Werner and Dr. Herman Aguinis led a team of management doctoral students, Cory Angert, Je'anna Abbott, Joon Park, and Donna Kohlhausen, in a study entitled “Customer-centric science: Reporting significant research results with rigor, relevance, and practical implications in mind.” The study is forthcoming in Organizational Research Methods in August of 2009.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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