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Featured Research
Jeffrey Harrison, Violet Ho, Doug Bosse, and their colleague Donald Crilly from the London Business School examine why stakeholders engage in generalized exchange with firms despite free-riding risks. Their research was accepted by the Academy of Management. This video explores scenarios where generalized reciprocity thrives: entrepreneurial settings, established norms, and stakeholder identification.
The Journal of Corporate Finance, an ABS-4 publication, accepted Summer Liu's paper, Venture Capitalist Directors and Managerial Incentives. Liu is an assistant professor of finance.
Management professor Patricio Duran was awarded the Best Entrepreneurship in Family Business Paper at the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference for his research, "Publicly-listed family-controlled firms and corporate venture capital."
An article by Abdullah Kumas, “Information Leakage Around SEC Comment Letters,” with Marshall Geiger, Bret Johnson, and Keith Jones, was published in Management Science in November 2022. Kumas is an associate professor of accounting.
Dale Fickett, instructor of entrepreneurship, secured funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for his work on "Community-Engaged Research to Advance Equity and Inclusion." The grant of over $290,000 will be used in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University to advance this effort.
Shital Thekdi, associate professor of analytics and operations, was awarded the Best Paper 2022 by The Society for Risk Analysis for her publication, "Managing Physical and Economic Risk for Systems with Multidirectional Network Interdependencies."
Jeffrey R. Carlson, William T. Ross, Jr., When polychronicity affects salesperson performance: The effects of improvisation, role ambiguity, and sales job complexity, Industrial Marketing Management, Volume 107,2022, Pages 323-336,
Astakhova, M. N., Cardon, M. S., Ho, V. T., & Kong, D. T. (accepted). Passion for work passion research: Taming breadth and promoting depth. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Harrison, J. S., Ho, V. T., Bosse, D. A., & Crilly, D. (accepted). A configurational theory of generalized exchange in stakeholder-oriented firms. Academy of Management Perspectives
Ho, V. T., & Astakhova, M. A. (accepted). Passionate leaders behaving badly: Why do leaders become obsessively passionate and engage in abusive supervision? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Waldron, T., McMullen, J., Petrenko, O., Tribble, L., & Aronson, O. (2022) Entrepreneur-Investor Rivalry Over New Venture Control: The Battle for Balcones Distilling. Accepted at .
Farizo, J. (Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management. Journal of Corporate Finance. Volume 76. October 2022.
Shakun Mago & Pate, J. (2022) Greed and fear: competitive and charitable priming in a threshold volunteer's dilemma. , 1–24.