MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL A T TE X A S A & M U N I V E R S I T Y
Department of Management
Summer 2011
Seeking exceptional colleagues Fall 2012 openings We are seeking applications for 3-4 tenure-track positions in strategic management and organizational behavior/ human resources that begin August 2012. These positions are open to all ranks. Candidates should have an established track record of excellence in both research and teaching, and preference will be given to those with at least two years’ minimum experience as an assistant professor (although we will also consider ABDs).
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Texas A&M University’s Department of Management is recognized for its faculty scholarship including six Academy Fellows; ranked sixth in research impact in the management literature (1981-2004); three members as most cited authors during the same time period; recent research designated as a monograph paper; and recent doctoral graduates who have joined the faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University. As one of five departments at Mays and eight centers of research educating more than 5,000 undergraduates, master’s and doctoral students, the management department is fully engaged with creating knowledge and developing leaders for a Texas A&M global society.
is a member of the AAU. We invite applications from those wishing to become part of a dynamic and productive research faculty that is consistently ranked in the top 10 for research productivity and impact.
Effective 1 July, Ricky Griffin, Texas A&M Distinguished Professor, Blocker Chair in Business, and Academy of Management Fellow, returns to leading the department. Duane Ireland, Texas A&M Distinguished Professor, Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership, and Academy of Management Fellow, is now VP-Elect and Program Chair of the Academy of Management. David Sirmon, Associate Professor and the Pamela M. and Barent W. Cater ’77 Faculty Research Fellow, received the 2011 Strategic Management Society’s Emerging Scholar Award.
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PhD students on the market Two of our PhD students in strategy and three in organizational behavior/human resources management will be on the job market at the Academy of Management meetings in San Antonio, Texas. All five have been extremely productive, with several having multiple top-tier publications, in addition to being excellent teachers. Inside this newsletter, you will find detailed profiles of each student, including their previous work experience, education, research interests, teaching experience, dissertation topic, description of other research, and select publications. If your university is looking for PhD students with established research track records and excellent teaching credentials for assistant professor positions, please contact these students for Academy interviews as well as campus visits.
6 Academy of Management Fellows at Mays Business School Murray Barrick • Luis Gomez-Mejia • Ricky Griffin Don Hellriegel • Mike Hitt • Duane Ireland
Rhett Brymer rbrymer@mays.tamu.edu 850-251-0314 mays.bz/rhettbrymer
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Dissertation Committee Mike Hitt and David Sirmon (co-chairs), Duane Ireland, Len Bierman, and Peter Sherer Previous Work Experience Consulting and managerial professional in organizational performance improvement with experience in entrepreneurial business planning, project management, systems implementation, human performance analysis, biotechnology, and global outsourcing. Clients and employers include: Hewlett-Packard, BearingPoint, JP Morgan Chase, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Mainline, CIT Group, Citigroup, Salesforce.com, Shelhigh, MCI, Credit Suisse, and Proctor & Gamble. Education BA-Chemistry from Kenyon College MS-Instructional Systems MBA with an entrepreneurship concentration Florida State University. Research Interests Human capital, resource management, corporateuniversity relationships, collective cognition Teaching Experience Strategic management, business communications Rhett was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student in 2011. Dissertation Topic: Organizational performance implications of manager movement between competing firms. Specifically, the dimensions of quality and similarity of the mobile human capital as a more nuanced approach in theorizing about turnover’s performance effects.
Other Research: He is also actively working on projects involving acquisitions, human capital selection, knowledge transfer, innovation, resource allocation, entrepreneurship, organizational attractiveness, corporate-university relationships, service firms, and strategic HR. Select Publications Brymer, R., Hitt, M. and Schijven, M. (2011). Cognition and Human Capital: The dynamic interrelationship between knowledge and behavior. Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones and J.-C. Spender (Eds). Oxford Press: Oxford. Certo, S.T., Sirmon, D., and Brymer, R. (2010). Competition and knowledge creation in management: Investigating changes in scholarship from 1988 to 2008. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 9(4): 591-606. Finalist for the AMLE Paper of the Year Award 2010.
Where are they now? Amy Hillman Rusty Lyon Chair in Strategic Management Carey School of Business Arizona State University A 1996 graduate of our management PhD program, Amy serves as editor-in-chief of the Academy of Management Review and as an executive dean at Carey. Amy was recognized as an outstanding alum of Mays in 2008. Amy’s research primarily concerns how linkages between firms and external contingencies improve financial performance, boards of directors, and corporate political strategies.
Joanna Tochman Campbell jcampbell@mays.tamu.edu 979-845-4861 mays.bz/joannacampbell
Dissertation Committee Michael Hitt, co-chair; David Sirmon, co-chair; Duane Ireland Previous Work Experience Two years full-time experience working as a business coordinator for Student Health Services Texas A&M University Education BS-Finance and BS-Economics (summa cum laude) Arizona State University Research Interests Corporate governance, strategic leadership and upper echelons, corporate social performance, and entrepreneurship (emphasizing innovation). Joanna was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student in 2010.
Dissertation Topic Executives’ personal wealth, or the portion of
Other Research Joanna is currently involved in many additional projects and working manuscripts, including several on which she is the lead author. One is a complement to her dissertation and examines the effects of CEO personal wealth. Other work focuses on corporate governance issues, the determinants and implications of corporate social performance, and innovation. Select Publications Sirmon, D.G., Hitt, M.A., Arregle, J-L, & Campbell, J.T. (2010). Capability strengths and weaknesses in dynamic markets: Investigating the bases of temporary competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 31(13): 1386-1409. Umphress, E.E., Campbell, J.T., & Bingham, J. (2010). Paved with good intentions: Unethical behavior conducted to benefit the organization, coworkers, and customers. In Schminke, M. (Ed.), Managerial Ethics: Managing the psychology of morality, p. 127-152. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Where are they now? Maria del Carmen Triana Assistant Professor Wisconsin School of Business University of Wisconsin- Madison A 2008 graduate of our management PhD program at Texas A&M, Maria’s research interests include workplace discrimination and diversity, organizational justice, and human resources selection. She has published in such journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management Studies. She teaches the management of teams and personnel selection, serves on her department’s PhD program committee, and was recently elected to serve on the university’s compensation committee.
Department of Management ranks 3rd in articles published in top-tier journals in 2010 In a joint study conducted annually by the University of Florida and Texas A&M, the Department of Management at Texas A&M ranked third in articles published in top-tier journals (i.e., Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal) with 15 articles appearing in 2010. 1. University of Pennsylvania 2. University of Maryland 3. Texas A&M University 4. Michigan State University, University of Michigan 6. Harvard University, University of Minnesota 8. Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State University 10. New York University, University of Georgia, Washington University-St. Louis Full 2005-2010 rankings can be found at mays.bz/mgmtrankings
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Teaching Experience Strategic management, organizational research methods (PhD level - guest lecturer: “Endogeneity and Sample selection”
executive net worth that is not affected by their current employment or tied to firm. By theoretically and empirically addressing this overlooked driver of executive behavior, her dissertation bridges and extends agency theory and upper echelons theory, examining the implications of personal wealth and wealth dispersion among the top management team (TMT) for managerial risk preferences, firm-level risk taking, and TMT dynamics.
Faculty Promotions 2010-2011 Bradley L. Kirkman
Promoted to full professor and appointed as the Foreman R. and Ruby Bennett Endowed Chair in Business. Education: PhD in Organizational Behavior Kenan-Flager Business School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joined Texas A&M: 2005
David G. Sirmon
Promoted to associate professor and appointed as the Pamela M. and Barent W. Cater ’77 Faculty Research Fellow. Education: PhD in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Carey School of Business Arizona State University Joined Texas A&M: 2006
Liesl Wesson
Promoted to senior lecturer. Education: MS in Human Resources Management Mays Business School Texas A&M University Joined Texas A&M: 2003
Brad Harris bharris@mays.tamu.edu 214-455-2998 mays.bz/bradharris
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Dissertation Committee Bradley L. Kirkman (chair), Murray R. Barrick, Abbie J. Shipp, Aaron B. Taylor, Richard J. Lutz Work Experience Brad has several years of professional experience. Most notably, Brad worked in national account management at TXU Energy and served as a secondary market manager at Jefferson Mortgage Services, Inc. Brad has also served as a board member of a charitable non-profit organization. Education BBA-Finance, Texas Tech University MBA with concentrations in management, human resource management, and finance University of Florida Research Interest Teams and team leadership; newcomer socialization; interviews and selection Teaching Experience Organizational behavior, managing human resources Dissertation Topic Brad is working to develop a new model of team leadership. Specifically, Brad’s dissertation model moves beyond using dyadic models at the teamlevel, but instead argues that leaders must shift their focus across three different entities: individuals, the team as a whole, and subgroups within the team. A key contingency, task interdependence, moderates the relationship between leader focus and team effectiveness.
Other Research Turnover, work-life balance, OCB/prosocial behaviors Select Publications and Manuscripts Li, N., Harris, T.B., Boswell, W. R, & Xie, Z. T. (in press). Promoting newcomers’ performance: The role of developmental feedback and proactive personality. Journal Applied Psychology. Swider, B., Barrick, M., Harris, T.B., & Stoverink, A. (in press). Managing and creating an image in the interview: The role of initial interviewee impressions. Journal of Applied Psychology. Harris, T.B., & Kirkman, B.L. (working paper). Making functional team leadership functional: The interactive effects of leader focus and task interdependence.
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Ning Li nli@mays.tamu.edu 979-229-8153 mays.bz/ningli Dissertation Committee Murray Barrick and Brad Kirkman [co-chairs], Dan Chiaburu, and Chris Berry Education BS-Management Shanghai Jiao Tong University Work Experience Three years as an HR administrator Antai College of Economics and Management Research Interests Employee prosocial and proactive behaviors, leadership, team effectiveness, and individual differences. Ning was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student in 2011. Teaching Experience Human resource management
Other Research His work appears in such journals as the Journal of Applied Psychology. He has also received revision invitations from the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review,
Select Publications Li, N., Liang, J., & Crant, J. M. (2010). The role of proactive personality in job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior: A relational perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95: 395-404. Li, N., Harris, T., Boswell, W. R, & Xie, Z. T. (in press). Promoting newcomers’ performance: The role of developmental feedback and rroactive personality. Journal Applied Psychology. Chiaburu, D. S., Oh, I., Berry, C. M., Li, N., & Gardner. R. (in press). Citizenship behaviors predicted by the Big Five personality dimensions? A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology. Murray Barrick, Texas A&M University is DistinguishedMurray Professor Barrick and Paul M. and Rosalie Robertson Busistepping Chair in down ness, is stepping down as from thefrom rolehisofrole dedepartment head effective 1 July 2011. partment head efUnder his outstanding leadership the fective 1 July 2011 department has maintained its Top 10 ranking in research productivity (finishing #3 in 2010), exported the master’s of science in human resource management to Saudi Arabia, and proposed a Master’s of Science in Entrepreneurship program. He is looking forward to returning to a full-time faculty role so that he can further devote himself to research and teaching.
Research Brief: How Strongly Do Cultural Values Explain Important Employee Outcomes? Along with co-authors Vas Taras (University of North Carolina Greensboro) and Piers Steel (University of Calgary), Bradley Kirkman published an article entitled, “Examining the impact of Culture’s Consequences: A three-decade, multi-level, meta-analytic review of Hofstede’s cultural value dimensions” as a Monograph in the May 2010 issue of Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP), the first article designated as a JAP Monograph in more than a decade. Commenting on what makes an article worthy of a Monograph in his first editorial as JAP editor, Professor Steve Kozlowski said, “Monographs are broad and deep meta-theoretical treatments of a topic area” and can “represent the ‘systematic accumulation, analysis, and reflective interpretation of the full body of relevant empirical evidence related to a question’ (Rousseau, Manning, & Denyer, 2008, p. 475).” Kirkman and his co-authors meta-analyze almost 600 studies of more than 200,000 individuals that used measures of Hofstede’s four original cultural value dimensions (i.e., individualism-collectivism, power distance, masculinity-femininity, and uncertainty avoidance) to answer multiple questions such as: how does the predictive power of the values compare to other commonly used predictors of employee outcomes such as personality, cognitive ability, and demographics; what types of employee outcomes are best predicted by cultural values; and does the predictive power of cultural values depend on employee demographics (i.e., age, sex, education, managers vs. students), type of data used (i.e., primary vs. secondary), or cultural tightness-looseness? Findings indicate that culture: matters as much for some outcomes as do the other commonly used predictors; predicts certain employee outcomes (e.g., emotions, attitudes and perceptions) better than others (e.g., behaviors, job performance); are stronger predictors for older, male, better educated, and managerial populations; and predict more strongly for countries that have tighter, rather than looser, cultures. Rousseau, D. M., Manning, J., & Denyer, D. (2008). Evidence in management and organizational science: Assembling the field’s full weight of scientific knowledge through syntheses. Academy of Management Annals, 2: 475–515. Taras, V., Kirkman, B.L., & Steel, P. (2010). Examining the impact of Culture’s Consequences: A three-decade, multi-level, meta-analytic review of Hofstede’s cultural value dimensions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(3): 405-439.
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Dissertation Topic Integrating social network theory and team composition research, his dissertation investigates the processes and contingencies that influence the effects of team personality on team effectiveness.
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Recent Faculty Distinctions Murray Barrick and Wendy Boswell are both in the leadership track for the Human Resources Management Division of the Academy of Management. Murray will be chair of the division in 2012 and Wendy in 2013. Len Bierman was recently selected as an editorial board member for the Academy of Management Review. Wendy Boswell completed her term as associate editor of Journal of Management in June 2011. Lorraine Eden completed her term as editor-in-chief of Journal of International Business Studies in December 2010. Mike Hitt recently received several awards in 2010-2011 including: the 2010 Southwest Academy of Management Distinguished Scholar Award; recognized as a top scholar in economics, finance and management by Times Higher Education (based on the number of highly cited articles) for 2010; Emerald Literati Award 2010 as a leading editor; the Academy of Management Journal Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2010; and the 2011 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award. Duane Ireland completed his term as editor-in-chief of the Academy of Management Journal in December 2010.
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Mario Schijven won the Academy of Management’s Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division’s Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2010 and 2011 and is a member of the BPS Research Committee, 2011-2013. David Sirmon was recently named to the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division Research Committee, and he has joined the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal. Ryan Zimmerman was recently named to the Academy of Management’s Human Resources Division’s Executive Committee.
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Brian Swider
bswider@mays.tamu.edu 979-845-4861 mays.bz/brianswider
Dissertation Committee Murray Barrick, chair; Brad Kirkman; Ryan Zimmerman; Stephanie Payne Education BSBA-Management (summa cum laude) University of Florida Research Interests Interviews and selection; withdrawal, job search, and turnover; recruitment Brian was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student in 2011. Teaching Experience Managing human resources Dissertation Topic His dissertation “Applicant attitudes across the recruitment process: Time is of the essence” examines how applicant attitudes towards future employers develop over the course of the recruitment process as well as potentially divergent patterns of development of these applicant attitudes by examining taking a job offer and passing on a job offer as two separate decision-making processes. Other Research Brian’s work on the selection interviews centers on various social elements inherent in the interview (i.e., first impressions) and their influence on subsequent interview outcomes. His work on employee withdrawal examines various factors that help explain under what conditions employees search for new jobs, miss work, or turnover. Select Publications Swider, B.W., Barrick, M.R., Harris, T.B., & Stoverink, A.C. (in press). Managing and creating an image in the interview: The role of interviewee initial impressions. Journal of Applied Psychology. Swider, B.W., Boswell, W.R., & Zimmerman, R.D. (2011). Examining the job search–turnover relationship: The role of embeddedness, job satisfaction, and available alternatives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96: 432-441. Barrick, M.R., Swider, B.W., & Stewart, G.L. (2010). Initial evaluations in the interview: Relationships with subsequent interviewer evaluations and employment offers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95: 1163-1172.
Faculty and PhD Student Publications in Leading Journals 2010-present Academy of Management Journal
Chen, G., Kirkman, B. L., Kwanghyun, K., Farh, C. I. C., & Tangirala, S. (2010). When does cross-cultural motivation enhance expatriate effectiveness? A multilevel investigation of the moderating roles of subsidiary support and cultural distance. Academy of Management Journal, 53(5): 1110-1130.
Connelly, B. L., Tihanyi, L., Certo, S. T., & Hitt, M. A. (2010). Marching to the beat of different drummers: The influence of institutional owners on competitive actions. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4): 723-742. Cruz, C. C., Gomez-Mejia, L. R., & Becerra, M. (2010). Perceptions of benevolence and the design of agency contracts: CEO-TMT relationships in family firms. Academy of Management Journal, 53(1): 69-89. Yuan, F., & Woodman, R. W. (2010). Innovative behavior in the workplace: The role of performance and image outcome expectations. Academy of Management Journal, 53(2): 323-342.
Academy of Management Review Shipp, A. J., & Jansen, K. J. (2011). Reinterpreting time in fit theory: Crafting and recrafting narratives of fit in medias res. Academy of Management Review, 36(1): 76-101.
Berrone, P., Cruz, C., Gomez-Mejia, L. R., & LarrazaKintana, M. (2010). Socioemotional wealth and corporate responses to institutional pressures: Do family-controlled firms pollute less? Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(1): 82113.
Journal of Applied Psychology
Barrick, M. R., Swider, B. W., & Stewart, G. L. (2010). Initial evaluations in the interview: Relationships with subsequent interviewer evaluations and employment offers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(6): 1163-1172.
Chiaburu, D. S., Oh, I.-S., Berry, C. M., Li, N., & Gardner, R. G. (in press). The Five-factor model of personality traits and organizational citizenship behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology. Kirkman, B.L., Mathieu, J.E., Cordery, J.L., Rosen, B., & Kukenberger, M. (in press). Managing a new collaborative entity in business organizations: Understanding organizational communities of practice effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology. Li, N., Liang, J., & Crant, J. M. (2010). The role of proactive personality in job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior: A relational perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2): 395-404.
Swider, B., Barrick, M.R., Harris, BL., & Stoverink, A. (in press). Managing and creating an image in the interview: The role of interviewee initial impressions. Journal of Applied Psychology. Swider, B. W., Boswell, W.R., & Zimmerman, R.D. (2011). Examining the job search-turnover relationship: The role of embeddedness, job satisfaction, and available alternatives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96: 432-441. Taras, V., Steel, P., & Kirkman, B. L. (2010). Examining the impact of culture’s consequences: A three-decade, multilevel, meta-analytic review of Hofstede’s cultural value dimensions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(3): 405439. Umphress, E. E., Bingham, J. B., & Mitchell, M. S. (2010). Unethical behavior in the name of the company: The moderating effect of organizational identification and positive reciprocity beliefs on unethical pro-organizational behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(4): 769-780.
Strategic Management Journal
Tuggle, C.S., Sirmon, D.G., Reutzel, C.R., & Bierman, L. (2010). Commanding board of director attention: Investigating how organizational performance and CEO duality affect board members attention to monitoring. Strategic Management Journal, 31(9): 946-968.
Haynes, K. T., & Hillman, A. (2010). The effect of board capital and CEO power on strategic change. Strategic Management Journal, 31(11): 1145-1163. Makri, M., Hitt, M. A., & Lane, P. J. (2010). Complementary technologies, knowledge relatedness, and invention outcomes in high technology mergers and acquisitions. Strategic Management Journal, 31(6): 602-628. Miller, D., Le Breton-Miller, I., & Lester, R. H. (2010). Family ownership and acquisition behavior in publiclytraded companies. Strategic Management Journal, 31(2): 201223. Ndofor, H.A., Sirmon, D.G., & He., X. (2011). Firm resources, competitive actions and performance: Investigating a mediated model with evidence from the In-vitro diagnostics industry. Strategic Management Journal, 32: 640-657. Sirmon, D.G., Hitt, M.A., Arregle, J-L., & Campbell, J.T. (2010). The dynamic interplay of capability strengths and weaknesses: Investigating the bases of temporary competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 31(13): 1386-1409.
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Administrative Science Quarterly
Porter, C. O. L. H., Webb, J. W., & Gogus, C. I. (2010). When goal orientations collide: Effects of learning and performance orientation on team adaptability in response to workload imbalance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(5): 935-943.