Faculty Research & Awards

Among the top 1% of the most impactful researchers worldwide, according to a 2022 Stanford University study.

Professor, Area Chair of Management, and David C. Darnell Presidential Chair in Principled Leadership.

Featured Faculty Research

90 Premier Journals (5 year window)

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Peer-Reviewed Journals

JULIE WAYNE

Julie Wayne, Ph.D. studies issues related to challenges created by changing demographics and roles of men and women in society. She has published research on sexual harassment, the workfamily interface, and workgroup diversity. Rather than a focus on conflict, she studies how work and family can benefit one another and factors that promote work-family balance. Wayne received the Responsible Research in Management Award at the Academy of Management Conference –the annual award recognizes and celebrates recent research that benefits society by producing credible and useful knowledge.

2021 Single Year Impact of research scientists across the world according to a Stanford University study

Professor of Management and Tylee Wilson Chair of Business Ethics

SEAN HANNAH

Sean Hannah, Ph.D. studies leader development, exemplary leadership and its positive effects, character and behavioral ethics, strategic thinking and the building of high performing teams. Hannah has published over 70 papers, including in premier management and applied psychology journals, and is editor and co-author of the second edition of Leadership in Dangerous Situations – a comprehensive guide to help military, emergency, and first responders face the psychological, social and physical challenges in leading in dangerous environments.

Hannah earned a Ph.D. in management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MBA and M.A. in public administration from Syracuse University, a master’s in national security studies from Marine Corps University and a bachelor’s in political science from California State University.

2021 Single Year Impact of research scientists across the world according to a Stanford University study

Professor of Management Information Systems

Stacie Petter

Stacie Petter, Ph.D. studies the impacts of information systems to individuals, organizations, and society. For instance, she has published research regarding how information technology can be used to counter human trafficking, how gamification and online games can provide value in organizational settings, and how an individual’s personal identity with information technology can affect their use of technology in personal or business settings. Petter’s research has been prominently featured in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and various other information systems publications.

Petter earned a Ph.D. in computer information systems and an MBA with a concentration in computer information systems from Georgia State University, as well as a bachelor’s in computer science from Berry College.

John

Sumanth, Ph.D., James Farr Fellow in Leadership & Organizational Development, Associate, CLC,

Associate Professor of Management

Enhancing employees’ duty orientation and moral potency: Dual mechanisms linking ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behaviors

The authors develop and test a model that links ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behavior via two distinct mechanisms. Findings suggest that ethical psychological climate is an important antecedent of ethically focused proactive behavior by stimulating individuals’ sense of duty and enhancing their moral potency, particularly when employees are already highly attuned to moral issues.

Gok, K., Babalola, M. T., Lakshman, C., Sumanth, J. J., Vo, L. C., Decoster, S., Bansal, A., & Coşkun, A. (2023). Enhancing employees’ duty orientation and moral potency: Dual mechanisms linking ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behaviors.

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44( 1), 157– 175. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2667

Amol Joshi, Ph.D., Bern Beatty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Strategic Management

How Everything-as-a-Service Enabled Judo to Become a Billion-Dollar Bank Without Owning IT.

The paper analyzes the benefits and risks of Judo Bank’s approach and proposes recommendations to help guide others in implementing and applying an EaaS technology strategy.

Breidbach, Christoph & Joshi, Amol & Maglio, Paul & Von Briel, Frederik & Twigg, Alex & Dickens, Graham & Wünderlich, Nancy. (2022). How Everything-as-a-Service Enabled Judo to Become a Billion-Dollar Bank Without Owning IT. MIS Quarterly Executive. 10.17705/2msqe.

Sherry Moss, Ph.D. , Associate Dean of MBA Programs, Benson Pruitt Professor in Business, Professor of Organizational Studies

STEM the bullying: An empirical investigation of abusive supervision in academic science

The survey documents the nature and extent of academic bullying behaviors, examining who are the primary targets and perpetrators as well as the responses to and outcomes of bullying.

Moss, Sherry & Mahmoudi, Morteza. (2021). STEM the bullying: An empirical investigation of abusive supervision in academic science. EClinicalMedicine. 40. 101121. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101121.

Fahad Saleh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance, Nunnenkamp-Cinelli Faculty Fellow

Economics of Permissioned Blockchain Adoption

The authors construct an economic framework for understanding the incentives of the participants of a permissioned blockchain for supply chains and other related industries. The study aims to determine whether adoption of blockchain is socially beneficial and whether such adoption arises in equilibrium.

Iyengar, Garud & Saleh, Fahad & Sethuraman, Jay & Wang, Wenjun. (2020). Economics of Permissioned Blockchain Adoption. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.3602376.

Pat Sweeney, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice of Management, Executive Director, of the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character

Understanding the Change and Development of Trust and the Implications for New Leaders

This study reinforces the importance of ethical leadership to earning trust in both leader and team performance. It examines how trust changes and develops for leaders in a new role and the implications of that change.

Dirks, Kurt & Sweeney, Patrick & Dimotakis, Nikolaos & Woodruff, Todd. (2021). Understanding the Change and Development of Trust and the Implications for New Leaders. Journal of Business Ethics. 180. 10.1007/s10551-021-04902-4.

Julie Wayne, Ph.D., Professor, Area Chair of Management, and David C. Darnell Presidential Chair in Principled Leadership

Balancing work and family: A theoretical explanation and longitudinal examination of its relation to spillover and role functioning

This article explores whether work-life balance causes “rewards” such as better job and family satisfaction and performance, as commonly assumed in practice, or the other way around, as some work-life scholars suggest.

Wayne, J. H., Michel, J. S., & Matthews, R. A. (2022). Balancing work and family: A theoretical explanation and longitudinal examination of its relation to spillover and role functioning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(7), 1094–1114.