PhD alumni
The mission of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship PhD program is to develop scholars who are prepared to assume the diverse responsibilities of faculty positions at leading research universities. Therefore, we provide the necessary support to help our graduates find the best positions within academia, preferably at Research I universities.
Below is a list of recent Department of Management and Entrepreneurship PhD graduates, their current affiliation, initial placements, the title of their dissertation, and the year the degree was awarded.
| Alumni and current affiliation | PhD Year | Dissertation | Initial Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Ching Chi Ho Southern Methodist University |
2025 | Malicious Compliance as a Coping Strategy: How Employees Confront the Organizational Pathology of Red Tape | Southern Methodist University |
| Soohyun Yoon Hong Kong Baptist University |
2025 | Leader Self-Reliance: Mixed Implications for Employee Motivational States and Downstream Consequences | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Min Yu University of Wyoming |
2025 | The Mixed Consequences of Perceived Partner Sacrifice | University of Wyoming |
| Anika Poli |
2024 | Exploring How Professionalization and Economic Motives Impact Perceptions of Authenticity and Suggested Strategies for Maintaining Authenticity | Private sector |
| Kristen Raney University of Virginia |
2024 | Too Good to be True? A Grounded Exploration of Negative Attributions in Early-Stage Venture Investment | University of Virginia McIntire School of Business Post-Doc |
| Latifa Albader |
2023 | Count on it: The Influence of CEO Numeracy on Acquisition Decisions and Outcomes | Kuwait University |
| Chunhu Jeon Morgan State University |
2022 | HOW INEQUALITY BREEDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REPRODUCES INEQUALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAMS | Morgan State University |
| Joohyung Kim City University of Hong Kong |
2022 | Understanding how individuals deal with paradoxical tensions through ambivalence theory: The case of technology transfer among federal laboratory scientists | Arizona State University Post-Doc |
| Eunyoung Park Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
2022 | An exploration of two forms of distinctiveness in CSR strategy | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Yungu Kang Hong Kong Baptist University |
2021 | Management by Originals: The Influence of Inventor CEOS on Firm's Strategic Decisions | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Fei (Sabrina) Li Texas A&M |
2021 | Three Essays on Reputation for Innovation | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Manuel Vaulont Northeastern University |
2021 | Examining Forms of Informal Leadership (Non)Emergence and Their Differential Consequences | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| John Bush University of Central Florida |
2020 | Thanks for Stopping By! An Examination of the Costs and Benefits of Workplace Intrusions | University of Missouri |
| Virgil Fenters University of Nevada Las Vegas |
2020 | Identity Profiles: How Individuals' Multiple Identities Influenced Enactment in a Surgical System | ASU Post Doc |
| Matias Kalm Tilburg University |
2019 | Flying High: The Effect of Organizational Status on CEO Perquisites | Tilburg University |
| Ji Koung Kim Texas A&M University |
2019 | Sucking-up in Context: Effects of Relativity and Congruence of Ingratiation on Social Exchange Relationships with Supervisors and Teammates | Texas A&M |
| Hudson Sessions Southern Methodist University |
2019 | Comforted by Role Continuity or Refreshed by Role Variety? Employee Outcomes of Managing Side-hustle and Full-time Work Roles | University of Oregon |
| Qi Zhu Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
2019 | CEO Power and Risk Taking – The Perspective of Employment Security | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Rachel Balven Arizona State University |
2018 | When people at work go astray, what to say and when to say it: A typology and test of the effect of moral feedback on unethical behavior | Arizona State University |
| Amy Bartels University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
2018 | The People’s Choice: Exploring the Role of Collective Endorsement in Dynamic Leadership Relationships | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Jisun Kim University of Mississippi |
2018 | A Multi-step Model of Boundary Spanning and Absorptive Capacity: The Differential Impact of Board and Top Management Team Experience on the Development of Sustainability-related Capabilities | University of Mississippi |
| Daniel Newton University of Iowa |
2018 | Expanding our Understanding of Constructive Voice: Accounting for Voice Function and Scope | University of Missouri |
| John R. Busenbark University of Notre Dame |
2017 | Give It To Me Straight: How, When, and Why Managers Disclose Inside Information About Seasoned Equity Offerings | University of Georgia |
| Melissa Chamberlin Iowa State University |
2017 | Exploring Supervisor Responses to Employees Who Share Bad News: Why and Under What Conditions are Messengers Shot? | Iowa State University |
| Beth Schinoff Boston College |
2017 | Can We Be Coworkers and Friends? An Inductive Study of the Experience and Management of Virutal Coworker Freindships | Boston College |
| Danni Wang Rutgers University |
2016 | The Buck Stops Where? Examining Leader and Follower Accountability in Teams | Rutgers University |
| He Gao Michigan State University |
2016 | Underlying Mechanism Behind Word Responses in Competitive Dynamics | Michigan State University |
| Hyun-Soo Woo University of Mississippi |
2016 | Intra-firm and Inter-firm Agglomeration: The Location Decisions of Multi-Unit Firms | University of Mississippi |
| Jungmin Seo California State University, Fullerton |
2016 | The Effects of Relative Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) on Employees; Work Behaviors | California State University, Fullerton |
| Chris Reina Virginia Commonwealth University |
2015 | Adapting Leader Behaviors to Achieve Follower Effectiveness: A Mindful Approach to Situational Leadership | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Brooke Buckman Florida International University |
2014 | Employee Authenticity's Influence on Engagement, Coworker Interactions, and Perceived Effectiveness | Florida International University |
| Amanda Lynn Christensen University of Cincinnati |
2014 | Feedback, Affect, and Creative Behavior: A Multi-level Model Linking Feedback to Performance | University of Cincinnati |
| Han Jiang Tulane University |
2014 | When, How, And So What: Three Essays On Managerial Practices Of Personal Tie Utilization In Organizations | University of Memphis |
| Peter Jennings Santa Clara University |
2013 | The Character to Lead: A Grounded Theory Ethnography of Character in U.S. Army Combat Leaders | Santa Clara University |
| Yiwen Zhang University of Hong Kong |
2013 | Leaders' Daily Work Demands, Recovery, and Leadership Behaviors | University of Hong Kong |
| Chad Hartnell Georgia State University |
2012 | Leadership and Organizational Culture: An Integrative View of Leaders as Culture Creators and Culture as Social Context | Georgia State University |
| Kristie Rogers Marquette University |
2012 | Seeing Past the Orange: An Inductive Investigation of Organizational Respect in a Prison Context | Arizona State University |
| Michael Withers Texas A&M University |
2011 | Director Mobility: The Role of Human and Social Capital in Board Appointments | Texas A&M |
| Amy Yi Ou Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
2011 | CEO Humility and its Relationship with Middle Manager Behaviors and Performance: Examining the CEO-Middle Manager Interface | National University of Singapore |
| Benjamin M. Galvin Brigham Young University |
2010 | Antecedents and Outcomes of Leader Role Identification | University of Washington |
| Atira Charles Florida A&M University |
2009 | An Examination of the Feedback Seeking Behaviors of Black and Hispanic Employees | Florida A&M University |
| Spencer Harrison INSEAD |
2009 | Curiosity in Organizations | Boston College |
| Kathryn Jacobson University of New Mexico |
2009 | Contextual and Individual Predictors of Counterproductive Work Behaviors | University of New Mexico |
| Carla D. Jones Sam Houston State University |
2009 | The Effects of CEO and Top Management Team Heterogeneity on Competitive Aggressiveness | University of Houston |
| Sushil Nifadkar University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
2009 | Emotions and Newcomer Adjustment | University of Calgary |
| Heechun Kim University of Cagary |
2008 | Three essays on international diversification of firms in an emerging economy: Entry and exit decisions | Wayne State University |
| Christine Shropshire Arizona State University |
2008 | Interlocking directors, interlocked firms and the diffusion of strategy | University of Georgia |
| Aimee Ellis Ithaca College |
2008 | The impact of corporate social responsibility on employee attitudes and behaviors | Ithaca College |
| Robert White Iowa State University |
2008 | Toward a more robust theory of agency: Three corporate governance essays | Iowa State University |
| Nathan Washburn Utah State University |
2007 | Firm Performance in Strategic Management Research | Thunderbird School of Global Mgmt |
| Katalin Haynes University of Delaware |
2007 | Corporate Governance, Formal and Informal Institutions and Strategic Outcomes | Texas A&M |
| Seemantini Pathak University of Missouri-St. Louis |
2007 | Compensation Risk Borne by Chief Executive Officers After Refocusing: The Impact of Divestment Intensity, R&D Intensity, and Board Composition | University of Houston |
| David Sluss Georgia Tech |
2006 | Generalizing Relational Identification To and From Organizational Identification | University of South Carolina |
| Joshua (Bin) Wu |
2006 | Efficacy perceptions in teams: Implications for leadership and team effectiveness | University of Miami |
| Thomas Dalziel University of Cincinnati |
2005 | The Influence of Boards and Top Management Teams on Corporate Entrepreneurship | University of Cincinnati |
| Robert DelCampo University of New Mexico |
2004 | Influences on and determinants of psychological contract evaluation in Hispanic business professionals | University of New Mexico |
| Steve Gove University of Vermont |
2004 | Dissertation: The effect of social identification on director involvement in governance roles | University of Dayton |
| David Sirmon University of Washington |
2004 | Dissertation: Relative resource weaknesses and strategy: Exploring the performance effects of resource portfolios | Clemson University |
| Molly B. Pepper Gonzaga University |
2004 | Boundaryless mentors: Gender differences in the use of computer-mediated communication to receive mentoring | Gonzaga University |
| Marinna Makri University of Miami |
2003 | A knowledge-based approach to predicting innovation outcomes of high-technology mergers and acquisitions | University of Miami |
| Fran McKee-Ryan University of Nevada, Reno |
2002 | The Personal Meaning of Job Loss: Appraisal and Coping at the Facet Level | University of West Virginia |
| Carlos Alsua University of Arizona |
2002 | Goals that empower: The impact of learning and performance orientation practices on psychological empowerment | University of Alaska |
| Scott Johnson |
2002 | Externalization of employment in a service environment: the influence of identification | San Jose State University |
| Mark Clark American University |
2001 | Dissertation: Perceived relational diversity: a fit conceptualization | American University |
| Mel Fugate Mississippi State University |
2001 | The role of employability in how people cope with organizational change | Tulane University |
| Glen Kreiner The University of Utah |
2001 | On the edge of identity: boundary conflict and workplace fit | University of Cincinnati |