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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.
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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."
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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.
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An article by Steve Tallman, "Global Strategy Collections: Multinationality and Performance," was published electronically in Global Strategy Journal, an ABS 4 journal. Tallman is a professor of management.
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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.
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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."
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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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.10.010
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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.
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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
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The Future of Global Strategy: Introduction to the Decade Special Issue of GSJ, Gabriel Benito, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ram Mudambi, Torben Pedersen, Stephen Tallman. Global Strategy Journal, 12/3, 421-450, September 2022. DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1464
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National Culture and International Business: A Path Forward, Oded Shenkar, Stephen B. Tallman, Hao Wang, Jie Wu. Journal of International Business Studies, 53, April, 2022, 516-533. DOI: 10.1057/s41267-020-00365-3.
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Host Country Politics and Internationalization: A Meta-Analytic Review, Alvara Cuervo-Cazurra, Patricio Duran, Marc van Essen. Journal of Management Studies (elite journal FT 50 & ABS 4)
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