# overview
I am primarily interested in how behavioral and social forces affect human actors at the top of the organization.  I conduct research in the areas of corporate governance, top executives and directors, and technology and new industry formation.

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3501 Accounting, Auditing And Accountability

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Brigham Young University - (Provo, Utah, United States)

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Utah State University - (Logan, Utah, United States)

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The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States)

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Retaining problems or solutions? The post-acquisition performance implications of director retention

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PERCEPTION IS REALITY: HOW CEOS' OBSERVED PERSONALITY INFLUENCES MARKET PERCEPTIONS OF FIRM RISK AND SHAREHOLDER RETURNS

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Are Boards Designed to Fail? The Implausibility of Effective Board Monitoring

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DIRECTOR CAPABILITIES, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEMANDS AND BOARD EFFECTIVENESS.

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PREDICTING ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION AT THE CEO LEVEL

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Effects of Conformity to and Deviation from the Crowd:Reputation in the Context of Equity Analysts

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Managers Personal Political Orientation and Corporate Tax Avoidance

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Are Boards Designed to Fail? The Implausibility of Effective Board Monitoring

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Director Human Capital, Information Processing Demands, and Board Effectiveness

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Managers' Personal Political Orientation and Corporate Tax Avoidance

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Sorting things out: valuation of new firms in uncertain markets

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Toward a Configurational Perspective on the CEO: A Review and Synthesis of the Management Literature

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WHAT'S ALL THAT (STRATEGIC) NOISE? AN EXAMINATION OF ANTICIPATORY OBFUSCATION IN CEO SUCCESSIONS.

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THE ROLE OF EVALUATIVE UNCERTAINTY IN CEO PAY AND EARLY DISMISSAL

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SAVING FACE: HOW EXIT IN RESPONSE TO NEGATIVE PRESS AND STAR ANALYST DOWNGRADES REFLECTS REPUTATION MAINTENANCE BY DIRECTORS

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UNDERSTANDING THE DIRECTION, MAGNITUDE, AND JOINT EFFECTS OF REPUTATION WHEN MULTIPLE ACTORS' REPUTATIONS COLLIDE

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Directorships as Certifications: How Board Service Affects Executive Career Outcomes

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Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level

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The Effects of CEO Personality on Strategic Change and Firm Risk

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Time for Me to Fly: Predicting Director Exit at Large Firms

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Managers' Personal Political Orientation and Corporate Tax Avoidance

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What's all that (strategic) noise? anticipatory impression management in CEO succession

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The Greed-Based Path From CEO Compensation to Job Seekers Perceptions

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Elon Musk wont have a board to watch him when he takes Twitter private  does that matter?

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Measuring CEO personality: Developing, validating, and testing a linguistic tool

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Top management conservatism and corporate risk strategies: Evidence from managers' personal political orientation and corporate tax avoidance

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Me or We: The Effects of CEO Organizational Identification on Agency Costs

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Me or We: The Effects of CEO Organizational Identification on Agency Costs

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ME OR WE: THE EFFECTS OF CEO ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION ON AGENCY COSTS.

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Upper Echelon Employment: A Review of the Fundamental Questions Related to the Executive Labor Market

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Go your own way: Exploring the causes of top executive turnover

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Who's in the Driver's Seat? Exploring Firm-Level vs. CEO-Level Effects on Problemistic Search

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The role of evaluative uncertainty in CEO pay & early dismissal

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Organizational Identification and Founder CEO succession: Evidence from IPO Firms

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Two Worlds Colliding: Understanding the Effects of Reputational Domain Overlap

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Social Comparison and Reciprocity in Director Compensation

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Changing of the Guard: Shifting the Conversation Surrounding CEO Turnover

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The Strategic Impetus for Social Network Ties: How Strategic Dependencies Affect the Likelihood of Reconstituting Broken CEO Friendship Ties to Executives of Other Firms

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The Parenting Paradox: How Multibusiness Diversifiers Endorse Disruptive Technologies While Their Corporate Children Struggle

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Under the Microscope: The Effect of Star Analyst Downgrades on Director Exit

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No reason to leave: The effects of CEO diversity-valuing behavior on psychological safety and turnover for female executives.

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Examining CEO succession and the role of heuristics in earlystage CEO evaluation

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How firms' corporate governance characteristics affect the level of human and social capital on the board

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FOUNDER CEO SUCCESSION: THE ROLE OF CEO ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

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HOW STRATEGIC DEPENDENCIES AFFECT THE LIKELIHOOD OF REBUILDING BROKEN FRIENDSHIP TIES BETWEEN CEOS.

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Burr Under the Saddle: How Media Coverage Influences Strategic Change

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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COME ABOARD! EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF DIRECTORSHIPS IN THE EXECUTIVE LABOR MARKET

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Do boards get what they pay for? The relationship between board capital and board compensation

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Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level

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Corporate directors' implicit theories of the roles and duties of boards

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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A database of CEO turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000-2018

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Frontiers of Psychological Research in Strategic Management

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A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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The strategic impetus for social network ties: reconstituting broken ceo friendship ties

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Executives' Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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Corporate directors dont see stopping wayward CEOs as their job  contrary to popular belief

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Managers Personal Political Orientation and Corporate Tax Avoidance

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Texas A&M University; Management; 4221 TAMU

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Harrison, Joseph Spencer (2017-03). Social Ties, Shared Values, and Turnover at the Top of Underperforming Firms. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Andrus, Joel Leavitt (2018-05). Unlocking a Configurational Perspective of Institutional Logics: Market Entry Actions by U.S. Landfills, 1970-2014. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Li, Jingyu (2019-07). Three Essays on Director Labor Market: A Structural Network View. Doctoral Dissertation.