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Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 5 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd Dec 2020

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 5 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter (Formerly Strategic Leadership Newsletter)

In this Issue:

  • 2020 Reflections


Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 3 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd Nov 2020

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 3 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter (Formerly Strategic Leadership Newsletter)

In this Issue:

  • Upcoming Events for our DMgt and PhD Communities


Metacritiques Of Upper Echelons Theory: Verdicts And Recommendations For Future Research, Brett H. Neely Jr., Jeffrey B. Lovelace, Amanda P. Cowen, Nathan J. Hiller Jul 2020

Metacritiques Of Upper Echelons Theory: Verdicts And Recommendations For Future Research, Brett H. Neely Jr., Jeffrey B. Lovelace, Amanda P. Cowen, Nathan J. Hiller

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

After more than 35 years, Hambrick and Mason’s upper echelons theory (UET) stands as one of the most influential perspectives in management research. However, as the literature and its attendant reviews have become more numerous and specialized, discussion of the fundamental conceptual and methodological critiques leveled against research utilizing the UET perspective has grown fragmented. As such, the first aim of the present review is to identify and synthesize a set of common critiques levied against UET research. In doing so, we unpack important nuance within each critique while establishing a common vocabulary to facilitate greater consistency in how these …


Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 2, Larry Starr, Phd Jun 2020

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 2, Larry Starr, Phd

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter (Formerly Strategic Leadership Newsletter)

In this Issue:

  • End of the Ideal Doctorate
  • Pandemic Scholarship
  • Coronavirus Coping and Responding
  • Coronavirus Contributions
  • Dissertation Proposals and Defense
  • Commencement 2020: Congratulations to our Doctoral Candidates
  • Congratulations to Tom Guggino
  • Congratulations to Professor John Pourdehnad
  • Congratulations Scott Koerwer, Cohort 1
  • Congratulations to Jim Plummer, Cohort 2
  • Congratulations Syed Kazmi, Cohort 4
  • Congratulations to Jay Combs-Harris, Cohort 7
  • Congratulations to John Ervin, Cohort 6
  • Congratulations to Andrew Braverman, Cohort 6
  • Research from the Spring 2020 Class of DSL 712
  • Faculty Scholarship


Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 1 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd Mar 2020

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 1 (Special Issue), Larry Starr, Phd

Leadership Doctorates Newsletter (Formerly Strategic Leadership Newsletter)

In this Issue:

  • Community
  • Wicked Problem
  • Jefferson Containing System
  • Leadership Doctorates Strategic Approach
  • Continuation of Learning
  • Your Stakeholder Contributions
  • Attending Class
  • Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
  • Going Forward
  • Leading Ideas


Ceo Scanning Behaviors, Self-Efficacy, And Sme Innovation And Performance: An Examination Within A Declining Industry, Rajiv Nag, François Neville, Nikolaos Dimotakis Jan 2020

Ceo Scanning Behaviors, Self-Efficacy, And Sme Innovation And Performance: An Examination Within A Declining Industry, Rajiv Nag, François Neville, Nikolaos Dimotakis

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Studying the CEOs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the US metalcasting industry—an industry that has been steadily declining for several years—we develop a theoretical model to examine how CEO scanning behaviors in the form of scanning intensity and proactiveness influence self-efficacy, which in turn influences firm innovation and performance. We extend theory and research by (a) demonstrating of the role and influence of SME CEOs over firm innovation and performance in declining industries, (b) illustrating how scanning provides social learning opportunities for CEOs that enhance their levels of self-efficacy, and (c) showing that self-efficacy mediates the effects of …