University Award for Sustained Excellence in ScholarshipThe University Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship recognizes the outstanding achievements and dedication of a faculty member who has demonstrated sustained excellence in scholarly or creative work and who has been a faculty member of Santa Clara University for a minimum of ten years. For nomination information, click here. 2011 Award WinnerAndrew Delbecq
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Andre has helped to shape his field over a career marked by a remarkable level of productivity: more than 235 publications and countless presentations at conferences and universities worldwide. His work has shaped the fields of Organization Theory, Organizational Behavior, and Innovation & Management; he also has played a truly foundational role in developing and shaping the field of Spirituality and Business Leadership. Quite early in his career he was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Management in recognition of outstanding research, scholarship and service. He has maintained a steady pace of remarkable professional achievement ever since those early years. In the last few years, he has published 24 journal articles, 10 book chapters, 10 conference proceedings, 2 video/audio productions, and several other brief manuscripts for venues outside of academe. One area of his work looks at business leadership as a calling, examining how spiritual disciplines can inform leaders’ decision making. This body of work has gained strong interest from businesses in recent years, in the context of corporate scandals and decision-making practices associated with the financial crisis. It has been well received by MBA students but also, by CEOs and executives across the country, many of whom have traveled to SCU to take a course with him.
The faculty member receiving the Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1977. Over a long and distinguished career, he has developed an international reputation as an artist. His extraordinary sculptures have been shown in 25 solo exhibitions in the United States, France, and Spain, and in hundreds of group exhibits, and may be found in a number of public and private collections. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including a Senior Fulbright Scholars Artist-in-Residence Award in Macedonia, and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship. His latest project has taken him to Spain, where he has been collaborating with Spanish craftsmen to produce large-scale works in clay.
Meir Statman joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1979. He is a prolific scholar who has published nearly one hundred articles in the top journals in his field, as well as publications aimed at practitioners. But quantity is not the most important aspect of his contributions. He is the rare scholar who has helped found and develop an entirely new approach within his discipline—one of enormous theoretical and practical importance. This field, known as behavioral finance, applies concepts and models from psychology to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions, and how those decisions play out in financial markets. Thus his work has had a profound influence on both research and practice. He is also an esteemed teacher who accomplished much of his scholarly work while serving as chair of his department for more than a decade.
Nam Ling joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1989. He has an extraordinary record of 130 research publications, many of them in top-tier refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is an internationally recognized authority in the area of video coding, where he has helped shape emerging technologies for the transmission of digital video over the internet and wireless networks. He has played a central role in promoting excellence in scholarship in his school, for example through the development of an innovative mentoring program for new and recently tenured faculty in Engineering.
