Our areas of expertise include firm competitive advantage and heterogeneity, leadership, professional ethics, entrepreneurship, new organizational forms, industry dynamics, ecosystem evolution and strategic innovation.

Our research has been published in a wide range of top journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

 

Forthcoming Publications

• Being Counted and Remaining Accountable: Maintenance of Quarterly Earnings Guidance by US Public Companies

  Sun Hyun Park & Kelly Patterson
  Organization Science, forthcoming

   
• Co-Innovation Platforms: A Playbook for Enabling Innovation and Ecosystem Growth 

  Tammy L. Madsen & D. Cruickshank 
  Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 

   
• Duality & social position: Role expectations of people who combine outsider-ness and insider-ness in organizational change

  Amit Nigam, Esther Sackett, & Brian Golden
  Organization Studies, forthcoming

   
• Exploring Interfaith Microfinance Collaboration in Religious Conflict Environments

  Long Le & Norma Saad
  Progress in Development Studies, forthcoming

   
• Linking supply chain management and lean capability to firm performance

  Steve Bin Zhou, John Wang, & Fiona Ji
  International Journal of Applied Decision Science, forthcoming

   
• Processes of Emergence and Change in Industry and Ecosystem Infrastructure

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change, forthcoming

   
• Seeking and Finding Justice: Why and When Managers’ Feedback Seeking Enhances Justice Enactment

  Elad N. Sherf, Ravi S. Gajendran, & Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Organizational Behavior, forthcoming

   
• Swift sense of community: Resourcing artifacts for a rapid community emergence in a temporary organization 

  Reut Livne-Tarandach & Hooria Jazaieri
  Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming

   
• The effect of contract detail and prior ties on contract change: A learning story

  Adele Xing, Kyle J. Mayer, Xuanli Xie, Jeffrey J. Reuer, & Elko Klijn
  Organization Science, forthcoming

   
• The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success

  Jennifer Woolley  & Nydia MacGregor 

  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, forthcoming

   
• Watered Down: Movement Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer
  Jo-Ellen Pozner, Michaela DeSoucey, Cameron Verhaal, & Katarina Sikavica
  Organization Studies, forthcoming

2021

• A China Business Primer: Ethics, Culture and Relationships
  Michael A. Santoro & Robert Shanklin
  Routledge, 2021
   
• Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership: Making a Difference Regardless of Title, Role, or Authority
  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Wiley, 2021
   
• Leadership Requires Clarity of Vision
  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Perspectives: Community College Leadership for the 21st Century, 2021
   
• Putting Compassion to Work: Compassion as a Tool for Navigating Challenging Workplace Relationships
  Hooria Jazaieri & Martha Rock
  Mindfulness, 2021
   
• The Effectiveness of a Student Leadership Program in Turkey
  Sinem Konuk & Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Leadership Education, 2021
   
• The Effects of Extra-Team Goal Disclosure on Team Performance, Viability, and Satisfaction
  Esther Sackett & Gráinne M. Fitzsimons
  Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
   
• Transformational Leadership across Cultures: Follower Perception and Satisfaction
  Arran Caza, Brianna B. Caza, & Barry Z. Posner
  Administrative Sciences, 2021

 

2020

• B2B Buyers Want Leadership from Sellers

  Deb Calvert & Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Selling, 2020

   
• Bearers of Bad News: Heterogeneous Effects of Alternative Front-of-Package Labeling Schemes for Nutritional Information

  William A. Sundstrom, Shelby McIntyre, Gregory A. Baker, & Brian Avants
  Journal of Agribusiness, 2020

   
• Business and Human Rights

  Florian Wettstein, Michael A. Santoro, Anita Ramasastry, & Penelope Simons. 
  Oxford Bibliographies Online—Management, 2020

   
• Creating the World’s Deadliest Catch: The Process of Enrolling Stakeholders in an Uncertain Endeavor

  Sharon A. Alvarez, Susan L. Young, & Jennifer Woolley 
  Business and Society, 2020

   
• Deepening Andre Delbecq’s legacy: Inspiring undergraduate students to serve humankind

  Long Le & Mark Fusco
  Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 2020

   
• Development and validation of a scale for identification of quality attributes of agri-food products in short chains

  Andrea Rossi Scalco, Gilberto Ganga, Sandra Oliveira, & Gregory A. Baker
  Geoforum, 2020

   
• Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction

  Vikram R. Bhargava & Manuel Velasquez
  Business Ethics Quarterly, 2020

   
• Firm Responses to Mass Outrage: Technology, Blame, and Employment

  Vikram R. Bhargava 
  Journal of Business Ethics, 2020

   
• Food Expenditures and Consumption by Food Bank clients in Silicon Valley

  Courtney N. Robinson, Gregory A. Baker, Michael J. Harwood, & Lucy O, Diekman
  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2020

   
• Fresh Produce Donations in California: Opportunities for and Challenges to Increasing Volume and Reducing Food Insecurity

  Travis J. Osland & Gregory A. Baker
  Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2020

   
• Growing and Shrinking

  Jody Magliolo, Tammy L. Madsen, & Gordon Walker
  Strategic Management Review, 2020

   
• Human Rights Obligations of Drug Companies

  Michael A. Santoro & Robert Shanklin
  Journal of Human Rights, 2020

   
• Leadership Strategies for the Next Normal

  Barry Z. Posner
  IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2020

   
• Spirituality and Business Leadership Education

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Bannan Explore, 2020

   
• Stay True to Your Roots? Category Distance, Hierarchy, and the Performance of New Entrants in the Music Industry

  Peter Younkin & Keyvan Kashkooli 
  Organization Science, 2020

   
• Varieties of Political Capital and Power in Organizations

  William Ocasio, Jo-Ellen Pozner, & Daniel Milner
  Academy of Management Annals, 2020

 

2019

• An Exploratory Investigation into How Grit Influences the Leadership Practices of Sales Managers

  Arran Caza & Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Selling, 2019

   
• Business and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions

  Surya Deva, Anita Ramasastry, Florian Wettstein, & Michael A. Santoro 
  Business and Human Rights Journal, 2019

   
• Christian Religiosity and Corporate Community Involvement

  Jinhua Cui, Hoje Jo, & Manuel Velasquez 
  Business Ethics Quarterly, 2019

   
• Does Organizational Size Impact the Leadership Practices of School Leaders?

  Amy Burkman, Jessica Garrett, & Barry Z. Posner
  International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2019

   
• Exploring Factors Related to Feedback-Seeking by Student Leaders

  Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Leadership Education, 2019

   
• Gender, Education, and Occupation: How Founder Experiences Influence Firm Outcomes

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Academy of Management Discoveries, 2019

   
• How and When Does Grit Influence Leaders’ Behavior?

  Arran Caza & Barry Z. Posner
  Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 2019

   
• Influence of Mindset on Leadership Behavior

  Tae Kyung Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 2019

   
• Is Corporate Responsibility Relevant to Artificial Intelligence Responsibility?

  Vikram R. Bhargava & Manuel Velasquez
  Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2019

   
• Leadership Development in Law Schools: Myths, Principles, and Practices

  Barry Z. Posner
  Santa Clara Law Review, 2019

   
• Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference

  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Berrett-Koehler, 2019

   
• Leadership Practices of Sales Managers and Their Impact on Workplace Engagement

  Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Selling, 2019

   
• On-Farm food loss in northern and central California: Results of Field Survey Measurements

  Gregory A. Baker, Leslie C. Gray, Michael J. Harwood, Travis J. Osland, & Jean Baptiste C. Tooley
  Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019

   
• Shine a Light: How Firm Responses to Announcing Earnings Restatements Changed After Sarbanes-Oxley

  Jo-Ellen Pozner, Aharon Mohliver, & Celia Moore
  Journal of Business Ethics, 2019

   
• Step Therapy and the Ethical Duty to Practice Evidence-Based and Cost-Effective Medicine

  Michael A. Santoro
  Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2019

   
• Value capture analysis of small organic growers and their distribution channels in California

  Andréa Rossi Scalco & Gregory A. Baker
  Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, 2019

   
• Women Founders of STEM Firms in the US: Challenges and Opportunities to Attain Business Sustainability and Wellbeing

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Routledge, 2019

 

2018

• Cluster Evolution

  Nydia MacGregor & Tammy L. Madsen
  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2018

   
• Exploring Rapid International Growth of High Technology Ventures: from a knowledge perspective

  Fiona Ji, Catherine N. Axinn, & Luísa Antunes Garcia de Campos
  International Studies of Management and Organization, 2018

   
• Finding Your Voice

  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Berrett-Koehler, 2018

   
• Growing ‘Good Food’: Urban Gardens, Culturally Acceptable Produce and Food Security

  Lucy O. Diekmann, Leslie Gray, & Gregory A. Baker
  Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 2018

   
• Regulatory Shocks: Forms, Dynamics, and Consequences

  Nydia MacGregor & Tammy L. Madsen
  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2018

   
• Stop Selling & Start Leading

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, & Deb Calvert
  Wiley, 2018

   
• Teaching Case Studies for Food and Agribusiness Management Courses 

  Gregory A. Baker
  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2018

   
• The Influence of Demographic Factors on What People Want From Their Leaders

  Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Leadership Studies, 2018

   
• The Student Leadership Challenge (3rd edition)

  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Wiley, 2018

 

2017

• A Coach’s Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders (2nd edition)

  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Wiley, 2017

   
• Autonomous Vehicles and Moral Uncertainty

  Vikram R. Bhargava & Tae Wan Kim
  Oxford University Press, 2017

   
• Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (8th edition)

  Manuel Velasquez
  Prentice-Hall, 2017

   
• Competitive Heterogeneity, Cohorts, and Persistent Advantage

  Tammy L. Madsen & Gordon Walker 
  Strategic Management Journal, 2017

   
• Drought, Water Access, and Urban agriculture: A Case Study from Silicon Valley

  Lucy O. Diekmann, Leslie Gray, & Gregory A. Baker
  Local Environment, 2017

   
• Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Business and Management, 2017

   
• On (Not) Attributing Moral Responsibility to Organizations

  David Rönnegard & Manuel Velasquez
  Oxford University Press, 2017

   
• Origins and Outcomes: The roles of spinoff founders and intellectual property in high technology venture outcomes

  Jennifer Woolley 
  Academy of Management Discoveries, 2017

   
• The Expanding Domain of Strategic Management Research and the Quest for Integration 

  Rodolphe Durand, Robert M. Grant, & Tammy L. Madsen
  Strategic Management Journal, 2017

   
• The Independence of Marketing Channel Choice on the Incomes of American Organic Producers

  Andrea Scalco, Roberta de Castro de Souza Pião, Willerson Lucas Campos, & Gregory A. Baker
  Rural Sociology and Economy Journal, 2017

   
• The Influence of Nationality on Follower’s Satisfaction with Their Leaders

  Arran Caza & Barry Z. Posner
  Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics, 2017

   
• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Wiley, 2017

   
• The Rise of Food Banks and the Challenge of Matching Food Assistance with Potential Need: Towards a Spatially Specific, Rapid Assessment Approach 

  Christopher M. Bacon & Gregory A. Baker
  Agriculture and Human Values, 2017

 

2016

• Community Religion, employees, and the social License to Operate
  Jinhua Cui, Hoje Jo, & Manuel Velasquez
  Journal of Business Ethics, 2016
   
• Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Leadership Practices Inventory
  Barry Z. Posner
  Administrative Sciences, 2016
   
• Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
  James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
  Wiley, 2016
   
• Mi Pueblo Food Center
  Alexis A. Babb, Gregory A. Baker, Courtney N. Robinson, & Michael J. Harwood
  Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2016
   
• Philosophy: A Text with Readings (13th edition)
  Manuel Velasquez
  Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2016
   
• Pushing the limits of international scope expansion within SMEs: Ambidexterity and Exploitation Considerations
  Rico Baldegger, Fiona Ji, & Bill Wales
  Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2016
   
• Regulation/Deregulation
  Nydia MacGregor & Tammy L. Madsen
  Palgrave, 2016
   
• Shattering Glass-Steagall: The Power of Financial Industries to Overcome Restraints
  Paul M. Hirsch, Jo-Ellen Pozner, & Mary Katherine Stimmer
  Routledge, 2016
   
• The Double‐Edged Effect of Knowledge Acquisition: How Contracts Safeguard Pre‐Existing Resources
  Giorgio Zanarone, Desmond (Ho‐Fu) Lo, & Tammy L. Madsen
  Strategic Management Journal, 2016
   
• What problems does crowdfunding solve?
  Peter Younkin & Keyvan Kashkooli 
  California Management Review, 2016
   
• Who Bears the Brunt? A Review and Research Agenda for the Consequences of Organizational Wrongdoing for Individuals
  Jo-Ellen Pozner & Jared D. Harris
  Cambridge University Press, 2016