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Mid-south Management Research Consortium
Faculty and doctoral students in the Department of Management at the University of
Memphis have developed and are part of a research consortium consisting of management
scholars from premier universities in the mid-south region and nearby areas of the
U.S. The goal of the Mid-south Management Research Consortium (MMRC) is to strengthen and broaden faculty and doctoral students' research programs as
well as foster research collaborations. Members of MMRC meet annually to discuss
their preliminary research ideas, study designs, theory development, working research
papers, dissertation projects, data-analytic strategies, organizational research methods,
and potential collaborative research projects. Below is a list of MMRC members along
with their affiliations and research interests.
MMRC Coordinator: Dr. Chuck Pierce (capierce@memphis.edu)
MMRC 2013 meeting date & location: March 1-3, 2013. Fogelman College of Business & Economics and FedEx Institute of
Technology, U of Memphis, Memphis TN
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Denise M. Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University
**Click Here for a List of MMRC 2013 Participants**
**Click Here for a List of MMRC 2012 Participants**
**Click Here for Photos from MMRC 2012 & 2013**
| Name |
University |
Research Interests |
| Dr. Garry Adams |
Auburn |
Strategy: corporate governance, power & politics in organizations, organizational learning,
merger & acquisition integration processes
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| Dr. David Allen |
Memphis |
HR mgmt: employee recruitment, retention, & turnover, newcomer socialization tactics & social
networks, HR technology
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| Dr. John Amis |
Memphis |
Strategy: organizational development & change, institutional theory, strategy-as-practice,
organizational research methods
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| Dr. Tony Ammeter |
Ole Miss |
Strategy/Information Systems: e-commerce, technical & knowledge-based employees, political skill in organizations,
outsourcing & offshoring, software engineering, leadership, trust, communication
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| Dr. Craig Armstrong |
Alabama |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial decision making, bricolage and resourcefulness, absorptive capacity,
business models and strategic competition
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| Dr. LaKami Baker |
Auburn |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: strategic decision making, family firm performance
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| Dr. Tim Barnett |
Miss St |
Organizational Behavior & Entrepreneurship: organizational ethics & ethical decision making, family business
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| Dr. Rabi Bhagat |
Memphis |
Organizational Behavior: international management, cross-cultural OB, job stress
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| Dr. Mark Bing |
Ole Miss |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: human resource selection, personality measurement, selection test development &
validation, counterproductive workplace behavior, organizational research methods
|
| Dr. Jim Combs |
Alabama |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: corporate governance, family business, franchising, meta-analysis
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| Dr. T. Russell Crook |
Tennessee |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: firm performance, outsourcing, supply chains, organizational research methods
|
| Dr. Walter Davis |
Ole Miss |
Organizational Behavior: corporate citizenship, goal orientation & task performance, high performance work
systems
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| Dr. Kristl Davison |
Ole Miss |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: human resource selection, organizational justice, legal issues & diversity
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| Dr. David Dawley |
West Virginia |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: job embeddedness, employee turnover, organizational commitment, post-bankruptcy
outcomes
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| Dr. John Delery |
Arkansas |
HR mgmt: strategic HR management, structure of HR mgmt systems, high performance/commitment
work systems, employee selection
|
| Dr. Clay Dibrell |
Ole Miss |
Strategy: family business, corporate social responsibility, natural environments, market orientation,
firm innovativeness
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| Dr. Brian Dineen |
Kentucky |
HR mgmt: employee recruitment & job search, applicant pools, counterproductive behavior among
job seekers & members of collectives
|
| Dr. Paul Drnevich |
Alabama |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: competitive advantage, value creation & appropriation, firm performance, entrepreneurship
& innovation, small business, virtual environments, agent-based simulations, strategic
decision making
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| Dr. Randy Evans |
UT-Chattanooga |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: corporate citizenship, job performance, deviance, OCB, proactivity, strategic HR
mgmt
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| Dr. Frances Fabian |
Memphis |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: on-line communities, complexity theory, cognition & decision making
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| Dr. Samantha Fairclough |
Ole Miss |
Strategy: maintenance & micro-foundations of institutions; institutional logics; strategic
management of family businesses
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| Dr. Walter Ferrier |
Kentucky |
Strategy: competitive actions-reactions among rivals, top management team demographics & decision
making, inter-firm social networks & competitive strategy
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| Dr. Mark Gavin |
West Virginia |
Organizational Behavior: leadership, emotions, trust, multilevel phenomena/HLM, structural equations modeling,
organizational research methods
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| Dr. Richard Gentry |
Ole Miss |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: behavioral theory of the firm, entrepreneurship
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| Dr. Jodi Goodman |
West Virginia |
Organizational Behavior: training & development; learning & adaptive expertise; evidence-based management;
organizational responses to public policy, competitive, & market environments; organizational
research methods
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| Dr. Jonathon Halbesleben |
Alabama |
Organizational Behavior: healthcare management, job stress, burnout
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| Dr. Joyce Heames |
West Virginia |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: workplace aggression, productive revenge, work-life balance, job search process
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| Dr. Micki Kacmar |
Alabama |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: ethics, organizational politics, impression management, organizational entry
|
| Dr. Katherine Karl |
UT-Chattanooga |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: workplace policies on social networking, fun, romance, & attire; student incivility;
nontraditional PhD programs
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| Dr. Ben Kedia |
Memphis |
Strategy/International Business: cross-cultural & comparative mgmt, international business strategy
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| Dr. Franz Kellermanns |
Tennessee |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: family business
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| Dr. Dave Ketchen |
Auburn |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: franchising, strategic supply chain management, superior organizational performance,
organizational research methods
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| Dr. Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca |
Kentucky |
Strategy/Organizational Behavior: social networks, interpersonal conflict, schemas & cognition
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| Dr. Bruce Lamont |
Florida State |
Strategic Management: strategic leadership, corporate & structural reorganization, integration of mergers
& acquisitions, knowledge investments, novel reorientations of organizational theory
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| Dr. Lou Marino |
Alabama |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: strategic alliances, business-government relationships, mergers & acquisitions,
new venture creation
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| Dr. Laura Marler |
Miss St |
Organizational Behavior: change, proactive personality & behavior, touch & workplace behavior
|
| Dr. Jeff Martin |
Alabama |
Strategy: highly dynamic markets, microfoundations of dynamic capabilities
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| Dr. James Meurs |
Ole Miss |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: occupational health & well-being, political skill, personality, work-family issues,
prediction of job performance
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| Dr. Kevin Mossholder |
Auburn |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: employee attachment & withdrawl, relational processes in organizations, organizational
research methods
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| Dr. Tim Munyon |
Tennessee |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: HR processes, job & work design, employee performance, social influence processes
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| Dr. Anne O'Leary-Kelly |
Arkansas |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: aggressive behavior in the workplace (violence, sexual harassment), individual attachments
to work organizations (psychological contracts, organizational & professional identification)
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| Dr. Chuck Pierce |
Memphis |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: workplace romance, sexual harassment in organizations, test bias & discrimination
in employee selection, managerial ethics & ethical decision making, organizational
research methods
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| Dr. Rhonda Reger |
Tennessee |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: competitive dynamics, reputation & identity after wrongdoing, influence of third
party infomediaries on firm performance
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| Dr. Bob Renn |
Memphis |
Organizational Behavior: self-defeating behavior, self-leadership, work motivation, goal setting, work design,
job performance
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| Dr. Chris Rosen |
Arkansas |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: employee-organization exchange relationships, measurement & modeling of personality,
occupational health & well being, social contextual influences on attitudes & behavior,
organizational research methods
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| Dr. Jennifer Sexton |
West Virginia |
Strategy: organizational learning, knowledge-based and resource-based perspectives, innovation,
mergers & acquisitions
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| Dr. Chris Shook |
Auburn |
Strategy/Entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial opportunities, strategic decision making, reciprocal relationship
between firm performance & strategy, organizational research methods
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| Dr. Chris Thomas |
Ole Miss |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: employee engagement, leadership, mentoring, career development
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| Dr. James Vardaman |
Miss St |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: healthcare mgmt, leadership, employee retention & turnover
|
| Dr. Alan Walker |
Auburn |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: multisource feedback, employee engagement, morale, retention, spirituality/religiosity,
ethics, satisfaction, commitment, firm profitability
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| Dr. Marilyn Whitman |
Alabama |
Health Care mgmt: health policy, diversity management, cultural & linguistic competence
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| Dr. David Woehr |
UNC-Charlotte |
HR mgmt/Organizational Behavior: performance measurement, managerial assessment, applied psychometrics
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| Dr. Peter Wright |
Memphis |
Strategy: corporate governance, agency theory, tournament theory, valuation of firm investments
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