2023 JMI Scholar
Western Academy of Management and Journal of Management Inquiry sponsors this award to recognize our colleagues who have distinguished themselves over the course of their careers, have a reputation for mentoring successful researchers, and have personal qualities that enhance the WAM culture.
Kim Elsbach
University of California-Davis
Kimberly D. Elsbach (PhD Stanford University) is Professor Emerita at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University and co-founder of the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research.
Kim's research focuses on perception – specifically how people perceive each other and their organizations. She has studied these perceptual processes in variety of contexts ranging from the California cattle industry, and the National Rifle Association, to Hollywood screenwriters and NASCAR fans. Some of her recent work examines how crying at work affects perceptions of professional women at work and how self-perceptions influence one’s willingness to take ideas in creative collaborations.
Past JMI Scholars
Kimberly D. Elsbach (PhD Stanford University) is Professor Emerita at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University and co-founder of the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research. Kim's research focuses on perception – specifically how people perceive each other and their organizations. She has studied these perceptual processes in variety of contexts ranging from the California cattle industry, and the National Rifle Association, to Hollywood screenwriters and NASCAR fans. Some of her recent work examines how crying at work affects perceptions of professional women at work and how self-perceptions influence one’s willingness to take ideas in creative collaborations.
2022: Violina Rindova, University of Southern California
Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta​
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2021: Maureen Ambrose, University of Central Florida
Marshall Schminke, University of Central Florida
Martin Hoegl, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
2020: Nancy Harding, University of Bath
Linda Smircich, University of Massachusetts
Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts
2019: Barry M. Staw, Haas School of Business, University of
California Berkeley
2018: Jane E. Dutton, University of Michigan
Nandini Rajagopalan, University of Southern California
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2017: Jean Barunek, Boston College
Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria
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2016: Mary Jo Hatch
Alan Meyer, University of Oregon
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2015: Wayne Cascio, University of Colorado Denver
Edward Zajac, Northwestern University
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2014: Blake Ashforth, Arizona State University
Sandra Robinson, University of British Columbia
2013: Terence Mitchell, University of Washington
Gerry McNamara, Michigan State University
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2012: Chuck Snow, Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Wright, Kansas State University
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2011: Barry Posner, Santa Clara University
Gretchen Spreitzer, University of Michigan
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2010: Joyce Osland, San Jose State University
William Torbert, Boston College
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2009: William Starbuck, New York University
David Whetten, Brigham Young University
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2008: Joan Winn, Denver University
Alan Glassman, California State University Northridge
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2007: Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University
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2006: Tom Cummings, University of Southern California
Jone Pearce, University of California, Irvine
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2005: Lyman Porter, University of California Irvine
Peter J. Frost, University of British Columbia (posthumous)
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2004: Royston Greewood, University of Alberta
Don Palmer, University of California, Davis
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2003: C.R. (Bob) Hinings, University of Alberta
Joanne Martin, Stanford University