Organizational Behavior

Student Profiles

Mary Lippitt Nichols (PhD 1975)
Initial Placement: University of Minnesota
Dissertation: “Development of a Theory of Committee Formation”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Frank Wiebe (PhD 1975)
Initial Placement: University of Mississippi
Dissertation: “Organizational Process Designs for Analyzing Interstate Motor Freight Terminals”, Chairperson: Robert Swinth

Claude Wynn (PhD 1975)
Initial Placement: Bellevue University
Dissertation: “An Examination of the Ability to Predict Employee Turnover from Measures of Job Satisfaction, Intentions, and Personal Factors”, Chairperson: H. Gordon Fitch

Douglas Beynon (PhD 1977)
Initial Placement: Ontario Centre-Environment Tech. Adv.
Dissertation: “Development of a Theory on the Formation of Interpersonal Hostility”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Andrew Luzi (PhD 1977)
Initial Placement: California State University
Dissertation: “Selected Performance Information Systems and Small Group Problem Solving Behavior”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Allworth Silcox (PhD 1977)
Initial Placement: Professional Advisors
Dissertation: “Structural Change: The Special Case of Insertion Turnover”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Joseph Bellow (PhD 1978)
Initial Placement: University of Lagos
Dissertation: “Leadership as an Uncertainty Control Process”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Clinton H. Richards (PhD 1978), Assistant professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Initial Placement: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dissertation: "Towards a Theory of Individual Organizational Priority Setting", Chairperson: Francis D. Tuggle

Allen Schick (PhD 1978)
Initial Placement: Morgan State University
Dissertation: “One University’s Budget: A Study of Personal Allocations to Academic Departments”, Co-Chairpersons: Francis Tuggle and Larry Sherr

Bernard J. Mullin (PhD 1979), National Basketball Association
Initial Placement: Pittsburgh Pirates
Dissertation: "Toward a Theory of Individual Differences in Stress Reactions", Chairperson: Robert Swinth

Ronald Wells (PhD 1980)
Initial Placement: Comprehensive Performance Systems
Dissertation: “The Effects of Selected Antecedent Attitudes and Individual differences on Learning and Behavior Change in Management Development Programs”, Chairperson: H. Gordon Fitch

John E. Young (PhD 1980), Professor, University of New Mexico
Initial Placement: University of Colorado
Dissertation: "A Process Theory of Group Problem-Solving Behavior in Organizational Settings", Chairperson: Robert L. Swinth

Mary Bird-Howes (PhD 1981)
Initial Placement: Governors State University
Dissertation: “Development of a Theory of Work: Application in a Community Bank”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Mary Spotic Bahr (PhD 1982)
Initial Placement: Harris Semiconductor
Dissertation: “Some Impacts of a Management Information System on Subunit Behavior: A Contingency Approach”, Co-Chairpersons: Lawrence Gordon and V.K. Narayanan

Rajendra Khandekar (PhD 1983)
Initial Placement: University of Colorado at Denver
Dissertation: “Development of a Theory of Interorganizational Structures: Exploration in a Field Setting”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

David Cowan (PhD 1984)
Initial Placement: Miami University
Dissertation: “Developing a General Theory of Individual Problem Recognition”, Chairperson: V. K. Narayanan

Jon Hope (PhD 1986)
Initial Placement: Rockhurst College
Dissertation: “Organizational Directive and Compliance-Noncompliance Decisions of Managers: An Empirical Test of an Expectancy-Based Model”, Chairperson: Larry Pate

Keith B. Myles (PhD 1990) Associate Professor of Management, Rockhurst University
Initial Placement: Rockhurst University
Dissertation: "The Effects of Advertising on Shareholder Value," Chairpersons: George E. Pinches and V.K. Narayanan

Pracheta Mukherjee (PhD 1992)
Initial Placement: Slippery Rock State University
Dissertation: “Developing a Process Approach to Critically Test Structural Contingency Research: The Case of Academic Chairperson Selection”, Chairperson: Ken Mackenzie

Jen-Chi Syu (PhD 1992)
Initial Placement: Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
Dissertation: “A Field Study of Privatization in the Republic of China on Taiwan: Interactive Dynamics During the Initial Stages of the Privatization Process in Two State-Owned Enterprises”, Co-Chairpersons: Clyde Stoltenberg and Gordon Fitch

Yeon Choi (PhD 1995)
Initial Placement: Samsung Data Systems
Dissertation: “A Theory of Self-Sacrificial Leadership”, Chairperson: Renate Mai-Dalton

Barry Barnes (PhD 1996)
Initial Placement: Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
Dissertation: “The Baldridge Criteria: A Quality Improvement Journey Without a Map”, Co-Chairpersons: Dennis Karney and Ken Mackenzie

Elaine Hollensbe (PhD, 2001), Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
Initial Placement: University of Cincinnati
Dissertation: "An Ethnographic Study of the Interrelationship of Identity and Team Sense-Making", Chairperson: Catherine Schwoerer

Hans Hansen (PhD 2002), Management Department, School of Business, University of Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand
Initial Placement: University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
Dissertation: “The Construction of Organizational Stories: The Stories Behind the Stories,” Chairperson: Jill M. Kleinberg

David Marker (PhD 2002), Graduate School of Management, Groupe ESC Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Initial Placement: Graduate School of Management, Groupe ESC Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand, France Dissertation: “The Phenomena of Encroaching Processes - Toward a Theory of Organizational Change” Co-Chairpersons: Kenneth Mackenzie and Joseph Reitz

Sammie Robinson (PhD 2002), Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Business Administration, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Initial Placement: Illinois State University
Dissertation: “Where do we go from here?: An Interpretivist Perspective on the Dynamics of an Executive Group,” Co-chairpersons: Dennis Karney and Daniel Spencer

Mark Suazo (PhD 2002), Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI
Initial Placement: Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island
Dissertation: “An Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Psychological Contract Breach,” Co-chairpersons: Renate Mai-Dalton and William Turnley

Todd Williams Henshaw (PhD, 2003) Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point Initial Placement: United States Military Academy, West Point
Dissertation: “Cultural Influences on Leader Development: A Case Study of Cadet Basic Training at West Point” Chairperson: Jill Kleinberg

Emmett Perry (PhD 2005),
Initial Placement: University of Kansas
Dissertation: "The Process of Team Establishment: A Study of 64 Teams of Mid-Career Professionals in a Natural Setting," Chairperson: Dennis Karney

Orsan Orge (PhD 2006)
Initial Placement: Biilkent University
Dissertation: “Processes of organizational emergence: A case study of an internet start-up company,” Chairperson: Dennis Karney

Noriko Yagi (PhD 2007)
Initial Placement: Butler University
Dissertation: “When are Japanese ‘Japanese’? Negotiating Cultural Identities in a Japan-U.S. Binational Organization,” Co-Chairpersons: Jill Kleinberg & Catherine Schwoerer