Faculty Profiles

Barker, Vincent

Associate Professor and Carl A. Scupin Faculty Fellow


345-M
University of Kansas, School of Business
1300 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7585

P: (785) 864-7512
F: (785) 864-5328
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vbarker@ku.edu

Education Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BBA. University of Michigan Joined the University of Kansas in 2002
Academic Areas Strategic Management
Interests Teaching Interests: Business Strategy General Management Organizational Change Research Interests: Corporate decline and turnaround Managerial cognition and strategy Strategic change and innovation
Current Activities My current research focuses on how top managers influence strategy, especially as shaped by their personalities, motivations, backgrounds and understandings of their competitive situations. I am especially interested in extreme cases such as declining organizations where understandings are influenced by pressure and resource constraints. In addition to my own research, I currently serve on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Business Research. View Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications Mueller, G.C., Mone, M.A. & Barker, V.L. III. 2007. Formal strategic analyses and organizational performance: Decomposing the rationale model. Organization Studies, 28: 853-883. Musteen, M. Barker V.L. III & Baeten, V.L. 2006. CEO attributes associated with attitude toward change: The direct and moderating effects of CEO tenure. Journal of Business Research, 59: 604-612. Barker, V.L. III. 2005. Traps in diagnosing organization failure. Journal of Business Strategy. 26(2): 44-50. Barker, V.L. III, & Mueller, G.C. 2002. CEO characteristics and firm R&D spending. Management Science. 48: 782-801 Mone, M.A., McKinley, W.A., & Barker, V.L. III. 1998. Organizational decline and innovation: A contingency framework. Academy of Management Review, 23:115-132. McKinley, W., Mone, M.A., & Barker, V.L. III. 1998. Some ideological foundations of organizational downsizing. Journal of Management Inquiry, 7: 198-212. Barker, V.L. III, & Duhaime, I.M. 1997. Strategic change in the turnaround process: Theory and empirical evidence. Strategic Management Journal, 18: 13-38. Barker, V.L. III, & Mone, M.A. 1994. Retrenchment: Cause of turnaround or consequence of decline? Strategic Management Journal, 15: 395-405.