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Business professors awarded the 2009 Guy O. and Rosa Lee Mabry Award

Tuesday, May 5, 2009


Each year faculty members in the School of Business are invited to submit an article or book published in the previous calendar year for consideration for a Guy O. and Rosa Lee Mabry Best Paper Award. Two awards, which include a $1,500 prize, are given annually to recognize and encourage outstanding research by faculty members. This year, James Guthrie and Laura Poppo were selected from twelve entries to receive the award. Guthrie, William and Judy Docking Professor of Business, submitted his article, "Dumb and Dumber: The Impact of Downsizing on Firm Performance as Moderated by Industry Conditions," (with Deepak Datta) published in Organization Science, in January 2008. Poppo, Associate Professor, Fred Ball Faculty Fellow in Business, submitted her article, "Alternative Origins to Interorganizational Trust: An Interdependence Perspective on the Shadow of the Past and the Shadow of the Future," (with Kevin Zhou and Sungmin Ryu) also published in Organization Science in January 2008. These awards are funded by an endowed gift from KU School of Business alumnus Guy O. Mabry.


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