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Research & Impact

Faculty Research

Faculty in the Management Department regularly publish cutting-edge research in top academic journals, win external funding for their research, and receive awards for their scholarship. Here is a sample of recent accomplishments and publications:

  • Contu, Alessia. 2023. Antigone: on phronesis and how to make good and timely leadership decisions. Academy of Management Review. 48 (1): 149 – 164.

  • Foster, Pacey. Forthcoming. “The Responsibilities and Challenges of Community Engaged Archives: Lessons from Building the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive” in Campbell, M. and Forman, M., (eds), Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Bristol, UK: Intellect.

  • Kearney, Claudine and Benyamin Lichtenstein. 2022.  Generative Emergence: Exploring the Dynamics of Innovation and Change in High-Potential Start-Up Ventures. British Journal of Management.

  • Alt, Elisa, Ante Glavas, Katrin Heucher, Maureen Scully, and Sara Soderstrom. Forthcoming. “Catalyzing Action on Social and Environmental Issues: An Integrative Review of Insider Social Change Agents.” Academy of Management Annals.

  • Professor Samantha Erskine’s paper “Towards Antiracist Feminist Ethics of Care: Interrogating White Apathy in Women-Led Organizations” was the 2023 Runner-Up for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation from the Academy of Management.

  • David Levy and Rami Kaplan (Tel Aviv University) were awarded a $202,500 grant from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation to study the rise of financialized climate governance.

  • Vesela Veleva (Principal Investigator), Nardia Haigh, and Benyamin Lichtenstein were awarded a $350,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to provide pollution prevention technical assistance to Massachusetts craft breweries