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Elizabeth (Bess) Rouse
Associate Professor
Hillenbrand Family Faculty Fellow
Elizabeth (Bess) Rouse
Contact
Fulton Hall 426A
Email: bess.rouse@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-0728-7759
Education
- Ph.D., Boston College
- S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Creativity; collaboration; relationships at work; identity and identification.
Expertise
- Work, Occupations, and Family
- Institutions, Culture, and Identity
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Publications
- Harrison, SH, Rouse ED, Fisher C, and Amabile TM (accepted April 2022). The turn toward creative work. Academy of Management Collections.
- Rouse ED and Harrison SH (accepted September 2021). Choreographing creativity: Exploring creative centralization in project groups. Academy of Management Discoveries.
- Rouse ED, Pratt MG (2021). Using qualitative methods to generate divergence in creativity theory. In J Zhou and ED Rouse (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation. 309-329, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Kahn WA, Rouse ED (2021). Navigating space for personal agency: Auxiliary routines as adaptations in toxic organizations. Academy of Management Journal; 64: 1419-1444.
- Rouse ED (2020). Where you end and I begin: Understanding intimate co-creation. Academy of Management Review; 45: 181-204.
- Clair JA, Humberd BK, Rouse ED, and Jones E (2019). Loosening categorical thinking: Extending the terrain of theory and research on demographic identities in organizations. Academy of Management Review; 44: 592-617.
- Kahn W, Barton M, Fisher C, Heaphy E, Reid E, and Rouse E (2018). The geography of strain: Organizational resilience as a function of intergroup relations. Academy of Management Review; 43:1-21.
- Rouse ED (2016). Beginning’s end: How founders psychologically disengage from their organizations. Academy of Management Journal; 59:1605-1629.
- Humberd BK and Rouse ED (2016). Seeing you in me and me in you: Personal identification in the phases of mentoring relationships. Academy of Management Review; 41:435-455.
- Harrison SH and Rouse ED (2015). An inductive study of feedback interactions over the course of creative projects. Academy of Management Journal; 58:375-404.
- Harrison SH and Rouse ED (2014). Let's dance! Elastic coordination in creative group work: A qualitative study of modern dancers. Academy of Management Journal; 57:1256-1283.
- Gordon JR and Rouse ED (2013). The relationship of job and elder caregiving involvement to work-caregiving interference, and work costs. Research on Aging; 35(1):96-117.
Appointments, Awards, and Honors
- Outstanding Reviewer, Academy of Management Discoveries, 2022
- Carroll School of Management Teaching Star, 2021
- 2019 Best Article Award Finalist, Academy of Management Review for “The geography of strain: Organizational resilience as a function of intergroup relations.”
- Best Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal, 2019
- Best Paper Award, Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, 2016
- Peter Paul Career Development Professor, Boston University, 2015-2018
- 2014 Best Article Award Finalist, Academy of Management Journal for “Let's Dance! Elastic coordination in creative group work: A qualitative study of modern dancers”
- Runner-up, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2012
- Michael J. Driver Best Careers Paper in Regions, Eastern Academy of Management, 2010
- Outstanding Theoretical Paper Award, Eastern Academy of Management, 2010