AWARDS

Newly hired Assistant Professor Curtis Chan received the Academy of Management Annals Best Article award for his paper entitled “Three Lenses on Occupations and Professions in Organizations.”

Professors Simona Giorgi and Richard Nielsen received the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Division commendation for their paper “Mine and Yours: Ethics Discourse Framing and Situational Appropriateness” as a Finalist for the 2017 Best Business Ethics Paper Award.

Professor Mary Ann Glynn received the 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Managerial and Organizational Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, she became the 73^rd President of the Academy of Management, for the 2017 - 2018 academic year.

Professor Sandra Waddock received a Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Pioneer Award for leadership and commitment to the development of the PRME Initiative at the 2017 Global Forum for PRME, United Nations, New York.
 

PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS & TALKS

BC is hosting the 13th Boston Field Research Conference with the theme “Ethical Challenges in Fieldwork: Quandaries and Quagmires.” The organizing committee, Management & Organization Professors Jean Bartunek, Mary Ann Glynn, Spencer Harrison, and Mike Pratt, is planning a program of panel discussions and workshops focusing on ethical issues in conducting fieldwork for the approximately 60 scholars in attendance.

Professor Richard Nielsen will give the keynote address on “Viable and Nonviable Corruption Reform Methods” at the University of Dresden’s conference on “The Ethical Dimensions of Corruption” and a talk at Cheighton University on “Quaker Approaches to Business Ethics.”

Professor Mike Pratt gave a keynote address on “Leadership as Identity and Self-Process?” at the 2nd Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium in Mykonos, Greece.

A research study funded by the WCLE and conducted by a team of scholars with ties to BC will soon be published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Entitled “A way forward: Cascading ethical and change leadership, values enactment, and group-level effects on commitment in corruption recovery,” it was co-authored by BC alum Rick Cotton, BC Professor and Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair Jean Bartunek, and retired BC Professor Bill Stevenson. The co-authors conducted a survey of over 2,000 employees at an insurance company and found that new leadership made a difference in the recovery of the firm following corruption. They report that organization members’ perceptions of their leaders’ ethical posture was significantly related to perceptions of progress on enacting important values and on their commitment to the organization.

Nielsen, Richard P. 2017. “Social Media First Amendment Whistleblowing Protection: Ethical Responsibility vs. Legal Compliance in a National Security Context.” Paper presented at the annual Society for Business Ethics conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
 

FACULTY GRANT AWARD

Nancy Netzer (Director, McMullen Museum) received a Winston faculty grant for the Museum Current lecture series which will provide an opportunity for the McMullen Museum, in consultation with faculty from across the University, to invite three leading museum-scholars and innovators to Boston College. Students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of relevant leadership skills, museum best practices, and ethics standards necessary to succeed in a broad array of museum careers; and learn first-hand about the complex ethical issues that face museums operating for the public good of our society.