Meet Our Faculty

Kristin Scott, Ph.D.

Program Director
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• Appointments
  • Director, Executive Leadership Ph.D. Program, Clemson University
  • Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR)
• Awards
  • Service Excellence Award, Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, 2020-2021
  • Management Department Professor of Excellence in Research, 2019-2020
  • Nominated: Clemson Board of Trustees Award for Excellence, Fall 2019
  • Awarded Faculty Fellowship at Greenville Hospital System to study physician burnout. Selected as one of three Clemson University researchers to receive this award, Jan-Aug 2018
  • Appointed as Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR), 2015-present
  • Emerging Scholar Research Excellence Award, College of Business and Behavioral Science, Clemson University, 2012-2013
• Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Business Administration, Management, University of Kentucky, 2007
  • Masters of Business Administration, Human Resources, University of South Carolina, 1996
  • Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Human Resources, Villanova University, 1994
• Industry Experience
  • General Electric Co., Human Resources Manager
  • Computer Associates International, Human Resources Manager
  • Ingersoll Rand Co., Human Resources Generalist
• Publications
  • Sawyer, K., Thoroughgood, C., Stillwell, E., Duffy, M.K., Scott, K.L., & Adair, L. (2021) Being Present and Being Thankful: A Longitudinal Study of Mindfulness, Gratitude, Prosocial Motivation and Employee Helping Behavior. In press at the Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • Zagenczyk, T.J., Powell, E.E., & Scott, K.L. (2020) How exhausting!? An examination of the contagion effects of emotional exhaustion using social network analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 57(8), 1589-1609. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12557
  • Scott, K.L., Zagenczyk, T.J., Li, S., Gardner, W., Cogliser, C., & Laverie, D. (2018). Social network ties and organizational citizenship behavior: Evidence of a curvilinear relationship. The first two authors contributed equally. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 27(6), 752-763.
  • Lee, K.Y., Duffy, M.K., Scott, K.L., & Schippers, M.C. (2018) "The Ambivalent Experience of Being Envied at Work: When and How Being Envied Shapes Employee Feelings and Motivation”. Personnel Psychology, 71(2): 181-200. (Impact Factor: 3.129), DOI: 10.1111/peps.12251
  • Scott, K.D., Ingram, A., Zagenczyk, T.J., & Shoss, M.K. (2015). Work-family conflict and social undermining behavior: An examination of PO fit and gender differences. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88, 203-218.
  • Scott, K.L., Tams, S., Schippers, M. & Lee, K.Y. (2015). Opening the Blackbox: Exploring the Link Between Workplace Exclusion, Perceptions of Envy and Worker Helping Behavior, Health and Turnover. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24:2, 239-255.
  • Scott, K.L., Zagenczyk, T.J., Schippers, M., Purvis, R.L. & Cruz, K.S. (2014). Coworker exclusion and employee outcomes: An investigation of the moderating roles of perceived organizational and social support. Journal of Management Studies. 51(8). 1235-1256. doi: 10.1111/joms.12099,
  • Scott, K.L., Restubog, S.D.L. & Zagenczyk, T.J. (2013). A Social Exchange-Based Model of the Antecedents of Workplace Exclusion. Journal of Applied Psychology. 98(1): 37-48.
  • Duffy, M.K, Scott, K.L., Shaw, J.D., Tepper, B.J., & Aquino, K. (2012). Envy and social undermining: Exploring the roles of social identification and moral disengagement, Academy of Management Journal, 55(3): 643-666.
  • *Restubog, S.D.L., Scott, K.L., & Zagenczyk, T.J. (2011). When Distress Hits Home: The Role of Aggressive Culture in Predicting Abusive Supervision and the Effects on Employees and their Significant Others. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4): 713-729. *All authors contributed equally to this manuscript and are listed alphabetically.
  • Scott, K.D., Shaw, J.D., & Duffy, M.K. (2008). On the relationship between merit pay raises and organization-based self-esteem. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29(7): 967-980.

Amy Ingram, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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• Professional Experience
  • Proctor & Gamble, North American Haircare, Financial Analyst
  • World Directory Service, Owner
  • Interstate Gas Marketing, Inc., Regional Business Development Manager
  • Pace Corporate Offices, Purchasing Assistant
• Awards
  • Clemson University College of Business 2017 Emerging Scholar of Research Excellence Award
  • Paper recognized as Best Research Publication Journal Award for "A Comparison of Black and White Entrepreneurs in the United States" in the International Journal of Strategic Management, 2015
• Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Management, University of Cincinnati, 2011
  • Master of Business Administration, University of Cincinnati, 2005
  • Bachelor of Arts, Suma Cum Laude, University of Cincinnati, 2004
• Professional Service
  • Board Member Women's Leadership Program
  • Spiro Faculty Fellow, 2015-2017
  • Journal of Business Venturing Editorial Board
  • Small Business Economics Editorial Board
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer Academy of Management Journal
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer Academy of Management Review
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Management
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Small Business Management
• Publications

  Ingram has published research in:

  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Journal of Management
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Human Relations
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Strategic Organization
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • Small Business Economics
  • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

  Ingram's publications include:

  • Ridge, J., Ingram, A., Abdurakhmonov, M., & Hasija, D. 2019. Market reactions to non-market strategy: The signaling role of congressional testimony. Strategic Management Journal, 40 (10: 1644-1667.
  • Blevins, D., Ingram, A., Tsang, E., & Peng, M. 2019. How do foreign initial public offerings attract investor attention? A study of the impact of language. Strategic Organization, 17(3): 363-384.
  • Andriopoulos, C., & Gotsi, M, Lewis, M. & Ingram, A. 2018. Turning the sword: How NPD teams cope with front-end tensions. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(3):427-445.
  • Miron-Spektor, E., Ingram, A., Keller, J., Smith, W., & Lewis, M. 2018. Microfoundations of organizational paradox: The problem is how we think about the problem. Academy of Management Journal, 6(1): 26-45.
  • Ridge, J., Ingram, A., & Hill, A. 2017. Beyond lobbying expenditures: How lobbying breadth and political connectedness affect firm outcomes. Academy of Management Journal, 60(3):1138-1163.
  • *Ridge, J., & Ingram, A. 2017. Modesty in the top management team: Investor reaction and performance implications. Journal of Management, 43(4):1283-1306. (*The first and second author contributed equally).
  • Hill, A., Ridge, J., & Ingram., A. 2017. The growing conflict-of-interest problem in the U.S. Congress. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2017/02/the-growing-conflict-of-interest-problem-in-the-u-s-congress
  • Ingram, A., Peak, W., Stewart, W., & Watson, W. 2017. Emotional intelligence, interpersonal process effectiveness, and entrepreneurial performance: A mediated moderated model. Journal of Small Business Management. https://doi: 10.1111/jsbm.12333
  • Hechavarria, D., & Ingram, A. 2017. Entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions & gendered national-level entrepreneurial activity: A fourteen-year panel study of GEM. Small Business Economics. https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/IJGE-09-2014-0029
  • Hechavarria, D, Ingram, A., Terjesen, S., Justo, R., Renko, M., & Elam, A. 2017. Taking care of business: The impact of gender and culture on the entrepreneurs' goals for venture value creation. Small Business Economics, 48(1): 225-257.
  • Hechavarria, D., & Ingram, A. 2017. The entrepreneurial gender divide: Hegemonic masculinity, emphasized femininity and organizational forms. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 8(3): 242-281.
  • Ridge, J., Hill, A., & Ingram, A. 2016. The signaling role of politician stock ownership: Effects on firm lobbying intensity. Journal of Management, 20(10):1-26.
  • Ingram, A., Lewis, M., Barton, S., & Gartner, W. 2015. Paradoxes and innovation in family firms: The role of paradoxical thinking. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40(1):161-176.
  • Hechavarria, D., & Ingram, A. 2015. A review of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the entrepreneurial society: Exploration with the global entrepreneurship monitor dataset. Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship, 26(1): 1-25.
  • Scott, K., Ingram, A., Zagenczyk, T., & Shoss, M. 2015. Work family conflict and social undermining behavior: An examination of gender differences. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88(1): 203-218.
  • Ingram, A., Hechavarria, D., & Matthews, C. 2014. Does cultural capital matter? Exploring sources of funding in new venture creation. Small Business Institute Journal, 1(10).
  • Watson, W., Stewart, W., Peake, W., Cooper, D., & Ingram, A. 2014. A comparison of Black and White entrepreneurs in the United States. International Journal of Strategic Management. (Received Best Journal Article Award).
  • Gotsi, M., Andriopoulos, C., Lewis, M., & Ingram, A. 2010. Creative tensions: Managing tensions of multiple identities. Human Relations, 63(6): 781-805.
  • Luscher, L., Lewis, M., & Ingram, A. 2006. The social construction of organizational change paradoxes. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19: 491-502

Chad Navis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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• Academic Appointments

  Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Clemson University
  Associate Professor, Department of Management, 2015-present

  Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Human Resources, 2009-2015
  Principal Faculty, Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship, 2009-2015

• Awards, Honors, Distinctions
  • Editorial Board Member, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2016-present
  • Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Review, 2020-present
  • Watt Center Faculty Fellow, Clemson University, 2018-2021
  • Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ, 2019
  • IDEA "Thought Leader" award for best-published entrepreneurship paper in 2011, 2012
  • IDEA "Thought Leader" award for best-published entrepreneurship paper in 2010, 2011
• Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Organizations and Management, Emory University, 2009
  • Master of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Emphasis, University of Georgia, 2004
  • Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management, Clemson University, 1997
• Industry Experience
  • American Management Systems (now CGI)
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Publications

  Navis has published his research in:

  • Academy of Management Review
  • Administrative Science Quarterly
  • Journal of Business Venturing
  • Journal of Management Studies

Zeki Simsek, Ph.D.

Gressette Chair of Business Strategy and Planning
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• Appointments
  • Clemson University, Professor & Gressette Chair of Business Strategy and Planning, 2016
  • University of Connecticut, Professor & Eversource Scholar in Technological Entrepreneurship, 2013-2015
  • University of Connecticut, Associate Professor & Ackerman Scholar
  • 2008 University of Connecticut, Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, 2008-2013
  • University of Connecticut Assistant Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, 2003
  • University of Connecticut Instructor & Research Assistant, 1998
  • Bogazici University Instructor & Research Assistant, 1997
• Awards
  • The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business Senior Scholar Research Excellence Award for the 2019-2020 academic year, 2020
  • Clemson University URSAAA University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Society Award, 2019
  • Academy of Management Journal, Associate Editor, 2016-2019
  • Ranked in the top 1.6 percent out of more than 6,325 authors in the area of strategic management in terms of scholarly impact in management education, 2018
  • Ranked as one of the top-most influential authors globally in entrepreneurship research based on research output in top-tier management journals from 2000-2015, 2016
  • Distinguished Service Award, Business School, University of Connecticut, 2014
  • Ackerman Scholar, University of Connecticut, 2010-2015
  • Journal of Management Studies Best Reviewer Award, 2011-2012
  • Northeast Utilities Scholar of Technological Entrepreneurship, University of Connecticut, 2011-2016
  • Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award,2011
  • Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2011
  • Business School Best Paper Award, University of Connecticut, 2011
  • Business School Research Excellence Award, University of Connecticut,2005-2010
  • EURAM 2010 Annual Conference Best Paper, Rome, Italy, 2010
  • Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2009
  • Business School Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Connecticut, 2003-2008
  • The Eleventh Strategic Management Society Best Paper Honorable Mention, Germany, 2008
  • The Ninth Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Finalist, Vienna, 2006
• Education
  • Ph.D. Management University of Connecticut
  • MBA Management & Organization University of New Haven
  • Certificate, International Business University of New Haven
  • M.S. Industrial & Economic Relations Anatolia University
  • B.A. Business Administration Anatolia University
• Industry Experience
  • Small to Medium-Sized Firms, Entrepreneurial Ventures, and 3D Printing Industry (Ongoing Research)
• Publications
  • Simsek, Z., & Li, Sali. Designing Scholarly Introductions as Jobs to Be Done. Forthcoming. Journal of Management.
  • Simsek, Z., Heavey, C. & Fox, B. Forthcoming. Systematicity in Organizational Research Literature Reviews: A Framework and Assessment. Organizational Research Methods.
  • Fox, B., Simsek, Z. & Heavey, C. (In Press). Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986-2017). Academy of Management Journal.
  • Heavey, C., Simsek, Z., Kyprianou, C. & Risius, M. 2020. How Do Strategic Leaders Engage with Social Media? A Theoretical Framework for Research and Practice. Strategic Management Journal, 41: 1490-1527
  • Simsek, Z., Vaara, Paruchuri, S., Nadkarni, S. & Shaw, J.D. 2019. New Ways of Seeing Big Data. Academy of Management Journal. 62: 971-978.
  • Simsek, Z., Bansal, P., Shaw, J.D., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Smith, W. 2018. Seeing Practice Impact in New Ways. Academy of Management Journal. 61: 2021-2025.
  • Simsek, Z. Heavey, C. & Fox, B. 2017. Interfaces of strategic leaders: A Framework, 30-Year Review, and research agenda. Journal of Management, 44: 280-324.
  • Simsek, Z. Heavey, C. & Fox, B. 2017. (Meta-)Framing Strategic Entrepreneurship. Strategic Organization. 15: 504-518.
  • Heavey, C. B & Simsek, Z. 2015. Transactive Memory Systems and Firm Performance: An Upper-Echelons Perspective. Organization Science, 26: 941-959.
  • Simsek, Z. Jansen, J., Minchilli, A., & Escriba, A. 2015. Strategic Leadership and Leaders in Entrepreneurial Contexts: A Nexus for Innovation and Impact Missed? Journal of Management Studies, 52: 463–478.
  • Simsek, Z., Fox, B., & Heavey, C. 2015. "What's Past is Prologue": A framework, review, and future directions for organizational research on imprinting. Journal of Management, 41: 288-317.
  • Heavey, C. B & Simsek, Z. 2014. Distributed cognition in top management teams and organizational ambidexterity: The influence of transactive memory systems. Journal of Management, 43 (3):919-945.
  • Heavey, C. & Simsek Z. 2014. Managerial social networks and ambidexterity of SMEs: The moderating role of a proactive commitment to innovation. Human Resource Management, 54: S201-S221.
  • Simsek Z., Heavey, C. & Jansen, J. 2013. Journal impact as a diffusion process: A conceptualization and the case of Journal of Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies, 50: 1374-1407.
  • Heavey C. & Simsek, Z. 2013. Top management compositional effects on corporate entrepreneurship: The moderating role of perceived technological uncertainty. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30:837-855.
  • Jansen, J. Simsek, Z. & Cao, Q. 2012. Ambidexterity and performance in multi-unit contexts: Cross-Level moderating effects of structural and resource attributes. Strategic Management Journal, 33: 1286-1303.
  • Souder, D., Simsek Z. & Johnson, S. 2012. Market expansion over agent and founder CEOs’ time in office. Strategic Management Journal, 33: 23-41.
  • Cao, Q., Simsek, Z., & Jansen, J. 2012. CEO social capital and entrepreneurial orientation of the firm: Bonding and bridging effects. Journal of Management, 41: 1957-1981
  • Olie, R., Iterson, A.V., & Simsek, Z. 2012. When do CEOs versus top management teams matter in explaining strategic decision-making processes? Toward an institutional view of strategic leadership effects. International Studies of Management and Organization, 42: 86-105.
  • Simsek Z. & Heavey, C. 2011. The mediating role of knowledge-based capital for corporate entrepreneurship effects on performance: A study of small-to-medium sized firms. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5: 81-100.
  • Cao, Q. & Simsek, Z. 2010. Modeling the Joint Impact of the CEO and the TMT on organizational ambidexterity. Journal of Management Studies. 47: 1272-1296.
  • Heavey, C., Simsek, Z., Roche, F., & Kelly, A. 2009. Decision comprehensiveness and corporate entrepreneurship: The moderating role of managerial uncertainty preferences and environmental dynamism. Journal of Management Studies, 46: 1289-1314.
  • Simsek, Z., Heavey, C., & Veiga, J. 2009. The Impact of CEO core self-evaluations on entrepreneurial orientation. Strategic Management Journal, 31: 110-119.
  • Simsek, Z., Heavey, C., Veiga, J. F., & Souder, D. 2009. A typology for aligning organizational ambidexterity's conceptualizations, antecedents, and outcomes. Journal of Management Studies, 46: 864-894.
  • Simsek, Z. 2009. Organizational ambidexterity: Towards a multilevel understanding. Journal of Management Studies, 46: 597-624.
  • Simsek, Z., Veiga, J. F Lubatkin, M.., & Dino, R. N. 2009. The role of an entrepreneurially alert information system in promoting corporate entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Research. 62: 810-817.
  • Ling, Y., Simsek, Z., Lubatkin M., & Veiga, J. 2008. The Impact of transformational CEOs on the performance of small- to medium-sized firms: Does tenure or founder status matter? Journal of Applied Psychology.4: 923-34.
  • Ling, Y., Simsek, Z., Lubatkin M., & Veiga, J. 2008. Transformational leadership's role in promoting corporate entrepreneurship: Examining the CEO-TMT Interface. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 742-776.
  • Simsek, Z. 2007. CEO tenure and organizational performance: An intervening model. Strategic Management Journal, 28: 653-662.
  • Florin J. & Simsek Z. 2007. The effects of moral hazard and adverse selection on the pricing and underpricing of initial public offerings. Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 9: 127-143.
  • Simsek, Z. Lubatkin, M., & Veiga, J. F. 2007. The impact of the competitive environment on corporate entrepreneurship: Toward understanding discretionary slack's pivotal role. Journal of Management Studies. 44: 1398-1424.
  • Lubatkin, M., Simsek Z., Ling, Y. & Veiga, J. F. 2006. Ambidexterity and performance on small- to medium-sized firms: The pivotal role of TMT behavioral Integration. Journal of Management. 32: 646-672.*
  • Golden, T., Veiga, J. F. & Simsek, Z. 2006. Telecommuting's differential impact on work-family conflict: Is there no place like home? Journal of Applied Psychology. 91: 1340-1350.
  • Simsek, Z., Veiga, J. F Lubatkin, M.., & Dino, R. N. 2005. Modeling the multilevel determinants of top management team behavioral integration. Academy of Management Journal, 48: 69-84.
  • Simsek, Z., Lubatkin, M.H., & Floyd, S.W. 2003. Interfirm networks and entrepreneurial behavior: A structural embeddedness perspective. Journal of Management, 3: 427-442.
  • Simsek, Z. & Veiga, J.F. 2001. A primer on Internet self-administered surveys. Organizational Research Methods Journal, 4: 218-235.
  • Simsek, Z. & Veiga, J.F. 2000. The e-mail surveying technique: An assessment and integration. Organizational Research Methods Journal, 1: 92-114.

Craig Wallace, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor
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As an Organizational Psychologist, Craig focuses on creating workplaces where employees thrive and business booms.

• Appointments

  Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Clemson University, 2019-present
  Head & Professor, Department of Management
  Powers Leadership Team

  Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, 2017-2019
  Head & Professor, Department of Management
  Director: Master of Science in Management Program
  Co-Director & Research Director, Executive Ph.D. Program
  Daniels Senior Leadership Team

  Watson Graduate School of Management, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, 2006-2017
  Executive Director, Executive Ph.D. Program, 2010-2016
  William S. Spears Chair of Business Administration, 2011-2017
  Professor of Management, 2015
  Donald Brattain Professor, 2009-2011
  Associate Professor, tenured 2009
  Assistant Professor

  Tulane University, 2004-2006
  Assistant Professor

• Awards, Honors, Distinctions
  • Board Member: PSP Metrics
  • Fellow at SIOP
  • S. Rains Wallace Award from SIOP
  • ATD Research Award
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Management (2 terms)
  • Board Member (former): Executive Doctorate Business Administration Council (EDBAC)
  • Over 500k in sponsored research
  • Assisted in raising over 40M across various universities
• Education
  • AMP, Wharton
  • Ph.D., Georgia Tech
  • M.A., University of West Florida
  • B.S., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Industry Experience

  Craig has consulted with leading firms on a variety of projects. Firms include Wal-Mart, UPS, Frontier Airlines, ONEOK, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Shell Oil, Wynn Entertainment, Conoco-Philips, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Evonik, US Department of Defense, Crocs, Deluxe Post Production, Starbucks and many more. Most of his work is focused on organizational talent, people analytics and leadership development.

• Publications

  Craig has published over 70 journal articles, chapters and popular press articles, with many appearing in elite journals (see below) and is a regular contributor to his columns on SHRM and PsychToday.

  • Journal of Management
  • Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Personnel Psychology
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Journal of Business and Psychology