RESEARCH: Alexandra Gerbasi Presented her Research at 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Professor Alexandra Gerbasi and her co-author Professor Christine Porath (Georgetown University) presented at Academy of Management in the symposium “Answering the Call: New Directions in the Study of Workplace Interactions”. They presented their paper “Does Civility Pay?: It Pays to Play Nice”. Their paper addresses the rising incidence of incivility at work. Despite the increased need for civility, little is known about potential individual benefits of civility, defined as behavior involving politeness and regard for others in the workplace, within workplace norms for respect. Recent research suggests that being civil may be hazardous to influence, power, and income.Yet, throughout history, civil behavior was extolled because it paid back dividends to the person who behaved well. The focus of this research is whether that holds true. They investigate whether civility benefits people. In an over-time social network study of a Research and Development department (n=31) of a biotechnology firm, they find that people who perceive a member as civil, will be more likely to seek that member out for work advice and see that other member as a leader. The more the individual is perceived as civil by others in his or her network, the better his or her performance. Being sought for work advice and viewed as a leader mediate this effect.

     

RESEARCH: GEM welcomes Santi FURNARI on 3rd October, 2014

Santi Furnari is Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London. Santi has two main research interests. First, he studies how innovation emerges at the intersection of multiple institutional fields and sectors, where different cultural logics and political interests overlap. Second, Santi does research on the relationship between organizational structures and firm performance. He studies the first topic from the perspective of institutional theory. He studies the second topic from the perspective of configurational theories of organization design, using fuzzy-set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) to detect the relationship between organizational configurations and performance.

Research: GEM welcomes Sarkar Mitrabarun from May 12th to 16th, 2014

MB Sarkar is Professor of Strategy & Innovation and Stauffer Research Fellow in the Department of Strategic Management, Fox School of Business at Temple University.

He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University (1999). He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi (Economics). A visiting professor at several leading Business Schools in Europe, Latin America, and India, he considers his international experiences as learning laboratories.