Research

A Special Thank-You!
Thank you to all the faculty who participated in the faculty and staff momentum on Aug. 14. A special thanks to Dean Lillian Mills, Ethan Burris, Caitlin Mullaney, and the entire dean’s office team.

Research Funding Opportunities
The Call for Fall 2025 McCombs Research Excellence Grants Call for Proposals and McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistant Program

Upcoming Research Events
Join us throughout the month of September for upcoming research events, lunches and seminars.

Ph.D. Student Spotlight
Arun Datta is finishing his dissertation in strategic management at McCombs.

Awards
Thank you to everyone who participated in the April 4 research luncheon "Both Sides Now: Applying and Selecting for Research Positions in 2025." Participants discussed what it’s like to compete and succeed in the external job market.

Happiness and Grief Are a Paradox Worth Embracing
If you are reading this while carrying the weight of loss, I want to begin by acknowledging something important: Grief is not a flaw to be corrected. It is the natural, human price we pay for having loved …

Good Grief
By far my worst day as a professional educator was my first class after 9/11. It wasn’t because of my uniquely held emotions. Like everyone, I was shocked, confused, angry, and incredibly sad. It was because of what I did, or rather, because of what I didn’t do …

Mobile App Value
Shuping Chen explains how mobile apps are now a dominant force in the digital economy, accounting for 88% of mobile device usage and permeating various facets of our lives, from social networking and entertainment to personal productivity, health care, and banking. The Economist magazine …

A Job Well Done
Thank you to everyone who participated in the April 4 research luncheon "Both Sides Now: Applying and Selecting for Research Positions in 2025." Participants discussed what it’s like to compete and succeed in the external job market.

Just-Accepted Journal Publications
Fourteen new papers by McCombs faculty members

Construct Rules
When we think of Big Ideas™, we often think of major theories, conceptual frameworks, equations, or propositions that have galvanized entire areas of research. For example, the two most influential papers in the history of micro and macro areas of management are the Resource-Based View of the firm …

Just-Accepted Journal Publications
Thirteen new papers by McCombs faculty members

A Job Well Done
Thank you to all the faculty members and Ph.D. students who participated n the research McCombs Pingpong tournament (McCombs March Madness)

Upcoming Research Events
April research lunch details and May Ph.D. graduation information for your calendars

Digital Shelf Labels
Yannis Stamatopoulos explains how digital shelf labels help retailers and don’t hurt customers

Ideas From The Void
Beware the human tendency to attend to salient, attention-grabbing, negative events

Just-Accepted Journal Publications
24 new papers by McCombs faculty members

Faculty Awards
Kumar and Yu receive prestigious honors

A Job Well Done
Special thanks to participants in January research lunch

Ceding on Salaries
Social impact framing leads employees to negotiate for less

Paradigm Wars
There's a virtually never-ending battle between two camps of organizational scholars