Dean Shepherd
Academy of Management Scholar Dean Shepherd is a professor at Notre Dame University’s Mendoza College of Business. He researches and teaches entrepreneurship.
Shepherd is a fellow of the Academy of Management and has published research papers in most of its journals. From the Entrepreneurs Division of the Academy of Management, he has been awarded the “Dedication to Entrepreneurship award,” the “Mentor Award,” and the “Foundational Paper Award” (twice). He has authored more than 20 books and published 180-plus research papers in top management and entrepreneurship journals with more than 85,000 Google citations. He earned his Ph.D. from Bond University in Australia and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Jonkoping University and Lulea University of Technology, both in Sweden, as well as Technical University of Munich in Germany.
He has published articles in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Perspectives.
Pollock’s research focuses on the social construction of value in uncertain and ambiguous circumstances, particularly in corporate governance, executive compensation, and entrepreneurial market environments, with a focus on initial public offerings. He considers how social and political factors such as reputation, celebrity, social capital, impression management activities, media accounts influence firm performance and executive recruitment and compensation. He is also interested in how entrepreneurs’ experiences and resources influence their strategic decision making.
At Haslam, Pollock teaches an undergraduate elective on managing startups and doctoral seminars on organization theory and academic writing. He has previously taught courses on strategy at the undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral levels, and on power and influence in full-time and executive MBA programs.
More content featuring Shepherd
- Researching the Dark Side, Downside, and Destructive Side of Entrepreneurship: It Is the Compassionate Thing to Do!
- Educating Entrepreneurship Students About Emotion and Learning from Failure
- Learning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employed
- Inductive Top-Down Theorizing: A Source of New Theories of Organization
- Hitting Rock Bottom After Job Loss: Bouncing Back to Create a New Positive Work Identity
- The Use of Anthropomorphizing as a Tool for Generating Organizational Theories
- Moving Forward from Project Failure: Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from the Experience
- “I Care about Nature, but …”: Disengaging Values in Assessing Opportunities that Cause Harm
- Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change
- MBA Admission Criteria and an Entrepreneurial Mind-Set: Evidence From “Western” Style MBAs in India and Thailand
