Tim Pollock
Academy of Management Scholar Tim Pollock is a professor and research fellow at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Haslam College of Business. He is an international research fellow with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and a research fellow with Haslam’s Neel Corporate Governance Center. Previously, he held faculty positions at Penn State University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pollock served as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2010 to 2013 and has been a member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review, among others.
He has published articles in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, 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.
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- Master of Puppets: How Narcissistic CEOs Construct Their Professional Worlds
- Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms
- The Role of Power and Politics in the Repricing of Executive Options
- Shoot for the Stars? Predicting the Recruitment of Prestigious Directors at Newly Public Firms
- Market Watch: Information and Availability Cascades Among the Media and Investors in the U.S. IPO Market
- Which of These Things Are Not Like the Others? Comparing the Rational, Emotional, and Moral Aspects of Reputation, Status, Celebrity, and Stigma
- Effects of Social Capital and Power on Surviving Transformational Change: The Case of Initial Public Offerings
- The Two Towers (or Somewhere in Between): The Behavioral Consequences of Positional Inconsistency across Status Hierarchies
- Media Legitimation Effects in the Market for Initial Public Offerings
- Time for Me to Fly: Predicting Director Exit at Large Firms
- Puttin’ on the Ritz: Pre-IPO Enlistment of Prestigious Affiliates as Deadline-Induced Remediation
- I Don’t Need a Degree, I’ve Got Abs: Influencer Warmth and Competence, Communication Mode, and Stakeholder Engagement on Social Media
- Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization
- Crossed Wires: Endorsement Signals and the Effects of IPO Firm Delistings on Venture Capitalists’ Reputations
- A Tale of Two Assets: The Effects of Firm Reputation and Celebrity on Earnings Surprises and Investors’ Reactions
- Safe Bets or Hot Hands? How Status and Celebrity Influence Strategic Alliance Formations by Newly Public Firms
