
2007 Faculty Pioneers

Academic
Leadership Award
CARRIE LEANA
Professor of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business
CARRIE LEANA
Professor of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business
Carrie Leana, from University of Pittsburgh,
has been named the winner in the Academic Leadership Award category. This
award is given for demonstrated leadership in integrating social impact
and/or environmental management topics into business school courses, curriculum
development and design, as well as generation of cutting-edge scholarship
with a focus on social impact and/or environmental management issues.
Leana's research and training are in the area of organizational behavior and management. She has published over seventy articles on such topics as authority structures at work, employment relations, and the process and effects of organizational change and restructuring. Her research is field-based and has been conducted in such settings as steel mills, public schools, insurance claims offices, aerospace contractors, police departments, and labor unions. Her book (with Denise Rousseau), Relational Wealth: The Advantages of Stability in a Changing Economy (Oxford University Press, 2000), describes the tension between stability and flexibility in work design, and how both can be used to the mutual advantage of employees and employers. Her earlier book, Coping with Job Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs (with Daniel Feldman), was short listed for the National Academy of Management's Best Book of the Year Award. She is currently working on a book on public school reform in New York City.
Leana's research and training are in the area of organizational behavior and management. She has published over seventy articles on such topics as authority structures at work, employment relations, and the process and effects of organizational change and restructuring. Her research is field-based and has been conducted in such settings as steel mills, public schools, insurance claims offices, aerospace contractors, police departments, and labor unions. Her book (with Denise Rousseau), Relational Wealth: The Advantages of Stability in a Changing Economy (Oxford University Press, 2000), describes the tension between stability and flexibility in work design, and how both can be used to the mutual advantage of employees and employers. Her earlier book, Coping with Job Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs (with Daniel Feldman), was short listed for the National Academy of Management's Best Book of the Year Award. She is currently working on a book on public school reform in New York City.
Leana's research is conducted in both the
U.S. and abroad. In 2001-02 she was awarded the Viterbo Distinguished
Chair by the U.S. Fulbright Commission to lecture and conduct research
in Europe. In 2004 she was a visiting scholar at the Australian Graduate
School of Management and the University of Melbourne, Australia. At
the University of Pittsburgh she serves on the Advisory Boards of the
European Union Center and the Center for West European Studies, and
is a research associate at the Learning Research and Development Center.
Leana's research has been funded recently by the National Science Foundation,
the Sloan Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the International Business
Center, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Current editorial board
appointments include the Academy of Management Review, Organization
Science, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the International Public
Management Journal, and Perspectives on Work. Leana is co-chair of the
Work and Employment track of the Labor and Employment Research Association
(LERA), and was recently elected to a 5-year term as OB Division Chair
for the Academy of Management Association.
2007
FACULTY PIONEER WINNERSDavid Cooperrider
J. Gregory Dees
Daniel Diermeier
Kirk Hanson
Carrie Leana
Johanna Mair
Jeffery Robinson
Warner Woodworth
Chris Hope
Andre Sobczak
2007
FACULTY PIONEER FINALISTSC.B. Bhattacharya
Linda Ginzel
Robert Gutierrez
David C. Jacobs
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
John D. Sterman
James Walsh
Monica Worline
Wendy Chapple
David Crowther
Malcolm McIntosh

