2007 Faculty Pioneers

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 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.