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Student Accomplishments

The University of Connecticut School of Business Management Ph.D. Program prepares students to conduct state-of-the-art research and to become highly effective instructors so they can assume faculty positions in business schools at leading universities. Our students' accomplishments serve as evidence that our program is successful in turning out some of the best.

Faculty at UConn are required to publish research in high quality journals, to continually improve their teaching skills, and to provide service to the field of management, UConn, and the School of Business. Students gain experience in each of these areas during their time spent in the doctoral program. They identify and develop their areas of interest for research and teaching, they are invited to present research and provide other services at major management conferences, they are invited to serve as paper reviewers, they begin teaching their second year in the program, and some have the opportunity to teach at the graduate level before they graduate.

Highlighted below are some of the outstanding accomplishments management students have made as they learn to balance the demands of an intensive program and rewarding career.


Current Students

Zheng Chen

  • 2006, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2006, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2005-Present, Member, Academy of Management


Ciaran Heavey

  • 2007, Recipient of the Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • Heavey, C., Mowday, R.T., Kelly, A. & Roche, F. (In press). Reconceptualizing executive environmental scanning and search: Implications for international leadership research and practice. Advances in Global Leadership.


  • 2006, Reviewer, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Business Policy & Strategy Division


  • 2005, 2006, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2005, 2006, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2006, Nominated for the Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • 2004, Recipient, Fulbright - Irish Dairy Board Scholarship ($20,000)


  • Heavy, C. & Gibbons, P. 2004. Strategy development processes in the Irish software sector. Paper presented at the 24th International Strategy Management Society Conference, Puerto Rico, October/November.


Michael Kukenberger

  • 2005-Present, Member, Academy of Management


Elizabeth Lim

  • Lim, E.N-K. 2008. Executive compensation, financial slack, and strategic risk-taking: A behavioral perspective.” 28th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, Cologne, Germany. Nominated for the SMS Best Conference Paper Award.


  • Lim, E.N-K. 2008. A behavioral agency view of executive compensation, financial slack, and strategic risk-taking. 68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Business Policy and Strategy division, Anaheim, California. Accepted for Presentation.


  • Bergh, D.D. & Lim, E.N-K. In press. A learning perspective of corporate restructuring: Absorptive capacity and improvisational views of restructuring and performance. Strategic Management Journal.


  • Bergh, D.D. & Lim, E.N-K. 2007. Experience, restructuring types and financial performance. 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Philadelphia.


  • Lim, E.N-K. 2007. A behavioral agency view of pay incentives and risk-taking actions by the upper echelons of corporate spinoffs. 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division, Philadelphia.


  • 2007, Selected participant, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Doctoral Consortium


  • 2007, Selected participant, Academy of Management International Management Division (IMD) Doctoral Consortium


  • 2007, Recipient, University of Connecticut Spring Predoctoral Fellowship and Summer Fellowship


  • Lim, E.N-K. 2007. Towards an integrative behavioral agency model of managerial risk-taking behaviors. 27th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, San Diego, California.


  • 2006-Present, Reviewer, Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division


  • Lim, E.N-K. 2006. Asset specificity, modes of restructuring and firm performance: Fit and misfit. Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award (1st Place).


  • Lim, E.N-K. & Folta, T.B. 2006. Going public or private? Role of patent portfolio in equity financing for biotechnology startups. In K. Mark Weaver (Ed.) Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Atlanta, Georgia


  • Lim, E.N-K. & Das, S. 2006. Capital structure, diversification strategy and the Asian financial crisis: The Singapore evidence. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, BPS Division, Atlanta, Georgia.


  • 2006, Receipient of the Kauffman Foundation Fellowship Award ($1,200) for doctoral seminar in Entrepreneurship by Professor Scott Shane, Case Western Reserve University


  • 2006, Recipient, CIBER Award (~$650) for Internationalizing Doctoral Education in Business (IDEB) conference held at the University of Connecticut


  • 2006, Selected participant, Academy of Management Technology & Innovation Management (TIM) Doctoral Consortium, Atlanta, Georgia


  • 2006, Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (Entrepreneurship Division), Atlanta, Georgia


  • Bergh, D.D. & Lim, E.N-K. 2005. The influence of multiple restructurings on market value: Learning or lemon effects? Presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Strategy Management Society, Orlando, Florida.


  • 2005-Present, Reviewer, Academy of Management, Business Policy & Strategy Division


  • 2005-Present, Member, Academy of Management


  • Tan, J-S. & Lim, E.N-K. 2004. Strategies for effective cross-cultural negotiation: The F.R.A.M.E. approach. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.


  • Das, S. & Lim, E.N-K. 2003. Diversification and Asian crisis: A longitudinal study of diversification of Singaporean firms. Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, BPS Division, Seattle, Washington.


  • 2002, Recipient, Research Grant (~$1,300) with Prof Shobha Das, Nanyang Technological U, Singapore


  • Lim, E.N-K. 2002. Hill and Snell revisited: A critique of agency theory. Presented at the 17th Employee Research Unit Annual Conference, Cardiff Business School, South Wales, United Kingdom.


  • Tan, J-S. & Lim, E.N-K. 2002. Strategic negotiation across cultures. Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Smriti Prabhakar

  • 2005-Present, Member, Academy of Management


Tammy Rapp

  • 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2007, Recipient of the HR Division SHRM Foundation Dissertation Grant Award, $5,000


  • 2006, Recipient of the Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • 2006, Selected participant, HR Doctoral Student Consortium, Academy of Management annual meetings


  • 2006, 2005, 2004, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • Rapp, T.L. & Mathieu, J.E. (In Press). Evaluating an individually self-administered generic teamwork skills training program across time and levels. Small Group Research.


  • Mathieu, J.E., Maynard, M.T., Rapp, T.L. & Mangos, P.M. (2006). Interactive effects of team and task shared mental models as related to air traffic ontrollers' team efficacy and effectiveness. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.


  • Rapp, T.L. (2006). Contextualizing team learning: New insights through considerations or task and time. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.


  • 2005, Nominated for the Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • Mathieu, J. E., Maynard, M. T., Rapp, T. L. & Mangos, P. M. (2006). Interactive effects of team and task shared mental models as related to air traffic controllers’ team efficacy and effectiveness. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Atlanta, GA.


  • Rapp, T.L. (2006). Contextualizing team learning: New insights through considerations of task and time. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Atlanta, GA.


  • Mathieu, J.E. & Woods (Rapp), T.L. (2005). Team training effects over time: Invest now to benefit later. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI.


  • Mathieu, J.E. & Woods (Rapp), T.L. (2005). A longitudinal examination of within- and between-member functional diversity on team performance. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI.


  • Mathieu, J.E. & Woods (Rapp), T.L. (2005). Laying the foundation for successful team performance trajectories: The roles of team charters and deliberate plans. Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology: Los Angeles, CA.


  • 2005, Selected participant, Doctoral Consortium, Southern Management Association


  • 2005, 2006, Reviewer, Annual Academy of Management Meeting


  • 2005, Reviewer, Southern Management Association


  • 2005, Discussant, Southern Management Association Meeting


  • 2004, Recipient, CIBER Grant ($5,000), University of Connecticut, with Dr. John Mathieu


  • 2004-2005, Invited Speaker, New Ph.D. Student Orientation, University of Connecticut


  • Rapp, A.A. & Woods (Rapp), T.L. (2004). An exploratory examination of individual and manager level effects on salesperson performance using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. National Conference of Sales Management, Miami, FL.


  • Woods (Rapp), T.L. & Rapp, A. (2004). Issue interpretation, organizational learning responses, and potential influences: A learning perspective. International Academy of Business and Management, Las Vegas, NV.


Junichi Yamanoi

  • Yamanoi, J. (In Press). CEO succession and strategic change in small firms: The effects of successor's organizational socialization. Journal of Business Management.


  • Yamanoi, J. (2004). Organizational age and survival. Waseda Business Review, 35: 25-38.


  • 2004, Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects, CEO succession and organizational change in small forms (150 thousand yen ~ about $1,350)


  • Yamanoi, J. (2003). Organizational legitimacy and survival: Implications for future research. The Journal of Business and Economics, 85: 91-102.


  • Yamanoi, J. (2003). Cultural strength, performance, and task environment. The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Commerce, 57: 13-25.


  • Yamanoi, J. (2002). The concept of tacit knowledge in organizations. The Journal of Business and Economics, 83: 53-61.



Recent Graduates (accomplishments while in the Ph.D. Program)


David Baldridge

  • 2001, Inducted into School of Business Alumni Hall of Fame, May


  • Baldridge, D.C., Eddleston, K.A., Golden, T.D., Veiga, J.V. 2000. Saying 'no' to being uprooted: The impact of family and gender on willingness to relocate, presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings in August, 2000, won the "Best Applied Paper Award" from the Career Division of the Academy of Management which included a $1,000 stipend from Fast Company, a leading firm in educational programming.


  • Recipient, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1999-2000, Management Department, University of Connecticut.


  • Nominee, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1998-1999, Management Department, University of Connecticut.


  • Baldridge, D. C. & Veiga, J. F. 1999. Towards a greater understanding of the willingness to request an accommodation: Can requesters' beliefs disable the ADA? Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Also Academy of Management Review.


  • Baldridge, D. C. & Schulze, W. S. 1999. Fairness in family firms: An organizational justice perspective on agency problems. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.


  • Baldridge, D. C., Eddleston, K. A. & Veiga, J. F. 2000. Reluctance to request assistance: When family-friendly programs miss the mark. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Boston MA. One of two papers nominated for the outstanding conceptual paper award.

Kimberly Eddleston

  • Baldridge, D.C., Eddleston, K.A., Golden, T.D., Veiga, J.V. 2000. Saying 'no' to being uprooted: The impact of family and gender on willingness to relocate, presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings in August, 2000, won the "Best Applied Paper Award" from the Career Division of the Academy of Management which included a $1,000 stipend from Fast Company, a leading firm in educational programming.


  • Nominee, Best Experiential Paper Award, 2000, Eastern Academy of Management


  • Nominee, Best Theoretical Paper Award, 2000, Eastern Academy of Management


  • Recipient, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1997-1998, Management Department, University of Connecticut.


  • Nominee, Best Theoretical Paper Award, 1998, Eastern Academy of Management


  • Nominee, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1997-1998, School of Business, University of Connecticut


  • Nominee, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1996-1997, Management Department, University of Connecticut


  • Martins, L.L., Eddleston, K.A., & Veiga, J.F. (In press). Moderators of the relationship between work-family conflict and career satisfaction, Academy of Management Journal.


  • Veiga, J.F., Fox, K., Yanouzas, J.N., & Eddleston, K. 1999. Toward greater understanding in the workplace. Academy of Management Executive, 13(2), 81-87.

Juan Florin

  • Juan's dissertation was selected as one of the two finalists for the 2002 Heizer Award.


  • Outstanding Conceptual Paper, Eastern Academy of Management Meetings, for "Cooperate to learn and Compete" with Michael Lubatkin and Peter Lane, 1997.


  • Nominated for Best Paper Award, Eastern Academy of Management Meetings, for "A cognitive explanation for the influence of culture on strategic choice in international business," Washington DC, 1996.


  • Nominated to the Academy of International Business Doctoral Consortium, 1996.


  • Nominated to the Academy of Management, International Management Division Doctoral Consortium, 1997.


  • Nominated for the 1996 Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award.


  • Florin, J.M. Organizing for efficiency and innovation: The case for non-equity interfirm cooperative arrangements. In Cooperative trategies: North American Perspectives. P. W. Beamish & J.P. Killing, editors. San Francisco, CA: The New Lexington Press, 1997.


  • Jain, S.C. & Florin, J.M. The new international alliance: Gaining competitive advantage based on value-added cooperation. In Global Management. R. Berndt, editor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Timothy Golden

  • Nominee, Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award, 1999-2000, Management Department, University of Connecticut.


  • Baldridge, D.C., Eddleston, K.A., Golden, T.D., Veiga, J.V. 2000. Saying 'no' to being uprooted: The impact of family and gender on willingness to relocate, presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings in August, 2000, won the "Best Applied Paper Award" from the Career Division of the Academy of Management which included a $1,000 stipend from Fast Company, a leading firm in educational programming.

Franz Willi Kellermanns

  • Recipient of Best Student Paper Award for the Southern Management Association Meeting in New Orleans, November, 2001.


  • Nominee, Best Conference Paper Award, International Academy of Business Disciplines, 2000.


  • Summer 2000, Acted as teaching assistant for the Teenage Minority Entrepreneurship Program (TMEP), in which he helped students generate a business plan utilizing Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In addition, he acted as a mentor and role model to the students in regards to encouraging their future career aspirations.

Yan Ling

  • Nominated for the Management 2003 Ph.D. Student Teaching Award at the University of Connecticut.


  • Nominated for the Management 2002 Ph.D. Student Teaching Award at the University of Connecticut.


  • Nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Ling Y. & Powell, G. Work-family conflict in contemporary China: An alternative to the Western model, 2001.


  • Ling, Y., Lubatkin, M. & Schulze, W. 2001. Altruism, utility functions and agency problems at family firms. In C.S. Galbraith (eds.) Strategies and Organizations in Transition, pp. 171-188. UK: Elsevier Science Ltd.


  • Ling, Y. & Powell, G.N. 2001. Work-family conflict in contemporary China: Beyond an American-based model. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 1(3): 357-373.

M. Travis Maynard

  • Mathieu, J.E., Maynard, M.T., Taylor, S., Gilson, L.L. & Ruddy, T.M. (In Press). An examination of the effects of organizational district and team contexts on team processes and performance: A meso-mediational model. Journal of Organizational Behavior.


  • Maynard, M.T., Mathieu, J.E., Marsh, W.M. & Ruddy, T. (In Press). A multi-level investigation of the influences of employees’ resistance to teams and empowerment. Human Performance.


  • 2006, Inducted into School of Business Hall of Fame


  • 2005, Nominated for the Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • 2005, Recipient of the Academy of Management HR Division - Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation Dissertation Grant Award


  • 2005, Recipient of the Gerald & Paul D'Amour Founders' Scholarship for Academic Excellence


  • 2005, Selected participant - OB Doctoral Consortium at the Academy of Management meetings


  • Maynard, M.T., Mathieu, J.E., Marsh, W.M. & Ruddy, T.M. (2005). A multi-level investigation of the influence of employees' resistance to teams and empowerment. Academy of Management Conference, OB Division, Honolulu, Hawaii.


  • Maynard, M.T. (2005). Group potency: Are virtual teams at a developmental disadvantage? Academy of Management Conference, OCIS Division, Honolulu, Hawaii.


  • Mathieu, J.E., Maynard, M.T., Taylor, S., Gilson, L.L. & Ruddy, T. (2005). A meso-mediational model of contextual and work design influences on team processes and performance. Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles, California.


  • Reviewer, Academy of Management annual meeting, OB Division


  • 2004, CIBER grant, University of Connecticut with John E. Mathieu ($5,000)


  • Martins, L.L., Gilson, L.L. & Maynard, M.T. (2004). Virtual teams: What do we know and where do we go from here? Journal of Management, 30: 805-835.


  • 2004, Selected participant - OCIS Doctoral Student Consortium at the Academy of Management meetings


  • 2004, Selected participant - the Doctoral Consortium at the SMA conference


  • Maynard, M.T., Gilson, L.L. & Ammeter, A.P. (2004). Initial trust formation: An integrative model test in short-term project teams. Southern Management Association Conference, OB/OT/OD Track, San Antonio, Texas.


  • Martins, L.L., Gilson, L.L. & Maynard, M.T. (2004). Virtual teams: A review of the literature and future directions. Academy of Management Conference, OCIS/OB Divisions, New Orleans, Louisiana.


  • 2004-2005, Reviewer for the Southern Management Association annual meeting, OB/OT/OD Track


  • 2004, Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Management


  • Maynard, M.T. (2003). The ethical implications of virtual team membership. Academy of Management Conference, OCIS Division, Seattle, Washington.


  • Maynard, M.T. & Taylor, S. (2003). Rethinking the team empowerment nomological network. Academy of Management Conference, OB Division, Seattle, Washington.


  • 2003-2006, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2003-2006, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut


  • 2003-2005, Reviewer, Academy of Management annual meeting, OCIS Division


Rowena Ortiz-Walters

  • Recipient of the University of Connecticut 2003 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.


  • Recipient of the 2001 Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award


  • 2001, Selected to serve as President of the Management Doctoral Students Association (MDSA) of the Ph.D. Project for the upcoming year. The Ph.D. Project was established in 1994 as a partnership of corporations, business schools, the AACSB, and the Graduate Management Admissions Council to increase the ranks of minority business school professors. It encourages underrepresented minorities to earn a business Ph.D., prepares them for the doctoral admissions process, and connects them with doctoral granting institutions.


  • 2000-2003, Served as Assistant Director of The Thomas J. & Bette Wolff Family Program in Entrepreneurship. Duties included inviting and coordinating the campus visits of several successful entrepreneurs for classroom interaction with students.


  • Summer 2000, Acted as teaching assistant for the Teenage Minority Entrepreneurship Program (TMEP), in which she helped students generate a business plan utilizing Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In addition, she acted as a mentor and role model to the students in regards to encouraging their future career aspirations.

Zeki Simsek

  • 1999, Best Paper Review for BPS Division, Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago


  • 1999, Outstanding Paper Reviewer, the 36th annual meeting of Eastern Academy of Management, Philidelphia.


  • Simsek, Z. & Veiga, J.F. 2000. The Electronic Survey Technique: An Integration and Assessment, Organizational Research Methods, 3(1), 92-114.