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Overview

Gerry McNamara is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on subfields including Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Gender Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Information Systems.

Their work covers various interconnected topics within management and organizational studies. The main topics of their research include Corporate Finance and Governance, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Economic Growth and Development, and Management and Organizational Studies.

McNamara's publication record features papers in a range of academic venues. They have contributed to the Academy of Management Proceedings with 13 publications, Academy of Management Annals with 3, Journal of Management Studies with 3, as well as articles in Strategic Organization and Personnel Psychology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McNamara include:

  • What Constitutes a Contribution at JOM?, 2024, Journal of Management
  • An Integrative Review of the Emerging Behavioral Acquisition Literature: Charting the Next Decade of Research, 2020, Academy of Management Annals
  • The role of top management teams in firm responses to performance shortfalls, 2020, Strategic Organization
  • Reflecting on one's best possible self as a leader: Implications for professional employees at work, 2021, Personnel Psychology
  • Women in the C-Suite: A Review of Predictors, Experiences, and Outcomes, 2022, Academy of Management Annals

McNamara frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Stefan Wuorinen, Kalin D. Kolev, Lingling Pan, Cynthia E. Devers, and Jerayr Haleblian.

Best Publications

  • Taking Stock of What We Know About Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda

    Jerayr Haleblian;Cynthia E. Devers;Gerry McNamara;Mason A. Carpenter

  • Strategic Management: Text and Cases

    Gregory G. Dess;G. T Lumpkin;Alan B. Eisner

  • CLEANING UP THE BIG MUDDY: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF THE DETERMINANTS OF ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT

    Dustin J. Sleesman;Donald E. Conlon;Gerry McNamara;Jonathan E. Miles

  • Motivated to acquire? The impact of ceo regulatory focus on firm acquisitions

    Daniel L. Gamache;Gerry McNamara;Michael J. Mannor;Russell E. Johnson

  • Publishing in AMJ—Part 2: Research Design

    Joyce E. Bono;Gerry McNamara

  • Moving Closer to the Action: Examining Compensation Design Effects on Firm Risk

    Cynthia E. Devers;Gerry McNamara;Robert M. Wiseman;Mathias Arrfelt

  • Competitive positioning within and across a strategic group structure: the performance of core, secondary, and solitary firms

    Gerry McNamara;David L. Deephouse;Rebecca A. Luce

  • Same as it ever was: The search for evidence of increasing hypercompetition

    Gerry McNamara;Paul M. Vaaler;Cynthia Devers

  • Examining the effect of complexity in strategic group knowledge structures on firm performance

    Gerry M. Mcnamara;Rebecca A. Luce;George H. Tompson

  • The Performance Implications of Participating in an Acquisition Wave: Early Mover Advantages, Bandwagon Effects, and The Moderating Influence of Industry Characteristics and Acquirer Tactics

    Gerry M. Mcnamara;Jerayr (John) Haleblian;Bernadine Johnson Dykes

  • DECISION MAKING IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING: COGNITIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCES ON RISK ASSESSMENT IN COMMERCIAL LENDING

    Gerry McNamara;Philip Bromiley

  • Responding to Bad Press: How CEO Temporal Focus Influences the Sensitivity to Negative Media Coverage of Acquisitions

    Daniel L. Gamache;Gerry McNamara

  • Risk and Return in Organizational Decision Making

    Gerry McNamara;Philip Bromiley

  • Exploring firm characteristics that differentiate leaders from followers in industry merger waves: a competitive dynamics perspective

    Jerayr John Haleblian;Gerry McNamara;Kalin Kolev;Bernadine J. Dykes

  • Banking on commitment: Intended and unintended consequences of an organization's attempt to attenuate escalation of commitment

    Gerry McNamara;Henry Moon;Philip Bromiley

  • Controlling Decision-Making Practice in Organizations

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Gerry McNamara

  • Crisis and Competition in Expert Organizational Decision Making: Credit-Rating Agencies and Their Response to Turbulence in Emerging Economies

    Paul M. Vaaler;Gerry McNamara

  • Is performance driven by industry‐ or firm‐specific factors? A response to Hawawini, Subramanian, and Verdin

    Gerry McNamara;Federico Aime;Paul M. Vaaler

  • Give it to us straight (most of the time): Top managers’ use of concrete language and its effect on investor reactions

    Lingling Pan;Lingling Pan;Gerry McNamara;Jennifer J Lee;Jerayr John Haleblian

  • Putting Escalation of Commitment in Context: A Multilevel Review and Analysis

    Dustin J. Sleesman;Anna C. Lennard;Gerry McNamara;Donald E. Conlon

  • Examining a key corporate role: The influence of capital allocation competency on business unit performance

    Mathias Arrfelt;Robert M. Wiseman;Gerry McNamara;G. Tomas M. Hult

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Conlon
Donald E. Conlon Michigan State University
Philip Bromiley
Philip Bromiley University of California, Irvine
Russell E. Johnson
Russell E. Johnson Michigan State University
Joyce E. Bono
Joyce E. Bono University of Florida
Frederick P. Morgeson
Frederick P. Morgeson Michigan State University
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Johns Hopkins University
G. Tomas M. Hult
G. Tomas M. Hult Michigan State University

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