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D-Index
57
Citations
21092
World Ranking
1725
National Ranking
829

Overview

J. Keith Murnighan was affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the fields of business, management, and accounting, focusing on subfields such as strategy and management, organizational behavior and human resource management, and management information systems.

Their research addressed several key topics including innovation and knowledge management, customer service quality and loyalty, and outsourcing and supply chain management.

Murnighan's recent publication record includes a paper titled The reconstitution of broken interfirm relations, published in 2021 in the journal Long Range Planning. This paper has attracted citations and reflects collaboration with coauthors such as León Poblete and Mark S. Mizruchi.

  • León Poblete
  • Mark S. Mizruchi

  • Long Range Planning

Their work has been disseminated primarily through this journal, indicating a focus on outlets that deal with long-term strategic planning and related subjects.

Best Publications

  • Demographic Diversity and Faultlines: The Compositional DYnamics of Organizational Groups

    Dora C. Lau;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Unfairness, Anger, and Spite: Emotional Rejections of Ultimatum Offers

    Madan M. Pillutla;J.Keith Murnighan

  • Interactions Within Groups and Subgroups: The Effects of Demographic Faultlines

    Dora C. Lau;J. Keith Murnighan

  • The Emergence of Norms in Competitive Decision-Making Groups.

    Kenneth Bettenhausen;J. Keith Murnighan

  • The Dynamics of Intense Work Groups: A Study of British String Quartets

    J. Keith Murnighan;Donald E. Conlon

  • The Effects of Contracts on Interpersonal Trust

    Deepak Malhotra;J. Keith Murnighan

  • When Talk Is Not Cheap: Substantive Penance and Expressions of Intent in Rebuilding Cooperation

    William P. Bottom;Kevin Gibson;Steven E. Daniels;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Striving for the Moral Self: The Effects of Recalling Past Moral Actions on Future Moral Behavior:

    Jennifer Jordan;Elizabeth Mullen;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Deception and Retribution in Repeated Ultimatum Bargaining.

    Terry L. Boles;Rachel T.A. Croson;J. Keith Murnighan

  • THE ROLE OF INFORMATION IN BARGAINING: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY'

    Alvin E. Roth;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Economics Education and Greed

    Long Wang;Deepak Malhotra;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Towards a competitive arousal model of decision-making: A study of auction fever in live and Internet auctions

    Gillian Ku;Deepak Malhotra;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Equilibrium behavior and repeated play of the prisoner's dilemma

    Alvin E Roth;J.Keith Murnighan

  • The Development of an Intragroup Norm and the Effects of Interpersonal and Structural Challenges

    Kenneth L. Bettenhausen;J. Keith Murnighan

  • NORMAL ACTS OF IRRATIONAL TRUST: MOTIVATED ATTRIBUTIONS AND THE TRUST DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

    J.Mark Weber;Deepak Malhotra;J.Keith Murnighan

  • An experimental investigation of ultimatum games: information, fairness, expectations, and lowest acceptable offers

    Paul G. Straub;J.Keith Murnighan

  • Ultimatum bargaining by children and adults

    J.Keith Murnighan;Michael Scott Saxon

  • The Deadline Effect in Bargaining: Some Experimental Evidence

    Alvin E. Roth;J. Keith Murnighan;Francoise Schoumaker

  • Dormant Ties: The Value Of Reconnecting

    Daniel Z. Levin;Jorge Walter;J. Keith Murnighan

  • Cheap talk in bargaining experiments: lying and threats in ultimatum games

    Rachel Croson;Terry Boles;J.Keith Murnighan

  • Attributions of trust and the calculus of reciprocity

    Madan M Pillutla;Deepak Malhotra;J Keith Murnighan

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Donald E. Conlon
Donald E. Conlon Michigan State University
David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
David M. Boje
David M. Boje New Mexico State University
Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest Tilburg University
Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick Goethe University Frankfurt
Jeanne M. Brett
Jeanne M. Brett Northwestern University
Peter J. Carnevale
Peter J. Carnevale University of Southern California
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson Northwestern University

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