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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

James D. Westphal is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research activities center primarily on business, management, and accounting, with a notable focus on strategy and management. They have contributed to several subfields, including accounting, organizational behavior and human resource management, gender studies, and safety research.

The main topics covered in their work include corporate social responsibility reporting, corporate finance and governance, management and organizational studies, gender diversity and inequality, experimental behavioral economics studies, political influence and corporate strategies, and management theory and practice.

Westphal's recent publications feature studies across several prominent academic journals. These include:

  • Structural power, corporate strategy, and performance, 2020, Strategic Management Journal
  • Shareholder Politics: The Influence of Investors' Political Affiliations on Corporate Social Responsibility, 2023, Journal of Management
  • Systemic Symbolic Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Corporate Purpose: A Cautionary Tale, 2023, Strategy Science
  • From Help to Harm: Increases in Status, Perceived Under-Reciprocation, and the Consequences for Access to Strategic Help and Social Undermining Among Female, Racial Minority, and White Male Top Managers, 2021, Organization Science
  • Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo-related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors, 2022, Strategic Management Journal

Westphal frequently publishes in venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Strategy Science, and Organization Science.

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  • Sam Garg
  • Donald C. Hambrick
  • Margarethe F. Wiersema
  • Mark R. DesJardine

Westphal has been recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. Their work spans multiple interdisciplinary topics connecting corporate governance, strategy, and social responsibility with empirical and theoretical insights.

Best Publications

  • Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption

    James D. Westphal;Ranjay Gulati;Stephen M. Shortell

  • Substance and Symbolism in CEOs' Long-Term Incentive Plans

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • The Strategic Context of External Network Ties: Examining the Impact of Director Appointments on Board Involvement in Strategic Decision Making

    Mason A. Carpenter;James D. Westphal

  • Collaboration in the Boardroom: Behavioral and Performance Consequences of CEO-Board Social Ties

    James D. Westphal

  • Who Shall Govern? CEO/Board Power, Demographic Similarity, and New Director Selection

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • Director reputation, CEO-board power, and the dynamics of board interlocks

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • SUBSTANCE AND SYMBOLISM IN CEOS' LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLANS.

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • The symbolic management of stockholders: Corporate governance reforms and shareholder reactions

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • How Experience and Network Ties Affect the Influence of Demographic Minorities on Corporate Boards

    James D. Westphal;Laurie P. Milton

  • Decoupling policy from practice: The case of stock repurchase programs

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • Who directs strategic change? Director experience, the selection of new CEOs, and change in corporate strategy

    James D. Westphal;James W. Fredrickson

  • Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • Cooperative or Controlling? The Effects of CEO-Board Relations and the Content of Interlocks on the Formation of Joint Ventures

    Ranjay Gulati;James D. Westphal

  • Collaboration in the Boardroom: Behavioral and Performance Consequences of CEO-Board Social Ties

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  • The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • The Costs and Benefits of Managerial Incentives and Monitoring in Large U.S. Corporations: When is More not Better?

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • DIRECTOR REPUTATION, CEO/BOARD POWER, AND THE DYNAMICS OF BOARD INTERLOCKS.

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • Accounting for the Explanations of CEO Compensation: Substance and Symbolism

    Edward J. Zajac;James D. Westphal

  • Getting by with the Advice of Their Friends: CEOs' Advice Networks and Firms' Strategic Responses to Poor Performance

    Michael L. McDonald;James D. Westphal

  • Defections from the Inner Circle: Social Exchange, Reciprocity, and the Diffusion of Board Independence in U.S. Corporations

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

  • Board Games: How CEOs Adapt to Increases in Structural Board Independence from Management

    James D. Westphal

  • Pluralistic Ignorance in Corporate Boards and Firms' Strategic Persistence in Response to Low Firm Performance:

    James D. Westphal;Michael K. Bednar

  • Keeping Directors in Line: Social Distancing as a Control Mechanism in the Corporate Elite

    James D. Westphal;Poonam Khanna

  • A Behavioral Theory of Corporate Governance: Explicating the Mechanisms of Socially Situated and Socially Constituted Agency

    James D. Westphal;Edward J. Zajac

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Zajac
Edward J. Zajac Northwestern University
Ranjay Gulati
Ranjay Gulati Harvard University
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Aparna Joshi
Aparna Joshi Pennsylvania State University
Donald C. Hambrick
Donald C. Hambrick Pennsylvania State University
Albert A. Cannella
Albert A. Cannella Texas A&M University

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