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Overview

Kimberly D. Elsbach is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a strong emphasis on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their recent scholarly contributions include:

  • Creating High-Impact Literature Reviews: An Argument for 'Integrative Reviews' (2020) published in the Journal of Management Studies
  • The Aesthetic Dimension of Organizing: A Review and Research Agenda (2021) published in Academy of Management Annals
  • Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research (2022) published in the Journal of Management Studies
  • That is So Me/Us (or Not): Exploring the Intersection of Values and Identity (2020) published in Academy of Management Proceedings
  • The Challenge and Opportunity of Navigating Multiple Identities at Work (2020) published in Academy of Management Proceedings

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kimberly D. Elsbach include:

  • Glen E. Kreiner
  • Natalya Alonso
  • Elise B. Jones
  • Daan van Knippenberg
  • Giada Baldessarelli

Elsbach's publications are found predominantly in the following academic venues:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Academy of Management Annals
  • Administrative Science Quarterly

Their research involves several key topics:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Within their broader discipline, subfields in which Kimberly D. Elsbach has contributed include:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

Best Publications

  • Acquiring Organizational Legitimacy Through Illegitimate Actions: A Marriage of Institutional and Impression Management Theories

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Robert I. Sutton

  • Members' Responses to Organizational Identity Threats: Encountering and Countering the Business Week Rankings

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Roderick M. Kramer

  • MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY IN THE CALIFORNIA CATTLE INDUSTRY - THE CONSTRUCTION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VERBAL ACCOUNTS

    Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Defining Who You Are By What You're Not: Organizational Disidentification and The National Rifle Association

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;C. B. Bhattacharya

  • An expanded model of organizational identification

    Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Design Thinking and Organizational Culture: A Review and Framework for Future Research:

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Ileana Stigliani

  • Assessing creativity in Hollywood pitch meetings: Evidence for a dual-process model of creativity judgments.

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Roderick M. Kramer

  • Relating Physical Environment to Self-Categorizations: Identity Threat and Affirmation in a Non-Territorial Office Space

    Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Enhancing Creativity Through “Mindless” Work: A Framework of Workday Design

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Andrew B. Hargadon

  • Averting Expected Challenges Through Anticipatory Impression Management: a Study of Hospital Billing

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Robert I. Sutton;Kristine E. Principe

  • Organizations and Their Institutional Environments—Bringing Meaning, Values, and Culture Back In: Introduction to the Special Research Forum

    Roy Suddaby;Kimberly D. Elsbach;Royston Greenwood;John W. Meyer

  • 4 The Physical Environment in Organizations

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Michael G. Pratt

  • Identifying Situated Cognition in Organizations

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Pamela S. Barr;Andrew B. Hargadon

  • Us versus them: The roles of organizational identification and disidentification in social marketing initiatives

    C.B. Bhattacharya;Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Creating High-Impact Literature Reviews: An Argument for ‘Integrative Reviews’

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Daan van Knippenberg

  • Interpreting workplace identities: the role of office décor

    Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Organizational Perception Management

    Kimberly D Elsbach

  • The Effects of Mood on Individuals' Use of Structured Decision Protocols

    Kimberly D. Elsbach;Pamela S. Barr

  • Ethnography and Experiment in Social Psychological Theory Building: Tactics for Integrating Qualitative Field Data with Quantitative Lab Data

    Gary Alan Fine;Kimberly D. Elsbach

  • Applied Impression Management: How Image-Making Affects Managerial Decisions

    Robert A. Giacalone;Paul Rosenfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick M. Kramer
Roderick M. Kramer Stanford University
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Daan van Knippenberg
Daan van Knippenberg Rice University
Michael G. Pratt
Michael G. Pratt Boston College
Mary Ann Glynn
Mary Ann Glynn Boston College
John W. Meyer
John W. Meyer Stanford University
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis
Robert L. Dipboye
Robert L. Dipboye University of Central Florida
Arthur P. Brief
Arthur P. Brief University of Utah
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University

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