May 17, 2019

Ji Youn (Rose) Kim's coauthored paper (with Emily Pahnke, Michael Howard and Warren Boeker), "Bankers or Brokers? For Favored Firms, VCs Invest More than Dollars" has been chosen for a Schulze Publication Award for 2018. 


May 17, 2019

Scott Soltis' professional development workshop, “Building a Research Community: Advancing a Social Network Paradigm in Human Resource Management" (to be presented at the upcoming Academy of Management Meetings in Boston), was selected for a $1,000 sponsorship from Boston University.


May 17, 2019

Ph.D. students Jason Ross and Ajay Mehra's paper, “The Role of Memory and Cognition (vs. Activity and Behavior) in Social Networks," has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming Academy of Management Meetings in Boston. The symposium was accepted by three divisions (Organization and Management Theory, Management and Organizational Communications, and Organizational Behavior) and was chosen by the Organizational Behavior division as a "showcase Symposium", which is in the top 10% of symposia accepted, and is expected to attract a large audience.


May 17, 2019

Dan Halgin has received the 2019 Honors Pathways Faculty of Excellence Award, given by students in the Social Enterprise and Global Scholars Honors programs.


March 18, 2019

On March 8, Ji Youn (Rose) Kim presented her paper, "The influence of Venture Capital Syndicate Size on Venture Performance" as a guest speaker for Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Speaker Series at the University of Connecticut.


February 23, 2019

The Department of Management hosted the 2019 Mid-South Management Research Consortium, organized by Wally Ferrier and Joe Labianca, February 22-24, at the Gatton College. Albert Cannella, Texas A&M University, presented the keynote address, "Strategic Leadership Research in the Digital Age".

University of Kentucky presenters included:

Joyti Gupta, "Celebrity CEO: A Network Perspective"

Jason Ross, "Toward a Theory of Dormant Ties"


February 23, 2019

As part of the LINKS Center Distinguished Scholar lecture series, Michael Jensen, University of Michigan, presented his research, "The Paradox of Awards: How Status Ripples Affect Who Benefits From CEO Awards", on February 22. 


January 14, 2019

Dan Brass and Steve Borgatti's research, Brass, D. J. & Borgatti, S.P. (2018). "Multilevel thoughts on social networks," has been published in J. M. LeBurton & S. Humphrey (Eds.), The Handbook for Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis, 187-200. Washington DC, American Psychological Association. 


January 14, 2019

Scott Soltis and Dan Brass' research (Soltis, S. M., Brass, D. J. & Lepak, D. M.), "Social Resource Management: An Integration of Social Networks and Human Resource Management", has been published in Academy of Management Annuals.


November 19, 2018

Several Management faculty members presented their research at the Southern Management Association Meetings held in Lexington on November 6-10. Huiwen Lian presented "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When and Why Supervisor Directed Citizenship Behaviors Lead to Abusive Supervison" with Ji Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dan Brass, Flora Chiang (China Europe International business School), and Thomas Birtch (University of South Australia).