Gareth R. Jones,
Texas A & M University -- College Station Jennifer M. George,
Rice University
ISBN: 0073530220 Copyright year: 2008
About the Authors
Gareth Jones is a Professor of
Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate
School of Business at Texas A&M University. He
received his B.A. in Economics/Psychology and his
Ph.D. in Management from the University of Lancaster,
U.K. He previously held teaching and research
appointments at the University of Warwick, Michigan
State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. He is a frequent visitor and speaker at
universities in both the United Kingdom and the United
States.
He specializes in strategic management and
organizational theory and is well known for his research
that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many
forms of strategic and organizational behavior. He is
currently interested in strategy process, competitive
advantage, and information technology issues. He is
also investigating the relationships between ethics, trust,
and organizational culture and studying the role of affect
in the strategic decision-making process.
He has published many articles in leading journals of
the field, and his recent work has appeared in the
Academy of Management Review,the Journal of
International Business Studies,and Human Relations.
An article on the role of information technology in many
aspects of organizational functioning was published in
the Journal of Management.One of his articles won the
Academy of Management Journal’s Best Paper Award,
and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy
of Management Review.He is or has served on the
editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review,
the Journal of Management,and Management Inquiry.
Gareth Jones has taken his academic knowledge
and used it to craft leading textbooks in management
and three other major areas in the management
discipline: organizational behavior, organizational theory,
and strategic management. His books are widely
recognized for their innovative, contemporary content
and for the clarity with which they communicate
complex, real-world issues to students.
Jennifer George is the Mary Gibbs
Jones Professor of Management and Professor of
Psychology in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of
Management at Rice University. She received her B.A.
in Psychology/Sociology from Wesleyan University, her
M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, and her
Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from
New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rice
University, she was a Professor in the Department of
Management at Texas A&M University.
Professor George specializes in organizational
behavior and is well known for her research on mood
and emotion in the workplace, their determinants, and
their effects on various individual and group-level work
outcomes. She is the author of many articles in leading
peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of
Management Journal, the Academy of Management
Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology,
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Processes, Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology,and Psychological Bulletin.One of her
papers won the Academy of Management’s
Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding
Competitive Paper Award and another paper won the
Human RelationsBest Paper Award. She is, or has
been, on the editorial review boards of the Journal of
Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal,
Academy of Management Review, Administrative
Science Quarterly, Journal of Management,
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Processes, International Journal of Selection and
Assessment,and Journal of Managerial Issues,was a
consulting editor for the Journal of Organizational
Behavior,and was a member of the SIOP
Organizational Frontiers Serieseditorial board. She is a
Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the
American Psychological Society, and the Society for
Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a member
of the Society for Organizational Behavior. Professor
George is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal
of Applied Psychology.She also has co-authored a
widely used textbook titled Understanding and
Managing Organizational Behavior.
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