I am an Associate Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management and the George Cormie Chair in Management at the Alberta School of Business. My research program explores how values pluralism impacts the processes of legitimacy and change, the nature of social evaluations and how organizational theory can be used to understand and address grand challenges. My research has been published in journals such as AMJ, SMJ, JBV, JOM, MISQ and JMS. My forthcoming book, “Bring Business to the Frontlines,” explores how business can both thrive and improve lives in post-conflict environments. I serve on the ASQ editorial board and is a Visiting Professor at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. She received her BBA in Management from the University of Notre Dame and her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
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Publications
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Publications
- Livingston, B., Gloor, J.L., Ward, A.K., Gabriel, A.S., Campbell, J.T., Frieder, R., Patel, A.S., Junker, N.M., Block, E.S., Mandeville, A., Hu, J., Shockley, K.M., Paustain-Underdahl, S., Hillebrandt, A., Otner, S.M.G., French, K.A., Joseph, D.L., Priesmuth, M., Carter, D. & Shoss, M. (Forthcoming). Many Roads to Success: Broadening our Views of Academic Career Paths and Advice. Journal of Management.
- Bartkus, V.O. & Block, E.S. 2024. Business on the Edge: How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places. New York: Basic Books.
- Block, E.S., Broschak, J.P., Koppman, S. & Adjerid, I. (2020). Will We Ever Meet Again? The Relationship Between Inter-agency Mobility and the Circulation of Ties. Journal of Management Studies.
- Block E. S. & Bartkus, V.O. (2019). Learning to Serve: Delivering Partner Value Through Service Learning Projects, Academy of Management Learning and Education. *Each author substantively contributed to the manuscript. ****Runner up: Best Paper AMLE.
- Mannor, M.J., Matta, F.K., Block, E.S., Steinbach, A.L. & Davis, J.H. (2019). A Liability of Breadth? The Conflicting Influences of Experiential Breadth on Perceptions of Founding Teams. Journal of Management.
- Moss, T. W., Renko, M., Block, E., & Meyskens, M. (2018). Funding The Story Of Hybrid Ventures: Crowdfunder Lending Preferences And Linguistic Hybridity. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(5), 643-659.
- Angst, C.M., Block, E.S., D’Arcy, J. & Kelley, K. (2017). When Do IT Security Investments Matter? Accounting for the Influence of Institutional Factors in the Context of Healthcare Data Breaches. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 41(3), 893-916.
- Kraatz, M.S. & Block, E.S. (2017). Institutional Pluralism Revisited. In Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Lawrence, T. B., & Meyer, R. E. (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism. Second edition. Los Angeles, California: SAGE Reference.
- Block, E.S., Glavas, A., Mannor, M.J., & Erskine, L. (2017). Business for Good? An Investigation into the Strategies Firms Use to Maximize the Impact of Financial Corporate Philanthropy on Employee Attitudes. Journal of Business Ethics, 146(1), 167-183.
- Moss, T.W., Meyskens, M. & Block, E.S. (2016). Social Ventures and the Effectiveness of Hybrid Logics. Frontiers in Entrepreneurship Research, 36(15), Article 2.
- Greenwood, R., Jennings, D. & Block, E.S. (2016). “Decoupling Rape” by Gail Whiteman and William H. Cooper: Two Comments. Academy of Management Discoveries, 3(1), 95-98.
- Broschak, J.P. & Block, E.S. (2014). With or Without You: When Does Managerial Exit Matter for the Dissolution of Dyadic Market Ties? Academy of Management Journal, 57(3), 743-765.
- Block, E.S. & Erskine, L. (2012). Interviewing by Telephone: Specific Considerations, Opportunities, and Challenges. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 11(4), 428-445.
- Mishina, Y., Block, E.S. & Mannor, M.J. (2012). The Path Dependence of Organizational Reputation: How Social Judgment Influences Assessments of Capability and Character. Strategic Management Journal, 33(5), 459-477. Oxford University Best Reputation Paper.
- Mishina, Y., Johnson, B.J., Block, E.S. & Pollack, T.G. (2010). Why “Good” Firms Do Bad Things: The Effects Of High Aspirations, High Expectations, And Prominence On The Incidence Of Corporate Illegality. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4), 701-722. *****Nominated for Best Paper, AMJ 2010.
- Broschak, J.P., Davis-Blake, A. & Block, E.S. (2008). Nonstandard, not substandard: The relationship between work arrangements, work attitudes and job performance. Work and Occupations, 35(1), 3-43. Work and Occupations is a top 10 Industrial and Labor Relations Journal.
- Kraatz, M.S. & Block, E.S. (2008). Organizational implications of institutional pluralism. In Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Suddaby, R., & Sahlin, K. (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism. Los Angeles, California: SAGE. (Google Scholar citations Feb 2019: 1027).