Bio of Tim Pollock
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Professor of Management |
Personal Homepage:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14
Introduction
Dr. Pollock is a Professor of Management and Organization in the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. His research explores the role social resources such as reputation, celebrity, social capital, legitimacy and power play in shaping corporate governance activities, strategic choice, and the IPO market. Dr. Pollock has won the 1997 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition and the 2000 Lou Pondy Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for the best paper based on dissertation research. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Human Communication Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and other journals. Dr. Pollock also sits on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Organization, and has previously served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from AMJ for his reviewing efforts in 2003-2004. He is currently a representative-at-large for the OMT Division of the Academy of Management, and a member of the Executive Committee for the College of Organization Science of INFORMS.
Prior to joining Smeal Dr. Pollock was an Assistant Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland from 2002-2004, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business from 1998-2002. Dr. Pollock was the 2002 recipient of the Mabel C. Chipman Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Wisconsin School of Business, and was named one of the Top Five MBA professors in 2000 by the Graduate Student Association.
Current Research
Dr. Pollock's current research focuses on the social construction of entrepreneurial market environments, particularly the initial public offerings (IPO) market. He considers how social and political factors such as reputation, celebrity, social networks, impression management activities, media accounts, and the power of different actors influence IPO firm performance, survival, alliance formations, and executive recruitment and compensation. He is also interested in sensemaking by entrepreneurs, and how entrepreneurs' experience and organizational resource endowments affect their strategic decision making.
Publication List
J.R. Detert & T.G. Pollock, "Values, interests and the capacity to act: Understanding professionals' responses to market-based improvement initiatives in highly institutionalized organizations", Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 44(2), 186-214.
J.B. Wade, J.F. Porac, T.G. Pollock & S.D. Graffin, "Star CEOs: Benefit or burden?", Organizational Dynamics, 37(2), 203-210.
T.G. Pollock, V.P. Rindova & P.G. Maggitti, "Market watch: Information and availability cascades among the media and investors in the U.S. IPO market", Academy of Management Journal, April 2008, 51(2), 335-358.
T.G. Pollock & R. Gulati, "Standing out from the crowd: The availability enhancing effects of IPO-related signals on alliance formation by entrepreneurial firms", Strategic Organization, Winter 2007, 5(4), 339-372.
T. Baker & T.G. Pollock, "Making the marriage work: The benefits of strategy's takeover of entrepreneurship for strategic organization", Strategic Organization, Fall 2007, 5(3), 297-312.
J.B. Wade, T.G. Pollock & C.A. O'Reilly III, "Overpaid CEOs and Underpaid Managers: Fairness and Executive Compensation", Organization Science, 9/1/2006, 17(5), 527-544.
J.B. Wade, J.F. Porac, T.G. Pollock & S.D. Graffin, "The Burden of Celebrity: The Impact of CEO Certification Contests on CEO Pay and Performance", Academy of Management Journal, 8/1/2006, 49(4), 643-660.
T.G. Pollock & H.M. Fischer, "Effects of Social Capital and Power on Surviving Transformational Change: The Case of Initial Public Offerings", Academy of Management Journal, 8/1/2004, 47, 463-481.
M.L.A. Hayward V.P. Rindova & T.G. Pollock, "Believing One's Own Press: The Antecedents and Consequences of Chief Executive Officer Celebrity", Strategic Management Journal, 7/1/2004, 25(7), 637-653.
T.G. Pollock, J.F. Porac & J.B. Wade, "Constructing Deal Networks: Brokers as Network 'Architects' in the U.S. IPO Market and Other Examples", Academy of Management Review, 1/1/2004, 29(1), 637-653.
V.P. Rindova, T.G. Pollock & M.L.A. Hayward, "Celebrity Firms: The Social Construction of Market Popularity", Academy of Management Review, 1/1/2006, 31(1), 50-71.
Y. Mishina, T.G. Pollock & J.F. Porac, "Are More Resources Always Better for Growth? Resource Stickiness in Market and Product Expansion", Strategic Management Journal, 12/1/2004, 25, 1179-1197.
T.G Pollock, "The Benefits and Costs of Underwriters' Social Capital in the U.S. Initial Public Offerings Market", Strategic Organization, 11/1/2004, 2(4), 357-388.
Education
Ph.D.,
Organizational Behavior,
University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1998
MBA,
Management,
University of Texas-Austin,
1990
B.S.,
Finance,
Northern Illinois University,
1988
Courses
MGMT 538, Seminar in Organization Theory (PhD)
MGMT 565, Power and Influence (MBA)
BA 571, Strategic Management (MBA and EMBA)
MGMT 591, Organizational Research Design (PhD)