Smeal College Management Ph.D. Graduate Wins Dissertation Award

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Kevin Corley, a 2002 Ph.D. graduate in Management from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business and now an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois, won the 2003 William H. Newman Award for the best paper based on a dissertation during the Academy of Management’s recent annual meeting in Seattle.

Up to three single-authored papers that address a significant organizational phenomenon receive the Newman Award each year. All award-eligible papers must be based on doctoral dissertations completed within the past three years.

Entitled “Breaking Away: An Empirical Examination of How Organizational Identity Changes During A Spin-Off,” Corley’s dissertation steps beyond traditional research on organizational identity, which has largely been confined to the stable aspects of organizations. His research reports on the processes involved in one organization’s identity change during its spin-off from a parent organization.

As a Ph.D. candidate at Smeal, Corley was mentored by Dennis Gioia, Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Linda Klebe Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

Also during the Academy meeting, Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy. Read more about Habrick’s honor at ( http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar03/hambrick.html ).

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