David A. Whetten

Jack Wheatley Professor
Director, BYU Faculty Center
Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Department of

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Office: 4450 WSC
Phone: (801) 422-6400
Email: dwhetten@byu.edu
Office hours: By Appointment
Home Page: marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/daw4/
Expertise:
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Organizational Change and Development
  • Organizational Identity
Research:
  • Organizational Identity
  • Organizational Values
Education:
  • PHD, Organizational Behavior, Cornell University, 1974
  • MS, Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1971
  • BS, Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1970
Group Affiliations:
  • Organizational Behavior/Human Resources - Primary
  • Ethics, Values, Social Responsibility - Secondary
Selected Publications:
  • "Modeling Theoretical Propositions," Designing Research for Publication Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, Anne Huff, December, 2009    
  • "Closing Comments: Reflections on What Matters Most," The Virtuous Organization World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, C. C. Manz, K. S. Cameron, K. P. Manz, R. D. Marx, October, 2008    
  • "Introducing AMLE's Special Section on Learning and Education Research Databases," Academy of Management Learning and Education Volume 7, Issue 1, March, 2008    
  • "Rethinking the Relationship Between Reputation and Legitimacy: A Social Actor Conceptualization," Corporate Reputation Review Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 192-207, December, 2008    
  • "A critique of organizational identity scholarship: Challenging the uncritical use of social identity theory when social identities are also social actors," Identity and the Modern Organization Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, Caroline A. Bartel, Steven L. Blader, Amy Wrzesniewski, April, 2007    
  • "Developing Management Skills," Edition 7th, Prentice Hall, Saddle River, NJ, January, 2007    
  • "Principles of effective course design: What I wish I had known about learning-centered teaching 30 years ago," Journal of Management Education Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 339-357, Sage Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA, June, 2007    
  • "Albert and Whetten Revisited: Strengthening the Concept of Organizational Identity," Journal of Management Inquiry Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 219-234, Sage Publications, September, 2006    
  • "Identity, Intended Image, Construed Image, and Reputation: An Interdisciplinary Framework and Suggested Terminology," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science Volume XX, Issue X, October, 2005    
  • "What are the Responsibilities of Business to Society?," Sage Publications, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi, Andrew Pettigrew, Howard Thomas, & Richard Whittington, January, 2002    
  • "Members Identification with Multiple-Identity Organizations," Organization Science Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 618-635, November, 2002    
  • "A Social Actor Conception of Organizational Identity and Its Implications for the Study of Organizational Reputation," Business & Society Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 393-414, December, 2002    
  • "Modelling-as-Theorizing: A Systematic Methodology for Theory Development in Essential Skills for Management Research," Sage Publications, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi, David Partington, April, 2002    
  • "Constructing Cross-Context Scholarly Conversations in The Management of Enterprises in the Peoples Republic of China," Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London, Anne S. Tsui and Chung-Ming Lau, April, 2002    
Experience:
   Teaching
  • Director, Faculty Center, Brigham Young University, 1996
  • Professor, Brigham Young University, 1994
  • Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1974-1994
   Professional
  • Journals Policy Task Force Chair, Academy of Management, 2005-2006
  • Institutional Representative to International Federation of Scholarly Associations, Academy of Management, 1999-2002
  • President, Academy of Management, 1999-2000
  • Vice President, Conference Program Chair, Academy of Management, 1997-1998
  • Vice President Elect, Pre-Conference Progam Chair, Academy of Management, 1996-1997
  • Chair, Distinguished Scholar and Educator Awards Committee, Academy of Management, 1995
  • Series Editor, Foundations for Organizational Science, 1991-2005
  • Editor, Academy of Management Review, 1988-1990
  • Board of Governors, Academy of Management, 1988-1990
  • Chair, Organizational Management and Theory Division, Academy of Management, 1986-1987
  • Associate Editor, Administration and Society, 1982-1996
Awards:
  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Organizational and Management Theory Division , Academy of Management , 2004
  • Distinguished Service Award , Academy of Management , 1994
  • David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award , Organizational Behavior Teaching Society , 1992
  • Fellow , Academy of Management , 1991
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