W. Gibb Dyer

O.L. Stone Professor of Entrepreneurship
Academic Director, Center for Economic Self-Reliance
Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Department of

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Office: 570 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-2666
Email: w_dyer@byu.edu
Expertise:
  • Economic development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Family-owned business
  • Organizational Change and Development
Research:
  • characteristics of effective family firms
  • entrepreneurship and organization development
  • economic development
Education:
  • PHD, Management Philosophy, MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TEC, 1984
  • MBA, INST OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1979
  • BS, Psychology, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1977
Group Affiliations:
  • Organizational Behavior/Human Resources - Primary
Selected Publications:
  • "MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid," Edition First, Elgar, Northampton, MA, Fairbourne, Gibson, and Dyer, July, 2007    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance," Edition Fourth, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, February, 2007    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Examining the "Family Effect" on Firm Performance," Family Business Review Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 253-273, December, 2006    
  • "Family Firms and Social Performance: Preliminary Evidence from the S & P 500," Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 785-802, Blackwell, November, 2006    
  • "The Family: The Missing Variable in Organzational Research," Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 401-416, June, 2003    
  • "Consulting to Family Businesses," Wiley, NY, 2003    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Training Human Resource Champions for the 21st Century," Human Resource Management 1999    
  • "Organization Development in the Entrepreneurial Firm," Journal of Applied Behavior Science Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 190-208, January, 1997    
  • "Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Careers," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 1994    
  • "The Entrepreneurial Experience: Confronting Career Dilemmas of the Start-up Executive," 1992    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Cultural Change in Family Firms: Anticipating and Managing Business and Family Transitions," 1986    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
Experience:
   Teaching
  • Visiting Professor, IESE, Barcelona Spain, 1997
  • Director, Master of Organizational Behavior Program, Brigham Young University, 1993-2000
   Professional
  • Academy of Management
  • Family Firm Institute
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Bath, 2005
Awards:
  • Research Scholar , Family Owned Business Institute , 2008
  • Outstanding Faculty Award , Marriott School of Management , 2008
  • Teaching Award , Division of Continuing Education, Brigham Young University , 2007
  • Research Fellow , Raymond Institute for Family Business , 2001
  • Ascendant Scholar Award , Western Academy of Management , 1991
  • Godparent Award , Family Firm Institute , 1991
  • Leavy Award for Private Enterprise Education , Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge , 1990
  • Family Business Research Award , Chicago Family Business Council , 1987
Languages:
  • Japanese
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