Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Opening Remarks: What is Influential Management Research and Why is it Important?
Xiao-Ping Chen and H. Kevin Steensma

Chapter 1: Why the Heck Did That Happen?: The Alchemy of Theory-Building
Blake E. Ashforth

Chapter 2: Cultural Intelligence: Two Bowls Singing
Soon Ang

Chapter 3: Making Sense of a Seemingly Random Walk: A Path Toward Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and How to Avoid the Pitfalls Along the Way
James D. Westphal

Chapter 4: What I Have Learned in My Journey as a Scholar
Sigal Goland Barsade

Chapter 5: From One Empirical Paper to One Hundred and Fifty: Performance Feedback Research
Henrich R. Greve

Chapter 6: Embedded Entrepreneurship
Olav Sorenson

Chapter 7: My Journey with Justice: Brainstorming About Scholarly Influence and Longevity
Jason A. Colquitt

Chapter 8: Careers as Stochastic Excursions: A Personal Confession
Hayagreeva Rao

Chapter 9: Building a Systematic Program of Research into Employee Creativity and Innovation
Jing Zhou

Chapter 10: Fostering Enterprise: The Journey as the Destination
Rajshree Agarwal

Chapter 11: Tales from a Late Bloomer: Ten Principles for Influential Scholarship
Sandra L. Robinson

Chapter 12: Messages to My Younger Self
Anita M. McGahan

Toward a Process Model for Influential Scholarship: A Synopsis and Integration of Our Contributors' Stories
H. Kevin Steensma and Xiao-Ping Chen

About the Author

Xiao-Ping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor of Management in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington.

H. Kevin Steensma is Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Management in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington.