Shad Morris

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Biography

Shad Morris is the William F. Edwards Distinguished Fellow and Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. In addition to co-authoring 5 books on people management and international business, he has over 30 scholarly publications in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review. In addition, Professor Morris conducts research and consults on how to align people and teams with global strategies. He has been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business, China Europe International Business School, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Research Fellow at Cambridge University. He has also received numerous awards for his international research, including one of the top research awards from the Academy of Management. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for the World Bank, for Management Systems International, and for Alcoa.

Selected Publications

• "Abstract versus Concrete: How Managers’ Construal Influences Organizational Control Systems and Problem Solving", Organization Science, Volume Forthcoming, 2021
• "Dancing with the Stars: The Practical Value of Theory in Managing Star Employees", Academy of Management Perspectives, 2021
• "Time for Realignment: How Complex Adaptive Systems Can Help Reframe SHRM Research", Academy of Management Perspectives, 2021
• "Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles: The Case of Business School Associate Deans", Academy of Management Journal, Volume In-press, 2021
• "Principles or Templates? The Antecedents and Performance Effects of Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer", Strategic Management Journal, Volume 40, 2019
• "Human Capital in Strategy 2008-2018", Strategic Management Journal, 2019
• "Reading the Stars: Determining Human Capital’s Value in the Competitive Hiring Process", Human Resource Management, Volume 57, 2018
• "Firm-Specific Human Capital Investments as a Signal of General Value: Revisiting Assumptions about Human Capital and How it is Managed", Strategic Management Journal, Volume 38, 2017
• "An architectural framework for global talent management", Volume 47, Journal of International Business Studies, 2016
• "Going the distance: The pros and cons of expanding employees’ global knowledge reach", Edition 5, Volume 46, Journal of International Business Studies, 2015
• "The importance of client heterogeneity in predicting make-or-buy decisions", Volume 33, Journal of Operations Management, 2015
• "Changing routine: reframing performance management within a multinational", Volume 52, Journal of Management Studies, 2015
• "A Microfoundations Approach to Transnational Capabilities: The Role of Knowledge Search in an Ever-Changing World", Journal of International Business Studies, 2014
• "Adaptations to Knowledge Templates in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: The Role of Social Interaction", Volume 8, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2014
• "Scarce Human Capital in Managerial Labor Markets", Volume 40, Journal of Management, 2014
• "Catching falling stars: A human resource response to social capital’s detrimental effect of information overload for star employees", Academy of Management Review, Volume 37, 2012
• "Six Principles of Effective Global Talent Management", MIT Sloan Management Review, Volume 53, 2012
• "Intellectual Capital Configurations and Organizational Capability: An Empirical Examination of Human Resource Subunits in the Multinational Enterprise", Journal of International Business Studies, Volume 42, 2011
• "Context-bound configurations of corporate HR functions in multinational corporations around the globe", Human Resource Management, Volume 49, 2010
• "Dynamic HR: Global Applications from IBM", Human Resource Management, Volume 48, 2009
• "Global Challenges to Replicating HR: The Role of People, Processes, and Systems", Human Resource Management, Volume 48, 2009
• "To Boost Knowledge Transfer, Tell Me a Story", Harvard Business Review, Volume 87, 2009
• "Relational archetypes, organizational learning, and value creation: Extending the human resource architecture", Volume 32, Academy of Management Review, 2007

Languages

• Bulgarian

Professional Citizenship

• Academy of Management Review, Editor, Associate Editor, July 2020