Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professors S. Kim, Gunia Win Major Awards for Research Papers
Aug. 30, 2011 -- Two new members of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School faculty have won major awards for papers based on their research.
Sharon H. Kim was named the winner of the 2011 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) at its annual meeting this month in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, it was announced this week that Brian C. Gunia has received the 2011 Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award, which is sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and the International Leadership Association (ILA).
The Newman Award honors a single-authored paper derived from a doctoral dissertation completed within the past three years. Kim’s winning paper, “Selling out: How impressions of materialism influence creative evaluations and performance,” examines how the work of creative professionals in an organization can receive an unfairly low rating if they are somehow judged to be materialistic and thus at odds with the personality type expected of creative people.
The Academy of Management has about 19,000 members from more than 110 nations. Eighteen scholars were nominated for the Newman Award. Of the five eventual finalists, Kim wasn’t the only Carey Business School faculty member; they also included Carey’s Gunia, whose AOM entry, “The blame-taker’s dilemma: Actions and reactions in the wake of organizational failure,” was the same paper that subsequently won him the Clark Award.
“The blame-taker’s dilemma” -- which investigates the organizational dynamics that govern the explanations for organizational failure and documents a potential disconnect between blame-taking actions and reactions -- was judged the best of 78 papers submitted for the Clark Award by scholars from around the world. The ILA has invited Gunia to present a colloquium based on his paper at the group’s conference this October in London.
“Our school can take great pride in the remarkable fact that two of its newest professors, Sharon Kim and Brian Gunia, were among the five finalists for the Newman Award,” says Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Interim Dean and Professor Phillip H. Plan. “The icing on the cake, of course, is that Sharon was the eventual Newman Award winner, leading a field that included some of the best young scholars from top universities worldwide. And then, adding to the good news, Brian brought home the Clark Award. We are extremely fortunate to have both of these young professors as new members of the outstanding faculty at Carey.”
Kim earned her doctorate in organizational behavior this year from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Gunia earned his PhD in management and organizations from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, also in 2011. Both joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School this month as assistant professors in the research track.
