Business and policy leaders looking for answers in the transformed world of social media need research that balances academic rigor with relevance, the Academy of Management’s new president-elect told participants Aug. 3, 2014, during the group’s annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. “Business is not as usual,” said Debra Shapiro, the Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Debra L. Shapiro, the Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, has been elected to serve a five-year term on the executive committee of the Academy of Management (AOM), effective August 2012. Shapiro will serve from August 2015-2016 as academy president and the year afterward as immediate past president.

Research by Rhonda Reger and Debra Shapiro Even after wrongdoing, firms can influence media coverage by carefully choosing the types of information they release to the press.

Debra L. Shapiro, Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization, has been appointed director of the Smith School’s doctoral program, replacing Lawrence A. Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting, effective July 1, 2008. Gordon has served as director for the past 12 years. Shapiro received her PhD in organization behavior from the J.L.

Debra L. Shapiro, PhD, a renowned scholar in organizational behavior, has been appointed Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization. Her research generally focuses on the various ways to effectively manage conflict or disputes in organizations, including perceptions of organizational injustice, misunderstandings and frustrations that are inevitable in internationally-diverse and crossfunctional teams, and resistance to organizational change in general or the transition to self-managing workteams in particular.

New Research Offers Strategies for Inclusion in a Multinational Organization

The economic downturn accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has organizations wondering how to make tough-but-fair decisions that won’t lead to a mass exodus of talent. Recent research offers answers.

New research from Smith School professor Debra L. Shapiro finds that innovation teams benefit when they include traditionalists and mavericks.

Smith School professor Debra L. Shapiro and her co-authors argue for the need to reassess the instrument that is dominantly used to assess employees' perception of organizational justice.