Research and Publications
At the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, our faculty are shaping the future of business through their research. Every publication reflects our commitment to advancing knowledge, providing insights that drive real-world impact and supporting industry growth locally, nationally and globally.
The year 2024 marks the 30-years anniversary since the concept of dynamic capabilities has been introduced to the field of management. Dynamic capabilities are organizational routines and processes that help companies adapt and strategize in volatile and changing environments. Today, changes driven by technological innovations (e.g., AI, gene therapy), along with political and economic tensions both nationally and internationally, elevate the importance of dynamic capabilities in achieving a competitive advantage. But how can companies identify and estimate their dynamic capabilities, which are intangible and thus difficult to measure directly? Olga Bruyaka and her co-authors address this question in their comprehensive review of existing measurement models of dynamic capabilities in management literature, identifying best practices and offering recommendations for both scholars and practitioners.
This paper develops and presents a model of the relationships among emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and stress coping among management students. In short, our model suggests that effective emotion regulation and self-leadership, as mediated through positive affect and self-efficacy, has the potential to facilitate stress coping among students. A primary implication of our model is that basic emotion regulation and self-leadership strategies could be included in introductory management courses in order to potentially increase management students’ abilities to cope with stress. Furthermore, because our model has the potential to generalize to the workplace, management students exposed to emotion regulation and self-leadership strategies may be better equipped to effectively manage stress in their future careers. This paper was recognized by the Journal of Management Education for its long-term impact in 2024.