Jill Brown

Jill A. Brown (Ph.D., University of Georgia), is an associate professor of management at Bentley University. Her scholarly interests include corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility, and strategic leadership. Brown’s work has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR), California Management Review, to name a few. She is an Associate Editor for CGIR and serves on the editorial review board of Business & Society. She is Division Program Chair-Elect for the Social Issues in Management Division (SIM) of the Academy of Management. She is also co-author of the 10th edition of the textbook Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability and Stakeholder Management with Archie Carroll, forthcoming in 2017. Prior to her career in academe, Jill was a commercial banker and consultant.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Georgia
• MBA Augusta State University
• BA Lehigh University

Teaching Interests

Strategic Management, Business & Society, Corporate Governance, Ethics

Research Interests

Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics, Strategic Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship

Consulting/Practice Interests

Strategic Leadership, Employee Engagement, Ethical Dilemmas in the Workforce

Awards and Honors

• 2022, Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society
• 2022, Best Published Paper Award , International Association for Business & Society
• 2022, Faculty Affairs Grant, Bentley University
• 2022, Nominated for the Cronin Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising , Bentley University
• 2020, Best Paper Finalist, Business Ethics Quarterly Journal and the Society of Business Ethics
• 2019, 2019 Best International Symposium Co-Finalist, Academy of Management
• 2018, 2018 Speaker of the Year Award, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Rhode Island Chapter
• 2017, Top 25 Reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics
• 2017, Best Reviewer, Strategic Management Society
• 2017, Best Reviewer Finalist, Business & Society journal
• 2016, Harold S. Geneen Research Professor of Corporate Governance, Harold S. Geneen Foundation
• 2016, Best Reviewer Finalist, Business and Society Journal
• 2015, Best Reviewer Finalist, Business & Society Journal
• 2015, Best Reviewer Award, Corporate Governance: An International Review Journal
• 2013, Best Paper Proceedings , Academy of Management
• 2012, Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management
• 2010, Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Excellence Award, Robert and Christine Staub
• 2010, Best Paper Published in 2009, Corporate Governance: An International Review
• 2009, Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management
• 2008, Academy of Management "Dark Side" Case Competition Runner-Up, Academy of Management
• 2008, Axelrod Family Endowed Fellowship, Lehigh University
• 2008, Academy of Management SIM Division Dissertation Award Runner-Up, Academy of Management
• 2007, Edward T.Comer Fellowship, University of Georgia
• 2006, Eldridge Research Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
• 2006, Murray Scholarship, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business

Publications

Journal Articles

• Brown, J. A., Spicer , A., Rehbein, K., Higgins, C., de Bakker, F., Bapuji, H. (2022). More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better with CSR by Theorizing through Context. Business & Society, (61) 8 1965-1976.
• Brown, J. A., Forster, W., Wicks, A. (2022). The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, (47) 1 91-112.
• Brown, J. A., Davis, J., Phillips, R., Waddock, S. (2022). Can shareholder owned corporations maximize profits without harming their stakeholders?. Rutgers Business Review, (7) 2
• Clark, C., Brown, J. A. (2022). Meet the New Board - Same as the Old Board. Sloan Management Review.
• Brown, J. A., de Bakker, F., Bapuji, H., Higgins, C., Rehbein, K., Spicer, A. (2022). Building on its past: The future of business and society scholarship. Business & Society, (61) 1 969-979.
• Murphy, A. M., Brown, J. A., Ward, A. J. (2021). The Effects of Director Tenure on Monitoring and Advising: New Insights from Behavioral Governance and Learning Theories. Corporate Governance: An International Review, (29) 5 479-495.
• Bapuji, H., deBakker, F., Brown, J. A., Spicer, A. (2020). Business and society research in times of corona crisis. Business & Society, (59) 6 1067-1078.
• Winkler, A., Brown, J. A., Finegold, D. (2019). Employees as Conduits for Effective Stakeholder Engagement: An Example from B Corporations. Journal of Business Ethics, (4) 160 913-936.
• Soundararajan, V., Brown, J. A., Wicks, A. (2019). Can Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Improve Global Supply Chains? Insights from a Stakeholder Orientation Perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly, (3) 29
• Brown, J. A., Clark, C., Buono, A. (2018). The UN global compact: Engaging implicit and explicit CSR for global governance. Journal of Business Ethics, (4) 147 721-734.
• Anderson, A., Brown, J. A., Gupta, P. (2017). Jurisdictional Competition for Corporate Charters and Firm Value: A Reexamination of the Delaware Effect. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance.
• Brown, J. A., Gianiodis, P., Santoro, M. (2017). Managing co-opetition for shared value in nonprofit/for-profit organizations: Lessons from the U.S. hospital sector. California Management Review, (59) 4 114-139.
• Brown, J. A., Anderson, A., Salas, J., Ward, A. J. (2017). Do Investors Care about Director Tenure? Insights from Executive Cognition and Social Capital Theories. Organization Science, (28) 3 471-494.
• Brown, J. A., Butts, M. K., Ward, A. J., Buchholtz, A. K. (2016). Board socio-cognitive decision making and task performance under heightened expectations of accountability. Business & Society.
• Brown, J. A., Dunn, P., Buchholtz, A. (2016). The Role of Moral Salience in Firm-Stakeholder Repair. Business Ethics Quarterly, (26) 2 181-199.
• Soundararajan, V., Brown, J. A. (2015). Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, (134) 1 83-102.
• Clark, C., Brown, J. A. (2015). Multinational Corporations and Governance Effectiveness: Towards a More Integrative Board. Journal of Business Ethics, (132 ) 3 565-577.
• Brown, J. A., Gianiodis, P., Santoro, M. (2015). Following Doctors' Orders: Organizational Change as a Response to Human Capital Bargaining Power. Organizational Science, (26) 5 1284-1300.
• Gianiodis, P., Brown, J. A. (2013). The Protection and Deployment of Financial Innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, (17) 2 29.
• Brown, J. A., Forster, W. R. (2013). CSR and Stakeholder Theory: A Tale of Adam Smith. Journal of Business Ethics, (112) 2 301-312.
• Brown, J. A. (2010). Board and Top Management Changes over the Decades: Responses to Governance and CSR Issues. Center for Ethical Business Cultures Working Paper Series. 72. (Link)
• Ward, A. J., Brown, J. A., Rodriguez, D. (2009). Governance Bundles, Firm Performance and the Substitutability and Complementarity of Governance Mechanisms. Corporate Governance: An International Review, (17) 5 646-660.
• Ward, A. J., Brown, J. A., Graffin, S. (2009). Under the Spotlight: Institutional Investors and Firm Responses to the Council of Institutional Investors’ Annual Focus List. Strategic Organization, (7) 107-135.
• Rutherford, M., Buchholtz, A., Brown, J. A. (2007). Examining Relationships Between Monitoring and Incentives in Corporate Governance. Journal of Management Studies, (44) 3 414-430.
• Howard, D., Brown, J. A., Ibrahim, N. (2006). Commercial Driver Training, Inc.: A case study. Journal of Applied Case Research, (6) 5 7-20.

Books

• Carroll, A., Brown, J. A. (2022). Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability and Stakeholder Management. 11th Edition 540. Boston, MA : Cengage (Link)
• Carroll, A., Brown, J. A., Buchholtz, A. K. (2017). Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management. 10th 740. Cengage

Book Chapters

• Carroll, A., Brown, J. A. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility: A Chronicle and Review of Concept Development and Refinements In T. Maak, N. Pless, M. Orlitzky, S. Sandhu, (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Responsible Business: Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Management. Routledge
• Carroll, A., Brown, J. A. (2018). Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Current Concepts, Research and Issues In J. Weber and D. Wasieleski, (Eds.) Business & Society 360 Volume2 Corporate Social Responsibility. Emerald Group Publishing
• Brown, J. A. (2018). Corporate Boards and Performance In , (Eds.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford Research Encyclopedia Forthcoming.
• Buchholtz, A., Brown, J. A. (2015). Shareholder democracy as a misbegotten metaphor In , (Eds.) Shareholder Empowerment: Promises and Illusions. Palgrave-MacMillan
• Gianiodis, P., Brown, J. A. (2012). Entrepreneurship Action: University Scientists' Choice to Commericalize their Discoveries. In Advances in Enterpreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth In Andrew C. Corbett and Jerome A.Katz, (Eds.) . 63-88. Emerald Publishing
• Brown, J. A., Buchholtz, A. (2009). Dark Territory: The Graniteville Chlorine Spill In Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert Mills, (Eds.) . 194-204. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing Company
• Brown, J. A. (2009). Global Economic Crises: The Impact of the Current Economic Crises on Business Ethics, Government and Society In , (Eds.) . Cengage Learning Global Economic Watch (Link)
• Buchholtz, A., Brown, J. A., Shabana, K.M., . (2008). Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility In A. Crane, A. McWilliams, D. Matten, J. Moon, D. Siegel, (Eds.) . 327-345. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Brown, J. A., Ward, A. J. (2007). Corporate Governance in the USA. In "Corporate Governance" In Kostyuk, A.N., Braendle, U.C., & Apreda, R., (Eds.) . Virtus Press
• Brown, J. A., Ward, A., Duane, J. E. (). Data Privacy, Ethics, and Strategic Leadership In Z. Simsek, C. Heavey, B. Fox, (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Strategic Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Edward Elgar Publishing Forthcoming.
• Ward, A., Brown, J. A., Murphy Mooney, A. (). The Seasons of a Director's Effectiveness In Richard W LeBlanc, (Eds.) The Handbook of Board Governance. Wiley Forthcoming.
• Brown, J. A., Anderson, A., Ghaddar, S. (). How Board Structure Affects Board Decision-Making: An Example from Classified Boards In Till Talaulicar, (Eds.) Research Handbook on Corporate Governance and Ethics. Edward Elgar Publishing Forthcoming.