John Busenbark

John R. Busenbark is an assistant professor in the Management & Organization Department of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and he received an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

John's primary research interests include corporate governance and research methods. Within corporate governance, John studies the information economics of how managers can ameliorate unfavorable reactions to negative events in their organizations by voluntarily disclosing information to capital market participants. John's research methods interests include endogeneity, non-spherical disturbances, model specification, and construct operationalization. John was the 2021 recipient of the Sage Publications/James R. Lawrence Early Career Achievement Award in Research Methods from the Academy of Management.

In addition to his research, John is on the Editorial Review Board for Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Leadership Quarterly. He is also a Co-Editor for the peer-reviewed book Research Methodology in Strategy and Management.

Publications

"Retaining Problems or Solutions? The Post‐Acquisition Performance Implications of Director Retention", (With Robert Campbell, Scott Graffin, Steven Boivie), Strategic Management Journal, 42, 2021

"Corporate-Level Influences on Internal Capital Allocation: The Role of Financial Analyst Performance Projections", (With Matthew Semadeni, Mathias Arrfelt, Michael Withers), Strategic Management Journal

"Omitted variable bias: Examining management research with the impact threshold of a confounding variable (ITCV)", (With Hyunjung (Elle) Yoon, Daniel Gamache, Michael Withers), Journal of Management

"A Marginal Effects Approach to Main Effects and Moderation", (With Scott Graffin, Robert Campbell, Eric Lee), Organizational Research Methods

"How the severity gap influences the effect of top actor performance on outcomes following a violation", (With Nathan Marshall, Brian Miller, Michael Pfarrer), Strategic Management Journal, 40

"Divided we fall: How ratios undermine research in strategic management", (With S. Trevis Certo, Jeff LePine, Matias Kalm), Organizational Research Methods, 23

"BS in the boardroom: Benevolent sexism and board chair orientations", (With Abbie Oliver, Ryan Krause, Matias Kalm), Strategic Management Journal, 39

"Foreshadowing as impression management: Illuminating the path for security analysts", (With Don Lange, S. Trevis Certo), Strategic Management Journal, 12

"A review of the internal capital allocation literature: Piecing together the capital allocation puzzle", (With Robert Wiseman, Mathias Arrfelt, Hyun-Soo Woo), Journal of Management, 43

"Sample selection bias and Heckman models in strategic management research", (With S. Trevis Certo, Hyun-Soo Woo, Mathew Semadeni), Strategic Management Journal, 37

"Toward a Configurational Perspective on the CEO: A review and synthesis of management literature", (With Ryan Krause, Steven Boivie, Scott Graffin), Journal of Management, 42