Rate My Professor Joanna Campbell

Joanna Campbell, PhD, serves as Professor and Department Head of Management in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from Texas A&M University (2012) and dual BS degrees in Economics and Finance from Arizona State University (2005). Before joining the University of Cincinnati, she was faculty at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Additionally, she is a Research Affiliate at the University of Notre Dame. Campbell's research specializes in strategic leadership, focusing on CEOs and top management teams, their characteristics and effects on organizational outcomes, corporate governance, stakeholder strategy, and configurational approaches such as fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis.

Her scholarship appears in premier outlets like the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Journal of Business Ethics. Key publications include "You don't forget your roots: The influence of CEO social class background on strategic risk taking" (AMJ, 2015, co-authored with J.J. Kish-Gephart), "Fuzzy logic and the market: A configurational approach to investor perceptions of acquisition announcements" (AMJ, 2016, with D.G. Sirmon and M. Schijven), "When more is not enough: Executive greed and its influence on shareholder wealth" (Journal of Management, 2017, with K.T. Haynes and M.A. Hitt), and "The final countdown: Regulatory focus and the phases of CEO retirement" (Academy of Management Review, 2018, co-authored). Campbell has earned the Lindner College of Business Research Excellence Award (2023) and Emerging Scholar Award (2017), as well as the Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewer Award (2018). She serves on the editorial boards of AMJ and Journal of Management, and has leadership roles in the Strategic Management Society, including Representative at Large for the Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group. At the university, she teaches PhD seminars in strategic management and research methods, coordinates the doctoral program, and leads the department.