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Maria Nathan
Delos, Greece, 2005

Maria Nathan, Ph.D.

Professor of Business Administration
School of Business and Economics
Lynchburg College

 

Academic Employment

  • 2000 - Associate Professor of Management, Business Policy, School of Business and Economics, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, 2006 Virginia.
  • 2004 - forward School for International Relations, Ramkhamheung University, Bangkok, Thailand (Visiting Professor, Summers).
  • 2005 - Adjunct, International School of Management, Paris, France. Spring Breaks
  • 2006 Professor of Management, Business Policy, School of Business and Economics, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Education

  • Ph.D. Management and Organization, School of Business, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
  • M.A. Applied Psychology, the University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Psychometrics.
  • M.A. Developmental Psychology, the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
  • B.A. General Psychology, the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Additional Training

  • Spanish, San Miguel de Allende, Escuela de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, July 2003; and Lynchburg College Spanish program, 2003.
  • Business Spanish, Department of Spanish, Lynchburg College. Lynchburg, Va., 2004, 2006.
  • International Management, School of Business, the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Summer 1995.

Research Expertise

  1. Theoretical Foundations of Crisis Management; Inter-Organizational Crisis Management and Development; use of Crises for Organizational Transformation; Organizational Learning from Crises; Crises and Systems Thinking.
  2. Organizational and Trans-Organizational Learning; Individual as Learner (adult learner)
  3. Strategic Management and Planning – For Profit, Nonprofit/Public
  4. Strategic Decision Processes (Strategic Motives, Strategic Decision Making)
  5. Strategic Human Resource Management
  6. Leadership Theory and Practice

Course Offerings

  • Global Policy/Strategic Management*
  • International Management
  • Principles of Management*
  • Organizational Behavior*
  • Strategic Human Resource Management*
  • Organization Theory*
  • Organization Development/Change
  • Nonprofit Governance
  • Crisis Management Theory and Practice*
  • Leadership and the Classics
  • Leadership and Ethics*
  • Introduction to Business
  • Integrated Business Principles
  • Business-to-Business Marketing
  • International Business Office Management
  • International Business*
  • Research Methods*

* = Both graduate and undergraduate

Selected Awards/Grants

  • Best Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development, National Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
  • Best Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development Division, National Academy of Management, Hawaii, 2005.
  • Teaching Grant, "The Case Method and its Variations", Lynchburg College, 2005.
  • IBM Center for the Business of Government, Research Fellowship, Washington, D. C., 2005.
  • Scholar Leave Award (competitive), ‘Trans-Organizational Crisis Management: A Complement of Three Organizational Studies Pertaining to the International AIDS Pandemic,’’ Lynchburg College, Fall, 2005.
  • Fulbright Senior Specialist, Crisis Management, 2005.
  • Best Paper Award, Management Education and Development Division, National Academy of Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Summer 2004, Peoples Republic of China.
  • Best Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development Division, National Academy of Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.
  • Best Paper Proceedings, National Academy of Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.
  • Best Reviewer Award, International Management Division, National Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, 2003.
  • Best Symposium Award, National Academy of Management, Management Education Division, August, 2003.
  • Lynchburg College Summer Research Grant, 2003.
  • Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, 2003-.
  • National Academy of Management Service Learning Fellow, Pew Charitable Trust, 2002-2003 .
  • Mednick Memorial Fellowship, 2001, Virginia Federation of Independent Colleges (VFIC).
  • Research Grant, Lynchburg College Center for Community and Social Justice, 2002.
  • Sam Walton Fellowship, 2002-.
  • Nomination, Program Chair, Public and Nonprofit Division, National Academy of Management, 2000.

Selected Refereed Publications

  • Nonprofit CEO’s: How their context impacts what, how, and why they learn, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Journal, in press.
  • Producing actionable knowledge: Applying Mezirow’s theory to the managerial learning context, Best Paper Proceedings, National Academy of Management, Summer, 2004 and Management Learning Journal (in press).
  • How past remains prologue: A sense-making interpretation of the hindsight-foresight relationship, Futures, Elsevier Science, 2004, 36, 181-199.
  • No pain, yet gain: Vicarious learning from crises in an inter-organizational field, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2002,Vol. 38, No. 2, June, 245-266.
  • Team sense-making: A mental model for navigating uncharted territories, Journal of Managerial Issues. 2002,Vol. 14, 2, Summer, 198-217.
  • Mindfulness matters, 2001, Central Review of Business. Winter, 27- 32.
  • A role for the individual learner in achieving sustainable competitive advantage,’ Management Development Forum, 2000, 35-52.
  • Interviews with well-practiced preachers: Perspectives on spirituality, leadership, and the workplace, Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management, 2000, Vol. 5, 2, 35-50.
  • The paradoxical nature of crisis, Review of Business, 2000, 21, 3, 12-16.
  • Timing is everything: The optimal time to learn from crises, Review of Business, 2000, 21, 3, 31-36.
  • Complex systems and sense-making teams: Conflicts, connectedness, and leadership, In Beyerlein, M. M., D. A. Johnson, and S. T. Beyerlein (Eds.), Advanced Concepts in Work Teams, 2000, Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press, 219-238.
  • Crisis causation re-framed, Central Review of Business, 1999, 29-35.
  • Using tough times to competitive advantage, Review ofBusiness, 1998,19, 2. 4-9.
  • The nonprofit executive as chief learning officer, Nonprofit World Journal, 1998,1998,16, 2, March/April, 39-41.
  • Turning threat into opportunity, International Association of Management Journal, 1997, 9, 1, 50-551997, 9, 1, 50-55.
  • Mavericks, visionaries, protectors, and sages: Towards cognitive diversity in organizational decision making,’ Journal of Business Strategies, 1997,1997,14, 2, Fall, 106-125.

Recent Paper Presentations and Proceedings

  • A Goliath Meets Goliath: The Global Business Coalition and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, International Conference on Advances in Management, Portugal, Summer, 2006.
  • Fates Yoked; Pandemic Provoked: HIV/AIDS and Public Sector Collaboration, International Conference on Advances in Management, Portugal, Summer, 2006.
  • The case method and its variations,’ International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 2005.
  • Producing actionable knowledge: Applying Mezirow’s theory to the managerial learning context, Management and Education Division, National Academy of Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, Summer, 2004.
  • Living the Liberal Arts Mission! A Cross-Disciplinary Initiative, Intellectual Leadership in the Liberal Arts, American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa, Charleston, South Carolina, October, 2003.
  • Crisis management: Where we have been and where we need to go, expert panel participant, National Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, 2003.
  • Management education’s ‘death of distance" via the service learning experience. Joint presentation to the Management Education and Social Issues in Management Divisions, National Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, August, 2003.
  • How past remains prologue: A sense-making interpretation of the hindsight-foresight relationship, International Conference at the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 11-13, 2002.
  • No pain, yet gain: Vicarious learning from crisis in an inter-organizational field, accepted for presentation by the National Academy of Management, Washington, D. C., 2001
  • A role for the individual learner in achieving sustainable competitive advantage, Global Management Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2001.
  • Teaching leadership via the classics, National Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior and Management Education Development Divisions, Washington, D. C., 2001.
  • Crises and the art of learning vicariously, National Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois., 1999.

Editorial Review Boards

  • Editorial Review Board, Review of Business
  • Editorial Review Board, Society for the Advancement of Management's Advanced Management Journal
  • Editorial Review Board, Risk Management: An International Journal
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Organizational Analysis
  • International Journal of Doctoral Studies

Board of Directors

  • International Business Council Foundation, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Executive Board

  • Vice President, International Conference on Advances in Management, 2006.

Professional Organizational Memberships

  • Regional Fulbright Alumni Society, elected to Secretary 2006
  • Fulbright Society’s International Education Task Force
  • The Asia Society
  • The National Academy of Management
  • The Strategic Management Society
  • The Academy of International Business
  • Text and Academic Authors Association
  • The American Association of Museums
  • The American Association of University Women
  • The National Association of Female Executives

School of Business/Economics Service

  • Program Coordinator, Business Administration Program, Fall 2001 on, Lynchburg College
  • Program Coordinator, Management Program, Fall 2001-Fall 2005, Lynchburg College
  • Chair, Committee on Students and Instructional Resources, Fall 2001 to present, Lynchburg College.
  • Chair, Operations Management Search Committee, 2004-2005
  • Operations Management Search Committee, 2001-2004
  • Lynchburg College Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society Chapter, President

Academy of Management

Asia Society

Fulbright

You may contact Dr. Maria Nathan at (434) 544-8514 or nathan@lynchburg.edu.