Debra Shapiro Named Clarice Smith
Professor of Management & Organization

Debra L. Shapiro, PhD, a renowned scholar in organizational behavior, has been appointed Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization. Her research generally focuses on the various ways to effectively manage conflict or disputes in organizations, including perceptions of organizational injustice, misunderstandings and frustrations that are inevitable in internationally-diverse and crossfunctional teams, and resistance to organizational change in general or the transition to self-managing workteams in particular.

Shapiro has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review (1998-2002), the International Journal of Conflict Management (1988-2005); and currently, is an associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal and editorial board member of Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of International Business Studies. She has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters on the topics of managing conflict, negotiations, and cross-cultural challenges associated with conflict-management issues. Her work appears in many of the premier scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others. She is also senior editor of Managing Multinational Teams: Global Perspectives (Elsevier/JAI Press, 2005).

Shapiro was a recipient of the 1997 PhD Teaching Award at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former associate dean for Kenan-Flagler's PhD Program (1998-2001); and is a three-time recipient of best paper awards from the Academy of Managements Conflict Management Division and the 1999 recipient of the Best Empirical Paper Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. She is a past chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management and a past member of the Academy's Board of Governors (for the three-year term 2002-2005). She is also an elected member of the Society of Organizational Behavior. According to the Institute for Scientific Research, her body of work has been cited over 780 times.

Shapiro received her masters and PhD degrees in organization behavior from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.