Tim Pollock

Dr. Pollock is the Farrell Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Management and Organization Department of the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University.

Broadly defined, his research focuses on the social construction of value in uncertain and ambiguous circumstances, particularly the contexts of corporate governance, executive compensation and entrepreneurial market environments, with a focus on the initial public offerings (IPO) market. He considers how social and political factors such as reputation, celebrity, social capital, impression management activities, media accounts, and the power of different actors influence IPO firm performance, survival, alliance formation activities, and executive recruitment and compensation. He is also interested in how entrepreneurs' experiences and organizational resource endowments influence their strategic decision making.

His research has won the 1997 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, the 2000 Lou Pondy Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, the 2009 IDEA Thought Leader Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for the best recent entrepreneurship research and the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Published Paper Award for 2010. It has also been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award. He has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Human Communication Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organizational Dynamics, Academy of Management Executive, British Journal of Management and Corporate Reputation Review.

He was an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2010-2013, and is a member, or has been a member, of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science and Strategic Organization. He received outstanding reviewer awards for my reviewing activities from the Academy of Management Journal in 2004 and 2010 and from the Journal of Business Venturing in 2010. He also co-edited, along with Michael Barnett at Rutgers University, The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation, published by Oxford University Press. He served a four-year term on the Executive Committee of the Organization Science division of INFORMS from 2006-2010, and served as Representative-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management from 2006-2009. He is also an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Prior to joining Smeal Dr. Pollock was an Assistant Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland from 2002-2004, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business from 1998-2002. Dr. Pollock was the 2002 recipient of the Mabel C. Chipman Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Wisconsin School of Business, and was named one of the Top Five MBA professors in 2000 by the Graduate Student Association. At Smeal he teaches an undergraduate elective on managing entrepreneurial start-ups and doctoral seminars on organization theory and and organizational research design.