Jennifer Sexton PhD

Jennifer Sexton PhD

Title:

  • Assistant Professor of Management

Contacts:

js5251@msstate.edu
Office: (662) 325-5101
302L

Overview

Education:

  • Ph D, Strategy, Florida State University, 2012
  • MBA, , Florida State University, 2007
  • BS, German, Vanderbilt University, 2004

Publications

Book, Chapter

  • Acquisitions as an Instrument of Organizational Adaptation through Innovation. New York, NY: Routledge. 1-14. 2015
  • Race, Stress, and Well-Being in Organizations: An Integrative Conceptualization. Emerald Group Publishing. 1-39. 2014
  • Examining Resource and Expectational Ambiguity in Technology M&A Integration. Oxford University Press, UK: Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions. 619-637. 2012
  • A Review of Research Progress in Understanding the Post-Acquisition Integration Process: Directions for Future Research. Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.: Handbook of Research on Strategy Process. 412-431. 2011

Journal Article

Presentations

Other

  • "Building Networks in Academia." 2018 Southern Management Association Meeting, Southern Management Association, Lexington, KY, USA. 2018
  • "The nexus of innovation and entrepreneurship." 2014 Southern Management Association Meeting, Southern Management Association, Savannah, GA, USA. 2014

Paper

  • "Double Dipping? The Use of Nested Acquisitions to Enhance CEO Compensation." Strategic Management Society Special Conference - Collaborative Strategies: New Thinking about Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions, Strategic Management Society, San Juan, Costa Rica. 2017
  • "Acquisition Complexity and Nested Acquisitions: On the Outcomes of Acquiring Firms That Have Recently Acquired." 36th Strategic Management Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Berlin, Germany. 2016
  • "The effects of managerial discretion on firm risk-taking and organizational performance." WCAI/Equilar Symposium, WCAI, San Francisco, CA. 2016
  • "The Good, the Bad, and the Mixed: Interactive Effects of Concurrent Signals on Receiver Response." 35th Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Denver, CO, USA. 2015
  • "How Independent Directors Promote Principal-Principal Conflict." Mid-Atlantic Strategy Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. 2014
  • "New Knowledge Required? The Role of Absorptive Capacity in New Product & Service Development." Mid-Atlantic Strategy Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. 2014
  • "The Role of Organizational Controls in Knowledge Transfer and Organizational Innovation." 2013 Southern Management Association Meeting, Southern Management Association, New Orleans, LA, USA. 2013
  • "The Impact of Knowledge Domains on Innovation." 33rd Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Atlanta, GA, USA. 2013
  • "The Impact of CEO Tenure and BOD Conflict on Incremental and Radical Innovation." 32nd Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012
  • "Learning Through Acquisitions: The Role of Sequence, Nesting, and Acquired Managers." 31st Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Miami, FL. 2011
  • "The Creation of New Knowledge through the Transfer of Existing Knowledge: Examining the Conundrum of Creation and Control in Organization Innovation." 2011 Southern Management Association Meeting, Southern Management Association, Savannah, GA. 2011
  • "Beyond Opportunity Recognition: The Effect of Task and Domain Knowledge on the Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities." 30th Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Rome, Italy. 2010
  • "Entrepreneurial Knowledge in the Evaluation of Venture Creation Opportunities: The Effect of Different Knowledge Types on the Decision to Exploit." 2009 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson College, Wellesley, MA. 2009
  • "Thinking Inside the Box: The Firm as a Market for Knowledge." 28th Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Cologne, Germany. 2008
  • "Corporate Venturing and Sequential Market Entry: An Empirical Test of the Decision to Exercise Footholds." 28th Strategic Management Society Meeting, Strategic Management Society, Cologne, Germany. 2008