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 Contact:
Email: scc@rice.edu
Office
Rm. 340
Mailstop: MS-531
Phone: 713-348-5387 |
Teaching Areas:
Corporate Governance, Technology Entrepreneurship, Conflict Management and Negotiation Scholarly Areas:
Technology Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Group Decision-Making Processes, Interpersonal and Interorganizational Trust Affiliations:
Founding Director
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
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Grants:
Strategic Planning and the Management of Technology in National Science Foundation-Funded Engineering Research Centers National Science Foundation
| Societal Implications of Nanotechnology: Assessing Public Trust in Nanotechnology National Science Foundation
| National Nanotechnology Initiative Regional Workshop National Science Foundation
| Rice University Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology National Science Foundation
| Principal Investigator MacMillan Bloedel, Inc of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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| Education:
| B.A (1982) Baylor University | | M.Sc (1985) London School of Economics and Political Science | | Ph.D. (1990) Cornell University |
Bio Statement:
Steve Currall has research, teaching, and advising experience in the areas of emerging technology companies, negotiation, and corporate governance. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. In 2004, Currall received Stanford University's Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educator Award, selected by the Stanford University Technology Ventures Program. In 2005, he won the Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award® (Supporter of Entrepreneurship category, Gulf Coast-Houston region).
Currall has been a grantee on $13,689,942 in research funding including four grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from the National Center for the Educational Quality of the Workforce (U.S. Department of Education). In 2004-2006 he is leading an NSF-funded study of the management of new technology in 20 NSF-funded engineering research centers around the country. In 2001 he was senior personnel on the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice. He is a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Executive, and Group and Organization Management. In 2002, he received the Best Theory Paper award from the International Association of Conflict Management. His research has been published in, for example, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Human Relations, Journal of International Business Studies, and International Journal of Conflict Management.
Currall is Founding Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is a university center that is a partnership of the Schools of Engineering, Management and Natural Sciences. Since its inception in 1999, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch of over 160 new technology start-up companies, which have raised in excess of $200 million in equity capital. Through its educational events, the Alliance has hosted 12,000 individuals and currently has 11,000 subscribers to its email Digest. The Alliance has attracted $4.5 million in external funding (donations or pledges).
He is a member of the boards of BioHouston, the Houston Technology Center, Leadership in Medicine, Inc., and Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas. Currall has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist (UK), USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Business Week magazine, Corporate Board Member and other media outlets such as the Nightly Business Report on Public Broadcasting System television.
Memberships in professional associations include the Academy of Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Currall is a Chartered Psychologist in the British Psychological Society.
Research Statement:
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Book
| Schmidt, S.M., Geddes, D., Currall, S.C., and Hochner, A. (eds.). 2001. Power and Negotiation in Organizations: Readings, Cases, and Exercises, Second Edition. Dubuque, IA Kendall/Hunt Publishing
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Book Chapters
| Currall, Steven C. and Inkpen, A. C. 2005. "On the Complexity of Organizational Trust: A Multi-level Co-evolutionary Perspective and Guidelines for Future Research." The Handbook of Trust Research Cheltenham, United Kingdom Edward Elgar (In press).
| Currall, Steven C. & Inkpen, A. C. 2003. "Strategic Alliances and the Evolution of Trust Across Levels." International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working New York John Wiley & Sons 533-549
| Currall, Steven C., Inkpen, A. C.. 2003. "Trust and Strategic Alliances: An Evolutionary Framework." International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working New York John Wiley & Sons
| Currall, Steven C, & Towler, A. J.. 2002. "Research Methods in Management and Organizational Research: Toward Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques." Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 513-526
| Currall, Steven C, and Inkpen, A. C. 2000. "Joint Venture Trust: Interpersonal, Intergroup, and Interfirm Levels." Cooperative Strategies: Economic, Business and Organizational Issues Oxford Oxford University Press 324-340
| Inkpen, A. C. and Currall, Steven C. 1997. "International Joint Venture Trust: An Empirical Examination." Cooperative Strategies: North American Perspectives San Francisco, CA New Lexington Press 308-334
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Journal Articles
| Currall, Steven C., Towler, A. J., Judge, T. A., & Kohn, L. 2005. "Pay Satisfaction and Organizational Outcomes." Personnel Psychology 58 613-640
| Inkpen, A. C. & Currall, Steven C. 2004. "The Co-Evolution of Trust, Control, and Learning in Joint Ventures." Organization Science 15 586-589
| Friedman, R. A. & Currall, S. C. 2003. "E-Mail Escalation: Dispute Exacerbating Elements of Electronic Communication." Human Relations 56 1325-1348
| Currall, Steven C., Epstein, M.J.. 2003. "The Fragility of Organizational Trust: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Enron." Organizational Dynamics Vol. 32 193-206
| Currall, Steven C, Inkpen, A.. 2002. "A Multilevel Measurement Approach to Trust in Joint Ventures." Journal of International Business Studies 33 479-495
| Friedman, R., Tidd, S. T., Currall, S. C., and Tsai, J. C. 2000. "What Goes Around Comes Around: The Impact of Personal Conflict Style on Work Conflict and Stress." The International Journal of Conflict Management 11 32-55
| Currall, Steven C, with Hammer, T.H., Baggett, L.S., & Doniger, G.M. 1999. "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies to Study Group Processes: An Illustrative Study of a Corporate Board of Directors." Organizational Research Methods Vol. 2 pp. 5-36.
| Inkpen, A. and Currall, Steven C. 1998. "The Nature, Antecedents, and Consequences of Joint Venture Trust." Journal of International Management Vol. 4 pp. 1-20.
| Currall, Steven C. & Kohn, L.. 1996. "Productivity of Public School Districst: The Employment Relations Model." Public Productivity and Management Review 19 363-381
| Kleintop, W. A., Blau, G. J., and Currall, Steven C. 1996. "Users' Attitudes When Upgrading Information Technologies: A Case of Migration to a New Electronic Mail System." Information Resources Management Journal 9 25-34
| Tamimi, N., Gershon, M. and Currall, Steven C. 1995. "Assessing the Psychometric Properties of Deming's 14 Principles." Quality Management Journal 2 38-52
| Currall, Steven C. & Judge, T. A.. 1995. "Measuring Trust Between Organizational Boundary Role Persons." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 64 151-170
| Currall, Steven C. 1992. "Group Representatives in Educational Institutions: An Empirical Study of Superintendents and Teacher Union Presidents." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 28 296-317
| Hammer, T. H., Currall, S. C., & Stern, R. N.. 1991. "Worker Representation on Corporate Boards of Directors: A Competing Roles Model." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44 661-680
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Research in Progress:
Arthur, J. B., Currall, S. C. & Krishnan, V. R."Structural Empowerment and Organizational Performance."
| Currall, Steven C, Baggett, S., Ensor, K.."Inside the Corporate Boardroom: Categorical Time Series Analysis of Directors’ Verbal Behaviors During Board Meetings."
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Recognition and Relationships:
Stanford University's Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educator Award, Stanford University Technology Ventures Program, 10/27/2004
| Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award® (Supporter of Entrepreneurship category, Gulf Coast-Houston region)., Ernst & Young, 6/19/2005
| BioHouston Board of Directors.
| National Association of Corporate Directors (Houston Chapter) Board of Advisors.
| Vocational Leadership Award, Rotary Club of West University Place, TX, 9/22/2003
| Leadership in Medicine, Inc. Advisory Board.
| Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas Champions Committee.
| Houston Technology Center Advisory Board.
| Best Theory Paper, International Association of Conflict Management, 6/13/2002
| Best Paper, Institute of Behavior and Applied Management, Organizational Behavior/Organizational Theory/Organizational Development division, 6/13/2002
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Services to Profession:
Editorial Board Member, Group and Organization Management from 2005-present .
| Editorial Board Member, Academy of Mangement Executive from 2004 - present .
| Academic Advisory Board for Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Annual Editions: Organizational Behavior from 1999 - present .
| Editorial Board Member, Journal of Organizational Behavior from 2002 - present .
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