Academic Areas

Faculty Honors and Awards

The IMS/OSIM faculty has won many major awards and honors:

  • In 2000, G. Dess was a charter member of the Academy of Management Journal's Hall of Fame.
  • Since 2003, M. Peng has been the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant. At $423,000, this is reportedly the largest grant the NSF has awarded to a business school faculty member.
  • In 2004, G. Dess's paper on real options (with J. Janney) was one of the finalists for the "Best Paper of the Year" award in the Academy of Management Executive.
  • In 2006, J. Salk won the "JIBS/AIB Decade Award" based on Lyles and Salk (1996 JIBS) at the AIB meeting in Beijing.
  • In 2006, M. Peng won the "Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award" at the International Association of Chinese Management Research meeting in Nanjing.
  • In 2006, M. Peng was found to be one of the top eight global strategy scholars who excel in both quantity and quality (as measured by citations), according to a study published in the Journal of International Management.
  • In 2006, S. Lee was nominated as one of the three "Next Generation Scholars" at the JIBS/AIB Frontiers Conference in San Diego.
  • In 2006, E. Tsang received an "Outstanding Reviewer Award" from the Journal of Management Studies.
  • In 2007, G. Dess's paper on e-business strategies (with G. T. Lumpkin) was recognized as the No. 1 most frequently downloaded paper about organizational dynamics during 2002-2007.
  • In 2007, E. Tsang received an "Outstanding Reviewer Award" from the Academy of Management Review.
  • In 2007, G. Dess received an award as one of the six best reviewers on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.
  • In 2007, S. Lee's paper (with K. Oh, a Ph.D. student), published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, was profiled by the Economist as a "noteworthy article from business journals."
  • In 2007, the Academy of Management's Best Papers Proceedings in Philadelphia published three papers written by School of Management faculty members: D. Deeds, D. Ford and L. Markoczy.
  • In 2007, H. Woldu's paper, published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, was voted as one of the "Papers of High Merit" at an Academy of Management meeting in Philadelphia.
  • In 2007, M. Peng was ranked as the 3rd most prolific contributor and E. Tsang was ranked 4th in China literature during 2000-2005.
  • In 2008, M. Peng was ranked as the 7th most prolific contributor to the Journal of International Business Studies during 1996-2006. E. Tsang was ranked the 3rd most prolific contributor to Management International Review during 1996-2006, according to a study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
  • In 2008, S. Lee and M. Peng (with Y. Yamakawa, a Ph.D. student) won a prestigious U.S. Small Business Administration Award for the best Babson conference paper on entrepreneurship. The paper is posted at the SBA's government website at http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs326tot.pdf.
  • In 2008, UT Dallas was the 12th highest ranked school worldwide (and the 6th highest ranked in the United States, following Michigan State, Rutgers, Temple, Miami and NYU) in international business research in a study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
  • In 2008, G. Dess was ranked the top 36 most cited management scholar for the period 1981-2004, and M. Peng was ranked the top 65 most cited management scholar for the period 2000-2004, according to a study published in the Journal of Management.
  • In September 2008, our Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, under the leadership of J. Picken, won the 2008 Tech Titans Competition Technology Advocate Award. Sponsored by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), Tech Titans is an annual contest that recognizes local advances in technology.
  • In August 2009, G. Dess (with G. T. Lumpkin) received the Foundational Paper Award at the Seconc Annual Idea Awards Banquet for their 1996 Academy of Management Review article.
  • In October 2009, M. Peng delivered a keynote speech at the Harvard Conference on "China Goes Global" at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
  • In October 2009, M. Peng delivered a keynote speech at the Pacific Region Forum on "China Goes Global" at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • In December 2009, G. Dess will receive an honorary doctorate degree at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

IMS/OSIM faculty members are also active in leadership positions in the field. Three UT Dallas professors currently serve as officers of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). M. Peng serves as the chair of the Global Strategy Interest Group, D. Deeds is program chair of the Entrepreneurship Interest Group and G. Dess is a representative-at-large for the Strategy Process Interest Group. UT Dallas has the largest contingent among current SMS officers.

The school's faculty members are not only acknowledged and respected externally, they are also highly valued at UT Dallas. G. Dess holds the Andrew Cecil Chair in Management. M. Peng is the Provost's Distinguished Professor of Global Strategy and serves as the executive director of the School of Management's Center for Global Business. J. Picken and D. Deeds serve as the executive director and academic director, respectively, for the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas.