Faculty, Research & Staff
Michael B. Elmes
Professor
Faculty Listing
Office: Washburn Shops, 203
Phone: +1-508-831-5182
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
mbelmes@wpi.edu
Related Information
- Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand in 2005: Helping to Understand Biotechnology's Social and Cultural Impact
Educational Background
- B.S., Union College, 1975
- M.S., Colgate University, 1979
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Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989
Research & Teaching Interests
Research: Resistance, power, and conflict in organizations; Organizations and the natural environment; Biotechnology organizations; Leadership and learning in technology-intensive settings, in high-risk ventures, and in the classroom; Intergroup relations and diversity management; Narrative theory and its application to strategy and organizational behavior and change; Power and control in the implementation of technological change.
Teaching: Organization Behavior and Theory; Management of Change; Group and Intergroup Dynamics; Leadership.
Research Grants
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April 2001, National Science Foundation, Innovation and Organizational Change Program
"The relationship of ERP implementation to organizational changes in control, task structure, and workarounds", with D. Strong and O.Volkoff, $299,987. -
February 2000, Educational Development Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Developing a web-based course on virtual teams", $5,000. -
2000, Research Development Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Developing a process model of IT-driven second-order change: Three case studies of ERP implementation in a large engineering organization", with Diane Strong and Olga Volkoff, $5,860. -
1996, National Science Foundation
"Innovation in Doctoral Engineering Programs" (J. O'Shaughnessy, W. Durgin, S. Johnson, R. Sisson and M. Elmes), $562,500.
Recent Publications
Years of Service at WPI
- Founder and Director of the WPI Nantucket Project Center, (2008-2009)
- Head, School of Business Dean's Search Committee, (2009)
- First Year Curriculum Planning Committee, (2009)
- Distance Education Delivery Subcommittee, (2009)
- Academic Space Planning Committee, (2007-present)
- Provost's Search Committee, (2007)
- Graduate Policy and Planning Committee Member, (1992-1995, 2007-present)
- WPI Strategic Planning Committee, (2006-2008)
- Management Department Tenure Review Committee (1995-1996; 1998-2001)
- WPI Teaching Portfolio Consultant (Fall 1999, Spring 2001 and 2002)
- WPI New Faculty Mentor (1999-2000; 2002-2003, 2009)
- WPI Committee on Appointments and Promotion (COAP) (2002-present)
- WPI Campus Hearing Board (1994-1999)
Professional Experience & Activities
- Editor of "First Person" section of Organization Management Journal (OMJ) focusing on first person accounts of scholarship and teaching, 2005 – present
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Editorial Review Boards
- Organization Management Journal (OMJ), 2003 – present
- Group and Organization Management (GOM), 2002 – 2008
- Special Issue Co-editor of Group and Organization Management, Music at Work (with Craig Pritchard and Mark Korczynski, 2007)
- Special Editor of Group and Organization Management, 2006
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Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer (1989 – present)
- Academy of Management Review
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Business and Society
- Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
- Journal of Management Education
- Journal of Management Inquiry
- Journal of Management Studies
- Journal of Organization Change Management
- Journal of Strategic Information Systems
- Management Communication Quarterly
- Organization
- Organization Management Journal
- Organization Studies
- Small Group Research
- Visiting Scholar, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Management at Syracuse University (1989-90)
Professional Societies/Memberships
- Academy of Management - OCD, Critical Management Studies, Organization and Management Theory, Organizations in the Natural Environment
- Organizational Behavior Teaching Society
- EGOS