William Wooldridge

Associate Professor of Management

Telephone: 413-545-5697
Email: wooldridge@mgmt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 328

Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1985
M.B.A., University of Colorado, 1978
B.S., Ithaca College, 1976

Selected Publications:

With Steven W. Floyd and Torsten Schmid, "A Middle-Management Perspective: Current Contributions, Synthesis, and Future Research," Journal of Management, Forthcoming 2008.

With James Pappas, "Middle Managers' Divergent Strategic Activity: An Investigation of Multiple Measures of Network Centrality," Journal of Management Studies, 2007, 43 (3), 323-341.

With Steven W. Floyd. “Building Strategy From the Middle: Reconceptualizing Strategy Process.” Sage Publications, 2000.

------. “Knowledge Creation and Social Networks in Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Renewal of Organizational Capability.” Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 23, no. 3 (Spring 1999): pg. 123-43.

------. “The Strategic Middle Manager.” Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.

With S.W. Floyd, "The Strategy Process, Middle Management Involvement, and Organizational Performance," Strategic Management Journal, 1990, 11: 231-241.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management Studies
Board Member, Strategy Process Interest Group, Strategic Management Society
Visiting Scholar, University of St. Gallen, Spring 2008

Awards:

Family Firm Institute Outstanding Research Award, 1992