Orlando Richard : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Office

Isenberg N242

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Education

Post-Doctorate in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, University of Kentucky, 1997

MBA, Emphasis in General Management, Grambling State University, 1993

B.S. in Business Administration; Focus in Finance, Louisiana Tech University, 1991

Academic Appointments

Earl W. Stafford Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2023-current

Dean’s Research Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2020-Present

Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, 2020

Associate Professor: Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2005-2020

Assistant Professor of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2000-2005

Assistant Professor of Management, Louisiana Tech University, 1997-2000

Research Interests

Organizational and relational demography

Organizational justice

Strategic human resource management

Leadership

Upper echelons

Teaching Interests

General

Organizational behavior
Human resource management
Research methods

Awards

Excellence in Reviewing Award, Human Resource Management Review, 2025

Editor Commendation Award, Journal of Business and Psychology, 2022

Academy of Management Journal Impact Award Finalist (1 of 3 articles), 2021

Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2021

Transnational Best Paper Award, Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, 2019

Selected Publications

Triana, M.d.C., Garcia, M. F., Richard, Orlando C., Yücel, İ., & Ahmed, R. (2025). Status incongruence effects under conditions of task interdependence: Too close for comfort. Journal of Business Research, 189, 115174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115174

Wu, J., Richard, Orlando C., Triana, M.d.C., & Yu, L. (2025). The impact of CEO successions involving a change of gender on strategic change: the moderating role of environmental factors. Journal of Management Studies, 62(1), 173-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13042

Blount, I., del Carmen Triana, M., Richard, Orlando C., & Li, M. (2023). How women CEOs’ financial knowledge and firm homophily affect venture performance. Journal of Business Research, 155, 113459.

Richard, Orlando C., Stewart, M.D.C., & Triana, M. (2022). Store leader gender and store sales performance: When and why do women and men underperform? Human Resource Management, 61(6), 623-641.

Richard, Orlando C., Triana, M., & Li, M. (2021). The effects of racial diversity congruence between upper management and lower management on firm productivity. Academy of Management Journal, 64(9): 1355-1382. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0468.

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