July 2, 2001
Janice M. Beyer: Distinguished Management Professor and Researcher Passes Away
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Austin, Texas – Janice M. Beyer, a distinguished business researcher and the Harkins & Company Centennial Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, passed away on June 20, 2001. She was 67 years old.
Professor Beyer had been a member of the UT faculty since 1988, teaching in the Management Department at the McCombs School. In 1992 she began a joint professorship with the Sociology Department. Prior to joining the McCombs School, she taught at New York University, Cornell University, and State University of New York at Buffalo.
“Jan Beyer was a pioneering scholar whose research and service had a profound impact on our profession,” said McCombs School Associate Dean David Jemison. “Her presence, insight, and rapid wit influenced several generations of scholars and students. The esteem in which she was held by colleagues throughout the world was reflected by her election as president of the Academy of Management and her service as editor of the Academy of Management Journal. She’ll be missed.”
In addition to serving as president of the Academy of Management, Beyer was also president of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. She served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Academy of Management and on the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
Beyer published over 100 articles and books in her field. She had been on the editorial boards of many of the leading publications in management science including: Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Qualitative Organizational Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Quality Management, and Journal of World Business. She was also co-editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics. In addition, Professor Beyer served on many committees in the McCombs School and was Director of the Center for Organizational Research.
“Janice Beyer was a distinguished research professor who made a great contribution to the study of management science,” said John Butler, chairman of the Management Department at the McCombs School. Also former chair of the Department of Sociology, Butler remarked that he specifically sought out Beyer in the Business School and asked her to take a joint appointment in Sociology so that students in organization science could take courses with her.
Beyer was originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and her Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. She is survived by her brother, Warren Beyer of Milwaukee; her daughters, Claire Lodahl of Durango, Colorado and Andrea Henneman of Princeton, New Jersey; and six grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, June 26 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Avenue, Austin. Contributions, in lieu of flowers, can be given to the United Negro College Fund (www.uncf.org) or other charities that help poor children of underserved populations obtain an education. Interment will be private.
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