Adam Cobb
Associate Professor
Department: Business, Government & Society
Research Areas: Corporate Governance, Human Resource Management, Labor Markets
CBA 5.258
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2020 |
Professional Awards Practice Implications Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Review |
2019 |
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, Univ. of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business |
2019 |
Best Paper Award (“Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat...”) Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Meeting |
2019 |
John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award, Labor and Employment Relations Association |
2017 |
Best Article Award, Academy of Management Review |
2017 |
Research Impact on Practice Award, Organizations and Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management |
Publications
Making sense of (Mis)Matched Frames of Reference: A Dynamic Cognitive Theory of (In)Stability in HR Practices: A dialogue. By: Adam Cobb. Industrial Relations. July 2022, 61(3): 319-323
Firm Partisan Positioning, Polarization, and Risk Communication: Examining Voluntary Disclosures on COVID‐19. By: Richard A. Benton, J. Adam Cobb, Timothy Werner. Strategic Management Journal. Apr2022, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p697-723.
J. Adam Cobb, J. R. Keller, and Samir Nurmohamed. How do I Compare? The Effect of Work-unit Demographics on Reactions to Pay Inequality. ILR Review, forthcoming.
Mary Hunter-McDonnell and J. Adam Cobb. 2020. Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Independent Director Exit after Social Activist Challenges. Academy of Management Journal 63(4), 1028-1053.
Ken-Hou Lin, Carolina Aragão, and J. Adam Cobb. 2020. Women, Minorities, and Non-union Workers Continue to Dominate Low-wage Markets, and Experience Job Insecurity and Limited Upward Mobility. PRC Research Brief 5(10).
Richard Benton and J. Adam Cobb. 2019. Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation. American Journal of Sociology 124(6), 1631-1684.
J. Adam Cobb. 2019. Managing the Conflicting Interests of Workers and Shareholders: Evidence from Pension Assumption Manipulations. ILR Review 72(3), 523-551.
J. Adam Cobb and Ken-Hou Lin. 2017. Growing Apart: The Declining Firm-Size Wage Preumium and its Inequality Consequences. Organization Science 28(3), 429-446.
J. Adam Cobb and Flannery G. Stevens. 2017. These Unequal States: Corporate Organization and Income Inequality within the United States. Administrative Science Quarterly 62(2), 304-340.
Marc Lavine, J. Adam Cobb, and Christopher Roussin. 2017. When Saying Less is Something New: Social Movements and Frame Contraction Processes. Mobilization 22(3), 275-292.
J. Adam Cobb, Tyler Wry, and Eric Y. Zhao. 2016. Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations. Academy of Management Journal 59(6), 2103-2131.
J. Adam Cobb. 2016. How Firms Shape Income Inequality: Stakeholder Power, Executive Decision-Making, and the Structuring of Employment Relationships. Academy of Management Review 41(2), 324-348.
J. Adam Cobb. 2015. Risky Business: The Decline of Defined Benefit Pensions and Firms' Shifting of Retirement Risk. Organization Science 26(5), 1332-1350.
Tyler Wry, J. Adam Cobb, and Howard Aldrich. 2013. More Than a Metaphor: Assessing the Historical Legacy of Resource Dependence and its Contemporary Promise as a Theory of Environmental Complexity. Academy of Management Annals 7, 439-486.
Gerald F. Davis and J. Adam Cobb. 2010. Corporations and Economic Inequality Around the World: The Paradox of Hierarchy. Research in Organizational Behavior 30, 35-53.
Gerald F. Davis and J. Adam Cobb. 2010. Resource Dependence Theory: Past and Future. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 28, 21-42.