Office: RBC 324 Phone: 610-758-3419 Fax: 610-758-6941 Email: jgb207@lehigh.edu MGT 301

Jill A. Brown, Ph.D., holds an Axelrod Family Endowed Fellowship.

Department of Management:  Assistant Professor

Education
-  Lehigh University, B.A.
-  Augusta State University, M.B.A.
-  University of Georgia, Ph.D.

Jill A. (Griesing) Brown's research interests include strategic leadership, corporate governance, ethics, and corporate social responsibility.  She has published papers on these topics in the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, and Corporate Governance: An International Review, to name a few.  She has many conference proceedings and several published case studies and book chapters in the strategic management, social issues, and organization theory disciplines.  Her current research focuses in on the changing role of corporate boards in response to governance reforms. 

Professor Brown joined the Lehigh faculty in 2007 after graduating from The University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a major in strategic management and a minor in organizational behavior.   Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., she worked in the banking industry at Mellon, Fidelity, Connecticut National, and Michigan National Banks. 

Research Interests

• Corporate Governance 
• Institutional Changes
• Strategic Leadership
• Boards of Directors
• Competitive Dynamics

Key Publications

• Ward, A., Brown, J. & Rodriguez, D.  2009 (forthcoming) . Governance Bundles, Firm Performance and The Substitutability and Complementarity of Governance Mechanisms.  Corporate Governance:  An International Review. 
• Ward, A., Brown, J. & Graffin, S. (2009).  Under the Spotlight:  Institutional Investors and Firm Responses to the Council of Institutional Investors’ Annual Focus List. Strategic Organization, 7:  107-135.
• Rutherford, M., Buchholtz, A. & Brown, J. (2007).  Examining relationships between monitoring and incentives in corporate governance.  Journal of Management Studies, 44(3): 414-430.
• Buchholtz, A.K., Brown, J.A., & Shabana, K.M. (2007).  Corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.  In A. Crane, A. McWilliams, D. Matten, J. Moon & D. Siegel (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Brown, J., & Ward A., (December 2007). Corporate Governance in the USA. In Kostyuk, A.N., Braendle, U.C., & Apreda, R., (eds) Corporate Governance, Ukraine: Virtus Interpress.

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