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Expected Graduation: Spring, 2013

Previous Education:

Field(s) of Concentration:

• Intra-organizational social networks
• Creativity and innovation
• Organizational politics
• Negative workplace relationships

Advisor(s): Joe Labianca (Chair), Steve Borgatti, Dan Brass, C. Nathan DeWall, and David Obstfeld

Biography:

Travis’s primary research focus is on how social networks affect employee creativity and innovation within organizations. His dissertation examines innovation from a socio-political perspective by looking at how social networks, political skill, and individual orientations toward network brokerage (i.e., purposefully bringing others together or actively keeping others apart) interact to predict innovation outcomes. Travis’s other research interests include: organizational politics, social influence processes in the workplace, and the causes and consequences of negative relationships in organizations.

Travis will join the University of Connecticut's Management Department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2013.

Teaching Experience:

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Spring 2012
• Spring 2011

Principles of Management
• Spring 2009
• Fall 2008

Research Experience:

Publications:

• Lopez-Kidwell, V., Grosser, T.J., Dineen, B.R., and Borgatti, S.P. Forthcoming. What matters when: A multistage model and empirical examination of job search effort. Academy of Management Journal.

• Grosser, T.J., Lopez-Kidwell, V., Labianca, G., and Ellwardt, L. 2012. Hearing it through the grapevine: Positive and negative workplace gossip. Organizational Dynamics, 41: 52-61.

• Grosser, T.J., Lopez-Kidwell, V., and Labianca, G. 2010. A social network analysis of positive and negative gossip in organizational life. Group & Organization Management, 35: 177-212.

Book Chapters:

• Grosser, T.J, & Borgatti, S.P. Forthcoming. Network Theory/Social Network Analysis. In R.J. McGee and R.L. Warms (Eds.), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Borgatti, S.P. & Grosser, T.J. Forthcoming. Structural Equivalence: Meaning and Measures. In The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

• Grosser, T.J., Sterling, C.M., Scott, K.D., and Labianca, G. 2010. Social networks, groups, andsocial exclusion: Combining sociometric and psychometric approaches to understanding social exclusion in organizational settings. In L. Neider and C. Schriesheim (Eds.), Research in Management: The Dark Side of Management: 143-191. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Refereed Proceedings:

• Lopez-Kidwell, V., Grosser, T.J., and Dineen, B.R. 2011. What matters when: A multi-stage examination of factors contributing to job search effort. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

References:

STEPHEN P. BORGATTI
Chellgren Endowed Chair and Professor of Management
Gatton College of Business & Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0034
Email: sborgatti@uky.edu, Phone: (859) 257-2257

DANIEL J. BRASS
J. Hennings Hilliard Chair in Innovation Management
Gatton College of Business & Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0034
Email: dbrass@uky.edu, Phone: (859) 257- 4260

GIUSEPPE (JOE) LABIANCA
Gatton Endowed Professor of Management
Gatton College of Business & Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0034
Email: joelabianca@gmail.com, Phone: (859) 257-3741

AJAY MEHRA
Professor of Management
Gatton College of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0034
Email: ajaymehra1@gmail.com, Phone: (513) 417-3217