Academics

Meet the Faculty

Constance R. "Connie" James
Professor of Management

Division: Business Administration Division
Office: Center for Communication and Business (CCB) 345
Phone: (310) 506-4514
E-mail: connie.james@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• M.B.A., University of Michigan
• B.A., University of Michigan

Courses:

• Corporate Strategy
• Policy
• Management Theory and Practice

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Honorary Teacher of the Year, Seaver College
• Pepperdine Rotaract, Faculty Sponsor
• UCLA NAMIC Executive Education
• Academy of Management
• Strategic Management Society
• Academy of Management BPS Finalist and Best Dissertation
• ORSA/TIMS Finalist and Best Dissertation
• Project 88 Fellowship, UCLA
• Management Fellowship, UCLA
• Exxon Fellowship, University of Michigan

Academic Interests:

• RESEARCH INTEREST: Coordination, control and integrating mechanisms of firms; dynamic capabilities and resources; and knowledge and organizational learning.
• SPECIAL INTERESTS: learning organizations and organizational design
• TEACHING INTEREST: Corporate strategy, business policy, organizational theory, and management.

Selected Works:

• DISSERTATION: Unbundling Corporate and Business Unit Effects: A Control and Value Creating Capabilities Framework.
• Designing Learning Organizations. Organizational Dynamics, Volume 32, No. 1, p. 46-61, 2003.
• Increasing the Firm's Strategic IQ: Dynamic Versus Static Strategic Planning. The Graziadio Business Report. Volume 6 (2): 2003.