Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Management Gatton College of Business and Economics University of Kentucky Email

Biography:

Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca is a Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Management at the Gatton School of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. He received his PhD from Penn State in 1998 and was a faculty member at Tulane and Emory before moving to UK in 2006. He has taught undergraduate, MBA and Ph.D.-level courses in organization and management, organization theory and design, organizational behavior, human resources management, organizational change management, and negotiations and conflict resolution.

Joe conducts research on networks in the workplace using both quantitative and qualitative methods.  Recent projects include: examining the causes and consequences of disliking people in your workplace social network; studying the relationship between interpersonal and intergroup conflict in organizations from a network perspective; understanding how group members' social relationships affect their group's performance; understanding which social relationships affect perceptions of organizational justice; examining the relative success of various networking strategies for a person’s career advancement; and understanding why top managers choose to monitor or emulate certain organizations in their interorganizational strategic learning network.

Joe’s work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Advances in Strategic Management, the Journal of World Business, Organization Science, and elsewhere. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Organization Science, and recently completed two terms on AMJ’s board.