William P. Bottom

Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior

Areas of Expertise:

Behavioral Science; Business Education; Negotiation; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Behavior - Team Development; Organizational Change and Development

Research interests:

Organizational behavior, behavioral decision theory, negotiation

Selected Publications:

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• "The Palimpsestic Syndrome in Management Research: Stereotypes and the Obliteration Process," with D. Kong, and Z. Zhang, working paper
• "Before the Ford Foundation: Development of the Research Based Model of Business Education," 2006 Best Papers, 30th Annual Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Atlanta Georgia
• "Building a Pathway to Cooperation: Negotiation and Social Exchange between Principal and Agent," Administrative Science Quarterly, Issue 51, 29-58, with J. Holloway, G. Miller, A. Mislin, and A. Whitford, 2006
• "Adaptive Aspirations and Contributions to a Public Good: Generic Advertising as a Response to Decline," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Issue 1-2, 22-33, with S. Krishnamurthy, and A. Rao, November 2003
• "Keynes' Attack on the Versailles Treaty: A Study of the Consequences of Bounded Rationality, Framing, and Cognitive Illusions," International Negotiation, Issue 8, 367-402, 2003
• "Propagation of Individual Bias through Group Judgment: Error in the Treatment of Asymmetrically Informative Signals," The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Issue 2, 147-163, with K. Ladha, and G. Miller,
• "When talk is not cheap: Substantive penance and expressions of intent in rebuilding cooperation," Organization Science, Issue 13, 497-513, with S. Daniels, K. Gibson, and K. Murnighan, 2002

Academic/professional activities:

Director of the Ph.D. Program: 2003-2005
Senior Associate Dean: 2003-2005
Member: Academy of Management; American Psychological Society; Society for Judgment and Decision Making; International Association for Conflict Management
Consultant: IBM; Detroit Edison; Monsanto; BJC Health Systems; Charter Communications
Journal Advisory Panel: National Science Foundation Program on Decision, Risk, and Management Science
Editorial Board: Negotiation and Conflict Management
Associate Editor: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Awards/honors:

Best Paper Award from the Meetings of the International Association for Conflict Management, 2006
John H. Mee Award for Distinguished Contribution to Management History, Academy of Management, 2006
Research Fellow, Summer 1992, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1996
Marcile and James Reid Professor, 1994-1995
National Science Foundation Grant
Russell Sage Foundation Grant

Personal interests:

Professor Bottom enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons. He also enjoys playing golf and shooting hoops.