Kevin Corley

Kevin Corley is Past-Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He joined the W. P. Carey School of Business as an assistant professor of management in 2005. Before joining W. P. Carey, Professor Corley was an assistant professor of management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Miami University and his doctorate in organizational behavior from the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to starting his doctoral program, he served as a staff and senior consultant at Ernst & Young LLP in Chicago.

Professor Corley’s research interests arise from the question, “why do people in organizations experience change the way they do?” Answering this question has led him to do field research examining the processes by which managers and employees organize around their roles and practices, as well as how they make sense of the changes that occur within their organization. Examining these processes has led him to focus on foundational concepts such as identity, identification, image, culture, learning, and knowledge. His research has recently appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Research Methods, and Organization Science.

Professor Corley serves on the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Inquiry. He recently served as an associate editor at the Academy of Management Journal focused on qualitative methods, helped co-edit a special issue on mixed-methods research at Organizational Research Methods, and served as an expert of qualitative methods on the Journal of Management’s new Methods Task Force. He was the PhD coordinator for the management department from 2008-2011 and director of Ph.D. programs for the W. P. Carey School from 2012-2015. He has been commended for his contributions to academia, winning the 2010 Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contribution, the 2009 W. P. Carey School of Business MBA Teaching Award, and the 2003 W.H. Newman Award for best paper based on a dissertation at the Academy of Management.

He has delivered research talks and methodology workshops at business schools across Europe and North America, including Oxford, Imperial, Cass, Warwick, Aalto, Hanken, INSEAD, IE, IESE, Bocconi, the Munich School of Management, ESSEC Paris, EPFL, ETH Zurich, HEC Montreal, Yale, UC-Boulder, Boston University, and Boston College.