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Josh Keller's Official Student Web Site
Josh Keller is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Management at the
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
He specializes in cross-cultural issues in Organizational
Behavior.
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My research in a nutshell:
From the New Yorker...
Latest News:
- I presented two papers at the Academy of Management Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia in August.
The Linguistic Environment and New Venture
Legitimation Strategy
Author: Josh W. Keller; U. of
Texas, Austin;
Author: Ye Dai; U. of Texas at
Austin;
(SELECTED TO BEST PAPER PROCEEDINGS)
In this paper, we propose a theory about the role
of the linguistic environment on new venture
legitimation strategy. Legitimation has long been
considered a key element in new venture success. Yet
previous theories on new venture legitimation have
focused on isomorphism as the primary mechanism for
legitimation. New theories on rhetoric and language
provide an alternative mechanism. The use of
rhetoric as a communications mechanism for shaping
institutional logics enables agency instead of
isomorphism as a means of legitimation. But the
accessibility of particular rhetorical strategies
depends on the linguistic environment, which
includes the semantics of change and continuity
within the socio-cultural environment and their
relationship to the social identity of the new
venture or the entrepreneur of the new venture.
There thus exist four generic strategies available
to the entrepreneur, depending on the linguistic
environment and the venture or entrepreneur's
identity within the environment. An empirical
analysis of the role of May Fourth social movement
language used by Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in
the Chinese Internet industry in the late 20th
century is included as support for the theory.
Cooperation in Workgroups
in US and China: A Cultural
Consensus Model
Author: Josh W. Keller;
U. of Texas, Austin
Author: Jeffrey Loewenstein;
U. of Texas, Austin(PRECURSOR TO
MY DISSERTATION)
This paper reports part of a
larger study of how people from the
US and China understand workgroup
cooperation. We asked 40 students
from the US and China whether each
of 210 brief descriptions of an
action or condition within a
workgroup indicated cooperation. We
used the Cultural Consensus Model
(Romney, Weller, & Batchelder, 1986)
to assess the level of
cross-national consensus and
within-national consensus about what
counts as cooperation. The resulting
patterns indicate commonly held
beliefs as well as stark differences
in the US and Chinese cultural
models of cooperation. The results
provide new insights into
cooperation, and have implications
for studying cultural models and
managing cross-national teams.
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- My first published paper is out:
Lewis, K., Belliveau, M., Herndon, B. and Keller, J.
Group cognition, membership change,
and performance: Investigating the benefits and detriments of
collective knowledge. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Volume
103, Issue 2, July 2007, Pages 159-178.
My Primary Research:
While I have done a little bit of research in each of the four areas
above, I am most interested in the intersection of culture,
cognition and language within the organizational context. If that's
not narrow enough, my main national areas of expertise are the US
and China (or
English and Chinese). I have looked
at the role of culture and language in cognition in a number of organizational contexts, including:
- Teams
- Managerial Decision-making
- Entrepreneurship
Josh's Online PhD Student Network
Lisa Kleinman
(the only one in the
network is in the School of Information)
Josh's Additional Links
McCombs
Department of Management
Academy of
Management
International
Academy of Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR A RECENT VITAE.
Contact Information:
Department of Management
McCombs
School of Business
University of Texas
at Austin, B6300
512-471-8862 (Ph.D.
Office)
josh.keller@phd.mccombs.utexas.edu
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