The Lit Review: An AMJ Podcast | Tim Kundro & Nancy Rothbard (S4E1)

To kick off the 4th season, I have two esteemed guests this episode, Tim Kundro and Nancy Rothbard, co-authors of the 'Best Paper' published in AMJ in 2023. In our conversation, we talk we talk about Tim and Nancy’s recent award winning paper recently published in AMJ which explores how power can protect moral objectors in organizations, but shows that this protection operates differently for men versus women. We discuss how the importance o morality in organizational leaders and whether modern corporations are structured to be “amoral”.

Check out the post-credit scene to hear Nancy tell the story about her lived experience at the Best Paper Award announcement event this summer in Chicago.

Guests: Tim Kundro, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Kenan-Flagler Business School at U of North Carolina. Nancy Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor at The Wharton School at the U of Pennsylvania.

Paper: Kundro, T. G. & Rothbard, N. P. 2023. Does Power Protect Female Moral Objectors? How and When Moral Objectors’ Gender, Power, and Use of Organizational Frames Influence Perceived Self-Control and Experienced Retaliation. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1): 306-334.

https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amj.2019.1383