Amanda Bullough (Workman)

Professor of Management & Global Leadership, Co-Founder & Research Director of Women’s Leadership Initiative, GLOBE 2020 Principal Co-Investigator University of Delaware

  • Newark DE

Prof. Bullough's expertise spans global and women’s leadership and entrepreneurship, societal culture, and organizational behavior.

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Biography

Amanda Bullough is a Professor of Management, specializing in global and women’s leadership, and Co-founder and Research Director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics. She is also a Principal Co-Investigator on the GLOBE Project: GLOBE 2020. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Thunderbird School for Global Management in Arizona, a premier university of business graduate programs. Her research and teaching span global leadership, societal culture, organizational behavior, women and gender, cross-cultural management, international business, entrepreneurship, multicultural teams, and professional development, to undergraduate and graduate students, and executives, from companies like Bank of America, W.L. Gore, AAA, DuPont, M&T Bank, Toyota Financial Services, Christiana Healthcare, and others. Dr. Bullough publishes in premier journals (Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Leadership Quarterly, etc.) and has presented at numerous international business and management conferences. Her newest stream of research revolves around her role on a 7-person core research team for the GLOBE 2020 Project—a global culture and leadership research initiative with data covering 99% of the world’s GDP and 97% of the world’s population.

Dr. Bullough has won also won the 2020 E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women’s Equity from the University of Delaware, was honored as a 2019 Women in Business Awardee from Delaware Today magazine, and won the WAIB Best Paper award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research at the Academy of International Business conference in 2009.

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Areas of Expertise

Adverse Environments
International Business
Women's Leadership
Societal Culture
Global Leadership
Organizational Behavior
Cross-Cultural Management
Women's Entrepreneurship

Media Appearances

New Knowledge In The New Normal | UDaily

University of Delaware  online

2022-03-07

One idea for addressing gender issues in the workplace that I’ve particularly loved lately is creating and funding a full-time director of, or office of, work-life (or work-life resource center) with dedicated staff to provide and maintain resources. Creating something like this means funding staff who collect and maintain resources that are helpful to employees outside of work.

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Spotlighting Women's Entrepreneurship

University of Delaware - Institute of Public Adminstration  online

2021-06-03

Dr. Amanda Bullough, Associate Professor of Management and Global Leadership at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about challenges and opportunities for women in entrepreneurship, the disparate impacts of the pandemic on women in the workforce, and research and education needed to advance women’s entrepreneurship in the future.

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Shaping Women's Entrepreneurship for Global Success

University of Delaware  online

2021-03-29

While the overall perception of female entrepreneurship may seem positive, the underlying reality of the success or failure of women entrepreneurs continues to be dynamically shaped by gender and culture. According to University of Delaware Professor of Management Amanda Bullough, both the business world and society-at-large need to pay more attention as to why these conditions persist.

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Articles

What About Us? Fostering Authenticity in Entrepreneurship Education

Academy of Management Learning & Education

2022

Entrepreneurship education can provide a space for exploring one’s authentic self. To investigate this, we employed thematic narrative analysis of qualitative data from an extreme sample: women survivors of violence. At the outset, the women storied that their sense of self was destabilized, yet, through the program, they began to understand and accept the self, believe in their own agency, and experienced a newfound vitality for their ventures and life.

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Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment

Small Business Economics

2022

Women’s entrepreneurship is increasingly important for creating new jobs and contributing to the social and economic growth of their societies, yet the interplay and nuances of women’s entrepreneurship and culture are currently understudied. In this special issue, we present eight empirical papers that delve into different aspects of the dynamic interaction between gender and culture in shaping women’s entrepreneurship.

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Introduction to womens entrepreneurship and culture: socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and constraint negotiation

Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture

2021

Women’s entrepreneurship is pivotal for both national economic development and societal advancement, as it provides employment opportunities and promotes self-reliance (Elam et al., 2019; UN Women, 2020; Venkatesh et al., 2017; World Bank, 2012). Gender equality and the empowerment of women are an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate sustainable economic development (Neimanis and Tortisyn, 2003).

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Accomplishments

Faculty Research Award

2015

Mae and Robert Carter Endowment in Women’s Studies, University of Delaware, for “Women Entrepreneurs: Building Resilience and Reducing Fear through Business Ownership”

E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women’s Equity

2020

University of Delaware, presented by the Vice Provost for Diversity in the Office of the Provost

Best Paper Proceedings

2014

74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Conference

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Education

Florida International University

PhD

Management & International Business

2008

Florida International University

MA

International Studies

2004

University of South Florida

BS

Business Administration, Marketing

1997

Affiliations

  • Women’s Leadership Initiative at Lerner College of Business & Economics : Co-Founder & Director
  • Paris Foundation : Volunteer

Event Appearances

Gender in International Business Research: Addressing the Importance and Overcoming the Obstacles

2019 Academy of International Business North East U.S. Chapter  Rugers Univeristy, Newark, NJ

2019-10-11

Entrepreneurship under Adverse Conditions: A Global Study of Individual Resilience and Self-efficacy

Research Symposium at the Academy of Management  Anaheim, CA

From Shattered Lives to Entrepreneur: The Role of Entrepreneurship Education and Training

2018 Diana International Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference  Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand

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