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Y. Sekou Bermiss - The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Y. Sekou Bermiss

Assistant Professor, Department of Management | The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business

Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Examining the effects of financial performance and corporate social responsibility in the market valuation of firms

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Areas of Expertise (6)

Organizational Strategy

Market Analysis

Market Research

Management

Data Analysis

Organizational Theory

Biography

Y. Sekou Bermiss is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

His research centers around how value is socially constructed in organizational settings. In particular, he investigates how market perceptions of financial performance, organizational identity, and human capital affect firm performance, reputation, and survival. His research has been published in various academic journals, edited volumes, magazines, the Harvard Business Review blog, and on National Public Radio.

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Education (3)

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management: Ph.D., Management and Organizations 2009

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management: M.S., Management and Organizations 2005

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: B.S., Chemical Engineering 1999

Media Appearances (3)

Managing Political Misfits

Harvard Business Review  online

2018-03-28

When CEOs weigh the decision to speak out on a hot-button issue, they tend to focus on how their words and actions might affect brand reputation and customer behavior. But an equally significant question is how CEO activism affects employees.

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Don Draper Is Replaceable; Joan Holloway Isn't

Harvard Business Review  online

2014-08-12

Sekou Bermiss, an assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin, had the same response as the fan base, but from a different perspective: he was well into a research project examining which executives in ad agencies do the most damage when they leave (and add the most value when they don’t) based on data from New York City ad agencies from 1924 to 1996. A paper reporting on that research, co-authored by Johann Peter Murmann, is forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal. I spoke with him about his findings...

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Chick-Fil-A Gay Flap A 'Wakeup Call' For Companies

NPR  online

2012-07-27

But beyond the big bucks, corporate reputation specialist Sekou Bermiss says companies may be motivated to contribute to community good. "More and more, you see firms that are trying to or feel obliged to certain issues in society, [to] do some greater good in society," Bermiss said...

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Y. Sekou Bermiss Citations


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Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-Ups, and The Growth of Venture Capital


Strategic Management Journal

2017-03-01

What leads entrepreneurs to found new companies in nascent sectors? In contrast to prior research, which emphasizes patterns of activity, we argue that entrepreneurial activity can sometimes be driven by the actions of a singular trigger—what we call an entrepreneurial beacon. We examine the influence of two such beacons, Yale University's endowment investments and exceptional venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups, on the founding of new venture-capital firms over a 28-year period.

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Loyal to Whom? The Effect of Relational Embeddedness and Managers' Mobility on Market Tie Dissolution


Administrative Science Quarterly

2015-11-19

In this study we use a social embeddedness perspective to investigate the paradoxical role that individual-level embedded relationships have on the dissolution of interorganizational ties. Prior studies have found that managers who form close interpersonal relationships with clients can stabilize market ties, but these relationships can also be a source of increased market tie dissolution in the event of an exchange manager’s departure from the firm.

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Who matters more? The impact of functional background and top executive mobility on firm survival.


Strategic Management Journal

2014-09-04

Do some top executives matter more than others? Integrating insights from upper echelons and executive mobility research, we suggest that the functional roles performed by top executives shape their value to the firm.

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Chemicals, companies, and countries: The concept of diffusion in management research


Research in Organizational Behavior

2013-11-14

In the field of organizational behavior, the term “diffusion” has come to be implicitly paired with the concept of innovation and a peculiar set of conceptual choices. We explore how this came about, and examine the evolution of the concept “diffusion” from its inception in the English language through its use in the natural and social sciences to its current meaning in organizational research.

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Under construction: How commensuration and management fashions affect corporate reputation rankings


Organization Science

2013-09-17

This paper analyzes the antecedents of corporate reputation as a dynamic commensuration process in which management fashions influence audiences as they attempt to quantify corporate reputation.

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The individual and the organization: Locating knowledge capabilities in professional service firms


Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

2010-01-01

We investigate what types of human capital are most valuable to professional service firms.

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Institutional ‘dirty’ work: Preserving institutions through strategic decoupling


Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organization

2009-01-01

Two key aspects of institutional work are the entrepreneurship which accompanies the rise of new institutions and the decline which occurs as they move toward deinstitutionalization.

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