Pitt Business: Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration

Bradley R. Agle

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Office: 206 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1571
E-mail: agle@katz.pitt.edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~agle

Degrees

PhD in Business (Organization & Environment), University of Washington
BS in Information Management, Brigham Young University

MBA Courses Recently Taught

Business Ethics; Strategic Leadership

Interest Group

Strategy, Environment, and Organizations

Profile

Brad Agle is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Organizations, and Environment. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Mosaica Education Inc., the Advisory Board of the Johnson Institute, and as Co-chair of the Pittsburgh Business Ethics Awards. Dr. Agle has also served on the Board of Directors of the Oncology Nursing Society, the Executive Committee of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, the Executive Board of the International Association for Business and Society, as a Senior Research Fellow with the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C., as a judge for the American Business Ethics Awards, and as a visiting professor at the Marriott School at Brigham Young University. Prior to joining the Katz school faculty, he was the Arthur Andersen Fellow for Chief Executive Studies and Research Director at the Center for Leadership and Career Studies at Emory University (currently the Chief Executive Leadership Institute at Yale University).

A top-rated and award-winning teacher and researcher, Dr. Agle teaches courses in business ethics and strategic leadership, and has taught in Brazil, China, Britain, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. His teaching brought the University of Pittsburgh the distinction of being the #2 ranked executive MBA program in the world in business ethics by Business Week. In the undergraduate area, Dr. Agle created the Certificate Program in Leadership and Ethics, the world's first integrated undergraduate specialty in ethical leadership in business. His work has been featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and CNN, and he has been a guest on CNBC's "Morning Call", "Power Lunch", and "Closing Bell".

Research Interest Areas

CEO leadership, business ethics, stakeholder management, and religious influences on business.

Publications

Bradley R. Agle, Thomas Donaldson, R. Edward Freeman, Michael C. Jensen, Ronald K. Mitchell, and Donna J. Wood. 2008. Dialogue: Toward Superior Stakeholder Theory. Business Ethics Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Stacy M. Campbell, Andrew Ward, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld and Bradley R. Agle. 2008. Relational Ties That Bind: Leader-Follower Relationship Dimensions and Charismatic Attribution. Leadership Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Andrew J. Ward, Melanie J. Lankau, Allen C. Amason, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld and Bradley R. Agle. 2007. Improving the Performance of Top Management Teams. Sloan Management Review. 48(3) 85-90.

Melanie J. Lankau, Andrew J. Ward, Allen C. Amason, Thomas Ng, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, and Bradley R. Agle. 2007. Examining the Impact of Organizational Value Dissimilarity in Top Management Teams. Journal of Managerial Issues. XIX (1): 11-34.

Bradley R. Agle, Nandu Nagarajan, Dhinu Srinivasan, and Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld. 2006. Does CEO charisma matter? An empirical analysis of the relationships among organizational performance, environmental uncertainty, and top management team perceptions of charisma. Academy of Management Journal. 49(1) 161-174.

Patricia C. Kelley, Bradley R. Agle, and Jason Demott. 2005. Mapping our Progress: Comparing the Development of Universities' Ethics Infrastructures to those of Businesses. Journal of Academic Ethics. 3: 205-229.

Gary R. Weaver, Linda Trevino, and Bradley R. Agle. 2005. "Somebody I Look Up To:" Ethical Role Models in Organizations. Organizational Dynamics. 34(4) 313-330.

Gary R. Weaver and Bradley R. Agle. 2002. "Religiosity as an Influence on Ethical Behavior in Organizations: A Theoretical Model and Research Agenda." Academy of Management Review. 27(1) 77-97.

Bradley R. Agle and Patricia C. Kelley. 2001. "Validity in the Measurement of Corporate Social Performance: Lessons from Corporate United Way and PAC Campaigns." Journal of Business Ethics. 31(3) 271-284.

Bradley R. Agle, Ronald K. Mitchell, and Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld. 1999. "Who Matters to CEOs? An Investigation of Stakeholder Attributes and Salience, Corporate Performance, and CEO Values." Academy of Management Journal. 42(5) 507-525.

Bradley R. Agle and Harry Van Buren III. 1999. "God and Mammon: The Modern Relationship." Business Ethics Quarterly. 9(4) 563-582.

Bradley R. Agle and Craig B. Caldwell. 1999. "Understanding Research on Values in Business: A Level of Analysis Framework." Business and Society. 38(3) 326-387.

Ronald M. Roman, Sefa Hayibor, and Bradley R. Agle. 1999. "The Relationship Between Financial and Social Performance: Repainting a Portrait." Business and Society. 38(1) 109-125.

Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, and Donna J. Wood. 1997. Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts. Academy of Management Review. 22(4) 853-886.

Most heavily cited article in the field of corporate social responsibility (Business and Society, 2006).

Reprinted in Stakeholders and the Corporation: Classic and Contemporary Readings (ed. Max Clarkson), 1998, Toronto, CAN: University of Toronto Press, pp. 275-313.

Working Papers

Sefa Hayibor and Bradley R. Agle. "Value Congruence and Charisma in CEO-Top Management Team Relations."

Adele Quieroz, Ronald Mitchell, and Bradley R. Agle. "Stakeholder Legitimacy."

Awards and Honors

• 2005 & 2007 Teaching Excellence Award, Katz Graduate School of Business
• 2005 Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh Executive Education
• 2005 Fast Tracker Award, Pittsburgh Business Times
• 2000 Nominee, Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh
• 1999 Best Paper Award, International Association for Business and Society
• Anbar Citation of Excellence

External Service and Assignments

Co-chair of the Pittsburgh Business Ethics Awards

Founder and Past-President, Pittsburgh LDS Professional Association

Special Issue Editor, Business Ethics Quarterly, "Stakeholder theory, Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility & Family Enterprise."

Steering Committee of the Bi-Annual Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, sponsored by the Bosch Institute of Carnegie Mellon University

Consulting Activities

Alcoa, Crown Castle, Elliott Corp., Ellwood Group, Federated Investors, Giant Eagle, Mellon Financial, Michael Baker, Oncology Nursing Society, Philip Pelusi, St. Clair Hospital, US Steel, U.S. Marine Corps, and Wabtec

Personal Interests

When he has any extra time, Brad enjoys traveling with his wife, playing with his four children, shooting basketball in his driveway, and the pleasures of various sports and musical entertainment.