Faculty Profile

Jerry Sheppard

Associate Professor
B.S. (Penn State), M.B.A. (Indiana University), Ph.D. (University of Washington), C.P.A.

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-4918
Burnaby Office: WMC 4387

Email Address:
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/~sheppard/CV.html

Specialization and Research Interests

Business policy; corporate failure and survival; business, government and society; corporate governance; interorganizational arrangements.

Selected Publications

Sheppard, Jerry Paul & S.D. Chowdhury (2005). Riding the wrong wave: Organizational failure as a failed turnaround. Long Range Planning Journal, 38(3): 239-260. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul, Praveen R. Nayyar & Charles E. Summer (2000). Managing your doctoral program: A practical orientation. Production and Operations Management, 9(4): 414-438. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul (1995). Beautifully broken benches: A typology of strategic bankruptcies and the opportunities for positive shareholder returns. Journal of Business Strategies, 12(2): 99-134. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul (1995). A Resource Dependence Approach to Failure Prediction. Social Science Research, 24(1): 28-62. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul (1994). Strategy and bankruptcy: An exploration into organizational death. Journal of Management, 20(4): 795-833. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul (1994). Board interlocks, size, composition and organizational failure. American Business Review, 12(1): 15-27. 

Sheppard, Jerry Paul (1994). The dilemma of matched pairs and diversified firms in bankruptcy prediction models. Mid Atlantic Business Review, 11(2): 9-25.