Jerry Sheppard
Associate Professor, Strategy
Burnaby
Room: WMC 4387
Phone: 778.782.4918
Email: sheppard@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Credentials
B.S. (Penn State), M.B.A. (Indiana University), Ph.D. (University of Washington), C.P.A.Biography
Jerry Paul Sheppard is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. His research focuses primarily on why things go wrong in organizations. Specifically his research concerns organizational decline, turnaround, survival and failure. His PhD dissertation from the University of Washington in 1989 won the Strategic Management Society Best Dissertation Award. He has published journal articles in the Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Horizons, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and Social Science Research. Dr. Sheppard has presented papers at the Academy of International Business, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Academy of Management, the Australia / New Zealand Academy of Management and the European Academy of Management.
Research Interests
Business policy; corporate failure and survival; business, government and society; corporate governance; interorganizational arrangements.Selected Publications
articles and reports
Sheppard, J., & Young, J. (2023). An essential stupidity-based review of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Business Horizons, 66(1), 65-73. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.02.002
Chowdhury, S. D., & Sheppard, J. P. (2022). Corporate wrongdoing and board leadership structure: An analysis of the WestJet spying scandal. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 39(4), 381-395. http://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1678
Sheppard, J., & Young, J. (2021). Potemkin Stupidity. Academia Letters, Article 471. http://doi.org/10.20935/AL471
Sheppard, J. P., & Young, J. (2020). Addressing sustainable development goals for confronting climate change: Insights and summary solutions in the stress stupidity system. Journal of Management and Organization, 26(6), 929-951. http://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2020.9
Sheppard, J. P. (2015). Getting published: Achieving acceptance from reviewers and editors. Journal of Asia Business Studies, 9(2), 117-132. http://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-02-2015-0024
Sheppard, J. P., & Young, M. (2007). The routes of moral development and the impact of exposure to the milgram obedience study. Journal of Business Ethics, 75(4), 315-333. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9255-6
Sheppard, J. P., & Chowdhury, S. D. (2005). Riding the wrong wave: Organizational failure as a failed turnaround. Long Range Planning, 38(3 SPEC. ISS.), 239-260. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2005.03.009
Sheppard, J. P., Nayyar, P. R., & Summer, C. E. (2000). Managing your doctoral program: A practical orientation. Production and Operations Management, 9(4), 414-437. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-5956.2000.tb00467.x
Sheppard, J. (1995). Beautifully broken benches: A typology of strategic bankruptcies and the opportunities for positive shareholder returns. Journal of Business Strategy, 12(2), 99-134.
Sheppard, J. P. (1995). A Resource Dependence Approach To Organizational Failure. Social Science Research, 24(1), 28-62. http://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.1995.1002
Sheppard, J. P. (1994). Strategy and Bankruptcy: An Exploration in to Organizational Death. Journal of Management, 20(4), 795-833. http://doi.org/10.1177/014920639402000406
Sheppard, J. (1994). Board interlocks, size, composition and organizational failure. Business Review, Cambridge, 12(1), 15-27.
Sheppard, J. (1994). The dilemma of matched pairs and diversified firms in bankruptcy prediction models. Journal of Business Research, 11(2), 9-25.
Sheppard, J. P. (1992). When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Bankrupt: The Questionable Use of Chapter 11 as a Strategy. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1(3), 183-192. http://doi.org/10.1177/105649269213002
books chapters and monographs
Sheppard, J., & Chowdhury, S. D. (2020). Nothing Endures but Change: Studying Changes in Industry Choice and Determinism*. Adapting to Environmental Challenges: New Research in Strategy and International Business. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. http://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-476-020200002
Sheppard, J. P., & Chowdhury, S. D. (2012). The story of a tortoise: How Toyota fell from the top spot. In Mueller, J., & Wells, P. (Eds.), Learning through cases: Contemporary challenges in corporate governance (pp. 267-283). Rossi Smith Publishing Ltd.
Related Teaching Material
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Rowe, W. G., & Sheppard, J. (2009). Strategic management: Cases for competitiveness & globalization (3rd Canadian Edition). Nelson Thompson Learning.
Sheppard, J., & Chowdhury, S. D. (2008). Case 4: Becoming competitive: An industry note on the Canadian telecommunications industry. In Hitt, M. A., Hoskisson, R. E., Ireland, R. D., & Rowe, G. (Eds.), Cases for Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalization, 3rd Canadian Edition (pp. 40-55). Nelson College Indigenous.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Sheppard, J., & Rowe, R. G. (2008). Cases for strategic management: competitiveness & globalization (3rd Canadian Edition), teaching notes. Nelson College Indigenous.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Sheppard, J., & Rowe, W. G. (2008). Strategic management: Competitiveness & globalization (3rd Canadian Edition), Instructor notes: Concepts. Nelson College Indigenous.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Sheppard, J., & Rowe, W. G. (2008). Strategic management: Competitiveness & globalization, concepts (3rd Canadian Edition). Nelson College Indigenous.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Sheppard, J., & Rowe, W. G. (2008). Strategic management: Competitiveness & globalization (3rd Canadian Edition). Nelson College Indigenous.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Rowe, R. G., & Sheppard, J. (2007). Strategic management: Cases for competitiveness & globalization (2nd Canadian Edition). Nelson Thompson Learning.
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., Hoskisson, R. E., Rowe, R. G., & Sheppard, J. (2007). Strategic management: Competitiveness & globalization (2nd Canadian Edition). Nelson Thompson Learning.