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Christopher S. Tuggle

Assistant Professor of Management
Management
Trulaske College of Business

Office:
515 Cornell Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Office Hours:
By Appointment Only

 Phone: (573) 882-9050
 E-Mail: tugglecs@missouri.edu

Educational Background

Assistant Professor. B.S. Missouri Southern State University, 1994; M.B.A. Southwest Missouri State University, 1999; Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 2005; Post-doctoral studies, Mays Post Doctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University, 2005.  Professor Tuggle is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.  Prior to his academic career, he spent six years as a CPA performing auditing and consulting services for both small start-up organizations and large publicly traded corporations.  Prompted from his professional experience, Professor Tuggle’s teaching and research interests include organizational governance, minority directors and top managers and entrepreneurship within existing organizations.  He has published in the Harvard Business Review,  Academy of Management Journal,  Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Inquiry, Organization Studies, and Family Business Review.

Publications


Tuggle, C.S., Sirmon, D.G., Reutzel, C.R., & Bierman, L. (In Press). Commanding board of director attention: Investigating how organizational performance and CEO duality affect board members’ attention to monitoring. Strategic Management Journal.

Tuggle, C.S., Schnatterly, K. & Johnson, R.A. (In Press). Attention patterns in the boardroom: How board composition and processes affect discussion of entrepreneurial issues. Academy of Management Journal.

Chiles, T. H., Vultee, D.M., Gupta, V.K., Greening, D.W. & Tuggle, C.S. (In Press). The philosophical foundations of a radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship. Journal of Management Inquiry.

Chiles, T.H., Tuggle, C.S., McMullen, J., Bierman, L. & Greening, D.W. (In Press). Dynamic creation: Extending the radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship. Organization Studies.

Rodriguez, P.L., Tuggle, C.S. & Hackett, S.M. (In Press). Examining ethnic entrepreneurship:  How family structure and family resources impact new venture start-up rates between ethnic groups.  Family Business Review.

Woidtke, T., Bierman, L. & Tuggle, C. (2003). Reining in Activist Funds. Harvard Business Review, 81(3), 22-23.
 


BOOK CHAPTERS 
Hitt, M.A., Ireland, R.D. & Tuggle, C.S. (In press). The make or buy growth decision: Strategic entrepreneurship versus acquisitions.  In “The Search for Organic Growth.” Edited by Robert Drazin, Edward Hess and Robert Kazanjian.  Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.