W. E. Douglas Creed
Professor
The University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
401-874-5806 (office); 617-823-9052 (mobile, preferred)
[email protected]; [email protected]
EDUCATION
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, 1994;
MBA, 1989
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Master of Arts in Religion, 1981
Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, with Distinction in the English Major, 1979
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Rhode Island, College of Business Administration
Professor, Management, 2014-present
Associate Professor, 2004-2014
Australian Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Visiting Associate Professor, February-June 2012
Victoria Management School, Wellington, New Zealand
Fulbright US Senior Scholar, February-June 2007
The University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Management
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, 2002-2003
The Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, Boston, MA
Researcher, 2002
MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Assistant Professor, Organizational Communications, 2001-2002
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Assistant Professor, Organizations Studies, Carroll School of Management, 1994-2001
Bank of America, NT&SA, San Francisco, California
Credit examination officer, 1986-87; Regional credit instructor, 1985-1986
Seattle-First National Bank, Seattle, Washington
Business lending officer, 1983-1985
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Business & Society, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Ethics (undergraduate core course)
Organizational Theory and Design (MBA elective)
Macro Organizational Theory (required doctoral seminar)
Corporate Strategy (capstone undergraduate course)
Introduction to Organizational Behavior (required undergraduate core course)
Managing People and Organizations (required MBA core course)
Communication for Managers (MBA core course)
Social Movements and Organizations (honors seminar)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Organization theory: Institutional theories of organization, identity and diversity, social movement
activities, and the role of emotions in institutional processes
Diversity: Biculturalism, multiculturalism, and identity in organizations and professions
Sustainability & Corporate social responsibility: Strategies, models, practices of global corporate
citizenship, stakeholder engagement, transparency, and performance disclosure/reporting
Political and societal dynamics behind organizational innovation and change
Careers (strategies, choices, and transitions)
ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS
“Songs of Ourselves,” (Creed and Scully, 2000) reprinted in the Journal of Management Inquiry 20th
anniversary issue as one of the best papers in its opus.
Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2007
Breaking the Frame Award, Journal of Management Inquiry, 2001
Wayne F. Placek Award, American Psychological Foundation: $35,000 research grant. 2000
Best practice-related paper, Organizational Development and Change Division, Academy of
Management, 1997 (with E. G. Foldy)
Dissertation Fellowship, State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award in
Business recipient, 1992.
American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business Fellow, 1989.
PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED JOURNALS, ANNUALS, AND EDITED VOLUMES (bolding
indicates first author or fully equal authorship)
DeJordy, R. & Creed, W.E.D. In press 2015. Personal Identity Work, Institutional Contradiction and the
Reproduction and Change of Organizational Identity. The Handbook of Organization Identity.
Creed, W.E.D., B.A. Hudson, G. Okhuysen, and K. Smith-Crowe. 2014. Swimming in a Sea of Shame:
Emotion in Institutional Maintenance and Disruption. Academy of Management Review.
Creed, W.E.D., R. DeJordy, and J. Lok. 2014. Myths to Work By: Redemptive Self-Myths and
Generative Agency for Organizational Change. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
DeJordy, R., Almond, B., Nielsen, R., & Creed, W. E. D. 2014. Serving Two Masters: Transformative
Resolutions to Institutional Contradictions. Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Jones, D. and W.E.D. Creed. 2011.Your Basket and My Basket: Teaching and Learning about MāoriPākehā Bicultural Organizing. Journal of Management Education, 35(1)84-101.
Creed, W.E.D., R. DeJordy, & J. Lok. 2010. Being the Change: Resolving Institutional Contradiction
through Identity Work. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6)1336-1364.
Creed, W. E. D. & E. Cooper. 2008. Special Editor’s Introduction: Offering New Insights into GLBT
Workplace Experience. Group and Organization Management. 33(5)491-503.
Creed, W.E.D. 2005. Seven Conversations about the Same Thing: Homophobia and Heterosexism in the
Workplace. In A. Konrad, P. Prasad, and J. Pringle (eds.) Handbook of Workplace Diversity.
Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Scully, M. and W.E.D. Creed. 2005. Subverting Our Stories of Subversion. In. G. Davis, D. McAdam,
W. R. Scott, and M. Zald (eds). Social Movements and Organizational Theory. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 310-332.
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Creed, W.E.D. 2003. Voice lessons: Tempered radicals and the Use of Voice and Silence. Journal of
Management Studies. 40(6)1503-1536.
Creed, W.E.D., M. Scully, and J. Austin. 2002. Clothes Make the Person: The Tailoring of Legitimating
Accounts and the Social Construction of Identity. Organization Science, 13(5)475-496.
Seo, M-G. & W.E.D. Creed. 2002. Institutional Contradictions, Praxis, and Institutional Transformation:
A Dialectical Perspective. Academy of Management Review, 27(2)222-247.
Creed, W.E.D., J. Langstraat, and M. Scully. 2002. A Picture of the Frame: Frame Analysis as
Technique and as Politics. Organizational Research Methods, 5(1)34-55.
Creed, W. E. D. and I. Saporta. 2001. Experienced Inequity and Job Changing: Intuitive Accountants or
Career Planners. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Creed, W.E.D. and M. Scully. 2000. Songs of Ourselves: Employees' Deployment of Social Identity in
Work Place Encounters. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(4)391-412. (Winner of the Breaking the
Frame Award for best paper published in JMI in 2000 and reprinted in JMI’s 20th anniversary
edition.)
Foldy, E.G. and W.E.D. Creed. 1999. Action Learning, Fragmentation, and the Interaction of Single,
Double, and Triple Loop Change. Journal of Applied Behavior Science, 35(2)207-227.
Scully, M. and W.E.D. Creed. 1999. Restructured Families: Issues of Equality and Need. The Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Special Issue on Work and Family, 562:4765.
Creed, W.E.D. and R.E. Miles. 1996. Trust in Organizations: A Conceptual Framework Linking
Organizational Forms, Managerial Philosophies, and the Opportunity Costs of Controls. In Tom
Tyler and Rod Kramer (eds.) Trust in Organizations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 16-38.
Miles, R.E. and W.E.D. Creed. 1995. Organizational Forms and Managerial Philosophies: A Descriptive
and Analytical Review. In B.M. Staw and L.L. Cummings (eds.) Research in Organizational
Behavior. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, vol. 17: 333-372.
Miles, R. E. Miles, H. Coleman, and W.E.D. Creed. 1995. Keys to Success in Corporate Redesign.
California Management Review, 37(3)128-145.
Creed, W.E.D., S.K. Stout and K. H. Roberts. 1993. Organizational Effectiveness as a Theoretical
Foundation for Research in Reliability Enhancing Organizations. In K.H. Roberts (ed.) New
Challenges to Organizational Research: High Reliability Organizations. New York: MacMillan.
Roberts, K.H., and W.E.D. Creed, 1993. Epilogue. In K.H. Roberts (ed.) New Challenges to
Organizational Research: High Reliability Organizations. New York: MacMillan.
PROCEEDINGS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Foldy, E.G. and W.E.D. Creed. 1997. Action Learning, Fragmentation, and the Interaction of Single,
Double, and Triple Loop Change: A Case of Gay and Lesbian Workplace Advocacy. Best PracticeRelated Paper, Organizational Development and Change Division. Proceedings of the 1997 Annual
Meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, 309-314.
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Austin, J., W.E.D. Creed, and M. Scully. 1997. Good Business or Civil Rights? Frames and Meaning for
Gay Activism in the Workplace. Proceedings of the EIASM Conference on Organizing in a MultiVoiced World. Leuven, Belgium.
PAPERS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW OR SUBJECT TO REVISE AND RESUBMIT
Creed, W.E.D., DeJordy, R., Scully, M., & Ventresca, M. The Busy World of Analytic "Zeroes" in
Institutional Change: Unexpected Sources for Movement Capacity Building. Revise and resubmit,
2015, Administrative Science Quarterly.
Creed, W.E. D., Ventresca, M., and Moss-Cowan, A. Organizing the curated crowd to sustainable
purpose: Stakeholder engagement processes and capabilities innovation. Under review Strategic
Organization.
WORKING PAPERS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Lok, J., Creed, W.E.D., DeJordy, R., & Voronov, M. Emotions in Institutions: Review and Prospect for
Research. Forthcoming. In R. Greenwood, R. Meyer, C. Oliver & T. Lawrence (eds) Handbook of
Organizational Institutionalism, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Tracey, P. & Creed, W.E.D. Forthcoming. Paradox and Institutional Theory. In Oxford Handbook of
Organizational Paradox: Approaches to Plurality, Tensions and Contradictions. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Taylor, S.S., Creed, W.E.D., & Hudson, B.A. Institutional Aesthetics: Rethinking the Constraints of
Organizational Creativity
Creed, W.E.D., B.A. Hudson, G. Okhuysen, and K. Smith-Crowe. Institutional communities and the
constitution of the self: The intersection of social bonds, institutional prescriptions, and affective
commitments. Presented at EGOS, Rotterdam, July 2014.
Creed, W.E.D., R. DeJordy, and J. Lok. From ‘Church Cruise Director’ to ‘Rabbi:’ Sensemaking, SelfNarrative, and the Renewal of a Career Project. Presented at the AoM, Boston, August 2012.
Creed, W.E.D. & D. Jones. Partnership under the Treaty: Race Relations and Institutional Work in
Nursing Organizations in Aoteatora New Zealand. STATUS: Under revision for submission to
Human Relations; NOMINATED: Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper, Academy of
Management, San Antonio, 2011.
Creed, W.E.D. Becoming an Agent: Vocation, Voice, and Institutional Change in the Careers of Gay and
Lesbian Ministers.
Creed, W.E.D. and M. Ventresca. From Dogma to Heresy: The Legitimation of Corporations as Social
Change Agents
REFEREEDED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, SYNPOSIA, PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT WORKSHIPS, AND INVITED TALKS
10th Organizational Studies Summer Workshop, May 2015, Chenia, Crete.
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Taylor, S.S., Creed, W.E.D., & Hudson, B.A. Institutional Aesthetics: Rethinking the Constraints of
Organizational Creativity
European Group for Organization Studies, July 2014, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Creed, W.E.D., B.A. Hudson, G. Okhuysen, and K. Smith-Crowe. Institutional communities and the
constitution of the self: The intersection of social bonds, institutional prescriptions, and affective
commitments.
New Institutionalism Workshop, March 2014, Rome
DeJordy, R. & Creed, W.E.D. Personal Identity Work, Institutional Contradiction and the
Reproduction and Change of Organizational Identity.
Earlier version also to be presented at:
The Handbook of Organization Identity Book Conference, Boston College, March 2014
Emotions and Institutions Conference. December 2013, York University, Toronto, Canada. Invited
keynote address: Swimming in a Sea of Shame: Emotion in Institutional Maintenance and Disruption
European Group for Organization Studies, July 2013, Montreal, Canada
Creed, W.E.D., DeJordy, R., Scully, M., & Ventresca, M. (2013, July). The Busy
World of Analytic 'zeroes' in Institutional Change: Unexpected Sources for Movement Capacity
building.
Earlier version also presented at:
The Inaugural Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional
Analysis, Harvard Business School, MA
8th Organization Studies Summer Workshop, Mykonos, Greece
Dorado, S. & Creed, W. E. D. May 2013. Negotiating identity in unsettled fields. The case of
microfinance.
Academy of Management, August 2012, Boston, MA
Creed, W.E.D., R. DeJordy, and J. Lok. From ‘Church Cruise Director’ to ‘Rabbi:’ Sensemaking,
Self-Narrative, and the Renewal of a Career Project.
European Group for Organization Studies, July 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Stream Convener: Institutions and Emotions (co-conveners Jaco Lok and Marc Ventresca)
Creed, W.E.D., B.A. Hudson, G. Okhuysen, and K. Smith-Crowe. Shameless Theorizing: Emotion in
Institutional Maintenance and Disruption.
Also presented at University of Melbourne, May 2012
Also presented in revised form at University of New Mexico, February 2013
Academy of Management, August 2011, San Antonio, TX
Creed, W.E.D. and D. Jones. Partnership under the Treaty: Race Relations, and Institutional Work in
Nursing Organizations.
Also presented in revised form at the ABC Research Network Institutional Logics Conference:
Organizing Institutions: Creating, Enacting and Reacting to Institutional Logics. Banff, Canada, June 2012. Reading Institutional Work for Feeling (with J. Lok)
International Conference on Institutions and Work. June, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Invited Keynote Address: Being the Change
Academy of Management, August 2010, Montreal, Quebec
Professional Development Workshop: Bringing Emotions (Back) Into Institutional Theory. (Coorganized with P. Cebon, B. Hudson, R. DeJordy, and J. Lok)
Academy of Management, August 2008. Anaheim, CA
Professional Development Workshop: Relocating Diversity: New Questions from New and Old
Places? (Co-organized with Deborah Jones)
Business as an Agent of World Benefit Global Forum. September 2006, Cleveland, OH
Animating stakeholder engagement processes: Lessons from the Ceres-Nike Corporate Responsibility
reporting process, (With M. Ventresca and A. Moffat)
Academy of Management, Honolulu, August 2005
Wiping the Theological Slate Clean: Sensemaking in the Careers of Gay and Lesbian Ministers.
Earlier versions also presented at:
The Davis Conference on Qualitative Research. University of California at Davis, March 2004.
The Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2004
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES
Memberships
Academy of Management:
Divisions -- Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Organization and Management Theory, Social
Issues in Management
Interest groups – Critical Management
Service
To the profession
Division Chair Elect (Past Program Chair and PDW Chair), Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Division, Academy of Management, 2013-present
Member, Executive Committee, Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of
Management (elected to a 3 year term starting August 2005, chair of a special committee on
internationalization of GDO)
Guest Editor, Group and Organization Management, special issue on gay and lesbian workplace
experience, forthcoming, 2008.
Member of the selection committee, Sage Scholarship Award, Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Division, 2004, 2005
Ad hoc reviewer – refereed journals:
Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization
Science, Organization Studies, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of
Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Organizational
Behavior, Organization
Ad hoc reviewer, Academy of Management annual meetings: Organization Management and Theory,
Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Academy of Management, Co-founder, Gay and Lesbian Scholars Caucus & Research
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Network
To the broader community
Invited Scholar, Networking Workshop/Conference on LGBTQ/Sexuality Research and on
Enhancing LGBTQ Inclusion, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies,
University of Toronto, November 2010
Board member, Fort Point Cultural Coalition, Boston, MA. FPCC is a non-profit real estate developer
of affordable live/work space for the Fort Point community of working artists
Strategic planning consultant (pro bono), Opera Providence, Providence, RI, 2005
Invited Scholar. Symposium on the State of Research on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender
Workplace Issues. Out and Equal Workplace Advocates Summit. Denver, CO, September 2005.
Keynote speaker, Enhancing Leadership for an Integrated Workforce. Minnesota Work Place
Alliance, Minneapolis, MN, September 1997
Workshop leader/trainer, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Annual Creating Change
Conference, 1996
Contributor, Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies, Amherst, MA 1999-2003
Trustee, The United Parish in Brookline, MA
Baritone, The church choir of the United Parish in Brookline, MA, 2000-present
Baritone, The Boston Succession, a semi-profession singing group dedicated to highlighting the
evolution of musical forms through stylistic periods in educational performances, 1997
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