Professor Cynthia E. Devers
Assistant Professor - Management and Human Resources

Degree
PhD, Michigan State University

Contact Information:
Cynthia E. Devers
5287 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
cdevers@bus.wisc.edu
(608) 263-2138

PUBLICATIONS 

Holmes, R.M., Bromiley, P., Devers, C.E., Holcomb, T.R., & McGuire, J.B. Prospect Theory research in management:  A review, critique, and research agenda, conditionally accepted, Journal of Management for the 2011 review issue.

Devers, C.E., Dewett, T, Mishina, Y. & Belsito, C.A. (2009) A general theory of organizational stigma, Organization Science 20: 154-171.

Haleblian, J., Devers, C.E., Carpenter, M.A., McNamara, G; & Davidson, R. (2009) Taking stock of what we know about mergers and acquisitions: A review and research agenda, Journal of Management 35: 469-502. 

Devers, C.E., McNamara, G, Wiseman, R.M., & Arrfelt, M. (2008) Moving closer to the action: Examining compensation design effects on strategic risk, Organization Science 19: 548-566.

Devers, C.E., Wiseman, R.M., & Holmes, R.M. (2007) The effects of endowment and loss aversion in managerial stock option valuation, Academy of Management Journal 50: 191-208.

Research abstracted in the Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2007, A16.

Devers, C.E., Cannella, A.A., Reilly, G.P., & Yoder, M.E. (2007) Executive compensation: A multidisciplinary review of recent developments, Journal of Management 33: 1016-1072.

Devers, C.E. & Dewett, T. (2007) Organizational stigma. In S. Cleeg & J.R. Bailey (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Devers, C.E., Holcomb, T.R., Holmes, R.M., & Cannella, A.A. (2006) Inside the black box: The effects of TMT incentive structure and incentive dispersion on acquisition behavior and firm performance.  Best Paper Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Devers, C.E., Dewett, T, and Belsito, C.A. (2005) Falling out of favor: Illegitimacy, social control, and the process of organizational stigmatization.  Best Paper Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

McNamara, G., Vaaler, P.M., & Devers, C.E. (2003) Same as it ever was: The search for evidence of increasing hypercompetition, Strategic Management Journal 24: 261-278.

Selected as one of the top fifty articles published in academic business journals in 2003 by Emerald Management Review.

Moon, H., Conlon, D.E., Humphrey, S.E., Quigley, N., Devers, C.E., &  Nowakowski, J.M. (2003) Group structure and incrementalism in organizational decision-making, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 92: 67-79.

Chatterjee, S., Wiseman, R.M., Fiegenbaum, A., & Devers, C.E.  (2003) Integrating behavioural and economic concepts of risk into strategic management: The twain shall meet, Long Range Planning 36:  61-79.

 CASE STUDY PUBLICATIONS

Carpenter, M.A. & Devers, C.E. (2008) Strategy and Strategy Execution at the University of Wisconsin: The Wisconsin School of Business Initiative.  Strategic management case published electronically in SSRN and Pearson/Prentice-Hall My StratLab.  18 pages + multimedia DVD, forthcoming, Alliance Journal of Business Research.