The Business Handbook Collection: Handbook of Work Stress v. 1 (Hardcover)

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About the Author
Kelly G. Shaver is Professor of Psychology at the College of William & Mary. From 1977–1979, he was Program Director for Social and Developmental Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He currently serves as an advisor to FamilyCareAmerica.com, is a founding director of MBATechConnect.org, and serves as a member of the international advisory board of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute (ESBRI) in Stockholm where he was a Visiting Professor during 1999–2000. For 5 years Dr. Shaver was Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. He is the author of seven books, coauthor or coeditor of five others, and is author or coauthor of over 140 papers and research articles on attribution processes and entrepreneurship. His paper on the motivations of nascent entrepreneurs was the winner of the Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference Best Paper Award for 2000, and his course on the psychology of entrepreneurship won the 2000 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Award for Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the current (2003–2004) Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Shaver’s e-mail is kgshav@netscape.net; his web pages are at www.wm.edu/PSYC/shaver.html

Nancy M. Carter holds the Richard M. Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis). Previously she held the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Entrepreneurship, and was founding Director of the Center for Family Business at Marquette University. Her research program focuses on the emergence of organizations with a special emphasis on women owned initiatives. She has published extensively on organizations, strategy and entrepreneurship. She is on the editorial review boards of Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, and was co-editor of the 17th and 18th Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. She co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium, a cross-national initiative involving 10 countries studying business start-ups.

Paul D. Reynolds is the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College (Wellesley, Massachusetts), a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, and the director of the annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (1996-1999). He was the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) for five years (1990-1995). Reynolds is now coordinator of the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium (ERC), an international collaboration of 31 university units, government agencies and foundations implementing national longitudinal studies of business start-ups in the U.S. and eight other countries. As coordinating principal investigator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project, he is coordinating 10 national teams in the first analysis of the contributions of the entrepreneurial sector to national economic growth. He is the author or co-author of three conference proceedings, four books, four data sets in the University of Michigan ICPSR public archives, 25 project reports and research monographs, 60 peer review journal articles or conference proceeding reports, and several hundred professional conference presentations.

Michael R. Frone is Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also Senior Research Scientist, Research Insititue on Additctions, State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Frome is Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of five refereed journals, and is the author of numerous articles. He is co-editor (with Julian Barling, APA forthcoming) of Psychology of Workplace Safety.

Julian Barling is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology in the Queen’s School of Business, and Associate Dean with responsibility for the Ph.D, M.Sc and Research programs in the School of Business.

Dr. Barling is the author of several books, including Employment, stress and family functioning (1990, Wiley & Sons), The union and its members: A psychological approach (with Clive Fullagar and Kevin Kelloway, 1992, Oxford University Press), and Changing employment relations: Behavioral and social perspectives (with Lois Tetrick, 1995, American Psychological Association), and Young workers (with Kevin Kelloway, 1999, American Psychological Association). Dr. Barling co-edited the The psychology of workplace safety, and is the editor of the Handbook of Work Stress (2005; Sage Publications), and the Handbook of Workplace Violence (2006; Sage Publications). Dr. Barling is co-editor (with Cary L. Cooper) of the Handbook of Organizational Behavior, which will appear in 2008. In addition, he is the author/editor of well over 125 research articles and book chapters.

Dr. Barling was the editor of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Occupational Health Psychology from 2000-2005.

Dr. Barling serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, and was previously on the editorial board of Stress Medicine. Dr. Barling previously served as the consulting editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. He was formerly chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Workplace Violence.

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