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Responsible Research for Business and Management

The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Weatherhead School of Management supports the work of the , which is "dedicated to inspiring, encouraging and supporting credible and useful research in the business and management disciplines."

Below is a small sample of the research done at the Weatherhead School aimed at guiding business scholars and practitioners toward the betterment of the human condition.

  • Bilimoria, D., Cooperrider, D. L., Kaczmarski, K., Khalsa, G., Srivastva, S., & Upadhayaya, P. (1995). “A call to organizational scholarship. The organization dimensions of global change: No limits to cooperation.” Journal of Management Inquiry, 4(1), 71-90.
  • Bilimoria, D., Cooperrider, D., Srivastva, S. and R. Fry, (1995) “Management and Organizational Learning for Global Change.” Management Learning, 25, 1.
  • Bilimoria, D. (2000). “Redoing management education's mission and methods.” Journal of Management Education, 24, 161-166.
  • Bright, D. S. and Fry, R. E. (2013) “Introduction: Building Ethical, Virtual Organizations,” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 49 (1) 5-12.
  • Cooperrider, D. L. (2001). “Positive image, positive action: The affirmative basis of organizing.” In D. L. Cooperrider, P. F. Sorensen, Jr., T. F. Yaeger, & D. Whitney (Eds.), Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization (pp. 31-76). Champaign, IL: Stipes Publishing L.L.C.
  • Cooperrider, D. L., & McQuaid, M. (2012). “The positive arc of systemic strengths: How appreciative inquiry and sustainable designing can bring out the best in human systems.” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 46, 71-102.
  • Cooperrider, D. L., Fry, R. E. (2013)  “Mirror Flourishing and the Positive Psychology of Sustainability+.” Journal of Corporate Citizenship (46), 3-12.
  • Cooperrider, D. L. (2016). “ Retrieved from.
  • Cooperrider, D.L. and Dutton, J. (eds.) 1999.  “The organizational dimensions of global change: No limits to cooperation.” Newbury Pk., CA: Sage Publications.
  • Coooperrider, DL. And Fry, R. (2013) “Special Issue Editors on The Positive Psychology of Sustainability.” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship.  Vol. 46, Emerald Press.
  • Cooperrider, D.L et. al (2013) “Organizational Generativity: The Appreciative Inquiry Summit and a Scholarship of Transformation.” Volume #4 in Advances in Appreciative Inquiry. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  • Cooperrider, D.L., (2017) “The Quest for a Flourishing Earth is the Most Significant OD Opportunity of the 21st Century: How Macro OD can be the most powerful form of Micro OD.” The Organization Development Practitioner, Vol 49, No. 3, p. 42-51.
  • Thachenkery, T., Cooperrider, D.L., and Avital, M., 2010. “Appreciative Inquiry and Sustainable Design.” Cooperrider, D.L., and Avital, M. (eds.), Vol. 4 in Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
  • Cooperrider, D.L. and Khalsa, G. (eds.) 1997.  Special Issue, Journal of Organization and Environment on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, 10(4).
  • Debebe, Gelaye, Anderson, Deirdre, Bilimoria, Diana & Vinnicombe, Susan M.  (2016). “Women’s Leadership Development Programs: Lessons Learned and New Frontiers”, Journal of Management Education, 40, 3: 231-252.
  • Fry, R., Sharma, G. (2013) “Generativity: Reconceptualizing the Benefits of Green Buildings.” In Henn, Rebecca and Hoffman, Andrew (Eds.) Constructing Green: Sustainability and the Places We Inhabit. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 239-259.
  • Fry, Ronald (2017) “An Appreciative Inquiry into Business as Agent for World Benefit.” AI Practitioner, 19 (2), 9-16.
  • Laszlo, C., Brown, J.S., Sherman, D., Barros, I., Boland, B., Ehrenfeld, J., Gorham, M., Robson, L., Saillant, R., & Werder, R. (2012). Flourishing:  “A vision for business and the world.” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 46, 31-51.
  • Pavez, I., Kendall, L., & Bao, L. (2014). “The arc of interconnectedness: A theory of the business evolution towards flourishing.” Working Paper Series, Weatherhead School of Management, ǿմý, Cleveland, OH.
  • Robinson, Michael J., van Esch, Chantal & Bilimoria, Diana. (2017). “Bringing Transgender Issues into Management Education.” Academy of Management Learning & Education, 16, 2: 300-313.  DOI: .
  • Srivastva, S., Bilimoria, D., Cooperrider, D. L., & Fry, R. E. (1995). “Management and organization learning for positive global change.” Management Learning, 26(1), 37-54.
  • Sugiyama, Keimei, Cavanagh, Kevin V., van Esch, Chantal, Bilimoria, Diana & Brown, Cara. (2016). “Inclusive Leadership Development: Pedagogies of Women’s and General Leadership Development Programs”, Journal of Management Education, 40, 3: 253-292.
  • Zhexembayava, N. T. and Fry, R. E. (2008). “The Invisible Strategy: Profits at the Intersection of Business and Society”, Harvard Business Review [Russia], April, 19-23.