Karen Moustafa Leonard
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Also affiliated: Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (2007–2015); Eastern Connecticut State University (2020); Purdue University West Lafayette (2009); Indiana University Fort Wayne (2010–2011)
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Karen Moustafa Leonard's research investigates organizational culture, stress, and decision-making within supply chains. Her work has explored the criteria for lean organizations, developing assessment tools, and examining how organizational culture influences the implementation and sustainability of lean processes. She has also studied the impact of organizational stress and psychological strain on work outcomes across different national contexts. Further research interests include decision-making in the context of supply chain crises and the role of competency in workplace bullying.
Leonard has published 56 works, which have been cited 907 times, and holds an h-index of 13. She has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, including Naeem Bajwa, Thomas R. Tudor, and Otmar E. Varela, as well as Karen R. McDaniel from Arkansas State University.
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- h-index: 13
- Publications: 52
- Citations: 862
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Professor 2012–presentUniversity of Arkansas Little Rock Management ORCID
Selected Publications
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Cultural and organisational variables in blockchain technology acceptance (2026)
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Words Matter: Victim vs Target (2025)
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Teaching in Higher Education after COVID-19: Optimizing Faculty Time and Effort Using a Proposed Model (2024)
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Using the Theory of Slack Resources to Ameliorate Normal Accidents:The Case of Slack Time (2023)
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Management Issues in Police and Social Worker Alliances: Using the Lens of Occupational Culture (2023)
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Clashes of cultures during crises: coordinating firefighter, police and paramedic interactions (2022)
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Editorial: The Role of Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Contexts (2020)
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The effects of knowledge characteristics, organizational and societal culture in knowledge transfer within firms (2019)
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Validation of qualitative aspects of the Lean Assessment Tool (LAT) (2018)
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Implementing and sustaining lean processes: the dilemma of societal culture effects (2016)
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The effect of organizational culture on implementing and sustaining lean processes (2015)
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Does competency matter? Competency as a factor in workplace bullying (2015)
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Criteria for a lean organisation: development of a lean assessment tool (2014)
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- Criteria for a lean organisation: development of a lean assessment tool
- The effect of organizational culture on implementing and sustaining lean processes
- Implementing and sustaining lean processes: the dilemma of societal culture effects
- Validation of qualitative aspects of the Lean Assessment Tool (LAT)
- Cultural and organisational variables in blockchain technology acceptance
- Does competency matter? Competency as a factor in workplace bullying
- Words Matter: Victim vs Target
- Clashes of cultures during crises: coordinating firefighter, police and paramedic interactions
- Management Issues in Police and Social Worker Alliances: Using the Lens of Occupational Culture
- Does competency matter? Competency as a factor in workplace bullying
- Validation of qualitative aspects of the Lean Assessment Tool (LAT)
- The effects of knowledge characteristics, organizational and societal culture in knowledge transfer within firms
- The effects of knowledge characteristics, organizational and societal culture in knowledge transfer within firms
- Editorial: The Role of Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Contexts
- Editorial: The Role of Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Contexts
- Teaching in Higher Education after COVID-19: Optimizing Faculty Time and Effort Using a Proposed Model
- Teaching in Higher Education after COVID-19: Optimizing Faculty Time and Effort Using a Proposed Model
- Teaching in Higher Education after COVID-19: Optimizing Faculty Time and Effort Using a Proposed Model
- Cultural and organisational variables in blockchain technology acceptance
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