Jason W. Ridge Data-verified

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Professor / Department Chairperson of SEVI

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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13 h-index 29 pubs 1,600 cited

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Jason W. Ridge's research investigates the intersection of corporate strategy, political activity, and organizational behavior. His work examines how firms engage with nonmarket environments, including the strategic use of lobbying and the influence of chief executive officer characteristics on these activities. Ridge has explored how corporate social responsibility conformity is affected by network prominence and supply chain partners, and how managerial discretion influences gender diversity in women-led firms.

His studies have also delved into the financial market implications of political disclosures, such as the market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases. Ridge's research network includes collaborators from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, such as Scott Kuban and Dan L. Worrell, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. He has authored 29 publications with a total of 1,546 citations and an h-index of 11, with his most recent publication in 2025, indicating recent activity in his research.

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h-index: 13
Publications: 29
Citations: 1,600

Selected Publications

Sex, drugs, and . . . financial restatements? Investigating differences in firms’ CEO dismissal and succession actions post-misconduct (2025)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors (2025)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Transparent politics: Political ideology, lobbying and firm performance (2025)

DOI OpenAlex
Putting the Politics Into Corporate Political Activity: A Variance Decomposition Analysis of Firm–Government Interactions Across Political Contexts (2024)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
An investigation of corporate social responsibility conformity: The roles of network prominence and supply chain partners (2024)

39 citations DOI OpenAlex
Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms (2024)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues (2024)

4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Perceptions of political <scp>Self‐Dealing</scp> ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases (2022)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Swayed by prior interactions? How government contracting acts as a substitute for lobbying activity (2022)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes (2022)

7 citations DOI OpenAlex
When Not One of the Crowd: The Effects of CEO Ideological Divergence on Lobbying Strategy (2022)

26 citations DOI OpenAlex
What’s It Like Inside the Hive? Managerial Discretion Drives TMT Gender Diversity of Women-Led Firms (2021)

69 citations DOI OpenAlex
Strategic Risk and Lobbying: Investigating Lobbying Breadth as Risk Management (2021)

30 citations DOI OpenAlex