Jason W. Ridge

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Professor / Department Chairperson of SEVI

University of Arkansas primary Arkansas State University

Also affiliated: Oklahoma State University (2010); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022); Clemson University (2012–2014)

Faculty Researcher

11 h-index 30 pubs 1,680 cited

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Jason W. Ridge is a Professor and Department Chairperson in SEVI at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research investigates strategic decision-making within organizations, particularly concerning nonmarket strategies and corporate social responsibility. Ridge's work examines how factors such as CEO characteristics, political engagement, and stakeholder interactions influence organizational outcomes. He has published on topics including the effects of CEO ideological divergence on lobbying strategy, the role of managerial discretion in gender diversity, and the relationship between strategic risk and lobbying breadth. His publications have been cited over 1,600 times, and he has an h-index of 11. Ridge has collaborated with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas, including Scott Kuban and Dan L. Worrell, on multiple shared publications.

Metrics

h-index: 11
Publications: 30
Citations: 1,680

Selected Publications

Shining a Light on Dark Money in Corporate Politics: Unveiling CEO Ideology’s Influence on Corporate Political Transparency (2026)

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

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

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

Strategic Organization 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Putting the Politics Into Corporate Political Activity: A Variance Decomposition Analysis of Firm–Government Interactions Across Political Contexts (2024)

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

Journal of Operations Management 42 citations DOI OpenAlex
Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms (2024)

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

Academy of Management Journal 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Perceptions of political <scp>Self‐Dealing</scp> ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases (2022)

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

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

Organization Science 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
When Not One of the Crowd: The Effects of CEO Ideological Divergence on Lobbying Strategy (2022)

Journal of Management 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
What’s It Like Inside the Hive? Managerial Discretion Drives TMT Gender Diversity of Women-Led Firms (2021)

Journal of Management 74 citations DOI OpenAlex
Strategic Risk and Lobbying: Investigating Lobbying Breadth as Risk Management (2021)

Journal of Management 33 citations DOI OpenAlex
Looking for respect? How prior <scp>TMT</scp> social comparisons affect executives' new <scp>TMT</scp> engagements (2020)

Strategic Management Journal 24 citations DOI OpenAlex