Roland Kidwell

Education

• PhD (1994) Organizational Behavior/Organizational Theory, Louisiana State University
• MBA (1987) Radford University
• BS (1978) Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park

Certifications

• Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising
• Certificate in Family Business Wealth Advising
• Certificate in Family Business Advising

Research Interests

• HR issues in family firms and franchise relationships, dysfunctional behavior at work, new ventures and economic development, business ethics

Intellectual Contributions

• Kidwell, Roland; Eddleston, Kimberly; Kidwell, Linda; Cater, John; Howard, Ellison. (2024). Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses, Family Business Review, 37(1), 89-129
• Howard, E.; Kidwell, Roland. (2023). The effects of kinship and race/ethnicity on theft and fraud reporting intentions in family firms, International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), Krakow, Poland
• Haim Faridian, Parisa; Neubaum, Donald; Terjesen, Siri; Kidwell, Roland. (2023). The link between technical knowledge transfer in alliances and resource efficiency: Ambidexterity in development of R&D and appropriation capabilities, The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48(6), 2179-2203
• Cox, Kevin; Lortie, Jason; Marshall, D.; Kidwell, Roland. (2022). Beyond the balance sheet: The effects of family influence on social performance, Journal of Business Research, 143, 318-330
• Cox, Kevin; Lortie, Jason; Crider, C.; Marshall, D.; Kidwell, Roland. (2022). Founding Family Firms in Rural Regions: Implications for Economic Growth, In Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 2022(1), 16969
• Cater, J.; James, K.; Kidwell, Roland; Camp, K.; Young, M.. (2022). The impact of Mexican culture on the human resource management practices of Mexican-American family firms, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 45(4), 518-550
• Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland; Granger, Jennifer. (2022). Expansion of community aimed entrepreneurship education: Spanish language and other underserved communities, Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
• Michiels, A.; Botero, I.; Kidwell, Roland. (2022). Toward a family science perspective on executive compensation in family firms; A review and research agenda, Family Business Review, 35(1), 45-67
• Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland; Lortie, Jason. (2022). New Venture Launchpad -- Spanish Version: Guia Para Nuevos Negocios, Kendal / Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, IA(2nd Edition)
• Kidwell, Roland; Boyi, Victor. (2021). Seven strategies to survive the post-pandemic labor shortage, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange, FamilyBusiness.org
• Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland; Lortie, Jason. (2021). New Venture Launchpad, Kendal / Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, IA(2nd Edition)
• Nygaard, A.; Silkoset, R.; Kidwell, Roland. (2020). Government coercion backfires in fighting COVID-19: Their draconian measures and hypocrisy in following them comes at a cost, American Spectator (website)-https://spectator.org/covid-19-shutdowns-hypocrisy-coercion-gavin-newsom/
• Michiels, A.; Botero, I.; Kidwell, Roland. (2020). Executive compensation in family businesses: A review and framework for future research, 2020 Annual Meeting - Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
• Kidwell, Roland; Fuentes-Lombardo, G.; Sanchez-Famoso, V.; Cano-Rubio, M.; Kloepfer, Kathryn. (2020). Human capital in the internationalization of family firms, Thunderbird International Business Review, 62(4), 353-369
• Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland. (2020). New Venture Launchpad, Kendal / Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, IA, 277 pages
• Kloepfer, Kathryn; Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland. (2019). Diverse Teams Navigating The Technology Commercialization Process: Creative Cohorts Or Complex Collectives?, USASBE Conference
• Cox, Kevin; Kloepfer, Kathryn; Kidwell, Roland. (2019). Diverse teams navigating the technology commercialization process: Creative cohorts or complex collectives?, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL
• Cater, J.; James, K.; Kidwell, Roland; Camp, K.; Young, M.. (2019). HRM practices and effectiveness: A comparison of U.S. Hispanic and non-Hispanic family firms, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 26, 726-746
• Kidwell, Roland; Cox, Kevin; Kloepfer, Kathryn. (2019). The diversity of deviance: How it can hurt (and help) families and family firms, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 643-672
• Kloepfer, Kathryn; Kidwell, Roland; Cox, Kevin. (2019). 'champions' make diverse spin-off teams more successful, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange
• Kidwell, Roland; Kloepfer, Kathryn. (2018). How family business leaders can encourage both devotion and performance, Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange
• Cox, Kevin; Kidwell, Roland; Kloepfer, Kathryn. (2018). Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Team Formation and Evolution During the Technology Commercialization Process, USASBE Conference
• Kidwell, Roland; Eddleston, K.A.; Kellermanns, F.W.. (2018). Learning bad habits across generations: How negative imprints affect human resource management in the family firm, Human Resource Management Review, 28, 5-17
• Kidwell, Roland; Eddleston, Kimberly. (2018). Let's Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices, Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange
• Kidwell, Roland; Cox, Kevin; Kloepfer, K. (2018). The Diversity of Deviance: How It Can Hurt (and Help) Families and Family Firms
• Eddleston, K.A.; Kellermanns, F.W.; Kidwell, Roland. (2018). Managing family members: How control and collaboration affect extra role behavior in family firms, Human Resource Management, 57(5), 957-977
• Cox, Kevin; Lortie, Jason; Kidwell, Roland; Marshall, D.. (2017). The relationship between familiness and social performance: A stewardship perspective, Southern Management Association Conference
• Loignon, A.C.; Kellermanns, F.W.; Eddleston, K.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (2017). Bad blood in the boardroom: Antecedents and outcomes of conflict in the family firm, Routledge, New York, New York, USA, 349-366
• Nygaard, A.; Biong, H.; Silkoset, R.; Kidwell, Roland. (2017). Leading by example: values-based strategy to instill ethical conduct, Journal of Business Ethics, 145(1), 133-139
• Nygaard, A.; Silkoset, R.; Kidwell, Roland. (2016). Differential effects of plural ownership and governance mechanisms in limiting shirkers and free riders, Corporate Ownership and Control Journal, 13, 113-131
• Kidwell, Roland; Lunde, M.B.. (2016). Human resource innovation or another Iron Cage? The ethical line(s) between high performance work systems and abusive supervison, Taylor-Francis, New York, New York, USA, 105-125
• Carter, J.J.; Kidwell, Roland; Camp, K.. (2016). Successor team dynamics in family firms, Family Business Review, 29, 301-326
• Kidwell, Roland. (2015). Blazing a trail from markets to politics: Wyomings 19th century cattle kings, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, 21-39
• Kidwell, Roland. (2015). Market entrepreneurship to destructive politics: The cattle barons of Wyoming, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Management History Division, Vancouver, Canada
• Stevens, C.E.; Kidwell, Roland; Sprague, R.D.. (2015). Bound by laws or by values? A multi-level and cross-national approach to understanding the protection of minority owners in family firms, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 23(3), 203-215
• Kidwell, Roland; Cater, J.J.; Kidwell, L.A.. (2014). Ethics and the family firm: A climate for healthy families and healthy employees, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, 235-253
• Cater, J.J.; Kidwell, Roland. (2014). Function, governance, and trust in successor leadership groups in family firms, Journal of Family Business Strategy, 5, 217-228
• Kidwell, Roland; Eddleston, K.A.; Cater, J.J.; Kellermanns, F.W.. (2013). How one bad family member can undermine a family firm: Preventing the Fredo effect, Business Horizons, 56(1), 5-12
• Cater, J.J.; Kidwell, Roland. (2013). The Woodville Republican: Family firm or community asset?, Case Research Journal, 33(2), 21-31
• Cooper, J.T.; Kidwell, Roland; Eddleston, K.A.. (2013). Boss and parent, employee and child: Work-family roles and deviant behavior in the family firm, Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, 62(July), 457-471
• Kidwell, Roland; Hoy, F.; Ibarreche, S.. (2012). "Ethnic" family business or just family business? Human resource practices in the ethnic family firm, Journal of Family Business Strategy, 3, 12-17
• Kidwell, Roland; Kellermanns, F.W.; Eddleston, K.A.. (2012). Harmony, justice, confusion and conflict in the family firm: Implications for ethcial climate and the "Fredo effect.", Journal of Business Ethics, 106, 503-517
• Eddleston, K.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (2012). Parent-child relationships: Planting the seeds of deviant behavior in the family firm, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 36(2), 369-386
• Eddleston, K.; Kidwell, Roland. (2012). The bad seed's poisonous harvest: How offspring sow and reap deviant and dysfunctional behavior in the family business, Springer International Entrepreneurship Series, 95-114
• Valentine, S.; Godkin, L.; Fleischman, G.; Kidwell, Roland; Page, K.. (2011). Corporate ethical values and altruism: The mediating role of career satisfaction, Journal of Business Ethics, 101, 509-523
• Kidwell, Roland; Nygaard, A.. (2011). A strategic deviance perspective on the franchise form of organizing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 35(3), 467-482
• Valentine, S.; Godkin, L.; Fleischman, G.; Kidwell, Roland. (2011). Corporate ethical values, group creativity, job satisfaction, and turnover intention: The impact of work context on work response, Journal of Business Ethics, 98, 353-372
• Castrogiovanni, Gary; Kidwell, Roland. (2010). Human resource management practices affecting unit managers in franchise networks., Human Resource Management, 49(2), 227-241
• Kidwell, Roland. (2010). Loafing in the 21st Century: Enhanced opportunities (and remedies) for withholding job effort in the new workplace, Business Horizons, 53(6), 543-552
• Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.; Valentine, S.. (2010). The limits of effort in understanding performance: What employees "do" and what might be done about it, Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, 15(1), 3-20
• Kidwell, Roland; Sprague, R.. (2009). Electronic Surveillance in the global workplace: Laws, ethics, research and practice, New Technology, Work & Employment, 24, 194-208
• Thach, L.; Kidwell, Roland. (2009). HR practices in United States and Australian family wineries: Cultural contrasts and performance impact, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 5, 219-240
• Kidwell, Roland; Valentine, S.. (2009). Positive group context, work attitudes, and organizational misbehavior: The case of withholding job effort, Journal of Business Ethics, 86, 15-28
• Valentine, S.; Kidwell, Roland. (2008). Business students' ethical evaluations of faculty misconduct, Quality Assurance in Education, 16, 287-300
• Kidwell, L.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (2008). Do the numbers add up to different views? Perceptions of ethical faculty behavior among faculty in quantitative versus qualitative disciplines, Journal of Business Ethics, 78(1-2), 141-151
• Fleishman, G.M.; Kidwell, Roland; Kidwell, L.A.. (2008). W.O. Carpenter and the California Gold Rush: The making of entrepreneurial opportunities, Journal of Management History, 14, 248-266
• Kidwell, Roland; Nygaard, A.; Silkoset, R.. (2007). Antecedentes and effects of free riding in the franchisor-franchisee relationship, Journal of Business Venturing, 22, 522-544
• Kidwell, Roland; Fish, A.J.. (2007). High-performance human resource practicies in Australian family businesses: Preliminary evidence from the wine industry, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 3, 1-14
• Vega, G.; Kidwell, Roland. (2007). Toward a typology of new venture creators: Similarities and contrasts between business and social entrepreneurs, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 10(2), 15-28
• Kidwell, L.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (2006). Ethical beliefs in the Catholic business school: The impact of Catholic social thought on classroom reality, The Journal of Markets & Morality, 9(2), 293-315
• Kidwell, L.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (2006). Louise and Sidney Homer: A 21st century dual-career couple, circa 1911, Journal of Management History, 12, 244-261
• Kidwell, Roland; Kochanowski, S.. (2005). The morality of employee theft: Teaching about ethics and deviant behavior in the workplace, Journal of Management Education, 29, 135-152
• Kidwell, Roland. (2004). "Small" lies, big trouble: the unpleasant consequences of resume padding, from Janet Cooke to George O' Leary, Journal of Business Ethics, 51, 175-184
• Kidwell, Roland. (2003). Helping older workers cope with continuous quality improvement, Journal of Management Development, 22(9/10), 890-905
• Kidwell, Roland; Robie, C.. (2003). The "ethical" professor and the undergraduate student: Current perceptions of moral behavior among business school faculty, Journal of Academic Ethics, 1, 153-173
• Robie, C.; Kidwell, Roland; Kling, J.. (2003). The ethics of professorial book selling: Morality, money and "black market" books, Journal of Business Ethics, 47, 61-76
• Kidwell, Roland; Robie, C.. (2003). Withholding effort in Organization: Toward development and validation of a measure, Journal of Business and Psychology, 17(4), 537-561
• Kidwell, Roland; Scherer, P.. (2001). Layoffs and their ethical implications under scientific management, quality management, and open-book management, Journal of Business Ethics, 29, 113-124
• Bennett, N.; Kidwell, Roland. (2001). The provision of effort in self-designing work groups: The case of collaborative research, Small Group Research, 32, 727-744
• Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.. (2001). Perceived work context and employee job neglect, American Business Review, 19(2), 64-74
• Kidwell, Roland; Scherer, P.. (1999). Giving management the rope to hang us: The ethics of using worker-generated information to lay off employees, Management Development Forum, 2(1), 91-107
• Ho, S-J.K.; Chan, L.; Kidwell, Roland. (1999). The implementation of business process reengineering in American and Canadian hospitals, Health Care Management Review, 24(2), 19-31
• Kidwell, Roland; Mossholder, K.M.; Bennett, N.. (1997). Cohesiveness and organizational citizenship behavior: A multilevel analysis using work groups and individuals, Journal of Management, 23, 775-793
• Kidwell, L.A.; Kidwell, Roland. (1997). Toward a multilevel framework for studying electronic control systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 16, 89-109
• Kidwell, Roland; Kidwell, L.A.. (1996). Evaluting research on electronic surveillance: A guide for managers of information technology, Industrial Management & Data Systems, 96(1), 8-14
• Oakes Wren, A.L.; Kidwell, Roland; Kidwell, L.A.. (1996). Managing pregnancy in the workplace, Business Horizons, 39(6), 61-67
• Kidwell, Roland. (1995). Social Darwinism and the Taylor System: A missing link in the evolution of management?, International Journal of Public Administration, 18, 767-791
• Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.. (1994). Electronic surveillance as employee control: A procedural justice interpretation, Journal of High Technology Management Research, 5, 39-57
• Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.. (1994). Employee reactions to electronic control systems: The role of procedural fairness, Group & Organization Management, 19, 203-218
• Russell, C.J.; Settoon, R.P.; McGrath, R.N.; Blanton, A.E.; Kidwell, Roland; Lohrke, F.T.; Scifres, E.L.; Danforth, G.W.. (1994). Investigator characteristics as moderators of personnel selection research: A meta-analysis, Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 163-170
• Werbel, J.D.; Kidwell, Roland. (1994). Organizational demography as a context of supervisory disciplinary actions, Small Group Research, 25, 43-56
• Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.. (1993). Employee propensity to withhold effort: A conceptual model to intersect three avenues of research, Academy of Management Review, 18, 429-456
• Blanton, A.E.; Kidwell, Roland; Bennett, N.. (1992). Application of performance tests to identify workplace drug users: A panacea or a familiar set of problems?, Journal of Employee Assistance Research, 1, 350-361
• Castrogiovanni, Gary; Baliga, B.R.; Kidwell, Roland. (1992). Curing sick businesses: Changing CEOs in turnaround efforts, Academy of Management Executive, 6(3), 26-41
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