AUT - Trish Corner

Trish Corner

Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 - ext: 5415

Email: trish.corner@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Strategic Management, Arizona State University

• Master of Business Administration, University of Minnesota

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Virginia

Biography:

Dr. Trish Corner is the Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business. She provides a leadership role for the faculty through overseeing research in her areas of specialization, supervising graduate students, and serving on the management team of the AUT Venture Fund. Her discipline-based research interests lie at the intersection of the entrepreneurship and strategy discipline with a special interest in sustainable management topics including social entrepreneurship and management spirituality. She also serves as a trustee for the Yoga Education in Prisons Trust, a charitable trust working to rehabilitate prisoners through the well proven practices of yoga. 

She has authored 40 internationally refereed publications, including articles in Organization Science, Entrepreneurship, Theory, and Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of the Operations Research Society, Interfaces, and the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. She has a further research interest in management pedagogy as evidenced by her publications in the prestigious Journal of Management Education.

Dr. Corner is an American born and trained academic. She has held positions at the University of Wyoming and Arizona State University in the US before accepting a position at the University of Waikato in New Zealand in 1992. As a doctoral student in the US, her academic excellence was recognized through induction into two honorary fraternities: Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi. She also was the recipient of the 2001 Waikato Management School’s Outstanding Teacher Award.

Professor Corner has been a member of the Academy of Management since 1987 and has served as an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee of the Research Methods Division and has reviewed for the Carolyn Dexter Awards. This is the Academy of Management's most prestigious award for international research.  Her current contributions to the international academic community include reviewing for the Academy of Management Learning and Education and serving on the editorial review board for Small Enterprise Research.  Additionally, she served as a Visiting Fellow and Professor at Arizona State University and Kent State University in the US. Professor Corner joined the Faculty of Business at AUT University in May, 2004

Teaching Areas:

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Entrepreneurship
• Strategic Management
• Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
• Sustainability, social responsibility

Interests in Research Supervision

• Entrepreneurship from the individual point of view
• Strategic leaders in large and small organizations
• Strategy process
• Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
• Sustainability, Social Sustainability, Management Spirituality

Current Research Projects:

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• Management Spirituality

Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles:

1. Corner, P. & Ho, M. (In Press). How opportunities develop in social entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice. 
2. Corner, P. (2009). Workplace Spirituality and Business Ethics: Insights from an Eastern Spiritual Tradition. Journal of Business Ethics. 85(3), 377-389.
3. Pavlovich, K. & Corner, P. (2009). Spiritual Organizations and Connectedness: The Living Nature Experience. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 6(3), 209-229.
4. Corner, P. (2008). Extending Theory Through Experience: A Framework for Business Ethics From Yoga. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643.  (5% acceptance rate)
5. Corner, P. & Pavlovich, K.  2007. Entrepreneurship Research: Follow the Yellow-Brick Road? Journal of Management and Organization, 14(4): 288-294.
6. Singh, S., Corner, P., Pavlovich, K. 2007. Coping with entrepreneurial failure. Journal of Management & Organization, 14(4): 331-344.
7. Corner, P., Bowden, S., Clark, D., Collins, E., Gibb, J., Kearins, K., & Pavlovich, K. (2006). Grounded Learning from a Case Competition. Journal of Management Education, 30: 431-454.
8. Corner, P. & Kinicki, A. (2005), “An Upper Echelon Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions“, in C. Cooper, and S. Finkelstein (Eds.), Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions,  JAI Press, Greenwich, CN. pp. 85-122.
9. Corner, J. & Corner, P. (2003), “Teaching OR/MS Using Discussion Leadership”, Interfaces, 33: 60-69.
10. Corner, P. (2002), “An Integrative Model for Teaching Quantitative Research Design”, Journal of Management Education, 26, 671-692.