Opus College of Business

John McVea

Assistant Professor : Entrepreneurship Department
 

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Academic Background

B.Sc., Engineering, University of Birmingham (England)
B.Com., University of Birmingham (England)
M.B.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research Specialties
  • Entrepreneurial decision-making
  • Entrepreneurial strategy
  • Ethical deliberation and decision-making
  • Scientifically pioneering business
Current Research
  • Decision-making approaches
  • Science, entrepreneurship and ethics
  • Stakeholder management
Major Works
  • "Strategy, Wisdom and Stakeholder Theory: A Pragmatic and Entrepreneurial View of Stakeholder Strategy," with R. E. Freeman and L. C. Dunham, Handbook of Organizational Wisdom, ed. by E. H. Kessler and J. R. Bailey, Sage Publications. Forthcoming.
  • "A 'Names and Faces' Approach to Stakeholder Management: How Focusing on Stakeholders as Individuals Can Bring Ethics and Entrepreneurial Strategy Together," Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 14, March 2005.
  • "Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art and Future Perspectives," with Wickes et. al., POLITEIA, Anno XX (74), 2004.
  • "Herbert Spencer: Providing Libertarian Foundations?" Business and Society Review, Fall 2001.
  • “A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management,” in Handbook of Strategic Management, ed. by M. Hitt, Blackwell Publishing, 2001.
Significant Scholarly Honors
  • Faculty Award, Academic Excellence, University of Virginia, 1996
  • William Michael Shermet Award for Academic Excellence, University of Virginia, 1995