Ashford has made research contributions in the areas of leadership development and leader effectiveness, middle management voice and issue selling, job insecurity, and individual self-management and feedback seeking. She is currently researching how to thrive in the gig economy. Her research has been published in a variety of outlets, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. She has served as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal and currently serves on its editorial board. Her research providing advice for managers has been summarized in Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and New York magazine.
In 2002, Ashford was named a Fellow of the Academy of Management, recognizing the top 1% of scholars in a worldwide professional association of more than 20,000 professors, graduate students, and practitioners interested in improving management scholarship, education, and practice. The Academy of Management also awarded her the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management in 2017.
In 2020, Ashford won the Lifetime Achievement award offered by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management and was also named the Ross School’s researcher of the year.
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