Tim Pollock

Academy of Management Scholar Tim Pollock is a professor and research fellow at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Haslam College of Business. He is an international research fellow with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and a research fellow with Haslam’s Neel Corporate Governance Center. Previously, he held faculty positions at Penn State University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pollock served as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2010 to 2013 and has been a member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review, among others.

He has published articles in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, and Academy of Management Perspectives.

Pollock’s research focuses on the social construction of value in uncertain and ambiguous circumstances, particularly in corporate governance, executive compensation, and entrepreneurial market environments, with a focus on initial public offerings. He considers how social and political factors such as reputation, celebrity, social capital, impression management activities, media accounts influence firm performance and executive recruitment and compensation. He is also interested in how entrepreneurs’ experiences and resources influence their strategic decision making.

At Haslam, Pollock teaches an undergraduate elective on managing startups and doctoral seminars on organization theory and academic writing. He has previously taught courses on strategy at the undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral levels, and on power and influence in full-time and executive MBA programs.