College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Ph.D., Strategic Management, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

Westphal, J., Bednar, M. 2008. The pacification of institutional investors. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53: 29-72

Bednar, M., Westphal, J. 2006. Surveying the Corporate Elite: Theoretical and Practical Guidance on Improving Response Rates and Response Quality in Top Management Survey Questionnaires. In David Ketchen and Donald Bergh (Ed.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, Volume 3, 37-55. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Westphal, J., Bednar, M. 2005. Pluralistic Ignorance in Corporate Boards and Firms' Strategic Persistence in Response to Low Firm Performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 262-298

Corporate Governance, Top Management Teams, Symbolic Management