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• Joy Karriker holds a Ph.D. in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MBA from the James Madison University College of Business, and a BA in English and in Communication Arts from JMU. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she worked in various consultative, staff, and management roles with entities including the Marriott Corporation, A.N. Culbertson &; Company, Inc., the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation, and the UVA Medical Center, and she was President of Niche, LLC, her own strategy consulting firm for start-up businesses. Dr. Karriker is currently a tenured professor at ECU where she is coordinator for the Strategic Management area and Chair of the Department of Management. Her research appears in the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Business Issues, the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, the Journal of Management Education, and the Journal of Management, among others. She serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Management and the Group and Organization Management Journal, and she serves as a board member with the East Carolina Study Center.