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Christopher Winchester

PhD Candidate (on Job Market)
Work & Organizations

Education:

  • MBA
    Organizational Behavior & Strategy - University of Nebraska
  • BSBA
    Management, Entrepreneurship/Innovation, & Marketing - University of Nebraska

Expertise:

  • Motives & consequences of performance outliers (i.e., high/low performer)
  • Multilevel implications of organizational & task structures
  • Boundary conditions of one’s gender & racial identities
  • Mixed-methods research (e.g., experimentation; qualitative; longitudinal; meta-analysis; integrative review)

Biography

Christopher (Chris) C. Winchester is an award-winning research- and teaching-oriented Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at the Carlson School of Management. At the University of Minnesota, Winchester focuses on theoretical development and the use of advanced mixed methods to investigate the motives and consequences of being a performance outlier (i.e., star/high performers and strategic underperformers). 

Over the past three years, Winchester has been awarded for his research, teaching, and service. For his research, Winchester is a finalist for the Most Innovative Student Paper Award from the Organizational Behavior Division (2024) and won the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2024), Dare to Care Award (2024), and Grant for DEI (2024), among other small grants. For his teaching, Winchester won the Carlson PhD Student Teaching Award (2023) and the Dedication to Student Learning Award (2023), and was a finalist for the Best Teaching Case Award from The CASE Journal (2022). For his service, Winchester won the Best Reviewer Award from the Organizational Behavior Division (2024) and Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division (2023), and led his Honors student to win the Best ESG Thesis Award (2024).

Winchester holds an M.B.A. and B.S. in business administration from the University of Nebraska. He has published multiple research and teaching publications in the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational BehaviorJournal of Business Ethics, and The CASE Journal. Additionally, Winchester co-coordinated and taught Leading Self and Teams (BA 1011) at the University of Minnesota, and serves in several service positions across the field, including as Chair of the New Doctoral Student Consortium and as Ph.D. Student Representative for both the Organizational Behavior and Research Methods Divisions of the Academy of Management.

​Prior to academia, Winchester owned and operated Your Wedding Planner, one of Omaha Nebraska's largest wedding planning and floral design businesses. He also has professional experience as a freelance website designer, freelance graphic designer, a marketing associate, and an e-commerce associate which he leverages in his research and teaching. In his free time, he enjoys freelance web design, sand volleyball, and bird watching. Finally, Winchester loves to write about himself in the third person where he gets to write anything he wants, no matter how silly. Before college, Winchester graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Selected Works & Activities

  • Journal Articles
    Winchester, C. C. & Medeiros, K. (2023). In bounds but out of the box: A meta-analysis clarifying the effect of ethicality on creativity. Journal of Business Ethics, 183, 713-743.
  • Conference Proceedings
    Winchester, C. C., Hsu, E., Campbell, E. M., & Rogers, K. M. (2023). Is enough actually enough? An inductive study of strategic underperformance at work. Academy of Management Proceedings.
  • Conference Proceedings
    Winchester, C. C. (2023). Getting fit (with tasks and teams): A team-level investigation of fit and task allocation preference. Academy of Management Proceedings.
  • Journal Articles
    Damadzic, A., Winchester, C. C., Medeiros, K., & Grisso, J. (2022). [Re]thinking outside the box: A meta-analysis of constraints and creative performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(8), 1330-1357.
  • Journal Articles
    Winchester, C.C., Pleggenkuhle-Miles, E. and Bass, A.E. (2021). Peloton’s ride to growth. The CASE Journal, 17, 754-783.
  • Conference Proceedings
    Winchester, C. & Campbell, E. M. (2021). The tasks at hand: An integrative conceptual review and dimensional scaling framework. Academy of Management Proceedings.
  • Journal Articles
    Pleggenkuhle-Miles, E.G., Winchester, C.C., Bass, A.E. and West, T. (2021). Streaming success: positioning Roku’s future in a hypercompetitive industry. The CASE Journal, 17, 295-319.
  • Journal Articles
    Bass, E., Pleggenkuhle-Miles, E. G., Winchester, C., & West, T. (2019). GameStop’s next play: Reconfiguring the value offering. The CASE Journal, 16, 7-33.
  • Honors and Awards

    OB Division AOM Meeting Most Innovative Student Paper Award Finalist (2024)

    Best Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management (2024)

    Carlson School of Management Dissertation Fellowship (2024)

    Carlson School of Management Work & Organizations Dare to Care Award (2024)

    Grant for Diversity Equity and Inclusion Research (2023-2024)

    Carlson School of Management PhD Student Conference Travel Fellowship (2021-2024)

    Carlson PhD Student Teaching Award (2023)

    Best Reviewer Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Academy of Management (2023)

    Best Case Award Finalist, The CASE Journal (2022)

    Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Doctoral Institute Scholarship (2022)

    Service to the Profession

    Chair (appointed) - Academy of Management New Doctoral Student Consortium Committee (2023-Present)

    PhD Student Representative (elected) - Organizational Behavior Division's Executive Committee of the Academy of Management (2022-Present)

    PhD Student Representative (elected) - Research Methods Division's Executive Committee of the Academy of Management (2022-Present)

    Representative (appointed) - CARMA PhD Student Representative (2021-Present)

    Thesis Chair - Alyssa Myers Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2023-Present)

    Research Advisor - Nika Kemp Independent International Research Experience (2023)

    Logistics Subcommittee Chair (appointed) - Academy of Management New Doctoral Student Consortium Committee (2021-2023)

    Faculty Coach, China Bridge Challenge Case Competition (2023)

    Course Co-Designer & Facilitator - BA 1011: Leading Self & Teams (Fall 2022; undergraduate required course, 10 sections)

    Co-Lead - Department of Work and Organizations Seminar Series (2021-2022)

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