Franz T. Lohrke
.JPG)
Chair, Department of Marketing and Management
205-726-2373
ftlohrke@samford.edu
301 Dwight Beeson Hall
Specialty Areas:
Entrepreneurship
Strategic management
International business
Education:
Flagler College (B.A.)
University of Iowa (M.B.A.)
Louisiana State University (Ph.D.)
Research Interests:
Organizational slack
Organizational decline and turnaround
Strategic alliances
New venture and small business internationalization
Top management and new venture teams
Management history
Courses Taught (Fall 2006):
BUSA 481, Business Strategy
MBA 597, International Management
Recent Service:
Program Chair for the Management History Division, Academy of Management Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2004 Track Chair for the International Management/Management Education/ Management History Track, Southern Management Association, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2005
Editorial Review Board Member: Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Management History
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Academy of Management Perspectives (Executive), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management
Also helped develop and implement an Entrepreneurship program from 2000-2006 that resulted in a top 25 ranking by Entrepreneurship magazine (forthcoming, October 2006) for the University of Alabama's Entrepreneurship Program. Contributions included publishing in Entrepreneurship journals, developing and teaching two PhD seminars in Entrepreneurship, helping redesign the undergraduate curriculum to include two Entrepreneurship concentrations, and serving as an ex officio member of the Culverhouse Entrepreneurship and Family Business Advisory Board.
Selected Publications, Proceedings, and Presentations
Lohrke, F. T., Simpson, G. W., & Hunt, D. M. In press. Extending the bargaining power model: Eighteenth century lessons from Panton, Leslie and Company in managing political risk. Forthcoming in Journal of Management History.
Lohrke, F. T., Frankin, G. M., & Frownfelter-Lohrke, C. 2006. The Internet as an information conduit: A transaction cost analysis model of U.S. SME Internet use. International Small Business Journal, 24: 159-178.
Lohrke, F. T., Kreiser, P. M., & Weaver, K. M. 2006. The influence of current firm performance on future SME alliance formation intentions: A six-country study. Journal of Business Research, 59: 19-27.
Marino, L. D., Lohrke, F. T., Zhi, T., Dickson, P. H., & Weaver, K. M. 2005. Entrepreneurial acuity: The relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and the convergence of archival and perceptual measures of environmental uncertainty. In Zahra et al. (eds), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2005, pp. 1-15. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.
Lohrke, F. T., Bedeian, A. G., & Palmer, T. B. 2004. The role of top management teams in formulating and implementing turnaround strategies: A review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 5/6: 63-90.
Bruton, G. B., Lohrke, F. T., & Lu, J. W. 2004. The evolving definition of what comprises international strategic management research. Journal of International Management, 10: 413-429.
Daniel, F., Lohrke, F. T., Fornaciari, C. J., & Turner, R. A. 2004. Organizational slack and firm performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Business Research, 57: 565-574.
Lohrke, F. T., Franklin, G.M., & Kothari, V. B. 2003. Top management team heterogeneity and SME export performance : Investigating the role of environmental uncertainty. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 14: 86-102.
Tang, J., Zhi, T., & Lohrke, F. T. 2005. Exploring an entrepreneurial typology: Attributional styles and entrepreneurial alertness. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Lohrke, F. T., Marino, L. D., & Tyler, B. B. 2004. Alliance formation in response to three types of environmental uncertainty: Longitudinal evidence from the collections industry. Paper presented at the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurial Research Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.
Lohrke, F. T., & Franklin, G. M. 2002. The Internet as an information conduit: A transaction cost analysis of small business Internet use. Paper presented at the United States Association for Small Business and Economics Conference, Reno, Nevada. Selected as Best Conference Paper: Technological Applications for Entrepreneurship.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Major Gifts Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University & Assistant Professor of Finance - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Gretchen Dorsey
Academic Advisor - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Marketing, Management, and Economics
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Onsurang (Onnie) Norrbin
Assistant Professor - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Thomas W. Woolley
Professor of Statistics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing and Hackney Family Research Fellow - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Margaret Gage Bush Professor of Business and Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
Professor of Management
Adjunct Faculty
- Edward J. Coyne, Sr.
Assistant Professor - George Ford
- John Kottmeyer
- Douglas L. McWhorter
- Mike Teel
- Michelle Wales