Newcastle University

Introduction

Professor Hayton conducts research in the field of entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship with a focus on the influences of intangible assets such as culture, human capital, and human resource management practices.

Roles and Responsibilities

The David Goldman Professor of Innovation and Enterprise,
Director KITE Centre

Qualifications

PhD, BA (Hons)

Previous Positions

Professor, SDA Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Associate Professor, Bocconi University,
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, USA
Assistant Professor, San Jose State University, USA
Adjunct Professor, Georgia Tech, USA

Memberships

Academy of Management
Industrial Relations Research Association/Labor & Employment Relations Association
Strategic Management Society
Society for Human Resource Management
American Psychological Association
Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Honours and Awards

HONORS & AWARDS
2009: Distinguished Service Award, Human Resource Management Division, Academy of Management.

2008: Best Management Research Paper, SDA Bocconi. Culture of Family Commitment and Strategic Flexibility: The Moderating Effect of Stewardship. With Zahra, Neubaum, Debrell & Craig.

2007: Best Management Research Paper, SDA Bocconi. “The Effect of International Venturing on Firm Performance: The Moderating Influence of Absorptive Capacity” with S.A. Zahra

2005: Recognition for Service to the Human Resource Management Division, Academy of management.

2004 Utah Statesman Professor of the Year, Utah State University

2003: Outstanding Reviewer Award, Western Academy of Management

2003: Recognition of outstanding civic engagement (for service learning), by Utah Campus Compact.

2002: Honorary member of the Golden Key International Honors Society

1997: Best Paper, Research Methods Track, Southern Management Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (October). Hayton, James & Vida Scarpello (1997). A Comparison of Factor Retention Rules Using Five Measures of Job Satisfaction.

1997: Recognition for Service to the Southern Management Association

1996; 1997: Rutherford Scholarship for Academic Excellence, The W.T. Beebe Institute, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University.

Languages

Italian, intermediate

Informal Interests

running, swimming, cycling, triathlon

Research Interests

The influence of human capital, culture, human resource management, and organizational architectures on entrepreneurship.

Current Work

Cognitive and affective processes in relation to the development and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunity.

Future Research

We are testing theories of entrepreneurial cognition and affect using exprimental methods in the KITE Lab

Research Roles

Current Director of KITE

2008-2010: Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Economics, Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Jena, Germany.

2001- to date: Research Associate, Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University

1997-99: Project Manager for a National Science Foundation funded research project (Prof.’s Vida Scarpello and Saloua Sehili, Principal Investigators - NSF Grant No.: EEC-9712481).

Postgraduate Supervision

Co-Supervisor: Chiara Paolino, PhD Bocconi University 2009
Supervisor: Ubaldo Macchitella, PhD Bocconi University 2009

Co-supervisor: Monica Massucci, PhD Candidate Bocconi University

PhD committee member Janice Byrne, PhD Candidate EM Lyon

Esteem Indicators

Editor
•Executive Editor, Human Resource Management (Wiley), 2008-date. Human Resource Management is the highest ranked journal in the domain of HRM in the Association of Business Schools (ABS) ranking (4*) and is listed in the Financial Times List of the most influential management journals.

•Editor, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 2011-date. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice is ranked as a 4* in the ABS listing, and is also listed in the Financial Times List of the most influential management journals.

•Newsletter Editor, Human Resources Division, Academy of Management (2003-to 2007)

Associate Editor
•Human Resource Management (2006-2008)
•Human Resource Management Review (2005-date)

Member of the Editorial Board
•Human Resource Management (2006-date)
•Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (2005-date)
•Journal of Business Venturing (2009-date)
•Journal of Management Studies (2009-date)
•Human Resource Management Review (2003-date)
•Chinese Journal of Human Resource Management (2009-date)

Guest Editor
•Human Resource Management, Special Issue on Developing and Assessing Professional Competence in HRM. Call for papers issued, Special Issue published in Spring 2006. Co-editor, Glenn M. McEvoy

•Human Resource Management Review, Special Issue on Innovations in Teaching in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. Special Issue published in Fall 2005. Co-editor, Glenn M. McEvoy.

Reviewer
• Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice
• European Management Review
• Human Relations
• Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Management Review
• IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
• International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Mgt
• International Journal of Technology Management
• Journal of Business Research
• Journal of International Business Studies
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Management Studies
• Journal of Managerial Issues
• Journal of Small Business Economics
• Journal of Small Business Management
• Managing Global Transitions
• Organization Science
• R&D Management Journal
• Research Policy

Text book reviewer for Prentice Hall
(2002) Robbins & Coulter Management
(2003) Hitt, Black & Porter Management

2008-2010: Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Economics, Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Jena, Germany.

External Examiner, Warwick Business School, Centre for Small & Medium Sized Enterprises

Funding

Research Grant, SDA Boconi/DIR & Zhejiang University $100,000 to study strategic HRM and entrepreneurship in Chinese SMEs. Project in collaboration with Wang Zhongming, Zhejiang University, China.

Ricerca di Base research grant, Bocconi University, February 2006, Euro 12,000. To support an update to the database of cooperative R&D consortia formed in the US between 1984 and 2005. (a follow up to NSF Grant No.: EEC-9712481 see below).

New faculty research grant, Utah State University, May 2004 $11,000. To support a study of the moderating impact of HRM practices on the association between lean manufacturing practices and firm performance.

Research Grant Mineta Transportation Institute, February 2003 $51,568.00 – An investigation of the impact of telecommuting facilities in rail-cars, upon commuter choice of transportation modes. Research Grant, Utah State University & Merit Resource Group, Fall 2002 $5,000 – for research investigating the extent of Human Resource Information Systems and Human Capital Management practices in small and medium enterprises in the United States.

Development Grant, Utah State University, October 2002 $3,000 – for development of a new graduate course in Human Capital Management.

Professional Development Grant, San Jose State University, November 2001 $2,000 – funds used to purchase a Server for developing an HR Information Systems course.

Seed Grant, Mineta Transportation Institute, October, 2001 $5,000 – for developing a research grant proposal that investigates the impact of telecommuting facilities in rail-cars upon commuter choice of transportation modes.

Industrial Relevance

My research informs policy and practice in the domain of innovation and enterprise. For organizations seeking to develop, or maintain and entrepreneurial orientation, my research addresses the complex elements of the organizational architecture (e.g., structure, culture, HRM etc.) and how these relate to promoting 'intrapreneurship'. My current research also focuses on factors influencing entrepreneurial decision making and therefore contributes to the formulation of entrepreneurial education and support policies.

I co-teach NBS8029 Business Innovation, a part of the Executive MBA Program, with Prof. Dimov.

From 2011/12 I shall also contribute to the NUBS PhD Seminar Series (Core readings in management and business studies; Research designs in management and business studies)

• Hayton J, Piperopoulos P, Welbourne T. Celebrating 50 years: 50 Years of knowledge sharing: Learning from a field moving forward. Human Resource Management 2011, 50(6), 697-714.
• Hayton J, Biron M, Castro Christiansen L, Kuvaas B, ed. Global Human Resource Management Casebook. London, UK: Routledge, 2011.
• Grandori A, Gaillard L, Hayton J. Organizing Entrepreneurship. London, UK: Routledge, 2011.
• Hayton JC, Cholakova M. The role of affect in the creation and intentional pursuit of entrepreneurial ideas. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 2012, 36(1), 41-68.
• Hayton JC, Carnabuci G, Eisenberger R. With a little help from my colleagues: A social embeddedness approach to Perceived Organizational Support. Journal of Organizational Behavior 2012, 33(2), 235-249.
• Grant R, Hayton JC. Interdependencies between People in Organizations. In: Burton-Jones, A; Spender J-C, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.403-432.
• Hayton JC, Chandler G, De Tienne D. Opportunity Identification, Resource Acquisition, and Strategy Implementation Processes: Family and Non-family Firm Differences. International Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management 2011, 13(1), 12-31.
• Hayton JC, Sehili S, Scarpello VG. Why do firms join cooperative R&D consortia? An integrative empirical analysis. Journal of Technology Transfer 2010,35 5 494-510.
• Hayton JC. Commentary on "Exploring the Sensitivity of Horn’s Parallel Analysis to the Distributional Form of Random Data". Multivariate Behavioral Research 2009,44 3 389-395.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC, Neubaum D, Debrell C, Craig J. Culture of Family Commitment and Strategic Flexibility: The Moderating Effect of Stewardship. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice 2008, 32(6), 1035-1054.
• Zahra SA, Bhawe N, Rawhouser A, Neubaum D, Hayton JC. Globalization of social entrepreneurship opportunities. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2008,2 2 117-131.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC. The Effect of International Venturing on Firm Performance: The Moderating Influence of Absorptive Capacity. Journal of Business Venturing 2008,23 2 195-220.
• Hayton JC, Kelley D. A Competency-Based Framework for Promoting Corporate Entrepreneurship. Human Resource Management 2006,45 3 407-427.
• Hayton JC, McEvoy GM. Competencies in Practice: An interview with Hanneke C. Frese. Human Resource Management 2006,45 3 495-500.
• Hayton JC, McEvoy GM. Editors’ Note: Special Issue on Developing and Assessing Professional and Managerial Competence. Human Resource Management 2006,45 3 291-294.
• Hayton JC. Explaining competitive advantage in family firms: The Effectuation Paradox. In: US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).2006,Tucson, AZ:USASBE
• Hayton JC. Human Capital Management Practices and Performance in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Conceptual Framework. In:Heneman, RL & Tansky, J, ed. Human Resource Strategies for the High Growth Entrepreneurial Firm.Greenwich, Connecticut:Information Age Publishing,2006, pp. 51-68.
• McEvoy GM, Hayton JC, Warnick AP, Mumford T, Hanks SH, Blahna MJ. A Competency-Based Model for Developing Human Resource Professionals. Journal of Management Education 2005,29 3 383-402.
• Hayton JC. Competing in the New Economy: The Effect of Intellectual Capital on Corporate Entrepreneurship in High Technology New Ventures. R&D Management 2005,35 2 137-155.
• Hayton JC, Cohen D, Hume F, Kaufman BE, Taylor J. Conversations on What the Market Wants from HR Graduates, and How Can we Institutionalize Innovation in Teaching. Human Resource Management Review 2005,15 3 238-245.
• Hayton JC, McEvoy GM. Innovations in Teaching in Human Resources and Industrial Relations: Editors’ introduction to the special issue. Human Resource Management Review 2005,15 3 183-186.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC. Organizational life cycle transitions and their consequences for the governance of entrepreneurial firms: An analysis of start-up and adolescent high technology new ventures. In:I. Filatotchev and M. Wright, ed. The Life Cycle Of Corporate Governance.Cheltenham:Edward Elgar,2005.
• Hayton JC. Promoting Corporate Entrepreneurship through Human Resource Management Practices: A Review of Empirical Research. Human Resource Management Review 2005,15 1 21-41.
• Hayton JC, Zahra SA. Venture Team Human Capital and Absorptive Capacity in High Technology New Ventures. International Journal of Technology Management 2005,31 3/4 256-274.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC, Salvato C. Entrepreneurship in family versus non-family firms: A resource-based analysis of the effect of organizational culture. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice 2004,28 4 363-381.
• Hayton JC, Allen DG, Scarpello VG. Factor Retention Decisions in Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Tutorial on Parallel Analysis. Organizational Research Methods 2004,7 2 191-205.
• Hayton JC. Strategic human capital management in SMEs: An empirical study of entrepreneurial performance. Human Resource Management 2004,42 4 375-391.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC. Technological entrepreneurship: Key themes and emerging research directions. In:G. Corbetta, M. Huse and D. Ravasi , ed. Crossroads of Entrepreneurship.Boston:Kluwer Academic Publishers,2004, pp. 185-208.
• Hayton JC, George G, Zahra SA. National Culture and Entrepreneurship: Domains of Behavioral Research and Possible Extensions. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice 2002,26 4 33-62.
• Zahra SA, Hayton JC, Marcel J, O'Neill H. Fostering entrepreneurship during international expansion: Managing key challenges. European Management Journal 2001,19 4 359-369.
• Scarpello VG, Hayton JC. Identifying the sources of non-equivalence in job satisfaction measures. In:Chester A. Schriesheim and Linda L. Neide, ed. Measurement Equivalence.Greenwich, Connecticut:Information Age Publishing,2001, pp. 131-160.
• Hayton JC, Scarpello VG. A comparison of factor retention rules using five measures of job satisfaction. In: Southern Management Association .1997,Atlanta, GA