Biography
Jill Perry-Smith joined the Goizueta Business School faculty after completing her Ph.D. in management in the College of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include the effects of informal social networks on creativity and the impact of work-life initiatives on firm and individual performance. Prior to her academic career, Jill worked on a variety of project management teams, overseeing large refinery expansion projects, across the United States. She currently teaches the core organization and management course in the BBA program, a creativity and innovation elective, as well as an organizational behavior seminar in the Ph.D. program.

Publications

• Social yet creative: The role of social relationships in facilitating individual creativity, Academy of Management Journal, 49:85-101, 2006.
• Work-family human resource bundles and perceived organizational performance. With T.C. Blum, Academy of Management Journal, 43:1107-1117, 2000
• The social side of creativity: A static and dynamic social network perspective. With C.E. Shalley, Academy of Management Review, 28:89-106, 2003.
• Effects of social-psychological factors on creative performance: The role of informational and controlling expected evaluation and modeling experience. With C.E. Shalley, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 84:1-22, 2001
• The emergence of team creative cognition:  The role of diverse outside ties, socio-cognitive network centrality, and team evolution.  With C.E. Shalley, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2:23-41, 2008.

Areas of Specialization

• Creativity
• Informal social networks
• Work-life initiatives

Achievements and Honors

• Academy of Management Review, Best Paper Finalist, 2004
• American Dissertation Fellow, American Association of University Women
• Promising Young Scholar Research Excellence Award, PhD Project, Management Doctoral Student Association
• President's Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Review
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management
• Academy of Management
• American Psychological Society

Academic Background
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
MBA, Pepperdine University, 1991
BS, Civil Engineering, Syracuse University, 1989