Christopher Porter named Strickler Professor in Management

Christopher Porter, professor of management in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been named the Strickler Professor in Management by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

The Strickler Professorship was established by Charles O. Strickler, a member of the Class of 1961, in 1984 to support the Pamplin College of Business in its efforts to attract and retain eminent scholars in the field of management.

Porter joined the Virginia Tech faculty this fall after serving as the OneAmerica Endowed Chair and Professor of Management at Indiana University. He was a faculty member at Texas A&M University before joining Indiana University in 2012.

Porter’s research expertise encompasses organizational justice, performance management and appraisal, turnover, teams, team leadership, and the work-nonwork interface. He has held influential editorial roles at leading journals, including his current role as associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and his previous role as associate editor for the Journal of Management from 2015-20.

He has served on numerous dissertation committees and has published with Ph.D. students and students pursuing master’s and bachelor’s degrees. Porter is a pioneer in the field, particularly in his research on the concept of backing-up behavior in teams, and he contributes to the scholarship on team leadership and organizational justice as well as research examining the roles of goal orientation and individual differences in teams and organizations.

Porter received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.