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Craig School of Business

William Bommer

Professor

Management | 559.278.2493 | Office: PB222

wbommer@csufresno.edu

Education

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior (Minor: Research Methodology and Strategic Management), Indiana University School of Business, 1995

Master of Organizational Development, Bowling Green State University, College of Business Administration, 1990.
In addition, completed all work in major area for an M.B.A. in Finance. Left to pursue Ph.D. before final coursework was completed.

B.S., Economics, Bowling Green State University, College of Business Administration, 1988.

Ecole Superior Commerce, Nantes, France. Attended summer exchange program focusing on European business and history.

Courses Taught

MGT 110. Administration and Organizational Behavior
MGT 127. Contemporary Leadership
MGT 187. Seminar in Strategic Management
MBA 210. Leadership and Organizational Behavior
MBA 281. International Business  

Dr. Bommer has published numerous research articles and three books. His research has been published in a number of leading academic journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Management. His current research focuses on leadership in the organizational setting with a primary focus on positive forms of leadership and leadership development. In addition to his publication record, Dr. Bommer has presented more than 75 research papers at national or international professional meetings.

His research has been cited more than 15,000 times according to Google Scholar, making him one of the most impactful business researchers in the 23 university California State University system.

As a faculty member at Fresno State, Dr. Bommer is also the director of Craig International Programs. In that role, he oversees all business school exchange students as well as coordinates the summer programs. These summer programs have taken over 1,000 Fresno State students to locations including Barcelona, Rome, and Sydney. As part of his international focus, Dr. Bommer has traveled to approximately 60 countries.

In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Bommer’s consulting experience spans more than two decades. He has conducted leadership programs for senior managers at a variety of organizations, including Centers for Disease Control, Cooper Industries, Promina Healthcare, Eka, Cisco, Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., SITA, Ockham Technologies, Artex International, and BP-Amoco. He has also developed executive education programs, created in-house training for multiple manufacturing firms across the United States and served as Accenture’s subject matter expert in preparing a financial management training system for BellSouth.

For the past ten years, Dr. Bommer has also served as a statistical consultant for multiple grants involving the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In this role, he works with the states of California and Oklahoma as well as the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI).
Dr. Bommer has been cited over 15,000 in the Google Scholar Database making him one of the top-cited business researchers in the CSU system his current research interests include:
  • Organizational leadership
  • Helping behaviors in the workplace
  • Skill assessment and development
  • Technology Adoption
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_e6xproAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Bommer, W.H. & Schmidtke (in press). Virtual meetings: Increasing equity, exacerbating the inequities, or just ‘meh? Research in Human Resource Management.

Milevoj, E. & Bommer, W.H. (in press). Influence of CEO’s and firm’s characteristics on SMEs’ internationalization: Evidence from California. Journal of Small Business Strategy.

Bommer, W.H., Milevoj, E., & Biggane, J. (in press). RE: 21st century leadership research in elite general management journals: Where the first 20 years have taken us and where we may be going, Research in Human Resource Management.

DeJordy, R., Milevoj, E., Schmidtke, J., & Bommer, W. (2020),  The success of short-term study abroad programs: a social networks perspective. Journal of International Education in Business, 13, 1, 73-86. http://doi-org. /10.1108/JIEB-08-2019-0039

Rana, S, Bommer, W.H., & Phillips, G.M. (2020). Predicting returns for growth and value stocks: A forecast assessment approach using global asset pricing models, International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 10(4), 88-106.

Mitchell, T. D., & Bommer, W. H. (2018). The interactive effects of motives and task coordination on leadership emergence. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 22(4), 223-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000092

Hoch, J.E., Bommer, W.H., Dulebohn, J.H., & Wu, D. (2018). Do ethical, authentic, and servant leadership explain variance above and beyond transformational leadership? A meta-analysis, Journal of Management, 44, 501-529.

Gok, K., Sumanth, J.J., Bommer, W.H., Demirtas, O., Eberhard, J., Ozdemir, A., & Yigit, A. (2017). You may not reap what you sow: How employees’ moral awareness minimizes ethical leadership’s positive impact on workplace deviance. Journal of Business Ethics, 146, 257-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3655-7

Lyons, B.D., Hoffman, B.J., Bommer, W.H., & Hetrick, A. (2016). Off-duty deviance: Organizational policies and evidence for two prevention strategies, Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(4), 463-483. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000066