ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å

---

Education

2010 The University of Florida, B.S.
2011 ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å, MBA
2020 Florida Atlantic University, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Global Business
Introduction to Entrepreneurship/Feasibility
Principles of Management
Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurs

Career Specialties

Katie Weaver's primary research and teaching interests are in strategic leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, family business and organizational culture. She has experience teaching management and entrepreneurship courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Professional and Community Activities

Weaver has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals, in academic books and in peer-reviewed online publications, such as EIX.org and FamilyBusiness.org. Weaver has also participated in multiple academic conferences, including AOM, SMA, USASBE and FERC, where she presented her research, chaired sessions and reviewed manuscripts.

Weaver's professional experience includes working as an assistant vice president of commercial lending for a national bank. Before pursuing her doctorate, she was also involved on the University of Tampa Board of Counselors, and served as the Vice Chairman of the Board for the Ryan Nece Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower teens to become leaders and impact giving in their communities.

Weaver earned her P.h.D from Florida Atlantic University, her MBA from the University of Tampa, and her B.S. in Marketing from the University of Florida.

Recent publications include:

Kidwell, R.E., Fuentes-Lombardo, G., Sanchez-Famoso, V., Cano-Rubio, M., & Kloepfer, K.E. (2020). Human resources in the internationalization of family firms. Thunderbird International Business Review, 62(4), 353-369.

Kidwell, R.E., Cox, K.C., & Kloepfer, K. (2019) The diversity of deviance: How it can hurt (and help) families and family firms. In The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms (pp. 643 – 672). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland.

Williams, E. A., Woods, J., Hertelendy, A., & Kloepfer, K. (2019). Supervisory influence: Subordinate development of crisis leader potential in an extreme context. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 32(3), 320-339.

Kloepfer, K., Kidwell, R., & Cox, K. (2019). 'Champions' make diverse spin-off teams more successful. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange, EIX.org.

Kidwell, R.E. & Kloepfer, K. (2018). How family business leaders can encourage both devotion and performance. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange, FamilyBusiness.org.

Kloepfer, K. and Castrogiovanni, G.J. (2018). Entrepreneurship: Venture creation subprocesses, subdomains, and interfaces, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 14: 681 – 696.

Honors and Awards

Schulze Publication Award, 2019, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange publication recognition for submissions with exceptional merit

Schulze Publication Award, 2018, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange and FamilyBusiness.org publication recognition for submissions with exceptional merit

Best Conceptual Paper Award Winner, 2018, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Hollywood, CA.

Krusen Fellow Grant Award Winner, 2011, John H. Sykes College of Business, University of Tampa