Jone L. Pearce is Professor of Organization and Strategy in the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.  Her field is organizational behavior, with research centering on how the institutional context affects individuals’ behavior and their affective reactions the workplace, often proposing (and testing) the mediating role of social processes.  Her work has appeared in over seventy scholarly articles in such publications as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science; she has edited several volumes and written books that include Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers (Routledge, 1993) and Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government (Erlbaum, 2001). 

Some of Jone Pearce's research uses the 1995 Facilitative Government Index (FGI).
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     She is a Fellow of the Academy of  Management and her honors include research grants from the National Science Foundation; a Fulbright Fellowship to the International Management Center, Hungary; Scholarly Contribution Awards (1998 from the Academy of Management and 1986 from the American Society for Personnel Administration); Teaching Excellence Awards; and an invitation to testify on legislation pending before the United States House of Representatives.  Professor Pearce has been active in the Western Academy of Management, elected as President in 1995-96, and in the Academy of Management elected as a President in 2002-03.  She was Hansen Visiting Professor in the School of Business, University of Washington in 2004-05, and has held numerous administrative positions in the UC Irvine’s School, most notably as Interim Dean from 2002 to 2004.

     BA 1974, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; MA 1976, Administrative Sciences, Yale University; PhD 1978, Administrative Sciences, Yale University