University Directory

Kenneth W. Kury, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Kenneth Kury Ph.D.

Department

Office

Mandeville 304

Phone

610-660-1117
Contact
    • B.B. A. West Texas State University, Canyon, TX; Accounting '87
    • M.B.A. University of Texas-Brownsville, Brownsville, TX. '98
    • M.S.Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; Organization Studies '05
    • Ph.D.Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; Organization Studies '06
    • Consultant/Partner 1998-2000 Et Cetera (Educational Training Center and Business Consulting Services)
    • Owner K & N Services 1993-2000 Interior decorating and upholstery business.
    • Business Manager 1989-1993 Cannan Communications Inc. (KAMR-TV)
    • Staff Auditor, 1988-1989 Arthur Young & Company

  • Refereed Publications:

    • D’Intino, R. S. & Kury, K. W. (2018) Encouraging Social Entrepreneurship Research Legitimacy Through Academic Journal Special Issues Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship. 7(9).
    • Kury, K. W. (2017) Needs and Challenges of Pursuing a Stakeholder Consequence Research Stream. Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics. 14(2).
    • Kury, K. W. (2014) You paid how much for that stock? A Social Construction Perspective on Sensemaking in a Changing Environment. Economics, Management, and Financial Markets. 9(2).
    • Kury, K.W. (2014) A Developmental and Constructionist Perspective on Social Entrepreneur Mobilization. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing.6(1): 22-36.
    • Kury, K.W. (2012) Sustainability Meets Social Entrepreneurship: A Path to Social Change through Institutional Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Insights and Transformation. 4(sp 3): 64-71.
    • Kury, K.W. (2010) Institutional Ownership and Prior Positive Performance’s Contribution to Earnings Management: An Agency and Impression Management Perspective. Strategic Management Review. 4(1): 44-61.
    • Kury, K. W., Jones, I., Arney, J., & Lovett, M. (2007) Comparing Effectiveness of Classroom and Web-Based Delivery Methods: A Quasi Experimental Pilot Study. The Journal of Learning in Higher Education. 3(2): 73-82.
    • Kury, K. W. (2007) Decoupled Earnings: An Institutional Perspective of the Consequences of Maximizing Shareholder Value. Accounting Forum. 31(4): 370-383.
    • Kury, K. W. & Kury, G. (2006). An Exploration into the Internal Dynamics of a School-Based Mental Health Collaboration. The Journal of School Health. 76(5): 164 – 168.
    • Thornton, P., Jones, C. & Kury, K. (2005). Institutional Logics and Institutional Change in Organizations: Transformation in Accounting, Architecture, and Publishing. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 23: 125-170.

    Books

    • Duska, R., Duska, B.S., & Kury, K.W. (2018) “Accounting Ethics” 3rd Ed. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.

    Book Chapter

    • Duska, R., Duska, B.S., Ragatz, J. & Kury, K.W. (2018) Ethics of Accounting in The Sage Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, 2nd Ed.

    Refereed Proceedings

    • Kury, K.W. (2011). Using a Business Model Framework in Teaching Social Entrepreneurship. United States Association of Small Business And Entrepreneurship Conference. Hilton Head, SC.
    • Kury, K.W. (2010). Development of a Dialectic Model of Mobilization to Social Entrepreneurship. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Proceedings. Nashville, TN. (Research funded by the Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics)
    • Kury, K. W., Jones, I., Arney, J., & Lovett, M. (2007) Comparing Effectiveness of Classroom and Web-Based Delivery Methods: A Quasi Experimental Pilot Study. Academic Business World Conference. Nashville, TN.
    • Kury, K. W. (2005) The Pressure of Success: Institutional Ownership, Performance, and Impression Management. Southern Management Conference Proceedings. Charleston, SC.
    • Kury, K. W. (2002). The Social Construction of Dotcom Valuations: A Model of Punctuated Norm Crisis. Critical Perspectives in Accounting Conference Proceedings. New York, NY.
    • Kury, K. W. (2000). Voluntary Simplicity as a Consumer Culture in Mexican-Americans. National Hispanic and Latino Conference Proceedings. Houston, TX.
    • Kury, K. W. (1999). The Multivocal Consumer Culture of Voluntary Simplicity. Southwestern Marketing Association Proceedings. Houston, TX, 56-61.

    Refereed Presentations

    • Kury, K.W. (2018) University Accreditation and Assessment: How Can The Concepts of “Theory of Change” and “Measuring Social Impact” Inform The Process? Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
    • Cherwaka, M. & Kury, K. W. (2016) Hybrid Organizations and Institutional Logistics. Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
    • Kury, K.W. (2016) Action Learning: Moving Social Entrepreneurship Theory Forward. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. San Diego, CA.
    • Kury, K.W. (2015) Action Learning as a Framework for Creating Theories of Change. NYU Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. New York, NY.
    • Kury, K.W. (2015) Ethics and Social Entrepreneurship Roundtable. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. Tampa, FL.
    • Kury, K.W. (2014) Incorporating Moral Rights and Action Learning in Social Entrepreneurship. NYU Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Boston, MA.
    • Kury, K.W. (2014) Where are the Ethics in Social Entrepreneurship? Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
    • Kury, K.W. (2014) Social Enterprise and Social Change: An Ethics Based Approach to Social Entrepreneurship Education. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. Fort Worth, TX.
    • Kury, K.W. (2014) Panelist: Igniting a Venture Spirit through In-Class Entrepreneurship Storytelling. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. Fort Worth, TX.
    • Kury, K.W. (2013) Social Enterprise: Mission and Corporate Conscience. European Business Ethics Network-Ireland. Dublin, Ireland.
    • Kury, K.W. (2012) Social Entrepreneurship Education: A Liberal Arts Perspective. NYU Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. New York, NY.
    • Pearlstein, J.S., Kury, K.W., & Bewaji, T (2012) Founders and Co-Founders: A Workshop for Matching Skills, Personality, and Passion for Optimal Project Success. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. New Orleans, LA.
    • Kury, K.W. & Liguori E.W. (2012) Social Entrepreneurs in the Classroom: A Typology. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. New Orleans, LA.
    • Kury, K.W. & Liguori E.W. (2011) Social Entrepreneurs: A Working Typology. NYU Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. New York, NY.
    • Kury, K.W. & Pearlstein, J.S. (2011) Utilizing Institutional Theory as a Frame for Social Entrepreneurship Research. NYU Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. New York, NY.
    • Kury, K.W. (2011) Social Financial Markets: Creating Social Change Through Institution Creation. Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX.
    • Phelan, S., Kury, K.W., Fisher, K.L. (2011) Examining Perverse Incentives in Business Schools: Faculty Evaluations, Grade Inflation, and the Culture of Entitlement. Business Professor Teaching Summit. Philadelphia, PA.
    • Kury, K.W. (2011). Using a Business Model Framework in Teaching Social Entrepreneurship. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. Hilton Head, SC.
    • Kury, K.W. (2010). A Developmental and Constructionist Perspective on Social Entrepreneur Mobilization. Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. NYU, NY (Research funded by the Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics).
    • Stegmann, J.P. & Kury, K. W. (2010). Caucus: Personal Values Versus Stock Value Maximization. Conflicts and solutions. Academy of Management Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
    • Kury, K.W. (2010). Development of a Dialectic Model of Mobilization to Social Entrepreneurship. United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference. Nashville, TN (Research funded by the Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics).
    • Mirarchi, J.W. & Kury, K.W. (2009) The Relationship Between Social Capital and Resource Acquisition in Social Entrepreneurship. Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. NYU, NY.
    • Kury, K.W. (2008) Where are the Stakeholders in “Stakeholder Theory”? Academy of Management Annual Meeting; Anaheim, CA (Research funded by the Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics)
    • Kury, K. W. (2007) Long-term Stakeholder Consequences of the Pursuit of Short-term Financial Gains: The Ethical Implications of Investor Capitalism. Society for Business Ethics Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
    • Kury, K. W., Jones, I., Arney, J., & Lovett, M. (2007) Effectiveness of Traditional and Online Classroom Delivery: A Quasi Experimental Comparison. Academic Business World Conference. Nashville, TN.
    • Kury, K. W. (2006). Impressions of Agency: An Investigation into the Influence of Investor Capitalism on Earnings Management. Academy of Management Meeting. Atlanta, GA.
    • Kury, K. W. (2005). The Pressure of Success: Institutional Ownership, Performance, and Impression Management. Southern Management Conference. Charleston, SC.
    • Thornton, P., Jones, C. & Kury, K. (2005). Institutional Logics and Institutional Change in Organizations: Transformation in Accounting, Architecture, and Publishing. American Association of Sociologists. Philadelphia, PA.
    • Kury, K. W. (2004). Time is Relative: A Case Study of Competing Time Perspectives in a Consulting Engagement. Academy of Management Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
    • Kury, K. W. (2004). Potential Energy Mobilized: Dialectic Change Through the Interaction of Agents and Their Environment. Academy of Management Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
    • Kury, K. W. (2003). Causes and effects of time to agreement in a school-based clinical setting. Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association. Clearwater Beach, FL.
    • Nielsen, R., Leigh, J. & Kury, K. (2003). Implications for business ethics of the recent U.S. corporate scandals. Society for Business Ethics Conference, Seattle, WA.
    • Thornton, P., Jones, C. & Kury, K. (2003). When markets and hierarchies fail: Institutional logics as alternative mechanisms of governance. 19th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Copenhagen Denmark.
    • Thornton, P., Jones, C. & Kury, K. (2003). When markets and hierarchies fail: Institutional logics as alternative mechanisms of governance. Clifford Chance Conference on Professional Services, University of Oxford, England.
    • Kury, K. W. (2002). Caucus. Enron: The need to restructure an institutional field. Academy of Management Meeting. Denver, CO.
    • Kury, K. W. (2002). Punctuated Norm Crisis: Action Learning and Social Construction During the Rise and Fall of Dotcoms. Academy of Management Meeting. Denver, CO.
    • Kury, K. W. (2002). The Social Construction of Dotcom Valuations: A Model of Punctuated Norm Crisis. Critical Perspectives in Accounting Conference. New York, NY.
    • Kury, K. W. (2000).Voluntary Simplicity as a Consumer Culture in Mexican-Americans. National Hispanic and Latino Conference. Houston, TX.
    • Kury, K. W. (1999). The Multivocal Consumer Culture of Voluntary Simplicity. Southwestern Marketing Association Annual Meeting. Houston, TX.