Philip Podsakoff
Philip Michael Podsakoff (born , 1948) is an American management professor, researcher, author, and consultant who held the John F. Mee Chair of Management at Indiana University. Currently, he is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair in Business at the University of Florida. Biography. Podsakoff was born in Fresno, California, earned a BA and MBA from California State University Fresno, and a DBA from Indiana University in 1980. His dissertation thesis was titled "Performance models, microeconomics and schedule responding in humans." Upon graduation from the doctoral program, he joined the management faculty of the Ohio State University for two  years (1980-1982), and then returned to Indiana University as an Assistant Professor in the Management department, where he spent most of his career (1982-2013). He became an Emeritus professor at Indiana University in 2013, and joined the faculty of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Podsakoff has also consulted with several domestic and international companies, including Ashland Chemical Co., Dow Chemical, Duke Realty, Eli Lilly and Company, General Electric, Kimball International, Harrah's Entertainment, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Prudential Insurance Company of America, State Farm Insurance Company, and Texas Gas Company. Philip  is married to Vernie (Vera) Podsakoff; they have one child, Nathan Podsakoff, who is a professor in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. Awards and honors. According to the Web of Science, Podsakoff's research has been cited over 65,500 (h index = 50); and according to Google Scholar, his work has received over 156,000 citations (h index = 76).