UMaine professor named co-editor-in-chief of leading management journal

Billy Obenauer, associate professor of management in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, has been named co-editor-in-chief of Group & Organization Management.

Published by SAGE, Group & Organization Management is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research focused on management and organization theory and its implications for practitioners. The journal is ranked among the top 10% of publications in organizational behavior and applied psychology on the SCImago rankings.

Obenauer’s research focuses on diversity and inclusion issues within organizations and the use of replication research to better understand those issues. His work has been published in journals including The Leadership Quarterly, Group & Organization Management, Acta Psychologica and Journal of Management Scientific Reports. 

He previously served as an associate editor of Group & Organization Management and serves on the editorial review boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Scientific Reports and Journal of Business and Psychology.

At the University of Maine, Obenauer teaches courses in human resource management, leadership and organizational behavior. He earned a doctorate in management with a concentration in organizational behavior from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.