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Robert Barbato, Ph.D.
Professor, Area Leader, Management & Leadership
Contact Information
Office Location: LOW-3327
Office Phone: 585-475-2350
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Staff Assistant Phone: 585-475-6042
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Biography
Bob Barbato is a Professor of Management in the Saunders College of Business. His primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of business ethics, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at RIT, Bob has taught or lectured in Kosovo, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Korea, Ethiopia and England.
Education
- Ph.D, Organizational Behavior, Michigan State University, 1979
- B.A., Mathematics, Le Moyne College, 1972
Experience
- Councilman -- Town of Brighton, 1991-1999
- Owner -- USA Baby, 1987-1995
- Owner -- Don's Original, 1985-1991
- Business ethics
- Entrepreneurship
- Organizational behavior
Awards
- Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT, 2005
- Best Empirical Paper, SBIDA, 2002
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Southern Journal of Entrepreneurship -- Generational Stages in Family Firms: Expanding the Database - Kosovo, with Matthew Sonfield and Robert Lussier, 1-16, April, 2011
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Small Business Strategy -- Family-Member and Non-Family-Member Managers in Family Firms: Adding a Seventh Country to the International Database - Kosovo, with Robert Lussier, Matthew Sonfield, 97-114, January, 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, The New England Journal of Entrepreneurship -- The Entrepreneurial Motivations of Non-Employer Entrepreneurs, with DeMartino, R. and Jacques, P., April, 2009
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Small Business Management -- Exploring the Career Achievement and Personal Life Orientations Difference Between Entrepreneurs and Non-Entrepreneurs: The Impact of Sex and Dependents, with DeMartino, Richard and Paul Jacques, July, 2006
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Business Venturing -- Differences Among Women and Men MBA Entrepreneurs: Exploring Family Flexibility and Wealth Creation as Career Motivators, with Richard DeMartino, November, 2003
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Small Business Strategy -- An Analysis of the Motivational Factors of Intending Entrepreneurs, with Richard DeMartino, October, 2002
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal -- The Entrepreneurial Aptitude of Prison Inmates and the Potential Benefit of Self-Employment Training Programs, with Matthew Sonfield and Robert Lussier, 2001
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, The Journal of Private Enterprise -- Transfer Payment Diversion Programs and Displaced Workers: A Perfect Match?, with Matthew Sonfield and Subhash Durlabhji, 1996
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Journal of Small Business Strategy -- Testing Prison Inmates for Entrepreneurial Aptitude, with Matthew Sonfield, 1994
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship -- Worker Dislocation and Potential Entrepreneurship, with Matthew Sonfield and Jeffrey Bracker, 1990
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship -- Budding Entrepreneurs: Business Students and Dislocated Workers, with Subhash Durlabhji, 1989
- Contributions to Practice, Secondary Author, Business and Society Review -- The Truth About Lie Detectors, with William Nowlin, 1988
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, The Journal of Private Enterprise -- Distinguishing Psychological Characteristics of Budding Entrepreneurs, with Richard Butler and JoAnne Sandler, 1985
- Contributions to Practice, Secondary Author, The Academy of Management Review -- The Multinational Corporation in the Less developed Country: The Economic Development Model vs. the North-South Model, with Karen Paul, 1985
- Contributions to Practice, Secondary Author, Organization Development Journal -- Marketing Negative Products: Implicaitons for Organization Development Practitioners, with Stanley Widrick, 1985
- Learning and Pedagogical Research, Secondary Author, The Organization Game: Its Use and Life Cycle -- The Organization Behavior Teaching Review, with Karen Paul, 1985
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Insititute Annual Eastern Conference -- An Analysis of Ethical Attitudes of Family Business Owners in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Kosovo, with Robert Lussier and Matthew Sonfield, 12-22, October, 2011
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Proceedings of the Eastern Small Business Institute -- Micro vs Small Family Businesses: An Investigation of Kosovo Firms, with Matthew Sonfield, Robert Lussier, 17-30, October, 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute -- Generational Stages in Family Firms: Expanding the Database - Kosovo, with Matthew Sonfield, Robert Lussier, February, 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute -- Family-Member and Non-Family-Member Managers in Family Firms: Adding a Seventh Country to the International Database - Kosovo, with Robert Lussier, Matthew Sonfield, February, 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute Eastern Bloc Conference -- Family Business Generational Stages: Expanding the Data Base to Kosovo, with Matt Sonfield, Bob Lussier, September, 2009
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Proceedings of the Eastern Small Business Institute -- An Examination of Family-Member and Non-Family-Member Managers in Kosovo Family Businesses, with Matt Sonfield, Bob Lussier, September, 2009
- Contributions to Practice, Primary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute Eastern Bloc Conference -- Ethical Challenges for Small Business Owners, with Oliver, B., September, 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, -- Evangelical Entrepreneurs, Ferry Tales, and Barriers to Execution, September 18, 2004
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, -- Exploring the Career and Family Orientations of Entrepreneurs, with DeMartino, Richard, and Paul H. Jacques, February, 2004
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, National Entrepreneurship and Small Business Educators Conference -- Motivational Factors of Intending Female and Male Entrepreneurs, with Richard DeMartino, February, 2002
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, SBIDA Regional Conference -- Nonemployer Businesses and Career Motivators Among Female Entrepreneurs, with Richard DeMartino, September, 2001
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, SBIDA Regional Conference -- Exploring the Motivational Differences of Women Intending on Entrepreneurship, with Richard DeMartino, September, 2001
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, SBIDA National Conference -- Gender Differences Among MBA Entrepreneurs, with Richard DeMartino, February, 2001
- Contributions to Practice, Secondary Author, SBIDA Regional Conference -- MBA Entrepreneurs: A call for Research, with Richard DeMartino, September, 2000
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, SBIDA Regional Conference -- New Directions in the Analysis of Prison Inmates, with Matthew Sonfield and Robert Lussier, September, 1999
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, SBIDA Region Regional Conference -- Expanded Data on Prison Inmate Entrepreneurial Aptitude, with Matthew Sonfield, September, 1995
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, SBIDA National Conference -- Credit and Equity Support as Components of Self Employment Development Programs, with Matthew Sonfield, February, 1991
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, National SSBIA -- An Empirical Investigation of the Use of Alternative Valuation Techniques for Privately Owned Businesses, with Daniel Tessoni and Norton Marks, 1991
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, SBIDA National Conference -- Dislocation and Entrepreneurial Success: A Follow-up Study, with Matthew Sonfield and Jeffrey Bracker, February, 1989
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, SBIDA National Conference -- Dislocation and Potential Entrepreneurship, with Jeffrey Bracker, 1988
- Learning and Pedagogical Research, Secondary Author, The International Council of Small Business -- Designing, Marketing, and Conducting a Successful Small Business Executive Development Program, with Phil Tyler, 1984
- Contributions to Practice, Secondary Author, The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada -- An Empirical Test of Some Underlying Concepts of Theory Z Management, with Subhash Durlabhji, 1984
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Secondary Author, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute Conference -- The Effect of Virtual Group Process Enablers on Effective Group Performance, with Joy Oguntebi, February 11, 0
Unpublished Conference Presentations
- Entrepreneurship and the Disabled: An Exploratory Study on the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 2011
- The Entrepreneurial Motivations of Non-employer Entrepreneurs, Academy of Management National Conference, 2006
Consulting
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo, Productivity audit presented to the Board of Directors, 0 - 2001
- Rochester Police Department, Rochester, NY, Managerial training for all command officers, 0 - 2000
