Fizza Kanwal

Fizza Kanwal is a fifth-year PhD Management candidate. She has worked as a research associate and a lecturer of management for five years. She is trained in research methods, including content analysis, ego network analysis, and structural equation modeling.  

She studies workplace experiences and organizational outcomes in two interconnected areas. Her primary focus is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), particularly the role of stereotypes affecting marginalized groups such as immigrants and neurodivergent individuals. She also studies communication effectiveness, investigating how word choices and nonstandard accents shape critical processes like talent acquisition and crowdfunding. 

Academic Interests

Journal Publications

Kanwal, F., N. Putri, S. L. Jordan, et al. (2025). The ABCs of Quiet Quitting: A Bifurcated Framework of Its Passive and Deliberate Types. Human Resource Management. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.70015.

Kanwal, F., Drader-Mazza, N., Wolfe, M. T., Chandler, J. A., Short, J. C., & Johnson, N. E. (2025). Do linguistic styles matter in university-based crowdfunding? Replicating and extending findings from rewards- and social-based platforms. Journal of Management Scientific Reports. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/27550311251361923.

Drader‐Mazza, N., Lopez‐Kidwell, V., Kanwal, F., Reger, R. K., & Vogus, T. J. (2025). The Double Empathy Problem and Person‐Environment Fit: Mutual Understanding and Bidirectional Adjustment in Autistic Talent Acquisition. Human Resource Management, 64(1), 181-199. 

Chandler, J. A., Anglin, A. H., Kanwal, F., & Short, J. C. (2024). No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding. Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1), 106365.

Malik, A. Z., Sadeghi, R. K., Paswan, A., & Kanwal, F. (2024). Incentivized fake reviews: When cognitive reappraisal paves the way for an immoral journey. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 23(4), 1962-1978.

Conference Papers

Kanwal, F., Putri, N., Lopez-Kidwell, V., Sawhney, G., Bijlani, A. (2025). Understanding Quiet Quitting: An Exploratory Study of the Concept. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, 2025 (Copenhagen)

Lopez-Kidwell, V., Drader, N., Kanwal, F., Boulamatsi, A., Cooper, D., & Floyd, T. (2023). Instrumental or expressive, bonding or bridging, weak or strong ties? Recommendations for newcomers. Presented at the Sunbelt Conference, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2023 (Portland).

Kanwal, F., Lopez-Kidwell, V. (2023). Lending a Hand: An Application of Social Network Analysis on Employee Resilience in Organizations. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, 2023 (Boston). Served as a session leader

Johnson, N. E., Kanwal, F., Drader, N. (2023). Do linguistic styles hold across contexts? Replicating and extending crowdfunding success in university-based crowdfunding platforms. Presented at the Southern Management Association, 2023 (Florida).

Kanwal, F., Drader, N. (2023). Developing a Typology of Firms' Attention to Stakeholders during Activism: The Role of the Activism Stages and Locations. Round table discussion paper at Southern Management Association, 2023 (Florida).

Kanwal, F., Chandler, J.A., Short, J. C. (2022). A language expectancy theory perspective on entrepreneurs’ political expressions in crowdfunding. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, 2022 (Seattle).

Johnson, N. E., Putri, N. I., Kanwal, F., (2022). Does Entrepreneurial Team Diversity Matter? A Case in the Crowdfunding Context. Presented at the Southern Management Association, 2022 (Arkansas).

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