Chris Tuggle

Chris Tuggle is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Arkansas, with his office located in COB 312L. He can be contacted via email at ctuggle@uca.edu or by phone at (501) 450-5745.

His primary research focuses on corporate governance, strategic management, and executive behavior, with specific expertise in board dynamics, CEO personality traits, and diversity in top management teams. He employs attention-based views and upper echelons theory to examine how CEO characteristics influence strategic risk-taking and board oversight, while his entrepreneurship research investigates minority business success and human capital factors.

Analysis of his 2022-2025 publications reveals consistent emphasis on CEO-board interactions, particularly attorney-directors' role in mitigating CEO deception and narcissistic CEOs' influence on risk decisions. His work demonstrates strong methodological rigor while addressing practical governance challenges, with recurring themes including diversity paradoxes in compensation systems and the impact of proportional representation on underrepresented directors' participation.

No information regarding scientific awards was provided in the source material.

While his publications indicate active scholarly contributions, the source material contains no details about student advising, research grants, or laboratory affiliations. His commentary pieces suggest engagement with contemporary debates in corporate social responsibility and management scholarship rigor-relevance dynamics.