Research & Scholarly Activities

 Selected Publications: 

 


Scholarly Presentations

“Evolutionary Neuroscience and Human Motivation in Organizations,” first author with Daniel S. Levine, University of Texas at Arlington, Gerald A. Cory Jr., academic vice president of Interntional Technological University, Daniel R. Wilson, dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, and Syeda Noorein Inamdar of San José State. Academy of Management, 2013.

“Economic Systems, Institutional Theory, and Asia.” The Pacific Roundtable/Stanford/San José State Conference on the Future of Industry and Innovation in Asia at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., June 2010.

“Alternative Approaches to Transforming Organizations,” Academy of Management, 2008.

“Case Study Research: The Trade-off Between Intensiveness and Diversity of Coverage,” Symposium on Strategy as Practice, Lancaster University, 2008.

“The IBM Innovation Jam: A Methodology for Mobilizing Intellectual Capital?” Strategic Management Society annual meeting, 2007.

“Organizational Learning and the Ambidextrous Organizational Form: The Case of IBM Microelectronics,” Academy of Management annual meeting, 2007.

“Managing Opportunism and Conflict in Alliances and Exchanges,” session facilitator, Strategic Management Society annual meeting, Fall 2006

“Organizational Learning and the Ambidextrous Organizational Form: The Case of IBM Microelectronics,” Academy of Management annual meeting, 2007.

“Managing Opportunism and Conflict in Alliances and Exchanges,” session facilitator, Strategic Management Society annual meeting, Fall 2006.

“Scientific Method and the Emergence of Successful Improvement Programs,” Strategic Management Society annual meeting, Fall,2005.

“Explaining Improvement in Institutional Environments through Multi-case Research at the Organizational Level,” International Society for the New Institutional Economics Annual Meeting, 2004.

“The New Institutionalism, Strategy Process, and Firm Performance,” Strategic Management Society annual meeting, 2003, semi-finalist for McKinsey Best Paper Award.

“IBM WebSphere: The Emergence of Transforming Strategy Innovation,” Strategy Process Sub-Group Miniconference, 2003.

“Case Study: The World Bank; Liberating the Internal Innovation Market,” INFORMS National Meeting, with Gary Hamel, 2002.

“Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Forms,” Academy of Management meetings, with Wendy Smith, George Westerman, and Michael Tushman, 2002.

“The Punctuated Equilibrium Model and the Dynamics of Continuous Change,” Strategic Management Society annual meeting, with N. Venkatraman, finalist for McKinsey Best Paper Award, 2000.

“How Companies Begin Innovating,” Academy of Management meetings, with Kenneth J. Hatten and Peter J. Williamson, 2000.

"Strategy Innovation Routines and Organizational Change Processes that Generate Them,” Strategic Management Society annual meeting, 1999.

"Choosing an Alternative to 'Simple-minded' Search: Can Leaders Manage the Selection of a Standard DecisionMaking Routine for an Organization?" Academy of Management meetings, 1997.

Selected University Activities

Faculty Core Team member, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship (SVCE), 2004-present – key role in Neat Ideas Fair, in developing relationships with the College of Engineering and the School of Art & Design, and in providing opportunities for student members of the Entrepreneurial Society.

Developed Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship/Xyntéo Research Initiative on Crossing Organizational Boundaries with Information Technology.