Management

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Faculty Perspective

Witold Henisz

Associate Professor of Management

“Our comparative advantage lies in exploring research domains and serving students whose interests fall outside of disciplinary silos and narrow field-level research domains to examine the complex challenges faced by modern business enterprises.”

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Faculty and Research

Wharton's Management faculty apply basic social science disciplines and research methods to meet the demands of current management and leadership challenges in the public and private sectors. To be successful in a changing global economy, managers must view the total enterprise and understand the forces shaping the firm's direction, policies, and goals and, at the same time, exercise personal leadership in managing employees.

 

Representative Publications

Names in bold type indicate authors who were Wharton doctoral students during paper development.
 
Ron Adner and Daniel A. Levinthal, "What is not a real option: Considering boundaries for the application of real options to business strategy." Academy of Management Review 29:74-85, 2004.

Vikas Aggarwal and David Hsu, "Modes of cooperative R&D commercialization by start-ups," Strategic Management Journal, 30: 835-864, 2009.

Paul Almeida, Gina Dokko and Lori Rosenkopf. "Startup Size and the Mechanisms of External Learning: Increasing Opportunity and Decreasing Ability?" Research Policy, 32:301-315, 2003.

Sigal Barsade, Lakshmi Ramarajan and D. Westen. "Implicit affect in organizations," Research in Organizational Behavior, 135-162, 2009.

Heather Berry, Mauro F. Guillén and Nan Zhou. “An Institutional Approach to Measuring Cross-National Distance.” Journal of International Business Studies, forthcoming.

Gino Cattani, Hans Pennings and Filippo C. Wezel. "Competitive Implications of Inter-firm Mobility", Organization Science,17:691-709, 2006.

Gino Cattani, Hans Pennings and Filippo C. Wezel. "Spatial Diffusion and Organizational Foundings", Organization Science, 14:670-85, 2005. 

Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori. "Are franchises bad employers?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 61:147-162, 2008. 

Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori. "The new road to the top." Harvard Business Review 83:25-32, 2005.

Rafael Corredoira and Lori Rosenkopf . "Should auld acquaintance be forgot? The reverse transfer of knowledge through mobility ties," Strategic Management Journal, 31:159-181, 2010.

Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang and Sidney Winter, "The economics of strategic opportunity." Strategic Management Journal 24:977-90, 2003.

Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang and Daniel A. Levinthal. “From T-Mazes to Labyrinths: Learning from Model-Based Feedback”. Management Science, 50: 1366-1378, 2004.

Gina Dokko and Lori Rosenkopf . “Social capital for hire? Mobility of technical professionals and firm influence in wireless standard committees,” Organization Science, 21:677-695, 2010.

Gina Dokko, Steffanie Wilk, and Nancy Rothbard. " Unpacking prior experience: How career history affects individual performance." Organization Science, 20: 51-68, 2009

Dushnitsky, Gary and Dovev Lavie. “How Alliance Formation Shapes Corporate Venture Capital Investments in the Software Industry: A Resource-Based Perspective” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal forthcoming.

Sendil Ethiraj and Daniel A. Levinthal. “Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and their Evolvability”. Administrative Science Quarterly 49: 404-437, 2004.

Sendil Ethiraj, Daniel A. Levinthal and Rishi Roy. “Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems.” Management Science, 50: 159-174, 2004.

Sendil Ethiraj, Daniel A. Levinthal and Rishi Roy. “The Dual Role of Modularity: Innovation and Imitation”. Management Science, 54: 939-955, 2008.

Christina Fang and Daniel A. Levinthal. “The Near-Term Liability of Exploitation: Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Stage Problems” Organizational Science 20:538-551, 2009.

Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthaland Jan Rivkin. “Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy”. Strategic Management Journal, 26: 691-712, 2005.

Giovanni Gavetti and Daniel A. Levinthal. “Strategy Field from the Perspective of Management Science”. Management Science, 50: 1309-1318, 2004.

Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal and William Ocasio. “Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future”. Organizational Science, 18: 523-536, 2007.

Isin I. Guler, Mauro F. Guillén, and John Muir Macpherson. “Global Competition, Institutions, and the Diffusion of Organizational Practices: The International Spread of the ISO 9000 Quality Certificates.” Administrative Science Quarterly 47:207-232, 2002.

Isin I. Guler and Mauro F. Guillén. “Social Networks and Foreign Expansion.” Academy of Management Journal 53:390-410, 2010.

Isin I. Guler and Mauro F. Guillén. “Institutions and the Internationalization of U.S. Venture Capital Firms.” Journal of International Business Studies, 41:185–205, 2010.

Prashant Kale, Jeffrey Dyer, and Harbir Singh. "Alliance capability, stock market response, and long-term alliance success: The role of the alliance function." Strategic Management Journal 23:747-67, 2002. 

Katherine Klein and Andrew Knight. "Innovation implementation: Overcoming the challenge." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14:243-246, 2005. 

Katherine Klein, Jonathan Ziegert, Andrew Knight and Yan Xiao, "Dynamic delegation: Shared, hierarchical, deindividualized leadership in extreme action teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 51:590-621, 2006.

Carl Kock and Mauro F. Guillén. “Strategy and Structure in Developing Countries: Business Groups as an Evolutionary Response to Opportunities for Unrelated Diversification.” Industrial & Corporate Change 10:1-37, 2001.

Dovev Lavie and Lori Rosenkopf . "Balancing exploration and exploitation in alliance formation." Academy of Management Journal 49:797-818, 2006.

Daniel Levinthal and Hart Posen. "Myopia of selection: Does organizational adaptation limit the efficiency of population selection?" Administrative Science Quarterly 52: 586-620, 2007.

Daniel A. Levinthal and Brian Wu. “Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: Profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins”. Strategic Management Journal, 31: 780-801, 2010.

Phanish PuranamHarbir Singh and Mauricio Zollo "Organizing for Innovation: Managing the Coordination-Autonomy Dilemma In Technology Acquisitions." Academy of Management Journal 49:263-280, 2006.

Hart Posen and Daniel A. Levinthal. “Myopia of Selection: Does Organizational Adaptation Limit the Efficiency of Population Selection? Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 586-620, 2007.

William Schneper and Mauro F. Guillén. “Stakeholder Rights and Corporate Governance: A Cross-National Study of Hostile Takeovers.” Administrative Science Quarterly 49: 263-295, 2004.

Brian Wu and Anne Marie Knott, "Entrepreneurial risk and market entry." Management Science 52:1315-30, 2006.

Justin Berg, Adam Grant & Victoria Johnson When callings are calling: Crafting work and leisure in pursuit of unanswered occupational callings. Organization Science, 21: 973-994, 2010.
 
Felipe Csaszar and Nicolaj Siggelkow, How much to copy? Determinants of Effective Imitation Breadth, Organization Science, 21: 661-676, 2010.

Allan Filipowicz, Sigal Barsade and Shimul Melwani “Emotional Transitions in Social Interactions: Beyond Steady State Emotion.” (Forthcoming), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Jandhyala, Srividya, Witold Henisz, Edward Mansfield (2011), Three Waves of BITs: The Global Diffusion of Foreign Investment Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, (forthcoming).

Katherine Klein, Andrew Knight, Jonathan Ziegert, Beng Chong Lim, Jessica Saltz, When team members’ values differ: The moderating role of team leadership, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114: 25-36, 2011.

Shimul MelwaniSigal Barsade “Held in Contempt: The Psychological, Interpersonal and Performance Outcomes of Contempt in a Work Setting,” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (forthcoming).

Anca Metiu and Nancy Rothbard “Group engagement as the process through which mutual focus of attention emerges and is sustained”, Organization Science, (provisionally accepted).

Lori Rosenkopf and Paul Almeida. "Overcoming Local Search Through Alliances and Mobility." Management Science, 49:751-766, 2003.

Lori Rosenkopf, Anca Metiu and Varghese George. "From the Bottom Up? Technical Committee Activity and Alliance Formation." Administrative Science Quarterly, 46:748-772, 2001.

Lori Rosenkopf and Atul Nerkar. "Beyond Local Search: Boundary-spanning, Exploration, and Impact in the Optical Disc Industry." Strategic Management Journal, 22: 287-306, 2001.

Phineas Upham, Lori Rosenkopf, Lyle Ungar, Innovating knowledge communities: An analysis of group collaboration and competition in science and technology, Scientometrics, 83:525-554, 2010.

Phineas Upham, Lori Rosenkopf, Lyle Ungar, Positioning knowledge: Schools of thought and new knowledge creation, Scientometrics, 83:555-581, 2010.