Gerald A. McDermott Faculty Profile

Gerald A. McDermott
Assistant Professor of Management

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998; BA, Middlebury College, 1988

Research Areas
Institutions; networks; governance; emerging markets

Recent Consulting
Adviser to governments, firms, and multi-lateral agencies on privatization, restructuring, and small business promotion in East-Central Europe and South America

Current Projects
Work has focused on problems of institutional and organizational learning in the formation of meso-level, public-private governance institutions in emerging market and post-socialist economies, particularly regarding alliances, network assets, and restructuring. Currently extending analytical framework to examine the impact of domestic financial and industrial institutions on foreign investment strategies in high value-added sectors in Latin America and East-Central Europe.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1998-present. Previous appointments: IAE, Buenos Aires; Yale Law School-Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires; Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires

Other Positions
Project Coordinator, Inter-American Development Bank, 1999-present; Consultant, Finance, Private Sector, & Infrastructure Division, World Bank, 1999-00; Advisor, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Czech Republic, 1999; Consultant, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Argentina, 1997-99

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
National Security Education Program Fellow, United States Department of Defense, 1995-96; J. William Fulbright Fellow, 1993-94

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editorial Board, Small Business Economics, 2000-present

Representative Publications
Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2002.

(with A. Spicer and B. Kogut)
"Entrepreneurship and Privatization in Central Europe: The Tenuous Balance Between Destruction and Creation." Academy of Management Review 25.3 (July 2000).

(with A. Hayri)
"The Network Properties of Corporate Governance and Industrial Restructuring: A Post-Socialist Lesson." Industrial and Corporate Change 7.1 (1998).