Sidney G. Winter Faculty Profile

Sidney G. Winter
Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management
Co-Director, Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization

PhD, Yale University, 1964; MA, Yale University, 1957; BA, Swarthmore College, 1956

Research Areas
Firm capabilities; technological change; competitive advantage

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1993-present (named Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, 1993; Co-Director, Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization, 1999-present). Previous appointments: Yale University; University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley

Other Positions
Chief Economist, U.S. General Accounting Office, 1989-93; Research Economist, The RAND Corporation 1966-68, 1959-61; Staff Member, Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fellow of the American Econometric Society, 1978; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1990

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Vice President, International J.A. Schumpeter Society; Associate Editor, Industrial & Corporate Change; Advisory Board Member, Organization Science

Representative Publications
(with R.R. Nelson)
An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

"Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution." Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations J. Baum and J. Singh, eds., Oxford University Press, 1994.

"Patents and Welfare in an Evolutionary Model." Industrial and Corporate Change (1993).