Research & Publications

Academic Publications

  • “Integrative Capabilities, Vertical Integration, and Innovation Over Successive Technology Lifecycles” (with Miguel Campo-Remado). Forthcoming, Organization Science.
  • “Creating Repeatable Cumulative Knowledge in Strategic Management” (with Richard Bettis, Sendil Ethiraj, Alfonso Gambardella, and Will Mitchell). 2016. Strategic Management Journal 37(2): 257-261.
  • “Vertical Firm Structure and Industry Evolution.” 2015. Industrial and Corporate Change 24(4): 791-802. Selected as Editor’s Choice article.
  • “Qualitative Empirical Research in Strategic Management” (with Richard Bettis, Alfonso Gambardella, Will Mitchell). Strategic Management Journal, 36(5), 2015.
  • “Dynamic Managerial Capabilities: A Review and Assessment of Managerial Impact on Strategic Change” (with Jeffrey Martin). 2015. Journal of Management 41(5): 1281-1312 (lead article).
  • "Theory in Strategic Management" (with Richard Bettis, Alfonso Gambardella, Will Mitchell). Strategic Management Journal, 35(10), 2014.
  • “Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and the Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities” (with Margaret Peteraf). 2015. Strategic Management Journal 36: 831-850.
  • “Quantitative Empirical Analysis in Strategic Management” (with Richard Bettis, Alfonso Gambardella, Will Mitchell). 2014. Strategic Management Journal 35: 949-953.
  • “Fit Between Organization Design and Organizational Routines” (with Samina Karim). Journal of Organization Design, 3(2), 2014.
  • “Dynamic Managerial Capabilities: A Perspective on the Relationship Between Managers, Creativity and Innovation in Organizations” (with Jeffrey Martin). 2015. In Christina Shalley, Michael Hitt, and Jing Zhou, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Linkages, Oxford University Press.
  • “The Impact of Dynamic Capabilities on Resource Access and Development” (with Christian Stadler and Gianmario Verona). 2013. Organization Science 24(6): 1782-1804.
  • “Technical Fitness.” 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Evolutionary Fitness.” 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Capability Lifecycle” (with Tiona Zuzul). 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Managerial Resources and Capabilities” (with Andrea Hugill). 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Managerial Rents” (with Andrea Hill). 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Dynamic Managerial Capabilities” (with Dawn Harris). 2013. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • “Untangling Dynamic and Operational Capabilities: Strategy for the (N)ever Changing World” (with Sidney G. Winter). 2011. Strategic Management Journal, 32(11): 1243-1250.
  • “Location, Decentralization, and Knowledge Sources for Innovation” (with Aija Leiponen). 2011. Organization Science, 22(3): 641-658.
  • “Innovation Objectives, Knowledge Sources, and the Benefits of Breadth” (with Aija Leiponen). 2010. Strategic Management Journal, 31(2): 224-236.
  • “Organizational Linkages for Surviving Technological Change: Complementary Assets, Middle Management, and Ambidexterity” (with Alva Taylor). 2009. Organization Science, 20: 718-739.
  • “Understanding Dynamic Capabilities: Progress Along a Developmental Path” (with Margaret Peteraf). 2009. Strategic Organization, 7(1): 91-102.
  • “Strategic Renewal of Organizations” (with Rajshree Agarwal). 2009. Organization Science, 20(2): 281-293. 
  • Dynamic Capabilities:  Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations (with Sydney Finkelstein, Will Mitchell, Margaret Peteraf, Harbir Singh, David Teece, and Sidney Winter).  2007.  Blackwell Publishers. Japanese translation published 2010. First chapter reprinted in C.A. Maritan and M.A. Peteraf, Eds., 2011, Competitive Strategy, vol. 1, Edward Elgar.
  • “The Board of Directors as a Social Network: A New Perspective” (with Dawn Harris). 2007. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(3): 228-237.
  • “Stylized Facts, Empirical Research, and Theory Development in Management.” 2007. Strategic Organization, 5(2): 185-192.
  • “The Pipeline to the Top: Women and Men in the Top Executive Ranks of U.S. Corporations” (with Dawn Harris and Paul Wolfson).  2006.  Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(4): 42-64. Finalist for the Outstanding Practitioner Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award of the OB Division of the Academy of Management.
  • “External Succession and Disruptive Change:  Heirs Apparent, Forced Turnover, and Firm Performance” (with Elizabeth E.Bailey).  2005. Strategic Organization, 3:47-84.
  • “Inter-temporal Economies of Scope, Organizational Modularity, and the Dynamics of Diversification” (with Kathleen Eisenhardt).  2004.  Strategic Management Journal, 25: 1217-1232 (lead article).
  • “The Dynamic Resource-Based View:  Capability Lifecycles” (with Margaret Peteraf).  2003.  Strategic Management Journal, 24: 997-1010. Reprinted in D. Teece and M. Augier, Eds., 2004. Fundamentals of Business Strategy, Sage Publications. Reprinted in C.A. Maritan and M.A. Peteraf, Eds., 2011, Competitive Strategy, vol. 1, Edward Elgar.
  • “Corporate Effects and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities” (with Ron Adner). 2003.  Strategic Management Journal, 24: 1011-1026.
  • The Blackwell/Strategic Management Society Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change (edited volume).  2003. Blackwell Publishers.
  • “Stylized Facts Regarding the Evolution of Organizational Resources and Capabilities,” in C. Helfat, Ed., 2003. The Blackwell/Strategic Management Society Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change, Blackwell Publishers.
  • “External Management Succession, Human Capital, and Firm Performance: An Integrative Analysis” (with Elizabeth E. Bailey).  2003.  Managerial and Decision Economics, 24: 347-369.
  • “The Birth of Capabilities: Market Entry and the Importance of Pre-History” (with Marvin Lieberman).  2002.  Industrial and Corporate Change, 11: 725-760. Reprinted in C. Maritan and M. Peteraf, Eds., 2011, Competitive   Strategy, vol. 1, Edward Elgar.
  • “Epilogue: Product Sequencing, Knowledge, and E-Commerce” (with Ruth Raubitschek). In N. Bontis and W. Choo, Eds., 2002.  The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organization Knowledge: A Collection of Readings, Oxford University Press.
  • “The Managerial Rents Model: Theory and Empirical Analysis” (with Richard Castanias).  2001.  Journal of Management, 27: 661-678.
  • “Does Corporate Strategy Matter?” (with Edward H. Bowman).  2001. Strategic Management Journal, 22: 1-23 (lead article).  Reprinted in J.A. Krug, Ed., 2008. Corporate Strategy, Sage Publications.
  • “Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products” (with Ruth Raubitschek).  2000.  Strategic Management Journal, 21: 961-979.  Reprinted in N. Bontis and W. Choo, Eds., 2002.  The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organization Knowledge: A Collection of Readings, Oxford University Press.
  • “Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue: The Evolution of Firm Capabilities.”  2000.  Strategic Management Journal, 21: 955-959.
  • “CEO Duality, Succession, Capabilities and Agency Theory: Commentary and Research Agenda” (with Dawn Harris).  1998.  Strategic Management Journal, 19: 901-904.
  • “Simple Indicators of Adaptation Versus Rigidity in History Dependent Firm Activities and Decision Rules.”  1998.  Industrial and Corporate Change, 7: 49-75.
  • “Specificity of CEO Human Capital and Compensation” (with Dawn Harris).  1997.  Strategic Management Journal, 18: 895-920.
  • “Know-how and Asset Complementarity and Dynamic Capability Accumulation: The Case of R&D.”  1997.  Strategic Management Journal, 18: 339-360 (lead article). Reprinted in C.A. Maritan and M.A. Peteraf, Eds., 2011, Competitive Strategy, vol. 1, Edward Elgar. 
  • “Evolutionary Trajectories in Petroleum Firm R&D.”  1994. Management Science, 40: 1720-1747.
  • “Firm-Specificity in Corporate Applied R&D.” 1994.  Organization Science, 5: 173-184.
  • “Managerial and Windfall Rents in the Market for Corporate Control” (with Richard Castanias). 1992. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 18: 153-184 (lead article).
  • “Managerial Resources and Rents” (with Richard Castanias).  1991.
  • Journal of Management, Special Issue on Firm Resources and the Theory of Competitive Strategy, 17: 783-809.
  • “Investment in Offshore Oil by Diversified Petroleum Companies.”  1989. Journal of Industrial Economics, 38: 79-93.
  • “Investment Choices in the Petroleum Industry.”  1989. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 11: 253-283.
  • Investment Choices in Industry.  1988.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • “Vertical Integration and Risk Reduction” (with David J. Teece).  1987. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 3: 47-67.

Other Publications

  • “FIVE Project: Data Overview” (with Steven Klepper). 2007. Publications http://papers.ssrn.com/paper=1028022. The FIVE Project is a repository of data and documentation on firm and industry evolution and entrepreneurship (http://five.dartmouth.edu).
  • “Work-Life Issues in Academia and Business: The Current State of Affairs.” 2002.  Journal of Management Inquiry, 11: 329-331.
  • “Comment: Edward H. Bowman, 1925-1998.”  2001.  Strategic Management Journal, 22: 25-26.

Working Papers

  • “Ambidexterity in Inter-firm Partnerships: Evidence from Buyer-Supplier Relationships in the Italian Motor Vehicle Sector” (with Andrea Lipparini and Gianmario Verona).

Book Reviews

  • Review of Dynamic Capabilities & Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth. By David J. Teece. 2009. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2011, R&D Management 41(2): 217-218.
  • Review of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology.  By Henry Chesbrough. 2003.  Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. 2006, Academy of Management Perspectives. 
  • Review of Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in Twentieth-Century America. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. 1998. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. June 1999, Journal of Economic Literature, 37.