I'm a strategy scholar with an interest in how people, structure, and experience affect the evolution of firms. I've studied how firms adapt their knowledge while expanding abroad, how executive movement through firms affects the likelihood of entering and exiting markets, and how entrepreneurial firms face the challenges of growth. You can find some of my published and unpublished papers on this website.
Articles
Transfer in context: replication and adaptation in knowledge transfer relationships, Strategic Management Journal (2007)
This paper explores the role of replication and adaptation in knowledge transfer relationships. I develop...
Focusing firm evolution: The impact of information infrastructure on market entry by U.S. telecommunications firms, 1984-1998 (with Will Mitchell), Management Science (2004)
Organization structure acts as a lens on the environment, gathering information and shaping its flow...
Unpublished Papers
Growing Pains: The Effect of Pre-Entry Experience on Impediments to Growth (with Pao-Lien Chen and Rajshree Agarwal) (2010)
We examine how entrepreneurial entry by diversifying and de novo firms in new industries leads...
Structural Knowledge: how executive experience with structural composition affects intrafirm mobility and structural change (with Samina Karim) (2010)
This paper explores organizational knowledge that is embodied in structures and executives by studying the...
Promoting Inertia: How Executive Movement Influences Market Entry and Exit in Medical Firms (with Samina Karim) (2008)
Theory says that executive movement through a firm promotes strategic change by spreading knowledge and...