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 You can find some of my published and unpublished papers on this website.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
Structural Knowledge: How executive experience with structural composition affects intrafirm mobility and unit reconfiguration (with Samina Karim), Strategic Management Journal (2012)
This paper explores how knowledge embodied in executives is tied to the organizational context in...
Growing Pains: Pre-Entry Experience and the Challenge of Transition to Incumbency (with Pao-Lien Chen and Rajshree Agarwal), Strategic Management Journal (2011)
We examine how entrepreneurial entry by diversifying and de novo firms in new industries leads...
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Unpublished Papers
Executive Links and Strategic Change: Is Unit-Spanning by Executives Associated with Market Entry and Exit? (with Samina Karim) (2011)
Firms frequently create executive links by sharing people between units to transfer and combine knowledge....
Renewal through Rookies: The Growth Effect of Industry and Firm Experience among Top Management Recruits (with Rajshree Agarwal and Pao-Lien Chen) (2011)
This study examines the impact of new top management talent on the growth of the...
Presentations
Executive Links and Strategic Change, Imperial College (2011)
A link to a presentation of the paper, executive links and strategic change.
Research Overview, Bocconi (2011)
This is a link to a research overview I presented at Bocconi in Fall 2011....