Panelists:
Jane Dutton Managerial and Organizational Cognition
Robert L. Kahn, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology; Chair of Management and Organizations Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983?M.A., Northwestern University, 1981?B.A., Colby College, 1974.
Jane Dutton’s research is focused on how organizational conditions enable human thriving. In particular, she focuses on how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research has explored compassion and organizations, resilience and organizations, as well as energy and organizations. This research stream is part of a growing domain of expertise at the University of Michigan called Positive Organizational Scholarship http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive. Her past research has explored processes of organizational adaptation, focusing on how strategic issues are interpreted and managed in organizations, as well as issues of organizational identity and change.
More info: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119663
Royston Greenwood OMT
Associate Dean, Research, and Telus Professor of Strategic Management of the University of Alberta Business School. PhD University of Birmingham, 1976.
Professor Greenwood?s fields of interest include the dynamics of organization change, managing professional service firms, and new business ventures. He has recently published in AMJ a qualitative case study of INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MATURE FIELDS:THE BIG FIVE ACCOUNTING FIRMS.
More info: http://www.business.ualberta.ca/rgreenwood/
Martha Feldman Public and Non-for Profit
Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Management, Political Science, and Sociology, and Roger W. and Janice M. Johnson Chair in Civic Governance and Public Management
Ph.D. Stanford University
Professor Feldman has a longstanding interest in how organizations influence people?s ability to accomplish work. Her recent work uses and extends practice theory to understand the role of organizational routines in organizational learning and adaptation. Her work in public management builds on this interest and focuses on the tools managers can use to create public organizations that are broadly inclusive of employees and the public. Her work in qualitative methods has focused primarily on developing techniques for analyzing context-dependent phenomena.
More info: http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/feldman/
Ann Langley OMT
Professor of Strategic Management and Research methods at HEC Montreal, Canada and Director of PhD. and MSc programs. Ph.D. (administration), HEC Montreal; M.A.(Operational Research), Lancaster University.
Professor Langley?s early research was inspired by these her work as an alayst, and dealt with the role of analysis in organizations. Since then, she has pursued her interest in strategic management processes, focusing particularly on complex organizations with multiple goals and ambigious authority. Her recent work deals with strategic decision-making, innovation, and leadership and strategic change in the health care sector. She is currently working on a major project in two teaching hospitals that examines the management of implementation of hospital merges.
More info: http://www.hec.ca/management/CVHTML/ann-lanley.html
Tutorial Presenters:
Mauro Guillen International Management
Guillen is Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at Penn, a research-and-teaching program on management and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a PhD in sociology from Yale University and a Doctorate in political economy from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain.
He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe?s largest savings bank.
He has received a Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, a Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, the Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management, the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award of the American Sociological Association, and the President?s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He is an Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, a former Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2005 he won the IV Fundaci?n Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the best Spanish social scientist under the age of 40.
His current research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations. His most recent books are The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press). He is also the author of The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton University Press, 2001), Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994), and, with Charles Perrow, The AIDS Disaster (Yale University Press, 1990). In Spanish, he has published La Profesi?n de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and An?lisis de Regresi?n M?ltiple (CIS, 1992).
More Info: http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/guillen/
Peer Fiss
More info: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fiss/research.html
Deborah Dougherty
More info: http://business.rutgers.edu/default.aspx?id=385
Facilitators & Organizers:
Diana Day BPS
Dr. Day, Associate Professor of Management, (Ph.D., Columbia University) has taught at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise lies in Management of organizational strategy and entrepreneurship in organization, She coordinated the contributions of the Business Policy and Strategic Management Division during the 1998 Academy of Management annual conference, when she served as program chair of the largest division within the world’s leading organization for management scholars. Dr. Day is widely published in such premier management journals as Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, and the European Journal of Operations Research. She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and the Journal of High Technology Management and Marketing.
More info: http://camden-sbc.rutgers.edu/FacultyStaff/Directory/day.htm
Johann Peter Murmann TIM
Murmann is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the AGSM - Australian School of Business and Chair of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship department. Before joining the AGSM in January 2006, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University?s Kellogg School of Management (from 1997 to 2005).
Murmann?s research is mainly focused on studying systematically how firms gain and lose competitive advantage over long periods of time. His award-winning comparative study of the early history of the synthetic dye industry was published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press under the title Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology and National Institutions.
More info: http://professor-murmann.net