Research
WORKING PAPERS
- "How Adaptive is R&D? Cumulative Research and Technical Change in Organizational Communities," with Elizabeth G. Pontikes, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, working paper, 2008.
- "Recombination and Variability as Organizations Grow," with Xiaoqu Luo, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, working paper, 2008.
- "Organizational Identity and First-Mover Advantage," with Mi Feng, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, working paper, 2008.
- “Predator-Prey Competition Among Cosmopolitan and Local Organizations,” with Mi Feng, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, working paper, 2008.
- "Stigma and Halo Following Iconic Events: Why Nonconformity Pays After Salient Successes and Failures," with Elizabeth G. Pontikes, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, working paper, 2008.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
- The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 2008.
- "The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia," with Elizabeth G. Pontikes, Management Science, 54: 1237-1251, 2008.
- "Organizational Roles and Transitions to Entrepreneurship," with Stanislav D. Dobrev, Academy of Management Journal 48, 2005.
- "The Red Queen: History-Dependent Competition Among Organizations," with Elizabeth G. Pontikes, Research in Organizational Behavior, 2005.
- "Why Are Some Organizations More Competitive Than Others? Evidence from a Changing Global Market," with D. McKendrick, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2004.
- "From Red Vienna to the Anschluss: Ideological Competition among Viennese Newspapers During the Rise of National Socialism," with Michael Woywode, American Journal of Sociology 109, 2004.
- "Asymmetric Selection from Among Organizations," with Aimee Noelle-Swanson and Olav Sorenson, Industrial and Corporate Change 12, 2003.
- "The Red Queen in Organizational Creation and Development," with Olav Sorenson, Industrial and Corporate Change 11, 2002.
- "Too Much of a Good Thing? Product Proliferation and Organizational Failure," with John Freeman, Organization Science 12, 2001.
- "The Evolution of Collective Strategies Among Organizations," with Gary A. Mischke and William Ocasio, Organization Studies 21, 2000.
- "Avenues of Attainment: Occupational Demography and Organizational Careers in the California Civil Service," with James Baron and Toby Stuart, American Journal of Sociology 106, 2000.
- "The Dynamics of Competitive Intensity," Administrative Science Quarterly 42, 1997.
- "The Red Queen in Organizational Evolution," with Morten Hansen, Strategic Management Journal 17, 1996.
- "Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategy," with Robert A. Burgelman, Strategic Management Journal 17, 1996.
- "Modeling Internal Organizational Change," with Glenn R. Carroll, Annual Review of Sociology 21, 1995.
- "An Evolutionary Model of Organizational Performance," with Henrich Greve and Douglas Park, Strategic Management Journal 15, 1994.
- "The Liability of Collective Action: Growth and Change Among Early American Telephone Companies," Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, 1994.
- "Resetting the Clock: The Dynamics of Organizational Transformation and Failure," with Terry L. Amburgey and Dawn Kelly, Administrative Science Quarterly 38, 1993.
- "How Institutional Constraints Affected the Organization of Early American Telephony," with Glenn R. Carroll, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 9, 1993.
- "Strategic Deterrence Among Multipoint Competitors," Industrial and Corporate Change 2, 1993.
- "Organizational Ecology Approaches to Institutions," with Glenn R. Carroll, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organizations, 1993.
- "Standing on the shoulders of others: Career interdependence in job mobility," with Anne S. Miner, Administrative Science Quarterly 37, 1992.
- "Do Larger Organizations Generate Stronger Competition?" Organizational Evolution: New Directions, 1990.
- "The Organizational Ecology of a Technological System," Administrative Science Quarterly 35, 1990.
- "Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover," with Charles A. O'Reilly and David F. Caldwell, Administrative Science Quarterly 34, 1989.
- "Competition and Mutualism Among Early Telephone Companies," with Glenn R. Carroll, Administrative Science Quarterly 32, 1987.
