Gerard George



Salutation
Professor

School/Centre
School of Business and Technology

Appointment
Group Managing Director

Position
Professor

Email
gerardgeorge@imu.edu.my



Education

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Executive Certificate in Directorship (Singapore Institute of Directors Programme), 2019 Singapore Management University
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Honorary Doctorate (Economics), 2018 University of St.Gallen
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PhD (Management), 1997 Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business
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Master of Science (Hons) (Biological Sciences), 1994 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
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Master of Management Studies (Management Studies), 1993 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Memberships

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Member, Investment Committee, Mapletree Australia Member 2020 - Present
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BML Munjal University Member of the Board of Governors 2017 - Present

Publications

Research Articles

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Partnering for grand challenges: A review of organizational design considerations in public–private collaborations JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2024
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Satellite Data as an Emerging Method for Organizational Research: A Detailed Overview and Use Case Academy of Management Proceedings 2024
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Dovev Lavie. The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY 2024
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Business and the Common Good: A Moral View of Corporate Purpose ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2024
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Relational Co‐ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2024
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Innovation in dynamic knowledge landscapes: using topic modelling to map inventive activity and its implications for financial performance INNOVATION: ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT 2024
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COVID-19 and management scholarship: Lessons for conducting impactful research BUSINESS & SOCIETY 2024
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Reeling in the Slack: An Integrative Review to Reinstate Slack as a Central Theoretical Construct for Management Research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS 2024
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Digital Approaches to Societal Grand Challenges: Toward a Broader Research Agenda on Managing Global-Local Design Tensions INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH 2024
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Purpose in the for-profit firm: A review and framework for management research JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2023
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When do novel business models lead to high performance? A configurational approach to value drivers, competitive strategy, and firm environment ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2023
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Grounding business models: Cognition, boundary objects, and business model change ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2023
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Recalibrating entrepreneurship research: A call to decolonize and embrace the pluralism of entrepreneurial activity JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2023
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Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS 2022
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Investigating Entrepreneurial Venture Resource Acquisition through the Lens of Media Dynamics ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2022
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A simulation-based approach to business model design and organizational change INNOVATION: ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 2021
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Digital sustainability and its implications for finance and climate change MACROECONOMIC REVIEW 2021
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Knowledge recombination and inventor networks: The asymmetric effects of embeddedness on knowledge reuse and impact JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2021
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Breaking boundaries to creatively generate value: The role of resourcefulness in entrepreneurship JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING 2021
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Digital sustainability and entrepreneurship: How digital innovations are helping tackle climate change and sustainable development ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2021
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What has changed? The impact of Covid pandemic on the technology and innovation management research agenda JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2020
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Problem-solving or self-enhancement? A power perspective on how CEOs affect R&D search in the face of inconsistent feedback ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2020
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How does energy matter? Rural electrification, entrepreneurship, and community development in Kenya ENERGY POLICY 2019
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The Impact of an Electrical Mini-grid on the Development of a Rural Community in Kenya ENERGIES 2019
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Entrepreneurial dynamism and the built environment in the evolution of university entrepreneurial ecosystems INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 2019
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When do expert teams fail to create impactful inventions? JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2019
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Institutional categories & emergent frames: invention impact of category-spanning & conforming firms ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2019
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Can Competitive Advantage Be Sustainable Under Knightian Uncertainty? A Resource-Capital Perspective ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2019
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The capacity to innovate: A meta-analysis of absorptive capacity INNOVATION: ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT 2018
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Revisiting the small-world phenomenon: Efficiency variation and classification of small-world networks ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS 2017
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Health systems in transition: Professional identity work in the context of shifting institutional logics ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2017
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Analytics, innovation, and organizational adaptation INNOVATION 2017
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Social value creation and relational coordination in public‐private collaborations JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2017
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Reputation and status: Expanding the role of social evaluations in management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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We Are In This Together: Disclosure and Willingness to Sacrifice in Vulnerable Contexts ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2016
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What do I want? The effects of individual aspiration and relational capability on collaboration preferences STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Management research in AMJ: Celebrating impact while striving for more ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Appropriability and the retrieval of knowledge after spillovers STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Social structure, reasonable gain, and entrepreneurship in Africa STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Big data and data science methods for management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Bringing Africa in: Promising directions for management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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The digital workforce and the workplace of the future ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Corporate social responsibility: An overview and new research directions: Thematic issue on corporate social responsibility ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Understanding and tackling societal grand challenges through management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2016
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Managing digital money ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Absorptive capacity and the entrepreneurial process WILEY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MANAGEMENT 2015
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Innovation and leadership: When does CMO leadership improve performance from innovation? SAGE OPEN 2015
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Expanding context to redefine theories: Africa in management research MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW 2015
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Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2015
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Infrastructure provision, gender, and poverty in Indian slums WORLD DEVELOPMENT 2015
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West meets East: New concepts and theories ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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The management of natural resources: An overview and research agenda ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Gender research in AMJ: an overview of five decades of empirical research and calls to action: thematic issue on gender in management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Which problems to solve? Online knowledge sharing and attention allocation in organizations ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Information, attention, and decision making ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Managing by design ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Managing risk and resilience ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2015
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Rethinking governance in management research ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Rethinking management scholarship ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Kinship in entrepreneur networks: Performance effects of resource assembly in Africa ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2014
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Agile business model innovation EUROPEAN BUSINESS REVIEW 2014
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Aging populations and management ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Organizations with purpose ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Climate change and management ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Are public–private partnerships a healthy option? A systematic literature review SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 2014
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Big data and management ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2014
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Cui bono? The selective revealing of knowledge and its implications for innovative activity ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2013
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Bridging the mutual knowledge gap: Coordination and the commercialization of university science ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2013
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Category divergence, straddling, and currency: Open innovation and the legitimation of illegitimate categories JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2013
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Collaborative benefits and coordination costs: Learning and capability development in science STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP JOURNAL 2013
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Does the learning value of individual failure experience depend on group-level success? Insights from a university technology transfer office INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 2013
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The Scarcity of Natural Resources and Its Organizational Implications: A Review and Conceptual Framework IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, BUSINESS SCHOOL: LONDON, UK 2013
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New solutions in service design and delivery are necessary to combat disease burden THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE 2012
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Venture capitalists' role in new venture internationalization THE JOURNAL OF PRIVATE EQUITY 2012
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Publishing in AMJ for non-US authors ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2012
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Organizational identity and capability development in internationalization: transference, splicing and enhanced imitation in Tesco’s US market entry JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 2012
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Innovating in the periphery: The impact of local and foreign inventor mobility on the value of Indian patents RESEARCH POLICY 2012
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Empowering change: The effects of energy provision on individual aspirations in slum communities ENERGY POLICY 2012
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Not with my own: Long-term effects of cross-country collaboration on subsidiary innovation in emerging economies versus advanced economies JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 2012
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An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development ENERGY POLICY 2012
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Friends, family, or fools: Entrepreneur experience and its implications for equity distribution and resource mobilization JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING 2012
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The effects of culture and structure on strategic flexibility during business model innovation JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2012
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Innovation for inclusive growth: Towards a theoretical framework and a research agenda JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2012
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When does the socio‐cultural context matter? Communal orientation and entrepreneurs’ resource accumulation efforts in Africa JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2011
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Publishing in AMJ—part 1: topic choice ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2011
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Entry into new niches: The effects of firm age and the expansion of technological capabilities on innovative output and impact STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2011
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International entrepreneurship and capability development—qualitative evidence and future research directions ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2011
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The business model in practice and its implications for entrepreneurship research ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2011
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The dynamic impact of innovative capability and inter-firm network on firm valuation: A longitudinal study of biotechnology start-ups JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING 2010
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The role of structured intuition and entrepreneurial opportunities TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOAN WOODWARD (RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS, VOLUME 29). EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED 2010
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Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity RESEARCH POLICY 2009
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Senior team attributes and organizational ambidexterity: The moderating role of transformational leadership JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2008
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Entry into insular domains: A longitudinal study of knowledge structuration and innovation in biotechnology firms JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2008
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Corporate venture capital, disembodied experimentation and capability development JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2008
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Technology transfer offices as institutional entrepreneurs: the case of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and human embryonic stem cells INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 2007
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European venture capital market: Scaling beyond current boundaries EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY & VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION (EVCA): AN EVCA SPECIAL PAPER 2007
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A capabilities perspective on the effects of early internationalization on firm survival and growth ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2006
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THE SYSTEMATIC NATURE OF SERENDIPITY IN OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE THEORY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SUMMARY) FRONTIERS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH 2006
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Ownership and the internationalization of small firms JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2005
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Learning to be capable: patenting and licensing at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 1925–2002 INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 2005
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Slack resources and the performance of privately held firms ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2005
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BY LEAPS AND REBOUNDS: LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MARKET ENTRY CAPABILITIES IN START-UPS. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2004
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Developmental financial institutions as technology policy instruments: Implications for innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economies RESEARCH POLICY 2003
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The net-enabled business innovation cycle and the evolution of dynamic capabilities INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH 2002
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Being entrepreneurial and being market-driven: exploring the interaction effects of entrepreneurial and market orientation on firm performance FRONTIERS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH, BABSON COLLEGE, WELLESLEY, MA 2002
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Culture and its consequences for entrepreneurship ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORY AND PRACTICE 2002
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The effects of business–university alliances on innovative output and financial performance: a study of publicly traded biotechnology companies JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING 2002
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International entrepreneurship: The current status of the field and future research agenda STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CREATING A NEW MINDSET 2002
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National culture and entrepreneurship: A review of behavioral research ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2002
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Absorptive capacity: A review, reconceptualization, and extension ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2002
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The effects of alliance portfolio characteristics and absorptive capacity on performance: A study of biotechnology firms THE JOURNAL OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 2001
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The relationship of internal and external commitment foci to objective job performance measures ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2001
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Networking strategy of boards: Implications for small and medium-sized enterprises ENTREPRENEURSHIP & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2001
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION: THE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE AND LOCAL CONTEXTS. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PROCEEDINGS 2001
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Leadership in computer-mediated communication: Implications and research directions JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY 2000
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Research note university-sponsored family business programs: Program characteristics, perceived quality and member satisfaction ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE 2000
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Privatization in emerging economies: An agency theory perspective ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2000
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Entrepreneurship in multinational subsidiaries: The effects of corporate and local environmental contexts PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, TORONTO, CANADA, AUGUST 2000
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Developmental financial institutions as catalysts of entrepreneurship in emerging economies ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2000
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Organizing culture: Leader roles, behaviors, and reinforcement mechanisms JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY 1999
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Manufacturing strategy and new venture performance: A comparison of independent and corporate ventures in the biotechnology industry THE JOURNAL OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 1999
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Three strategic roads to success for community banks JOURNAL OF RETAIL BANKING SERVICES 1998
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The strategic role of communication technology in small business: Where we are and where we should be going. AMERICAN BUSINESS REVIEW 1997
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Dimensionality and performance effects of social networking in small businesses USASBE ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE ENGINE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 1997
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On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B: Measuring and rewarding agency performance in public-sector strategy PUBLIC PRODUCTIVITY & MANAGEMENT REVIEW 1997
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How community banks use their boards to boost performance JOURNAL OF RETAIL BANKING SERVICES 1997
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Managing instructor cyberanxiety: The role of self-efficacy in decreasing resistance to change EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1996
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Technology-assisted instruction and instructor cyberphobia: Recognizing the ways to effect change EDUCATION 1996
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Technology-assisted instruction in business schools: Measured effects on student attitudes, expectations and performance INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA 1996
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Significant historic origins that influenced the team concept in major Japanese companies JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH 1996
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Employee technophobia: Understanding, managing and rewarding change JOURNAL OF COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS 1996

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Books

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ResearchGate.net (2022). Introduction to the business of sustainability: An organizing framework for theory, practice and impact
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Edward Elgar Publishing (2019). Inclusion and innovation: A call to action