Jackson A. Nickerson

Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy

E-Mail: nickerson@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6374

Ph.D. 1997, University of California, Berkeley
M.B.A. 1990, University of California, Berkeley
M.S.M.E. 1986, University of California, Berkeley
B.S.M.E. 1984, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Fall Convocation Speech, Washington University in St. Louis, August, 2004.

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FDA Risk-based Manufacturing Inspection Project and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Research Project:

Project description (1/28/2004).

Presentation to PQRI (4/24/2003).

Presentation to FDA MSM Subcommittee (7/21/2004).

Presentation to CHPS (9/30/2004).

FINAL PMRP REPORT.

MBA Welcome and Critical Thinking Speech by Jai Nagarkatti, August, 2009.

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MBA Critical Thinking Speech by Carl Hausmann, Fall 2009.

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Refereed Journal Publications:

Envy, Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm, (with Todd Zenger) forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal.
Interorganizational-trust: the Choice of Make, Buy, or Ally; and the Performance of Interorganizational Relationships in the U.S. Auto Industry, (with Ranjay Gulati) forthcoming in Organization Science.
The ‘problem’ of creating and capturing value, (with Brian Silverman and Todd Zenger) Strategic Organization, 5, 3(2007): 211-225.
Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the firm, (with Chih-mao Hseih and Todd Zenger) forthcoming in Journal of Management Studies, 44, 7(2007): 1255-1277.
Strategic Management of R&D Pipelines with Co-Specialized Investments and Technology Markets, (with Tat Chan and Hideo Owan) Management Science, 53, 4(2007): 667-682.
The Antecedents and Performance Implications of Cooperative Exchange Norms, (with Janet Bercovitz and Sandy Jap) forthcoming in Organization Science, 17, 6(2006): 724-740.
Why do firms make and buy? Efficiency, appropriability and competition in the trucking industry, (with Daifeng He), Strategic Organization 4, 1(2006): 43-70.
Modular governance: Explaining the effect of Information Technology on the boundaries of the firm, (with Sergio Lazarini), Revista de Economia e Administracao 4, 2(2005): 149-178.
Antecedents and Performance Implications of Contracting for Knowledge Workers: Evidence from Information Technology Services, (with Kyle Mayer) Organization Science 1, 3(2005): 225-42.
A Knowledge-based Theory of Governance Choice, (with Todd Zenger) Organization Science, 15, 6 (2004): 617-632.
Are Supply and Plant Inspections Complements or Sustitutes: A Strategic and Operational Assessment of Inspection Practices in Biotechnology, (with Kyle Mayer and Hideo Owan) in Management Science, 50, 8 (2004): 1064-1081.
Why Firms Want to Organize Efficiently and What Keeps Them from Doing So: Inappropriate Governance, Performance, and Adaptation in a Deregulated Industry, (with Brian Silverman) in Administration Science Quarterly48, 3 (2003): 433-65.
How do firms manage knowledge sharing while avoiding knowledge expropriation in interfirm collaborations, (with Bruce Heiman) Managerial and Decision Economics, 25, (2004): 401-420.
Correcting for Endogeneity in Strategic Management Research, (with Barton Hamilton), Strategic Organization 1, 1 (2003): 53-80.
Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation, (with Barton H. Hamilton and Hideo Owan), Journal of Political Economy 111, 3 (2003): 465-497.
Why Aren’t All Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate For-Hire Trucking, (with Brian Silverman), Journal of Economics, Management, and Strategy 12, 1 (2003): 91-118.
Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice, (with Todd Zenger), Organization Science, 13, 5 (2002): 547-566. (Click here for figures)
Towards Reconciling Transaction Cost Economics and The Knowledge-based View of the Firm: The Context of Interfirm Collaborations, (with Bruce Heiman), International Journal of the Economics of Business, 9, 1 (2002): 97-116.
Market Position, Resource Profile, and Governance: Linking Porter and Williamson in the Context of International Courier and Small Package Services in Japan, (with Bart Hamilton and Tetsuo Wada), Strategic Management Journal, 22, 3 (March, 2001): 251-273.
Economizing in a Context of Strategizing: Governance Mode Choice in Cournot Competition, (with Richard Vanden Bergh), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 40, 1 (1999): 1-15.
Dynamically Engineering Bureaucracy, (with Todd Zenger), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15, 1 (April 1999): 47-55.
Data Reduction Techniques and Hypothesis Testing For Analysis of Benchmarking Data in the Semiconductor Industry, (with Thomas Sloan), International Journal of Production Research, 37, 8 (1999): 1717-1741.
Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and Organizational Mortality in the U.S. Trucking Industry, (with John Freeman and Brian Silverman), Strategic Management Journal, 18(1997): 31-52. (Available through JSTOR)
Durable Goods and Horizontal Merger Analysis. Review of Industrial Organization, 10 (1995): 209-220.

Refereed Book Chapters:

Toward A Positioning-Economizing Theory of Strategy, forthcoming
Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm: The Case of International Courier and Small Package Services in Japan, (with Tetsuo Wada), in Emerging Competition in Postal and Energy Services (1999), eds. Michael Crew and Paul Kleindorfer, Boston: Kluwer.
Economic Performance, Strategic Position and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressures Among U.S. Interstate Motor Carriers. (with Brian S. Silverman), in Advances in Strategic Management: Disciplinary Roots of Strategic Management Research (1998), ed. Joel A. C. Baum, Volume 15, Greenwich, CT: JIA Press.

Contributions:

Intellectual Capital Management Strategy: The Foundation of Successful New Business Generation, (with Brian Silverman), Journal of Knowledge Management, 1,4, (1998): 320-31.
Strategic Objectives Supported by Licensing, in Licensing Strategy (1996), R. Parr and P. Sullivan eds., New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Licensing in the Chemical Industry: A Case Study, (with Peter Grindley) in Licensing Strategy (1996), R. Parr and P. Sullivan eds., New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Book Reviews:

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries, Journal of Economic History, 59, 3 (1999): 854-855.

Papers Under Review:

Exploring the information asymmetry gapGAP: Evidence from FDA Regulation (with Jeffrey Macher and John Mayo).
Does Outsourcing Affect the Variability of Product Performance: Evidence from International Courier Services,” (with C.M. Hsieh and Sergio G. Lazzarini).
Diversity and Productivity in Teams, (with Bart Hamilton and Hideo Owan).

Manuscripts:

The Impact of Envy on Organizational Structure and Incentives, (with Li Ma).

Dissertation:

Toward An Economizing Theory of Strategy: The Choice of Strategic Position, Assets, and Organizational Form

Honors:

Olin Award: Recognizing Research that Transforms Business, 2008.
Reid Teaching Award: PMBA, 2008.
Founder’s Day Distinguished Faculty Award, 2007.
Reid Teaching Award: Shanghai EMBA, 2006.
Reid Teaching Award: Shanghai EMBA, 2005.
Reid Teaching Award: Undergraduate required courses Professor of the Year, 2004.
State of Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2003.
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, BPS, 2002.
Marcile and James Reid Chair, 2001-2002.
Reid Teaching Award: HSM3, 2000-2001.
Reid Teaching Award: HSM2, 1999-2000.
Reid Teaching Award: Undergraduates, 2002-2003.
Reid Teaching Award: Undergraduates, 2001-2002.
Reid Teaching Award: Undergraduates, 2000-2001.
UBSC Professor of the Year, 1999-2000.
UBSC Professor of the Year, 1998-1999.
Student Union Professor of the Year (Business), 1998-1999.
Best Paper in Technology and Innovation Management, ASAC 1998.
Honorable Mention Paper in Organization Theory, ASAC 1998.
Best Paper in Organization Theory, ASAC 1997.
Honorable Mention Paper in Policy, ASAC 1997.
Hayase Award, 1995.
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship, 1994-95.
John M. Olin Foundation Fellowship, 1994-1995.
LES Fellowship, 1995.
University of California at Berkeley University Fellowship, 1991-1992.

Referee Activity:

Administrative Science Quarterly.
American Economics Review.
California Management Review.
Industrial and Corporate Change.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Journal of International Business and Strategy
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
Journal of Management Studies.
Management Science.
Managerial and Decision Economics
Organization Science.
Scandanavian Management Journal.
Strategic Management Journal.
Strategic Organization.

Editorial Boards:

Industrial and Corporate Change.
Organization Science.
Strategic Management Journal.
Strategic Organization.