TODD R. ZENGER
zenger@wustl.edu
Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of
Business Strategy
(theories of the firm, corporate strategy, compensation, organizational
design, strategy and finance)
Curriculum Vitae
RECENT PAPERS
Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and the Firm Boundaries: A Dynamic
Perspective and Integration (with Nick Argyres), Organization Science, (forthcoming).
“Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox”
(with Lubo Litov and
Patrick Moreton), Management Science, (forthcoming).
The
Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability and Heterogeneity: a
research agenda (Nick Argyres, Teppo
Felin, and Nicolai Foss), Organization Science, (forthcoming).
“Sailing into
the Wind: Exploring the Relationships among Ambidexterity, Vacillation and
Organizational Performance” (with Peter Boumgarden
and Jackson Nickerson), Strategic Management Journal, (forthcoming).
The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial
Spawning of Scientists and Engineers (with Dan Elfenbein
and Bart Hamilton), Management Science, 2010, 56(4): 659-681.
“Theories of the
Firm-Market Boundary” (with Teppo Felin
and Lyda Bigelow), The Academy of Management Annals,
2011, 5 (1): 89-133.
The Economics of Relational (Social) Capital in Industrial
Procurement (with Dan Elfenbein), Olin School Working
Paper.
PUBLISHED AND WORKING
PAPERS BY TOPIC
Small Firms,
Entrepreneurship, and Diseconomies of Scale:
The Small Firm
Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers (with Dan Elfenbein and Bart Hamilton), Management Science, 2010,
56(4): 659-681.
“Limits
to the Scale and Scope of the Firm” (with Jeffrey Xiaofei
Huang), The Economic Institutions of Strategy, Advances in Strategic
Management, Volume 26, 2009.
“Compensating for
Innovation: Do Small Firms Offer High-powered Incentives that Lure Talent and Motivate
Effort?” (with Sergio Lazzarini),
Managerial and Decision Economics, (forthcoming
2004).
“The Determinants of Incentive Intensity in
Group-Based Rewards” (with C.R. Marshall), Academy
of Management Journal, 2000, 43(2): 149-163.
“The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective
Intervention, High-Powered Incentives, and Molecular Units,” (with William Hesterly), Organization Science, 1997, 8 (3): 209-222.
“Crafting Internal Hybrids: Complementarities, Common
Change Initiatives, and the Team-based Corporation,” International Journal of Economics and Business, 2002, 9(1):
79-95.
“Explaining Organizational Diseconomies of
Scale in R&D: The Allocation of Engineering Talent, Ideas, and Effort by
Firm Size.” Management Science, 1994,
40(6): 708-729.
“Why Do Employers Only Reward Extreme Performance? Examining the Relationships Among Performance,
Pay, and Turnover.” Administrative
Science Quarterly, 37 (1992): 198-219.
“Diseconomies
of Scale in Employment Contracts” (with Eric Rasmusen),
Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organization, 1990, 6(1): 65-92.
Theory of the Firm:
“Theories of the
Firm-Market Boundary” (with Teppo Felin
and Lyda Bigelow), The Academy of Management Annals,
2011, 5 (1): 89-133.
Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and the Firm Boundaries: A Dynamic
Perspective and Integration (with Nick Argyres), Organization Science, (forthcoming).
The
Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability and Heterogeneity: a
research agenda (Nick Argyres, Teppo
Felin, and Nicolai Foss), Organization Science, (forthcoming).
“Information
Aggregation, Matching, and Radical Market-Hierarchy Hybrids: Implications for
the Theory of the Firm” (with Teppo Felin), Strategic Organization, 2011, 9(2): 163-173.
“Envy, Comparison
Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm” (with Jackson Nickerson), Strategic Management Journal, 2008, 29
(13): 1371-1394.
“Testing Alternative
Theories of the Firm: Transaction Cost, Knowledge-Based, and Measurement
Explanations for Make-or-Buy Decisions in Information Services” (with Laura Poppo),
Strategic Management Journal. 1998, 19: 853-877.
Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm:
“Entrepreneurs
as Theorists: On the Origins of Beliefs and Novel Strategies” (with Teppo Felin), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2009
3(2): 127-146.
“The ‘ Problem’ of
Creating and Capturing Value” (with Jackson Nickerson and Brian Silverman), Strategic Organization, 2007, 5 (3):
211-226.
“Opportunity
Discovery, Problem Solving, and a Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm” (with Chihmao Hsieh and Jackson Nickerson), Journal of Management Studies, November, 2007.
“A Knowledge-based
Theory of the Firm: The Problem-Solving Perspective” (with Jackson Nickerson), Organization Science, 2004, 15: 617-632.
“Governing
Knowledge Creation: A Problem Finding and Problem Solving Perspective” (with
Bruce Heiman and Jack Nickerson), Knowledge Governance (Nicolai Foss,
editor), Oxford University Press, 2008.
Dynamics and the Theory of the Firm (Vacillation):
“Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of
Organizational Choice” (with Jack Nickerson) Organization Science, 2002, 13(5): 547-566.
“Sailing
toward Exploration and Exploitation: Achieving Ambidexterity through
Organizational Vacillation” (with Peter Boumgarden
and Jackson Nickerson), Strategic Management Journal, (forthcoming).
Trust, Contracts, and
Social Capital:
The Economics of Relational (Social) Capital in Industrial
Procurement (with Dan Elfenbein), Olin School Working
Paper.
“Dealing with
the Paradox of Embeddedness: The Role of Contracts
and Trust in Facilitating Movement out of Committed Relationships,” (with
Sergio Lazzarini and Gary Miller), Organization Science, 2008, 19(5):
709-728.
“Order with a
Some Law: Complementarity vs. Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements
(with Sergio Lazzarini and Gary Miller), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2004,
20 (2): 261-298.
“Informal and Formal Organization in New Institutional
Economics” (with Sergio Lazzarini and Laura Poppo)
Advances in Strategic Management, 2002,
19:277-306.
“Substitutes or Complements?
Exploring the Relationship between Relational Governance and Formal
Contracts” (with Laura Poppo), Strategic Management Journal, 2002, 23(8): 707-725.
“Examining the Conditional Limits of
Relational Governance: Specialized Assets, Performance Ambiguity, and
Long-standing Ties” (with Laura Poppo and Zheng Zhou), Journal
of Management Studies, 2008, 45(7): 1195-1216.
Uniqueness Paradox in
Strategy Choice:
“Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox”
(with Lubo Litov and
Patrick Moreton), Management Science, (forthcoming).
“Information Intermediaries Incentives and Corporate Strategy
Choices in the US” (with Patrick Moreton), Corporate Governance and Firm Organization. Oxford University Press
(Anna Grandori, editor), 2004, pp. 113-140.
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