TODD R. ZENGER
zenger@wustl.edu
Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of
Business Strategy
(theories of the firm, corporate strategy, compensation, organizational
design,)
Curriculum Vitae
Recent or Forthcoming Publications:
The Small Firm
Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers (with Dan Elfenbein and Bart Hamilton), Management Science,
forthcoming.
“Entrepreneurs as Theorists:
On the Origins of Beliefs and Novel Strategies” (with Teppo
Felin), Strategic
Entrepreneurship Journal, 2009 3(2): 127-146.
“Envy,
Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm” (with Jackson
Nickerson), Strategic Management Journal,
2008, 29 (13): 1371-1394.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Substitutes
or Complements? Exploring the
Relationship between Relational Governance and Formal Contracts” (with Laura Poppo), Strategic
Management Journal, 2002, 23(8): 707-725.
“Crafting
Internal Hybrids: Complementarities, Common Change Initiatives, and the
Team-based Corporation,” International
Journal of Economics and Business, 2002, 9(1): 79-95.
“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).
“Informal and Formal Organization in New Institutional
Economics” (with Sergio Lazzarini and Laura Poppo) Advances in Strategic Management, 2002,
19:277-306.
“The
Determinants of Incentive Intensity in Group-Based Rewards” (with C.R.
Marshall), Academy of Management Journal,
2000, 43(2): 149-163.
“Being
Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice” (with Jack
Nickerson) Organization Science, 2002,
13(5): 547-566.
Working Papers:
The
Economics of Relational (Social) Capital in Industrial Procurement (with Dan Elfenbein)
Capabilities,
Transaction Costs, and the Firm Boundaries: A Dynamic Perspective and
Integration (with Nick Argyres)
“Sailing
toward Exploration and Exploitation: Achieving Ambidexterity through
Organizational Vacillation” (with Peter Boumgarden
and Jackson Nickerson)
“Corporate
Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox” (with Lubo Litov and Patrick Moreton)
“The
Strength of Churning Ties: A Dynamic Theory of Interorganizational
Relations” (with Sergio Lazzarini)
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