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Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy Faculty Publications

[Updated: 2-25-20]

Featured Publications

Below are selected publications by faculty and Ph.D. graduates from the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. Authors are listed in alphabetical order and hyperlinks are to author citations:

Jay Barney

(2018) “Why Resource-based Theory’s Model of Profit Appropriation Must Adopt a Stakeholder Perspective,” Strategic Management Journal
(2017) “Corporate Diversification and the Value of Individual Firms: A Bayesian Approach,” Strategic Management Journal (with Tyson B. Mackey, Jeffrey P. Dotson)
(2007) “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with S. Alvarez)
(1997) “Differences Between Entrepreneurs and Managers in Large Organizations: Biases and Heuristics in Strategic Decision Making,” Journal of Business Venturing (with Lowell Busenitz)
(1994) “Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage,” Strategic Management Journal (with Mark Hansen)
(1991) “Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage,” Journal of Management
(1986) “Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy,” Management Science.

Lyda Bigelow

(forthcoming) “When and How to Shift Gears: Dynamic Trade-Offs among Adjustment, Opportunity and Transaction Costs in Response to an Innovation Shock,” Strategic Management Journal (with Jackson Nickerson and Woo-Yong Park)
(2015) “Dominant Designs, Innovation Shocks, and The Follower’s Dilemma,” Strategic Management Journal (with Nicholas Argyres and Jackson Nickerson)

Josh Feng

(forthcoming) “Crafting Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Patent Assertion Entities, Litigation, and Innovation,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with Xavier Jaravel)
(2019) “Price Increases of Protected-Class Drugs in Medicare Part D, Relative to Inflation, 2012-2017,” JAMA (with Thomas Hwang, Stacie Dusetzina, Luca Maini, and Aaron Kesselheim)

William Hesterly

(2018) “The Relational View Revisited: A Dynamic Perspective on Value Creation and Value Capture,” Strategic Management Journal (with Jeffrey H. Dyer and Harbir Singh)

Matthew Higgins

(forthcoming) “Evaluating the effects of Small Business Administration lending on growth,” Small Business Economics (with D. Lacombe, B. Sell, and A. Young)
(2019) “How Reliable is the Market for Technology?” Review of Economics and Statistics Palermo (with V. Palermo and M. Ceccagnoli)
(2018) “Corporate Venture Capital as a Real Option in the Market for Technology,” Strategic Management Journal (with Marco Ceccagnoli and Hyunsung Kang)
(2016) “Regulation and welfare: Evidence from Paragraph-IV generic entry in the pharmaceutical industry,” The RAND Journal of Economics (with L. Branstetter and C. Chatterjee)

Orie Shelef

(2019) “Bad bets: Nonlinear Incentives, Risk, and Performance,” Strategic Management Journal (with Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Jr. and Evan Rawley)
(2016) “The Demand for Energy-Using Assets among the World’s Rising Middle Classes,” American Economic Review (with Paul J. Gertler, Catherine D. Wolfram, and Alan Fuchs)

William Schulze

(2019) “How Long Does It Take to Get to the Learning Curve?” Academy of Management Journal (with Serghei Musaji and Julio O. De Castro)
(2018) “Are Family Firms Good Employers?” Academy of Management Journal (with Jeroen Neckebrouck and Thomas Zellweger)
(2015) “Reifying Socioemotional Wealth,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (with Franz W. Kellermanns)

Jason Snyder

(2018) “The Deep Historical Roots of Organization and Strategy: Traumatic Shocks, Culture, and Institutions,” Organization Science (with Lamar Pierce and Leo Kluppel)
(2018) “The Historical Slave Trade and Firm Access to Finance in Africa,” The Review of Financial Studies (with Lamar Pierce)
(2018) “Socially Responsible Business and Human Capital Strategy,” Strategic Management Journal (with Vanessa Burbano and John Mamer)
(2017) “Do Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?” Journal of Political Economy (with Ivo Welch)
(2015) “Unethical Demand and Employee Turnover,” Journal of Business Ethics (with Lamar Pierce)

Robert Wuebker

(forthcoming) “An Economic Model of Strategic Entrepreneurship,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with Randy Westgren)
(2018) “Prediction and Control: An Agent-Based Simulation of the Entrepreneurial Problem Space,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with René Mauer, Jan Schlüter, and Malte Brettel)
(2017) “On Opportunities: Philosophical and Empirical Implications,” Academy of Management Review (with Russ McBride and Sharon Alvarez)
(2016) “Bricolage, Effectuation, and Opportunity Creation,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with René Mauer and Chris Welter)
(2014) “On the misuse of critical realism: A response,” Academy of Management Review (with J. Barney and S. Alvarez)
(2013) “Exploring country-level institutional arrangements and the rate and type of entrepreneurial activity.” Journal of Business Venturing (with P. Stenholm and Z. Acs)

Todd Zenger

(2018) “What Sets Breakthrough Strategies Apart,” Sloan Management Review (with Teppo Felin)
(2017) “Creating and Capturing Value in Repeated Exchange Relationships: Managing a Second Paradox of Embeddedness,” Organization Science (with Daniel W. Elfenbein)
(2017) “Network Prominence, Bargaining Power, and the Allocation of Value Capturing Rights in High-Tech Alliance Contracts,” Organization Science (with Umit Ozmel, Deniz Yavuz, and Jeffrey J. Reuer)
(2017) “Organization Design, Proximity and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison,” Organization Science (with Tomasz Obloj)
(2016) “Strategy, Problems, and a Theory for the Firm,” Organization Science (with Teppo Felin)
(2015) “Why Google Became Alphabet,” Digital Article: Harvard Business Review
(2015) “Trial and Error is No Way to Make a Strategy,” Digital Article: Harvard Business Review

Ph.D. Graduate Featured Publications

Ryan Angus (West Virginia University)

(forthcoming) “Problemistic Search and Entrepreneurial Performance,” Strategic Management Journal
(2019) “Optimal Distinctiveness, Strategic Categorization, and Product Market Entry on the Google Play App Platform,” Strategic Management Journal (with M.A. Barlow and J.C. Verhaal)
(2016) “Enrolling Stakeholders Under Conditions of Risk and Uncertainty,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with B.L. Burns, J.B. Barney, and H.N. Herrick)

Matt Barlow (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

(2019) “Optimal Distinctiveness, Strategic Categorization, and Product Market Entry on the Google Play App Platform,” Strategic Management Journal (with J.C. Verhaal and R. Angus)
(2018) “Social Signaling and Interorganizational Relationships: Lessons Learned from the Professional Sports Industry,” Business Horizons (with R. Posthuma, G. Flores, and J. Dworkin)
(2018) “Guilty by Association: Product Level Category Stigma and Audience Expectations in the US Craft Beer Industry,” Journal of Management (with J.C. Verhaal and J. Hoskins)

Heidi Herrick (University of Utah)

(2016) “Enrolling Stakeholders Under Conditions of Risk and Uncertainty,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (with B.L. Burns, J.B. Barney, and R. Angus)

Leif Lundmark (University of Nebraska at Omaha)

(2017) “Little Fish in a Big Pond: Legitimacy Transfer, Authenticity, and Factors of Peripheral Firm Entry and Competition in the Market Center,” Strategic Management Journal (with J.C. Verhaal and J. Hoskins)
(2014) “Skirting the Issues: A ‘Green Ceiling’ for Entrepreneurs? The Effect of Investor Bias During the IPO Process,” Journal of Management (with L. Bigelow, L.W. Lundmark, J. McLean Parks, and R. Wuebker)
(2016) “A Little Birdie Told Me: Social Media, Organizational Legitimacy, and Underpricing in Initial Public Offerings,” Information Systems Frontier (C.A. Oh and J.C. Verhaal)
(2016) “Competing to Learn: A Pedagogical Approach to Enhance Higher Level Learning across Disciplinary Silos,” Journal of Strategic Management Education (E. Pleggenkuhle-Miles, P. Meglich, and E. Bass)

Cameron Verhaal (Tulane University, later Georgia State)

(2019) “Optimal Distinctiveness, Strategic Categorization, and Product Market Entry on the Google Play App Platform,” Strategic Management Journal (with M.A. Barlow and R. Angus)
(2018) “Guilty by Association: Product Level Category Stigma and Audience Expectations in the US Craft Beer Industry,” Journal of Management (with M.A. Barlow and J. Hoskins)
(2017) “Little Fish in a Big Pond: Legitimacy Transfer, Authenticity, and Factors of Peripheral Growth in the Market Center,” Strategic Management Journal (with J. Hoskins and L. Lundmark)
(2015) “Oppositional Product Names, Organizational Identities, and Product Appeal,” Organization Science (with O. Khessina and S. Dobrev)