LCB Profile
Bill Starbuck
Professor In Residence
Office phone: 541-346-0751
Personal Web Page: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/
Department: Management
Office: 420 Lillis
Degree History
Ph.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1964
M.S.I.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1959
A.B., Harvard College, 1956
Areas of Expertise
Decision making
Organization
Organizational learning
Perceptions
Strategizing
Recent Publications
"Organizing at and beyond the Limits," Organization Studies, 28(4), 2007 (with Moshe Farjoun)
"Living in Mythical Spaces," Organization Studies, 28(1), 2007
"Astute Foresight or Wishful Thinking? Learning from Visions," Journal of Management Inquiry, 15, 2006 (with Gavin M. Schwarz, Steven Kerr, Richard T. Mowday, Rosalie L. Tung, and Mary Ann Von Glinow)
Organizational Realities: Studies of Strategizing and Organizing. Oxford University Press, 2006
The Production of Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2006
"Learning to Design Organizations and Learning from Designing Them," Organization Science, 17(2), 2006 (with Roger Dunbar)
"Learning from Failures: Why It May Not Happen," Long Range Planning, 38, 2005 (with Philippe Baumard)
"How Much Better Are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication," Organization Science, 16, 2005
"Methodological Challenges Posed by Measures of Performance," Journal of Management and Governance, 8(4), 2004
Current Projects:
Decision making based on noisy, unreliable data
Learning from rare events
Academic publishing
General Research Areas:
Organization design
Decision making
Management
Biography
William Starbuck is professor in residence at the Lundquist College of Business of the University of Oregon. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology, after receiving an A.B. in physics at Harvard. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates by universities in Stockholm, Paris, and Aix-en-Provence. Earlier, he held faculty positions in economics, sociology, or management at Purdue University, the Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and New York University, as well as visiting positions at universities and business schools in England, France, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. In addition, he was a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin; he has been the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly; he chaired the screening committee for senior Fulbright awards in business management; he directed the doctoral program in business administration at New York University; and he was the president of the Academy of Management. He has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the British Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Starbuck has published more than 150 books and articles on accounting, bargaining, business strategy, computer programming, computer simulation, forecasting, decision making, human-computer interaction, learning, organizational design, organizational growth and development, perception, scientific methods, and social revolutions. He has authored two books and edited eleven books, including the Handbook of Organizational Design, which was chosen the best book on management published during the year ending May 1982.
