LCB Profile
Alan Meyer
Charles H. Lundquist Professor
Office phone: 541-346-5178
E-mail: ameyer@uoregon.edu
Department: Management
Office: 436 Lillis
Degree History
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1978
M.B.A., University of Washington, 1970
B.A. Economics, University of Washington, 1968
Professional Leadership Positions:
Fellow, Academy of Management
Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal
Areas of Expertise
Entrepreneurship
Nanotechnology commercialization
Organizational change and innovation
Strategic management
Venture capital
Recent Publications
"Crossing the Organizational Species Barrier: How Venture Capital Practices Infiltrated the Information Technology Sector," Academy of Management Journal, 51: 976-998, 2009 (with Vibha Gaba)
"A Future for Organization Theory," Organization Science, 2006 (with James Walsh and Claudia Schoonhoven)
"Development of Trust: A Study of Interfirm Relationships in Vietnam," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 22: 211-235, 2005 (with Thang Nguyen and Mark Weinstein)
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"Pushing Back the Frontiers of Organization Science," Organization Science, 16: 327-339, 2005 (with Claudia Schoonhoven. and James Walsh)
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"Organizational Emergence: The Origin and Transformation of Branson, Missouri's Musical Theaters," Organization Science, 15, 2004 (with Todd Chiles and Tom Hench)
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"Institutional Environments in Flux: The Impact of Regulatory Change on CEO Succession, Organizational Domain, and Performance.," Organization Science, 12, 2001 (with Heather A. Haveman, Mike Russo)
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"Configurational Approaches to Organizational Analysis," Academy of Management Journal, 36, 1993 (with A. Tsui and C. Hinings)
"Environmental Jolts and Industry Revolutions: Organizational Responses to Discontinuous Change," Strategic Management Journal, 11, 1990 (with Geoffrey Brooks and James B. Goes)
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"Organizational Assimilation of Innovations: A Multi-level Contextual Analysis," Academy of Management Journal, 31: 897-923, 1988 (with James Goes)
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"Organizing Far from Equilibrium: Non-Linear Change in Organizational Fields," Organization Science, 16 (with Vibha Gaba and Kenneth Colwell)
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Biography
As academic director for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE), Meyer has two responsibilities: (1) heading research programs that are turning LCE into a nationally recognized center for research in innovation and entrepreneurship, and (2) overseeing the college's graduate and undergraduate academic degree programs.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Alan’s current research focusing on corporate venture investing and the emergence of the nanotechnolgy investing community. He also serves as research director for the Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium (OTEC) an NSF-funded program that provides opportunities for Lundquist College of Business M.B.A.s to team up with graduate students in law and the sciences to pursue the commercialization of leading-edge technologies invented by scientists at UO and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Meyer's prior research focused on organizations' responses to upheavals in their environments. His early work addressed reactions to "environmental jolts"--unexpected shocks that create natural experiments in organizational change. A second strand of research investigated disruptive changes in the structure of industries, leading to the formation of cross-industry alliances and generating new organizational forms.
Alan has served as associate editor-in-chief for the journal Organization Science. He is a former or current member of the editorial review boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal,, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. Alan is a fellow of the Academy of Management and a former member of the Academy of Management's Board of Governors.
