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Alan Meyer

Professor Emerit of Management

Affiliations: Management, Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship
Phone: 541-346-5178
Office: Anstett 397D

Publications

Journal Articles:

Wright, April L., Alan D. Meyer, Trish Reay, and Jonathan Staggs. "Maintaining Places of Social Inclusion: Ebola and the Emergency Department." Administrative Science Quarterly, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839220916401.

March 2020

Van de Ven, Andrew H., Alan D. Meyer, and Runtian Jing. "Opportunities and Challenges of Engaged Indigenous Research." Management and Organization Review 14, no. 3: 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2018.28.

September 2018

Meyer, Alan D., and William H. Starbuck. "Mahalo: Sustaining JMI's Positive Spirit." Journal of Management Inquiry 27, no. 2: 154-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492617726272.

April 2018

Hannah, David R., Alan D. Meyer, and Marc-David L. Seidel. "Escape from Abilene: Developmental Opportunities in the Review Process." Journal of Management Inquiry 27, no. 2: 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492617726270.

April 2018

Meyer, Alan D. "Emerging Assumptions about Organizational Design, Knowledge, and Action." Journal of Organizational Design 2, no. 3: 16-22. https://doi.org/10.7146/jod.15576.

December 2013

Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Jennifer, Matthew L. Metzger, and Alan Meyer. "Rekindling the Flame: Processes of Identity Resurrection." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 1: 113-136. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0778.

February 2013

Beckman, Christine M., Kathleen Eisenhardt, Suresh Kotha, Alan D. Meyer, and Nandini Rajagopalan. "The Role of the Entrepreneur in Technology Entrepreneurship." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 6, no. 3: 203-206. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1136.

September 2012

Beckman, Christine M., Kathleen Eisenhardt, Suresh Kotha, Alan D. Meyer, and Nandini Rajagopalan. "Technology Entrepreneurship." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 6, no. 2: 89-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1134.

June 2012

Meyer, Alan D., Kathryn Aten, Alan J. Krause, Matthew L. Metzger, and Samuel S. Holloway. "Creating a University Technology Commercialization Program: Confronting Conflicts between Learning Discovery, and Commercialization." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management 13, no. 2: 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEIM.2011.038858.

August 2011

Lampel, Joseph, and Alan D. Meyer. "Field-Configuring Events as Structuring Mechanisms." Journal of Management Studies 45, no. 6: 1025-1035. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00787.x.

September 2008

Walsh, James P., Alan D. Meyer, and Claudia Bird Schoonhoven. "A Future for Organization Theory." Organization Science 17, no. 5: 657-671. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1060.0215.

September 2006

Meyer, Alan D., Vibha Gaba, and Kenneth A. Colwell. "Organizing Far from Equilibrium: Non-Linear Change in Organizational Fields." Organization Science 16, no. 5: 456-473. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1050.0135.

September 2005

Chiles, Todd H., Alan D. Meyer, and Thomas J. Hench. "Organizational Emergence: The Origin and Transformation of Branson, Missouri's Musical Theaters." Organization Science 15, no. 5: 499-519. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1040.0095.

September 2004

Meyer, Alan D., Anne S. Tsui, and C. R. Hinings. "Configurational Approaches to Organizational Analysis." Academy of Management Journal 36, no. 6: 1175-1195.

December 1993

Meyer, Alan D. "What is Strategy's Distinctive Competence?" Journal of Management 17, no. 4: 821-833. https://doi.org/10.1177/014920639101700413.

December 1991

Meyer, Alan D. "Visual Data in Organizational Research." Organization Science 2, no. 2: 218–236. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2.2.218.

May 1991

Meyer, Alan D., Geoffrey R. Brooks, and James B. Goes. "Environmental Jolts and Industry Revolutions: Organizational Responses to Discontinuous Change." Strategic Management Journal 11: 93-110.

June 1990

Meyer, Alan D., ad James B. Goes. "Organizational Assimilation of Innovations: A Multi-level Contextual Analysis." Academy of Management Journal 31, no. 4: 897-923. https://doi.org/10.5465/256344.

December 1988

Meyer, Alan D. "Mingling Decision Making Metaphors." Academy of Management Review 9, no. 1: 6-17. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1984.4277746.

January 1984

Meyer, Alan. "Adapting to Environmental Jolts." Administrative Science Quarterly 27, no. 4: 515-537. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392528.

December 1982

Miles, Raymond E., Charles C. Snow, Alan D. Meyer, and Henry J. Coleman. "Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process." Academy of Management Review 3, no. 3: 546-562. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1978.4305755.

July 1978
Book Chapters:

Gaba, Vibha, and Alan D. Meyer. "Discontinuous Change in Organizational Fields." In Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change, edited by Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew Van de Ven, 364-396. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.22.

July 2021

Anderson, Phillip, and Alan D. Meyer. "Complexity Theory and Process Organization Studies." In The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies, edited by Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas. London: SAGE Publishing.

October 2017

In the News

Professor Emerit Alan Meyer is the recipient of the 2022 Academy of Management Distinguished Service Award.
Management professor Alan Meyer's research on hospital workers' response to Ebola in Australia can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Professor emeritus of management Alan Meyer was recognized as “a researcher who goes the extra mile” with a 2018 OMT (Organization and Management Theory) Distinguished Scholar Award.
The Lundquist College of Business is happy to welcome the new faculty and staff members joining us this fall term.

The Lundquist College of Business has honored associate professor of management Jennifer Howard-Grenville as the 2013 Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Professor.

Lundquist College of Business professor leads UO researchers studying virtual teams using virtual worlds at Sun Microsystems.