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Andrew Nelson
Professor of Management | Randall C. Papé Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Nelson, Andrew. "Moving Entrepreneurship Education Beyond Enterprise Creation." Journal of Management Inquiry, forthcoming.
Nelson, Andrew, Callen Anthony, and Mary Tripsas. "'If I Could Turn Back Time': Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer." Administrative Science Quarterly 68, no. 2: 551-599. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392231163178.
Clayton, Paige, Lauren Lanahan, and Andrew Nelson. "Dissecting Diffusion: Tracing the Plurality of Factors That Shape Knowledge Diffusion." Research Policy 51, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104389.
Howard-Grenville, Jennifer, Andrew Nelson, Heather Vough, and Tammar B. Zilber. "From the Editors: Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research." Academy of Management Journal 64, no. 5: 1313-1323. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2021.4005.
Tilleman, Suzanne, Michael Russo, and Andrew Nelson. "Institutional Logics and Regional Cluster Emergence: Evidence from The Wind and Solar Energy Industries." Organization Science 31, no. 3: 649-670. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1320.
Hayter, Christopher S., Andrew J. Nelson, Stephanie Zayed, and Alan C. O'Connor. "Conceptualizing Academic Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: A Review, Analysis and Extension of the Literature." The Journal of Technology Transfer 43, no. 4: 1039-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9657-5.
Waisberg, Isaac, and Andrew Nelson. "When the General Meets the Particular: The Practices and Challenges of Interorganizational Knowledge Reuse." Organization Science 29, no. 3: 432-448. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1196.
Howard-Grenville, Jennifer, Andrew J. Nelson, Andrew G. Earle, Julie A. Haack, and Douglas M. Young. "'If Chemists Don't Do It, Who's Going to?': Peer-Driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 3: 524-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217690530.
Anthony, Callen, Andrew J. Nelson, and Mary Tripsas. "'Who Are You?...I Really Wanna Know': Product Meaning and Competitive Positioning in the Nascent Synthesizer Industry." Strategy Science 1, no. 3: 163-183. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2016.0015.
Nelson, Andrew J. "How to Share 'A Really Good Secret': Managing Sharing/Secrecy Tensions around Scientific Knowledge Disclosure." Organization Science 27, no. 2: 265-285. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1040.
Grodal, Stine, Andrew J. Nelson, and Rosanne M. Siino. "Help-Seeking and Help-Giving as an Organizational Routine: Continual Engagement in Innovative Work." Academy of Management Journal 58, no 1: 136-168. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0552.
Nelson, Andrew, and Erik Monsen. "Teaching Technology Commercialization: Introduction to The Special Section." Journal of Technology Transfer 39, no. 5: 774-779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-014-9341-3.
Nelson, Andrew J. "From the Ivory Tower to the Startup Garage: Organizational Context and Commercialization Processes." Research Policy 43, no. 7: 1144-1156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.04.011.
Nelson, Andrew, Andrew Earle, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Julie Haack, and Doug Young. "Do Innovation Measures Actually Measure Innovation? Obliteration, Symbolic Adoption and Other Finicky Challenges in Measuring Innovation Diffusion." Research Policy 43, no. 6: 927-940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.01.010.
Nelson, Andrew J., and Jennifer Irwin. "'Defining What We Do—All Over Again': Occupational Identity, Technological Change, and the Librarian-Internet Search Relationship." Academy of Management Journal 57, no. 3: 892-928. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0201.
Mody, Cyrus C. M., and Andrew J. Nelson. "'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford." Osiris 28, no. 1: 254-277. https://doi.org/10.1086/671380.
Nelson, Andrew, A. Earle, and Jennifer Howard-Grenville. "Obliteration, Symbolic Adoption, and Other Finicky Challenges in Tracking Innovation Diffusion." Academy of Management Proceedings 2012, no. 1 https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.296.
Nelson, Andrew J. "Putting University Research in Context: Assessing Alternative Measures of Production and Diffusion at Stanford." Research Policy 41, no. 4: 678-691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2011.11.004.
Nelson, Andrew J. "Measuring Knowledge Spillovers: What Patents, Publications and Licenses Reveal About Knowledge Diffusion." Research Policy 38, no. 6: 994-1005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.01.023.
Nelson, Andrew J. "Cacophony or Harmony: Multivocal Logics and Technology Licensing by the Stanford University Department of Music." Industrial and Corporate Change 14, no. 1: 93-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dth045.
Byers, Thomas, Richard Dorf, and Andrew Nelson. Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Nelson, Andrew. The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Nelson, Andrew J. "'Standing on [Transparent] Shoulders': Applying Open Source Approaches to Qualitative Management." In The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies, edited by Raza Mir and Sanjay Jain. New York: Routledge.
Nelson, Andrew J. "Managing Collaborations at the University-Industry Interface: An Exploration of the Diffusion of PCR and rDNA." In Qualitative Organizational Research: Best Papers from the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, Volume 3, edited by Beth A. Bechky and Kimberly D. Elsbach, 53-90. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Nelson, Andrew J., and Stefano Cazzago. "Culture and Innovation." In The Concise Guide to Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation, edited by David B. Audretsch, Christopher S. Hayter, and Albert N. Link, 20-27. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Nelson, Andrew J., and Thomas Byers. "Challenges in University Technology Transfer and the Promising Role of Entrepreneurship Education." In The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship, edited by Albert Link, Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Byers, Tom, and Andrew J. Nelson. "Organizational Modularity and Intra-University Relationships between Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer." In University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Process, Design, and Intellectual Property, edited by Gary Libecap, 275-311. Stamford, CT: Elsevier Science/JAI Press.
Bailey, Michael, and Andrew J. Nelson. "Robert Stephenson: The Eminent Engineer. (Review)." Technology and Culture 45, no. 3: 650-651. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2004.0145