Alan Meyer

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Degree History:

PhD, University of California Berkeley, 1978
MBA, University of Washington, 1970
BA, University of Washington, 1968

Previous Academic Positions:

Technology Entrepreneurship Researcher in Residence, School of Business, University of Queensland, Australia
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, Stanford University
Visiting Professor, School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Visiting Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Professional Leadership Positions:

Fellow, Academy of Management
Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal
Advisory Board, Academy of Management Annals
Advisory Board, Academy of Management Discoveries

Bio:

Alan Meyer studies industry emergence, corporate venturing, and technology entrepreneurship using organizational theory and sociology as theoretical frames. He is a field researcher who triangulates between archival data and primary data gathered through interviews and naturalistic observation. His early research explored the health care sector, with a focus on hospitals' responses to 'environmental jolts'—unexpected shocks that created natural experiments in organizational change.

Nanotechnology and venture capital are recent research contexts, where the National Science Foundation has supported his work on corporations' adoption of venture capitalists' investment practices, and the emergence of a network of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors seeking to commercialize nanotechnology. Meyer has been awarded grants totaling more than $2.1M by the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Health Services Research, the U.S. Army Research Institute, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, and the Australian Research Council.

Meyer cofounded the Lundquist Center for Entrepreuership's Technology Entrepreneurship Program, an interdisciplinary program that enables graduate students in business, law, and the sciences to work in multi-disciplinary teams to pursue the commercialization of leading-edge technologies invented by scientists at UO, OSU, OHSU, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He currently facilitates Academy of Management sponsored bootcamp-style workshops that mentor young African management scholars in Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa.

Meyer has served as associate editor in chief for Organization Science; as associate editor for Academy of Management Journal; and on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Journal. He has co-edited special issues of Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Academy of Management Journal.

General Research Areas

Innovation and Change
Institutional Theory
Organization Theory and Design
Organizational and Managerial Cognition
Strategic Management

Specialize Topics

Corporate Venture Capital
Healthcare Organization and Management
Industry Emergence
Nanotechnology Commercialization
Regional Economic Development and Identity
Technology Entrepreneurship

Journal Articles

Wright, April, Alan Meyer, Trish Reay, and Jonathan Staggs. "Maintaining Places of Social Inclusion: Ebola and the Emergency Department." Administrative Science Quarterly 66, no. 1: 42-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839220916401.
March 2021
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
Gaba, Vibha, and Alan D. Meyer. "Crossing the Organizational Species Barrier: How Venture Capital Practices Infiltrated the Information Technology Sector." Academy of Management Journal 51, no. 5: 976-998. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.34789671.
October 2008
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
Haveman, Heather A., and Michael V. Russo, and Alan D. Meyer.
"Organizational Environments in Flux: The Impact of Regulatory Punctuations on Organizational Domains, CEO Succession, and Performance." Organization Science 12, no. 3: 253-273. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.12.3.253.10104.
May 2001
Meyer, Alan D., Anne S. Tsui, and C. R. Hinings. "Configurational Approaches to Organizational Analysis." Academy of Management Journal 36, no. 6: 1175-1195. https://www.jstor.org/stable/256809.
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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2486672.
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 and Innovation, edited by Marshall Scott Poole and Andrew Van de Ven. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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

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