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The Institute’s faculty are among the world’s leaders in Management, Strategy and Organizational research, and the Institute has numerous programs in support of this research. Please see the Institute’s Events and Student Support pages for more programs in Management, Strategy and Organization. These programs are housed and supported in the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization as described in About the Institute.
Research Activities and Support
Research Centers
Research Conferences and Workshops
Research in Strategy and Organization
The Institute has supported the development of an outstanding body of research work in Strategy and Organization. Measures of the quality of this research include awards and citation rankings for Institute faculty affiliates.
For example, Director of the Institute David Teece was recognized as the tenth most cited scholar worldwide for the period 1995-2005 in economics and business in a survey of highly cited research that was published in the November/December 2005 issue of Science Watch, a publication that tracks trends in basic research. Moreover, a research project sponsored by IMIO led to the publication of Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management (in Strategic Management Journal 1997) by Dr. Teece and two IMIO-supported graduate students, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen. According to Science Watch, this was the most highly-cited paper worldwide in businesss and economics for the period 1995-2005.
Research in Knowledge Management
The Institute’s conferences on Knowledge & the Firm, conducted under the leadership of Ikujiro Nonaka, Xerox Distinguished Professor in Knowledge, have assembled leading scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America around issues of knowledge creation and intellectual property.
According to Nonaka and Takeuchi, explicit knowledge is stored and publicly available, such as the designs stored in CAD files at Hughes. Tacit knowledge, on the other hand, resides in nonarticulated technique, routine and practice. "Knowledge is created between the interaction of explicit and tacit knowledge," says Nonaka.
Ikujiro Nonaka is Professor of Knowledge at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Among his publications are The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (with Hirotaka Takeuchi-OUP 1995) and Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation (with Georg Von Krogh and Kazuo Ichijo-OUP 2000).
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Business and Public Policy
Business and Public Policy (BPP) is an academic group at the Haas School of Business and an interdisciplinary program of rigorous study for students interested in conducting research on these and other questions that involve the interaction of institutional design and analysis, firm strategy, public policy and political economy, and technology management. Faculty and students in this program employ the tools and insights of economics, political science, strategic management, law, and sociology to analyze a range of issues. The Institute supports BPP by hosting visiting scholars, providing graduate student support, and faculty research support.
Major areas of research include the following:
- Comparing the performance of firms, alliances, and markets in the coordination of economic activity, and developing the tools for choice among these mechanisms.
- Modeling the influence of political, legal, and social institutions on the behavior of private and public organizations.
- Analyzing the strategies of firms and governments in technology development and commercialization.
In much of this research, faculty and students within the BPP program adopt a comparative and international perspective. They focus on institutional change and firm strategy in the industrial and industrializing economies, and take account of the increased importance of cross-border flows of technology, ideas, investment, and trade within the global economy.
For more information on the Business and Public Policy Group, please visit the program website.
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Industrial and Corporate Change (academic journal)
ICC at Oxford University Press
ICC Articles in 2004-2005
Founded in 1992, Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC) represents a uniquely international cooperative venture in academic journal publication. Sponsored by the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, in collaboration with the ICC Association, Milan, and the Free University Carlo Cattaneo at Castellanza, Italy (LIUC), ICC is published by Oxford University Press. Its editors reside at IMIO, the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, and LIUC. IMIO acts to coordinate ICC operations and to implement editors' directives and policies with Oxford University Press. IMIO, with Josef Chytry as Managing Editor, provides staff and editorial support for the solicitation, processing and organization of papers. Since 1999 ICC has published six issues per year.
In peer review ratings, SSCI recently listed ICC's impact factor as 25th (out of 172) in Economics and would have ranked it as 15th (out of 67) in Management had the journal been included in that category (it is planned that ICC will be included in future SSCI Management rankings).
ICC aims to stimulate research and discussion on global business enterprise as it relates to change. Created to provide a forum where business historians connect their analyses to the state of the art in the relevant social sciences, ICC also encourages social scientists to apply their models to historical evidence. ICC draws on an interdisciplinary set of approaches and theories, including business history, industrial organization, strategic management, innovation studies, organizational behavior, economics, political science, organizational psychology, and sociology. The journal's scope embraces the internal structure of firms, the history of technologies, the evolution of industries, the nature of competititon, the sociology of management and of the workforce, the performance of industries over time, the labor process and the organization of production, the boundaries of organizations and markets, and the nature of the learning process underlying technological and organizational change.
ICC also publishes a variety of books through Oxford University Press. Previous titles include such ICC collections as Giovanni Dosi, David Teece and Josef Chytry (editors), Technology, Organization and Competitiveness (1998), and Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change (2005); Oxford University Press is presently preparing a Chinese-language edition of the former book to be published by Shanghai People's Press. Also special issues published in ICC often become Oxford books, such as the ICC special issue on transaction cost economics (ICC 5:2 [1996]) which was subsequently published as Glenn R. Carroll and David J. Teece (editors), Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies: The Transaction Cost Economics Perspective (1999).
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St. Petersburg State University School of Management
The Institute’s SOM Program helped in the establishment of St. Petersburg University School of Management (SOM) in 1993 and continues to support its growth. The Institute maintains an active partnership with the School, which disseminates business knowledge to a growing body of students and faculty. Enrollment grew from 35 Russian students in 1993 to over 600 today. In addition to an undergraduate program, there are MBA, Ph. D and executive education programs. SOM professors are currently supported in developing courses and curriculum and in translating important academic textbooks.
Current SOM dean Valery Katkalo was inspired to start the school after visiting Haas as a Ph.D. student in 1989. His efforts were helped by many Haas staff and faculty members, including key advocate David Teece, Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance at Haas and director of the Institute. Susanne Campbell has played an instrumental role as Executive Director of the program. She is fluent in Russian and was herself a student at Leningrad State University during the cold war years.
The SOM Program and Haas School of Business faculty assist the SOM with curriculum development, suggest and donate reading materials, give specialized lectures at the SOM and co-author joint research articles. SOM faculty visiting UC Berkeley are under the guidance of a faculty advisor or administrator at the Haas School; they attend lectures, seminars, conferences, and collaborate on research.
More recently there has been an emphasis on expanding research and graduate education. SOM faculty members have spent time at Haas engaging in research and gathering material to design the SOM Ph.D. courses. SOM's research credentials are being strengthened through publication of the Russian Management Journal, launched in 2003 and edited by Katkalo and Teece. The Russian Academy of Science is now represented on the advisory board of the journal, whose publication, Teece says, "has signaled to the scientific community that the SOM has a serious interest in research on business and its institutions."
For more information on the SOM Program, please visit the program website or contact the Executive Director, Susanne Campbell, at scampbell@haas.berkeley.edu.
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Visiting Scholars Program
The IMIO Visiting Scholar Program accommodates visiting scholars, visiting postdoctoral scholars, and visiting student researchers from other universities who wish to visit IMIO/Haas School of Business for an extended period of time.
Among all applicants, priority will be given to those who are likely to interact with IMIO-Haas School faculty members. Applicants are encouraged to ask one or several Haas School faculty members to write a brief statement in their support. Every visiting scholar, visiting postdoctoral scholar, and visiting student researcher needs a ladder faculty sponsor at the Haas School. Over the past several years, IMIO has sponsored over 60 visitors.
In general, IMIO can provide visiting scholars, visiting postdoctoral scholars, and visiting student researchers with access to computer facilities and access to the library. IMIO provides desk space for approximately 6 visitors per year. If selected for the IMIO Visiting Scholar Program, applicants will be sent a formal letter of invitation.
For more information on the Visiting Scholars Program,
please contact Anita Stephens at stephens@haas.berkeley.edu.
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IMIO Fellows
The Institute Director and affiliated faculty appoint distinguished scholars as IMIO Fellows on an occasional basis, in recognition of their contributions to management science.
Current IMIO Fellows are Ijukiro Nonaka, Professor of Knowledge at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and Lamar Pierce, a lecturer at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie-Mellon University.
For more information on the IMIO Fellows Program, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.
Richard R. Nelson Prize
TheRichard R. Nelson Prize, administered by the Institute,is an annual prize in the amount of $5,000, established in honor of Richard R. Nelson, for the best paper by younger scholar(s). The Prize is selected by the boards of Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC) and Research Policy.
The winners of the Richard R. Nelson Prize for 2005 are Ian Fleming and Olav Sorenson, for the paper published as: "Science and Diffusion of Knowledge," Research Policy 33 (2004), 1615-1624.
For information please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu
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Blum Center for Developing Economies
The Blum Center for Developing Economies, housed at the Institute, was initiated in April 2006 through a $15 million gift from Haas alumnus Richard C. Blum that includes a $5 million challenge grant. Serving as the nexus on the Berkeley campus for cultivating targeted new education programs and convening resources to combat global poverty, the Blum Center focuses on implementing solutions extrapolated from cutting-edge research while engaging students in transformative service programs. With a focus on developing innovative projects in specific countries, Berkeley students will explore the tremendous potential and challenges created by international aid. George Scharffenberger is the center’s executive director
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The Blum Center has selected its first project initiatives — the East Africa Healthcare Initiative and the Initiative on Safe Water and Sanitation. The former will be initially focus on Uganda; the latter project includes support for a portfolio of activities in six countries: India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico. Both projects address poor health status, which is both a leading cause and a debilitating impact of global poverty. Consistent with the Blum Center's objectives, each project employs UC Berkeley-developed technologies and expertise, and both provide hands-on service-learning opportunities for students. The projects also leverage existing partnerships in host countries to increase the likelihood of success, broaden impact and promote sustainability.
For more information on the Center and its activities, ple ase visit the program website or contact Philip Denny at pdenny@berkeley.edu or blumcenter@berkeley.edu
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Center for Research in Chinese-American Strategic Cooperation
The Center for Research in Chinese-American Strategic Cooperation, or China Research Center (CRC) is a think-tank that enhances economic and political collaboration between China and the US, and helps improve bilateral decision making through innovation, research, and educational programs.
The CRC pursues its mission through the following activities:
- Observation: Monitor, research and study of cutting edge issues regarding China/U.S. economy, business and policy, and their interaction, at the levels of government, industry, and enterprise.
- Analysis: Create new knowledge and new conceptual tools concerning emerging strategic issues in China and the U.S.
- Sharing: Distribute knowledge via conferences, workshops, document publishing, training programs, visiting scholar programs, and other means of widely spreading our innovations.
- Implementation: Provide services to Chinese & US governments, industries, and enterprises, leveraging our research base and understanding of business and government, in order to advance our objective of peaceful prosperity.
For more information on the Center and its activities, please visit the program website or contact Jihong Sanderson at jihong@haas.berkeley.edu.
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Consortium on Competition & Cooperation
The Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC) links together scholars interested in long-run performance of U.S.-based companies and institutions. CCC participants engage in research and teaching on the improvement of the competitive performance of the United States in the global economy. They are united by conviction that orthodox disciplinary approaches to the analysis of U.S. competitiveness overlook the institutional, structural, and behavioral factors that affect the performance of business enterprises and national economies. By combining the insights of a number of social science disciplines and supplementing the analysis of scholars with practitioners' knowledge, the CCC hopes to advance the understanding of national competitiveness.
No single U.S. university or graduate school contains a "critical mass" of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds concerned with issues that are primary to CCC. Accordingly, the network structure of the Consortium is a significant source of strength. The CCC is dedicated to disseminating its findings to government and industry to improving the professional and graduate training of the managers, engineers, and social scientists who will face these issues in the future. Research by CCC scholars on technological innovation benefits from the cooperation of a number of major U.S. corporations, including General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and XEROX.
Scholars from Columbia University, Harvard Business School, the Sloan School of Business at M.I.T., the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University, the Walter Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Huntsman Center for Global Competition and Innovation at the Wharton School of Management of the University of Pennsylvania currently participate in the CCC.
For more information on the CCC, please visit the program website or contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.
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Garwood Center for the Management of Technology and Innovation
The Garwood Center for the Management of Technology and Innovation links engineering, science and management disciplines to address the planning, development and implementation of technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of American business firms in the global environment.
For more information on the Garwood Center, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.
Center for Industrial Economics & Political Theory
The Center for Industrial Economics & Political Theory hosts research and programs in industrial organization, the role of Universities in economic development, the changing structure of the U.S. and global intellectual property system, and supports the St. Petersburg University School of Management Program.
For more information on the Center, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.
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CCC Doctoral Colloquium
The Consortium on Competition & Cooperation's Annual Colloquium for Doctoral Student Research is organized to discuss presentations of research in progress by Ph.D. students from Consortium member institutions. The presentation cover topics in firm strategy, organization, industry structure, innovation, and technology management and policy.
Panels at the 2005 Colloquium included Organizational Learning, Markets for Knowledge, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Market Structure and Innovation, Performance and Innovation, Networks and Innovation, and Organizational Structure and Innovation.
For more information on the CCC Doctoral Colloquium, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.
Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy
The Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy is held every summer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of this meeting is to provide a setting which enables researchers interested in competitive strategy in marketing to meet and discuss research in this area for an extended period, exchange ideas, and engage in collaborative work.
All interested researchers are invited to participate in the 4th SICS-Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, which is scheduled to take place in June 26-30, 2006. The research area will be competitive strategy broadly defined, including both theoretical and empirical work. Topics covered may potentially include pricing, price discrimination, brand equity, brand strategies, brand extensions, product design, new product development, advertising, promotion, distribution channels, sales force management, e-commerce, customer relationship management, strategic alliances, customer retention, lifetime value of customers, customer equity, psychological phenomena relevant for competitive strategy.
The meeting will consist of the presentation of fifteen research papers, three papers presented in each day of the five days of the meeting. Each presentation will take an hour and a half, which includes presentation and discussion. In addition, time and space will be provided for the participants to engage in discussions and joint research.
Updated information on SICS will be posted to http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~market/sics.
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The Oliver E. Williamson
Seminar on Institutional Analysis (formerly PHDBAC270
& IDS270)
The
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis
features current research of faculty, from UCB and
elsewhere, and advanced doctoral students who are investigating
the efficacy of economic and noneconomic forms of organization.
An interdisciplinary perspective--combining aspects
of law, economics and organization--is maintained. Markets,
hierarchies, hybrids, bureaus, and the supporting institutions
of law and politics all come under scrutiny. The aspiration
is to progressively build towards a new science of organization.
For more information on the The Oliver E. Williamson
Seminar, please visit the program website
or contact Anita Stephens at stephens@haas.berkeley.edu.
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