Professor Daniel A. Levinthal Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Management Chairperson, Management Department Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 3207 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6370 215.898.6826 (telephone) 215.898.0401 (fax) dlev@wharton.upenn.edu   Current C.V.

Research Areas

• Industry evolution; Organizational learning; Technological competition

Recent Publications

• (with C. Fang) “The Near-Term Liability of Exploitation: Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Stage Problems.” Organization Science, 20(3): 538-551(2009).
• (with S. Ethiraj) “Hoping for A to Z while Rewarding only A: Complex Organizations and Multiple Goals”. Organization Science, 20: 4-24 (2009).
• (with P. Ghemawat) “Choice Structures and Business Strategy”. Management Science, 54: 1638-1651 (2008).
• “Understanding the Role of Novelty in Organizational Adaptation”. In J. March, Explorations in Organizations. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA (2008)
• (with R. Adner) “Doing versus Seeing: Acts of Exploitation and Perceptions of Exploration”. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2: 43-52 (2008).
• (with S. Ethiraj and R. Roy) “The Dual Role of Modularity: Innovation and Imitation”. Management Science, 54: 939-955 (2008).
• (with H. Posen) “Myopia of Selection: Does Organizational Adaptation Limit the Efficiency of Population Selection? Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 586-620 (2007).
• “Technology: The role of network structures”. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1: 189-190 (2007).
• (with G. Gavetti and W. Ocasio) “Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future”. Organizational Science, 18: 523-536 (2007)
• “Bringing selection back into our evolutionary theories of innovation”. F. Malerba and S. Brusoni (eds.). Perspectives on the Economics of Innovation. Cambridge University Press (2007).
• (with T. Knudsen) “Two faces of search: Alternative generation and alternative evaluation”. Organizational Science,18: 39-54 (2007).
• (with C. Rerup) “Crossing an apparent chasm: Bridging mindful and less-mindful perspectives on organizational learning”. Organizational Science.17: 502-513 (2006).
• “The Neo-Schumpeterian Theory of the Firm and the Strategy Field”. Industrial and Corporate Change, 15(2): 391-394 (2006).
• “Comments on the Resource Allocation Process”. In J. Bower and C. Gilbert (eds.). From Resource Allocation to Strategy. Oxford University Press (2006).
• (with G. Gavetti and J. Rivkin) “Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy”. Strategic Management Journal, 26: 691-712 (2005).
• (with N. Siggelkow). “Escaping real (non-benign) Competency Traps: Linking the Dynamics of the Organizational Structure to the Dynamics of Search”. Strategic Organization, 3: 85-115 (2005).
• (with S. Ethiraj). “Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and their Evolvability”. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49: 404-437 (2004).
• (with G. Gavetti). “Strategy Field from the Perspective of Management Science”. Management Science, 50: 1309-1318 (2004).
• (with J. Denrell and C. Fang). “From T-Mazes to Labyrinths: Learning from Model-Based Feedback”. Management Science, 50: 1366-1378 (2004).
• (with S. Ethiraj and R. Roy). “Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems.” Management Science, 50: 159-174 (2004).
• (with N. Siggelkow). “Temporally Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Adaptations to Exploration and Adaptation”. Organization Science, 14: 650-669 (2004).
• (with R. Adner). “Real Options and Real Tradeoffs”. Academy of Management Review, 29: 120-126 (2004)
• (with R. Adner). “What is not a Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy”. Academy of Management Review, 29: 74-85 (2004).

Forthcoming Publications

• (with B. Wu) “Opportunity Costs and Non-Scale Free Capabilities: Profit Maximization, Corporate Scope, and Profit Margins” Strategic Management Journal.

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