Professor Nicolaj Siggelkow

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
2211 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370
215.573.7137 (phone)
215.898.0401 (fax)
siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu


Curriculum Vitae


Research

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My research focuses on the implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities, resources and organizational structure.  In my work I have addressed four broad questions:

1. How do firms evolve over time?

     Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Evolution toward Fit.”  Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, pp. 125-159.  (big file: 12MB!))

     Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2003. “Why Focus? A Study of Intra-Industry Focus Effects.”  Journal of Industrial Economics, 51, pp. 121-150 (lead article).

     Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christophe Van den Bulte. 2003. “Directions of Growth: A Test of Positioning, Resource, Legitimation, and Vicarious Market Learning Arguments.” 

     Jamie Eggers and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2005. “Performance and Survival Implications of Exploration and Diversification.”
 

2. How do firms adapt to environmental changes?

     Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2001. “Change in the Presence of Fit: The Rise, the Fall, and the Renaissance of Liz Claiborne.” Academy of Management Journal, 44, pp. 838-857.

     Nicolaj Siggelkow and Daniel A. Levinthal. 2003. “Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation.” Organization Science, 14, pp. 650-669. 

     Nicolaj Siggelkow and Daniel A. Levinthal. 2005. “Escaping Real (Non-Benign) Competency Traps: Linking the Dynamics of Organizational Structure to the Dynamics of Search.”  Strategic Organization, 3, pp. 85-115.

    Felipe Csaszar and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "How much to copy? The contingent value of imitation capabilities."

    Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2008. "Chunky vs Incremental Growth: How to Expand a Search Domain."
 

3. What role does organizational structure play in helping a firm to coordinate its activities?

     Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2003. “Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design.” Management Science, 49, pp. 290-311.  

      Appendix for "Balancing Search and Stability"

     Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin. 2005. "Speed and Search: Designing Organizations for Turbulence and Complexity." Organization Science, 16, pp. 101-122.

     Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. Organizational Sticking Points on NK Landscapes.” Complexity, 7 (5), pp. 31-43.

    Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin. 2006. "When Exploration Backfires: Unintended Consequences of Multi-Level Organizational Search." Academy of Management Journal, 49, pp. 779-795.

    Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2006. “Organizing to Strategize in the Face of Interdependencies: Preventing Premature Lock-inLong Range Planning, 39, pp. 591-614.
 

4. What role do different types and patterns of interaction play?

     Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Misperceiving Interactions among Complements and Substitutes: Organizational Consequences.”  Management Science, 48, pp. 900-916.

     Detailed Appendix for "Misperceiving Interactions"

     Michael E. Porter and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. “Contextual Interactions within Activity Systems and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage.”  

     Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "Patterned Interaction in Complex Systems: Implications for Exploration." Management Science, 53, pp. 1068-1085.

   Appendix for "Patterned Interaction in Complex Systems: Implications for Exploration"
 

5. other papers

      Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "Persuasion with Case Studies." Academy of Management Journal, 50, pp. 20-24.     

      Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2004. “Caught Between Two Principals.” 

      Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2001. “Who reads my paper anyways? A survey of journal readership and reputation.” 


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