Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
2211 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370
215.573.7137 (phone)
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siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu
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 three broad questions:
1. How do firms develop, grow and adjust over time?
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. 2002. “Evolution toward Fit.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, pp. 125-159.
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 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.
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "Persuasion with Case Studies." Academy of
Management Journal, 50, pp. 20-24.
2. How does the design of organizations affect firm performance?
Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Organizational Sticking Points on NK Landscapes.” Complexity, 7 (5), pp. 31-43.
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.
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-in” Long Range Planning, 39, pp. 591-614.
Felipe Csaszar and Nicolaj Siggelkow. forthcoming. "How much to copy? Determinants of Effective Imitation Breadth." Organization Science
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin. forthcoming. "How Coupled Search Processes Obscure Performance Differences" Administrative Science Quarterly.
Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj
Siggelkow. 2008. "Chunky vs
Incremental Growth: How to Expand a Search Domain."
3.
What are the effects of different types of interaction?
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Misperceiving Interactions among Complements and Substitutes: Organizational Consequences.” Management Science, 48, pp. 900-916.
Appendix for "Misperceiving Interactions"
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"
Michael E. Porter and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2008. “Contextual Interactions within Activity Systems and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage.” Academy of Management Perspectives, 22 (2), pp. 34-56.
4. other papers
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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