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Background
Steven E. Phelan received his PhD in
economics from La Trobe University ( Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, 1998 M.B.A. in Marketing, 1994 B.Sc.(Hons.) in Psychology,
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EMBA706
Organization Theory Syllabus
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Business Strategy Game Player's
Manual |
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BUS496 Strategic Management
& Policy Syllabi: Section 003, Section 004 |
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MGT712
Change Management Syllabus
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MGT 709 New Venture
Creation Syllabus
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MBA 795 Strategy
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Lecture 3 Lecture
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MGT 302 Small Business
Management Syllabus
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MGT 480 International Management Syllabus
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Research Statement
My original investigations have focused around three key themes. The first theme is complexity theory and its application to strategic management. I have published papers on “Chaos and complexity in strategic planning”, “Formal models in complexity theory”, “A note on the correspondence between complexity and systems theory” and “What is complexity science, really?”. My interest in this area has been recognized by an appointment to the editorial board of Emergence (a journal of complexity issues in organizations and management), as an invited speaker at the complexity theory symposium at the Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago in 1999, and appointment as a faculty fellow at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence in Boston. The second theme in my research is computational modeling. Work from this stream includes my dissertation “Using artificial adaptive agents to explore strategic landscapes”, and the papers “Innovation & imitation as competitive strategies: Revisiting a simulation approach” “A contingency framework for understanding the impact of promotion systems on organizational performance” with John Lin", “Cognitive capacity as competitive advantage: A simulation test” and “Formal models in complexity theory”. I am currently working on several projects in computational modeling, including a game theory tournament and a computational model testing the validity of the Boston Consulting Group matrix. The final theme of my research involves the related concepts of value and valuation in strategic management where I have published a number of papers (often co-authored with Peter Lewin on what makes a firm (or strategy) valuable. This has led to some fruitful explorations in entrepreneurship, the theory of the firm, the theory of economic rent, and Austrian economics. I am also interested in the valuation of strategy and the application of real option logic to valuation. |
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Selected Publications:
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Measurement of
return on marketing investment: A conceptual framework and the future of
marketing metrics, Industrial Marketing Management, 2007 ·
Modeling
alliance activity: Opportunity cost effects and manipulations in an iterated
prisoner’s dilemma with exit option, Organizational Behavior & Human
Decision Processes, 2006 ·
An
experimental study of entrepreneurial exploitation, Journal of
Entrepreneurship Education, 2006 ·
A propaganda model of business school behavior,
Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 2005 ·
Acquisition performance: Experience or
competence, Journal of Academy of Business & Economics, 2005 ·
Opportunism
and alliance termination, Journal of Computational & Mathematical
Organization Theory, 2005 ·
Entrepreneurship as expectations management,
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2005. ·
The BCG matrix revisited: A computational approach,
presented at the Academy of Management Meeting, 2005 ·
Using agent-based simulation
to examine the robustness of up-or-out promotion systems in universities.
Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and the Life Sciences, 2004. ·
Trends in foreign direct investment flows: A
theoretical and empirical analysis, Journal of International Business
Studies, 2003 ·
The
first twenty years of the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic
Management Journal, 2002. ·
Cognitive capacity as competitive
advantage: A simulation test, Simulation Modelling Practice & Theory,
2002. ·
What is complexity
science, really?, Emergence, 2001. ·
Promotion systems and organizational
performance: A contingency model, Journal of Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory, 2001. ·
Arriving
at a strategic theory of the firm, International Journal of
Management Reviews, 2000. ·
Firms, strategies, and
resources: Contributions from Austrian economics, Quarterly Journal of
Austrian Economics, 1999. ·
Exposing
the illusion of confidence in financial analysis, Management Decision,
1997. |
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for
humanity. |
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