PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles (Refereed)
“Discontinuities and senior management: assessing the role of recognition
in pharmaceutical firm response to biotechnology” Joint with Sarah Kaplan and
Fiona Murray
Industrial & Corporate Change 2003 Vol 12: pp 203-233.
“Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT” Joint with
Ajay Agrawal. Management Science, Vol 28, No 1, 2002, pp 44-60.
Scale and scope in drug development: unpacking the advantages of size in
pharmaceutical research. Jointly with Iain Cockburn. Journal of Health
Economics, 2001, Vol 20, p 1033-1057.
“Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage” Jointly with Iain Cockburn and
Scott Stern, Strategic Management Journal, Fall 2000, Volume 21, 1123-1145.
Reprinted in The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities:
Emergence, Development and Change, C. Helfat, ed. Blackwell, 2003. Oxford, UK
"Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in
Drug Discovery" Jointly with Iain Cockburn. Journal of Industrial Economics,
June 1998, Volume XLVI, No. 2. pp157-182.
"Universities as a Source of Commercial Technology: A Detailed Analysis of
University Patenting, 1965-1988" Jointly with Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg.
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 80, No. 1, February 1998 pp 119-127.
"The Perils of Excellence: Barriers to Effective Process Improvement in
Product-Driven Firms" Jointly with Jesus del Alamo, Todd Becker, James Lawton,
Peter Moran, Saul Shapiro and Dean Vlasak. Production and Operations Management,
Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp 2-18.
"University versus Corporate Patents: A Window on the Basicness of Invention"
Jointly with Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg. Economics of Innovation and New
Technology, 1997, Vol 5, No. 1, pp 19-50.
"Scale, Scope and Spillovers: The Determinants of Research Productivity in Drug
Discovery." Jointly with Iain Cockburn. Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1996,
27(1), pp. 32-59.
"Measuring Competence? Exploring firm effects in drug discovery." Jointly with
Iain Cockburn. Strategic Management Journal, Volume 15, pp 63-84, Special issue
Winter 1994.
"The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug
Discovery" Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol 3, No. 3, Winter 1994 pp
607-630.
"Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery."
Jointly with Iain Cockburn. Journal of Economics and Business Strategy, Volume
3, No. 3, Fall 1994, 481-519.
"Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical
Lithography" Research Policy, 1995, Vol. 24, pp 631-643.
"Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent
Citations." Joint with Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg. Quarterly Journal of
Economics, August 1993, Vol. 434, pp 578-598. Reprinted in Recent Developments
in Growth Theory, Daron Acemoglu Editor, Elgar, Cheltenham UK, Fall 2004.
"Underinvestment and Incompetence as Responses to Radical Innovation: Evidence
from the Photolithographic Industry." Rand Journal of Economics. Vol.24, No.2,
Summer 1993
"A Process Control Methodology Applied to Manufacturing GaAs MMICs. (Jointly
with Peter Moran, Scott Elliott, Neil Wylie and Jesus del Alamo.) IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, November 1991, Vol.4., No.4
"Manufacturing Costs for Advanced Composites Aerospace Parts." With C. Shipp and
T. Gutowski. SAMPE, (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process
Engineering.) Vol. 27, No. 3, May/June 1991.
"Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies
and The Failure of Established Firms." With Kim Clark, March 1990,
Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol 35, p9 30. Reprinted in The Management of
Innovation, John Storey Ed, Elgar, London, 2004, in Managing Strategic
Innovation and Change, M.Tushman and P. Anderson Eds, Oxford University Press,
2004, and in Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Robert Burgelman,
Clayton Christensen and Steven Wheelwright, Eds, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Journal Articles (Non-refereed)
“Drug Industry mergers Won’t Necessarily Benefit R&D” Research Technology
Management July –August 2000, Vol 43 No 4. P 10 – 11.
"The Interactions of Organizational and Competitive Influences on Strategy and
Performance." With Will Mitchell, Summer 1997, Strategic Management Journal Vol
18, Summer special issue, pp5-14.
"Managing Innovation in the Information Age" Harvard Business Review,
January-February 1994, 100-106. Reprinted in Seeing Differently, J.S. Brown,
Ed., Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA, 1997 and in The Product
Development Challenge, Kim B. Clark and Steven C. Wheelwright, Eds, Harvard
Business School Press, Boston MA, 1995.
"Breaking the Chains of Embedded Knowledge: Architectural Innovation as a Source
of Competitive Advantage." Design Management Journal, Vol.2, No.3, Summer 1991
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Strategic Advantage and the Dynamics of Organizational Competence”. Chapter 17
in S. Chowdhury, Next Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies from
Tomorrow’s Thought Leaders, 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, pp. 294-312.
“Publicly funded science and the productivity of the pharmaceutical industry”
with Iain Cockburn, Chapter 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Number 1,
2000, National Bureau of Economic Research, Adam Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott
Stern, editors, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
“Luck,” “Leadership” and “Strategy”. Economics Meets Sociology, Volume 17 in
Advances in Strategic Management, Edited by Joel A.C. Baum and Frank Dobbin, pp
285-290, 2000 by Jai Press Inc, Stamford Connecticut
“Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery” Jointly with
Iain Cockburn. Chapter 6 in The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational
Capabilities, Edited by Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter,
2000 by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
“The Economics of Drug Discovery” Jointly with Iain Cockburn, Chapter 5 in
Pharmaceutical Innovation, edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and
Alexander Scriabine, Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia PA 1999, pp 308-331.
"Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology" Jointly with Iain Cockburn, Luigi Orsenigo
and Gary Pisano. Chapter 13 in US Industry in 2000: Studies in Competitive
Performance. David Mowery, Editor. Board on Science, Technology and Economic
Policy, National Research Council. National Academy Press. Washington, DC, 1999.
"The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology:
Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional and Organizational Change." Jointly
with Luigi Orsenigo and Gary Pisano. Chapter 7 in The Sources of Industrial
Leadership, Cambridge University Press, David Mowery and Richard Nelson,
Editors, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp 267-311.
"On the Dynamics of Forecasting in Technologically Complex Environments: The
Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography" In Technological Innovation:
Oversights and Foresights, Raghu Garud, Pravenn Nayyar and Zur Shapira, Editors,
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997.
"Trends in University Patenting 1965-1992," (Jointly with Adam Jaffe and Manuel
Trajtenberg.) Forthcoming in the Center for Economic Policy Research conference
volume: University Goals, Institutional Mechanisms and the "Industrial
Transferability" of Research.
"The Determinants of Research Productivity in Ethical Drug Discovery." (Jointly
with Iain Cockburn) In The American Enterprise Institute Conference Volume:
Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Robert B Helms, Ed.
Washington DC, 1996.
"Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in
Photolithographic Alignment Equipment" in Managing Product Development,
Toshihiro Nishiguchi, Ed. Oxford University Press, 1996. (This book was awarded
the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing research.)
"Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge." In
Transforming Organizations, Edited by T. Kochan and M. Useem. Oxford University
Press, Oxford, U.K., 1992. Reprinted in Organizational Learning, edited by
Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull, Sage Publications Inc, CA, 1996.
Conference Proceedings
"Public-private interaction in pharmaceutical research" (Jointly with Iain
Cockburn) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93/23 (November
12, 116) p.12725-12730
"Controlling Variability of Sub micron Gate Lithography in a GaAs MMIC
Manufacturing Environment." (Jointly with Peter Moran, Jesus del Alamo, Neil
Wylie and Scott Elliott.) Presented at the SEMI Advanced Semiconductor
Manufacturing Conference, pp136a g. September 1990, Danvers, MA.
"Workload Regulating Wafer Release in a GaAs Fab Facility." International
Semiconductor Manufacturing Science Symposium, May 1990, San Francisco, CA.
(Jointly with James Lawton, Al Drake, Lawrence Wein, Ron Whitney, and Dick
Zuanich.)