Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
I am an assistant professor at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
Research Summary: My research seeks to answer a core strategy question about why seemingly similar firms choose to organize and manage themselves differently by examining how and when firms adapt to take advantage of knowledge. I argue that an organization's ability to adapt as internal and external environments shift is fundamentally learned and deeply rooted in its past and present experiences. As firms revise and update practices to remain competitive, understanding how they differ in their capacity to change is crucial for explaining why performance differences endure among ostensibly similar organizations. My aim is to illuminate how knowledge-based differences associated with firm choices have lasting impacts on organizational performance.
Interests: learning, practice adoption, organizational structure, firm adaptation, prior experience