Teppo Felin
Teppo Felin (born 1970s) is a Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, known for his work on strategic management, particularly on a "knowledge-based view" of strategic management,[1] and its micro-foundations.[2] His current research focuses on the nature of rationality, organisation design, aggregation and capabilities.
Life and work
Born in Helsinki, Finland, Felin obtained a Ph.D. from the David Eccles School of Business of the University of Utah in 2005 with a thesis "The locus of knowledge : the implications of the individual and mobility on organizational knowledge building."
Felin started his career as Investment Analyst in Amman, Jordan in 1999 for a year, and in Munich, Germany. After his graduation in 2005, he was appointed Associate Professor at the Marriott School of Management , BYU. In 2013 he was appointed Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He has been Visiting Professor at the Goizueta Business School of the Emory University in 2004-05, and at the Helsinki University of Technology in 2007. He is Co-Editor of the journal Strategic Organization and Associate Editor of Academy of Management Annals.[3] His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Science, PLOS ONE, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Erkenntnis, and other research outlets. In 2012 he edited a special issue on markets, aggregation and the wisdom of crowds (in the journal Managerial and Decision Economics) which included contributions from political scientist Scott E. Page, economist Bruno Frey, economist Nicolai J. Foss, economist Peter Leeson, social psychologist Steve Kozlowski, organizational scholar Margit Osterloh, physicist Claudio Castellano, biologist David Sumpter, sociologist Robb Willer, and many others.[4]
In the early 2000s Felin Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Abell were engaged in research on the foundations of organizations and strategy, which resulted in the 2005 article "Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations." He is doing research with biologist Stuart Kauffman on the emergence of novelty in economic settings.[5] This work has recently been applied to the context of the United States Constitution and the problem of designing laws.[6] This article received responses from Constitutional scholars Steven G. Calabresi[7] and Sanford Levinson[8] and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith.[9] In 2015, Teppo Felin interviewed entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel at the University of Oxford.[10]
Selected publications
Articles, a selection:[11]
- Felin, Teppo, and Nicolai J. Foss. "Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations." Strategic organization 3.4 (2005): 441.
- Felin, Teppo, and William S. Hesterly. "The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: Philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge." Academy of Management Review 32.1 (2007): 195-218.
- King, Brayden G., Teppo Felin, and David A. Whetten. "Finding the organization in organizational theory: A meta-theory of the organization as a social actor." Organization Science 21.1 (2010): 290-305.
- Felin, Teppo, and Todd R Zenger. "Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice." Research Policy 43.5 (2014): 914-925.
References
- ↑ Lepak, David P., Ken G. Smith, and M. Susan Taylor. "Value creation and value capture: a multilevel perspective." Academy of management review 32.1 (2007): 180-194.
- ↑ Rothaermel, Frank T., and Andrew M. Hess. "Building dynamic capabilities: Innovation driven by individual-, firm-, and network-level effects." Organization Science 18.6 (2007): 898-921.
- ↑ Incoming Editorial Team Academy of Management Annals.
- ↑ Felin, Teppo. "Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds: An introduction and comparative agenda." Managerial and Decision Economics 33 (2012): 283-451.
- ↑ Felin, Teppo, Stuart Kauffman, Roger Koppl and Giuseppe Longo. "Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 8 (2014): 269-282.
- ↑ Devins, Caryn, Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman and Teppo Felin. "Against design." Arizona State Law Journal 47 (2015): 609-681.
- ↑ Steven Calabresi. "Friedrich A. Hayek, the U.S. Constitution, and Institutional Design." Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 231-240.
- ↑ Sanford Levinson. "On the Inevitability of Constitutional Design." Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 249-256.
- ↑ Vernon L. Smith. "Design is the Source of Variation; Selection is the Filter." Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 257-260.
- ↑ Teppo Felin in conversation with Peter Thiel. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2016 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Teppo Felin Google Scholar profile.
External links
- Teppo Felin Personal website at sites.google.com
- Teppo Felin, University of Oxford website