Teppo Felin
Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Lee Perry Fellow
Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Department of
Office: 587 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-3478
Email: teppo@byu.edu
Home Page: www.teppofelin.com
Expertise:
- Organizational theory
- Strategic management
- Organizational capabilities and theory of the firm
- Microfoundations of strategic organization
- Social theory and the philosophy of social science
- Markets and political economy
- Knowledge and innovation
- Ph.D., Organization Theory and Strategy (with minor in Sociology), David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2005
- "Causal and Constitutive Relations and the Squaring of the Coleman Diagram (with Peter Abell and Nicolai Foss)," Erkenntnis (forthcoming) 2009
- "Entrepreneurs as Theorists: On the Origins of Entrepreneurial Beliefs and Novel Strategies (with Todd Zenger)," Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2009
- "Comparative organizational analysis (with B. King and D. Whetten)," Research in the Sociology of Organizations 2009
- "Organizational routines and capabilities: Historical drift and a course-correction toward microfoundations (with Nicolai Foss)," Scandinavian Journal of Management 2009
- "The performativity of theory, arbitrary conventions and possible worlds: A reality check (with Nicolai Foss)," Organization Science 2009
- "The knowledge economy: Emerging organizational forms, missing micro-foundations, and key considerations for managing human capital. (With Todd Zenger & Josh Tomsik)," Human Resource Management 2009
- "An Exchange of Ideas on Knowledge Governance: Seeking First Principles and Microfoundations (with JC Spender)," Oxford University Press, Nicolai Foss (editor), 2009
- "Finding the Organization in Organization Theory: A Meta-theory of the Organization as Social Actor (with B. King and D. Whetten)," Organization Science 2009
- "Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics (with N. Foss)," Organization Science 2009
- "The Practice of Theory-Borrowing in Organizational Studies (with D. Whetten and B. King)," Journal of Management 2008
- "Building Microfoundations for the Routines, Capabilities, and Performance Links (with P. Abell and N. Foss)," Managerial and Decision Economics Volume 29: 489-502, November, 2008
- "The Knowledge-based View, Nested Heterogeneity and the Individual: Philosophical Considerations on the Locus of Knowledge (with W. Hesterly)," Academy of Management Review Volume 32, Pages 195-218, January, 2007 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Individuals and Organizations: Thoughts on A Microfoundations Project," Research Methodology in Strategy and Management Volume 3, 2006
- "Strategic Organization: A Field in Search of Micro-foundations (with N. Foss)," Strategic Organization November, 2005
Teaching
- Visiting Professor (Summer 2007, Summer 2009), Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Organization & Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 2004-2005
- SI Co-Editor, "Micro-Level Origins of Routines and Capabilities", Journal of Management Studies (with Koen Heimeriks, Nicolai Foss and Tammy Madsen)
- SI Co-Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations (with Brayden King, Northwestern and Dave Whetten, BYU)
- SI Co-Editor, "Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities", Organization Science (with Nick Argyres, Nicolai Foss, Todd Zenger)
- Editor (Essays), Journal of Management Inquiry (with Candace Jones, Boston College and Anand Narasimhan, IMD)
- Editorial Board, Academy of Management Review
- Editorial Board, Scandinavian Journal of Management
- BPS Research Committee, Academy of Management, 2009-2011
- Ascendant Scholar , Western Academy of Management , 2009
- Outstanding Reviewer Award , Academy of Management Review , 2009
- 2007-2008 MBA (OBSA AWARD) Outstanding Teacher of the Year , Marriott School , 2008
- BPS Division Best Reviewer Award , Academy of Management , 2006
- VIP Award , Organization Science Winter Conference , 2005
- BPS Division Best Reviewer Award , Academy of Management , 2005
- Comparative Organizations Conference, Sundance, Utah, 2007 - Organized with B. King and D. Whetten
- Copenhagen Knowledge Conference, December 2005 - Organized with Nicolai Foss
- For more details --- see my homepage
- Informal Group on Agents, Social Interaction and Emergence
- JMS special issue on "Micro-level Origins of Organizational Routines and Capabilities"
- LOTOJA 2009 (332 km bike race) --- I'm raising funds for the Huntsman Cancer Foundation
- Organizer of "Leading Change in the Knowledge Economy" Conference, Spring 2008
- German
- Finnish
