Ron Adner

Current Research Topics

Innovation ecosystems, organizing collaborative solutions, diversification choices, demand-based approaches to strategy

Selected Publications

The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation, Portfolio/Penguin, 2012; with R. Kapoor, “Value Creation in Innovation Ecosystems: How the Structure of Technological Interdependence Affects Firm Performance in New Technology Generations,” Strategic Management Journal, 31(3), 2010; with P. Zemsky, "A Demand-Based Perspective on Sustainable Competitive Advantage," Strategic Management Journal, 27(3), 2006; "Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem," Harvard Business Review, 84(4), 2006; with P. Zemsky, "Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition," Rand Journal of Economics, 36(2), 2005; with D. Levinthal, "What is Not a Real Option: Identifying Boundaries for the Application of Real Option to Business Strategy," Academy of Management Review, 29(1), 2004; with C. Helfat, "Dynamic Managerial Capabilities and Corporate Effects," Strategic Management Journal, 24(10), 2003; "When are Technologies Disruptive: A Demand-Based View of the Emergence of Competition," Strategic Management Journal, 2002

Working Papers

With R. Kapoor, "Innovation Ecosystems and the Pace of Substitution: Reexamining Technology S-Curves”; with F. Csaszar and P. Zemsky,“Positioning on a Multi-Attribute Landscape"

Awards

Tuck Class of 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2011 (inaugural award); Best Paper Award, Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, 2004; Outstanding Teacher of Elective Courses, INSEAD, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Tuck School of Business, 2008–present; Akzo Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management, 2006–08, INSEAD; Associate Professor of Strategy, 2002–08, Assistant Professor of Strategy, 1998–2002

Editorial positions: Associate Editor, Management Science; Special Issue Co-editor, Academy of Management Review; Editorial Board, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Organization, Strategic Management Journal