RESEARCH INTERESTS organization theory and strategy, markets and entrepreneurship, microfoundations, theory of the firm PROJECTS Organization Science special issue on organizational economics and capabilities [more here] interdisciplinary special issue of Managerial & Decision Economics on "emergent nature of the firm, markets and the wisdom of crowds" [a few details here] radical market-hierarchy hybrid forms of organization [html] some thoughts on the performativity of economics and self-fulfilling theorieswriting a book, University of Chicago Press SOME PAPERS some papers posted @ http://www.scribd.com/teppo_felin/documents Felin, T. & Foss, N. (2011). The (proper) microfoundations of routines and capabilities: A response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] Zenger, T., Felin, T. & Bigelow, L. (2011). Theories of the firm-market boundary. Academy of Management Annals. [html] Felin, T. & Foss, N. (2011). The endogenous origins of experience, routines and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] three responses to the above article: Sid Winter, Problems at the Foundation? Comments on Felin & Foss and Brian Pentland and Geoff Hodgson and Thorbjoern Knudsen Felin, T. & Zenger, T. (2011). Information aggregation, matching, and radical market-hierarchy hybrids: implications for the theory of the firm. Strategic Organization. [html] [pdf] King, B., Felin, T. & Whetten, D. (2010). Finding the organization in organization theory: a meta-theory of the organization as social actor. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] Abell, P., Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2010). Causal and constitutive relations and the squaring of coleman's diagram: reply to Vromen. Erkenntnis. [html] Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2009). Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics. Organization Science. [pdf] response by Ferraro, Pfeffer & Sutton. How and why theories matter: a comment on Felin and Foss [see here]; editor introduction [see here] Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2009). Performativity of theory, arbitrary conventions, and possible worlds: a reality check. Organization Science. [pdf] Felin, T. & Zenger, T. (2009). Entrepreneurs as theorists: on the origins of collective beliefs and novel strategies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. [pdf] [html] King, B., Felin, T. & Whetten, D. (2009) Comparative organizational analysis: an introduction. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. [pdf] review of volume by Peter Foreman in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010). Whetten, D., Felin, T. & King, B. (2009). Theory-borrowing in organizational studies: issues and future directions. Journal of Management, 35: 537-563.[pdf] Felin, T., Zenger, T., & Tomsik, J. (2009). The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations and key considerations for managing human capital. Human Resource Management. Abell, P., Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2008). Building microfoundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links. Managerial and Decision Economics, 29: 489-502. [pdf]
Felin, T. & Foss, N.J. (2005). Strategic organization: a field in search of micro-foundations. Strategic Organization, 3: 441- 455. [pdf] commentary by Jay Barney and Bruce Kogut APPOINTMENTS AND EDUCATION Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Marriott School, BYU 2011 - , Visiting Fellow, Lund University
Spring/Summer 2011, Senior Fellow, Hanken School of Economics and Aalto University 2005-2010, Assistant Professor and Lee T. Perry Fellow, BYU summer 2007 and summer 2009, Visiting Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology
Prior to academia I worked in venture capital - in Munich, Germany and Amman, Jordan |
