Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
2211 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370
215.573.7137 (phone)
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siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu
Research
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My research focuses on the implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities, resources and organizational structure. In my work I have addressed three broad questions:
1. How do firms develop, grow and adjust over time?
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2001. “Change in the Presence of
Fit: The Rise, the Fall, and the Renaissance of Liz Claiborne.” Academy
of Management Journal, 44, pp. 838-857.
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Evolution toward Fit.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, pp. 125-159.
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2003. “Why Focus? A Study of Intra-Industry Focus Effects.” Journal of Industrial Economics, 51, pp. 121-150 (lead article).
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Daniel A. Levinthal. 2003. “Temporarily
Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational
Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation.” Organization Science,
14, pp. 650-669.
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Daniel A. Levinthal. 2005. “Escaping Real (Non-Benign) Competency Traps: Linking the Dynamics of Organizational Structure to the Dynamics of Search.” Strategic Organization, 3, pp. 85-115.
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "Persuasion with Case Studies." Academy of
Management Journal, 50, pp. 20-24.
2. How does the design of organizations affect firm performance?
Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Organizational Sticking Points on NK Landscapes.” Complexity, 7 (5), pp. 31-43.
Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2003. “Balancing
Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational
Design.” Management Science, 49, pp. 290-311.
Appendix for "Balancing Search and Stability"
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin. 2005. "Speed
and Search: Designing Organizations for Turbulence and Complexity." Organization
Science, 16, pp. 101-122.
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin. 2006. "When Exploration Backfires: Unintended Consequences of Multi-Level Organizational Search." Academy of Management Journal, 49, pp. 779-795.
Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2006. “Organizing to Strategize in the Face of Interdependencies: Preventing Premature Lock-in” Long Range Planning, 39, pp. 591-614.
Felipe Csaszar and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "How much to copy? The contingent value of imitation capabilities."
Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin. 2007. "Coupled Search Processes: Why Is It so Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters?"
Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj
Siggelkow. 2008. "Chunky vs
Incremental Growth: How to Expand a Search Domain."
3.
What are the effects of different types of interaction?
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Misperceiving Interactions among Complements and Substitutes: Organizational Consequences.” Management Science, 48, pp. 900-916.
Detailed Appendix for "Misperceiving Interactions"
Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2007. "Patterned Interaction in Complex Systems: Implications for Exploration." Management Science, 53, pp. 1068-1085.
Appendix for "Patterned Interaction in Complex Systems: Implications for Exploration"
Michael E. Porter and Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2008. “Contextual Interactions within Activity Systems and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage.” Academy of Management Perspectives, 22 (2), pp. 34-56.
4. other papers
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2004. “Caught Between Two Principals.”
Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2001. “Who reads my paper anyways? A survey of journal readership and reputation.”
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