Ron Adner

Associate Professor of Business Administration

E-Mail: ron.adner@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Phone: 1 603 646 9185

BME, ME, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1993; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998

Areas of expertise

Strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship

Current research topics

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

Selected Publications

With D. Levinthal, "Demand heterogeneity and technology evolution: Implications for product and process innovation," Management Science, 47(5), 2001; "When are technologies disruptive: A demand-based view of the emergence of competition," Strategic Management Journal, 2002; with C. Helfat, "Dynamic managerial capabilities and corporate effects," Strategic Management Journal, 24(10), 2003; 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 P. Zemsky, "Disruptive technologies and the emergence of competition," Rand Journal of Economics, 36(2), 2005; "Match your innovation strategy to your innovation ecosystem," Harvard Business Review, 84(4), 2006; with P. Zemsky, "A demand-based perspective on sustainable competitive advantage," Strategic Management Journal, 27(3), 2006; with D. Levinthal, "Doing versus seeing: Acts of exploitation and perceptions of exploration," Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(2), 2008

Working Papers

With P. Zemsky, “Diversification and performance: Linking market structure, market relatedness and the decision to diversify”; with R. Kapoor, “Value creation in innovation ecosystems: How the structure of technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations”

Awards

Outstanding Teacher of Elective Courses, INSEAD, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005; Best Paper Award, Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, 2004

Professional Activities

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

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