Kathleen Eisenhardt

57 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4879-1679

Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Publications

• New wine, old bottles? Effective strategies of new GenAI firms — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2026
• Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms — Organization Science 2025
• Mavericks and Diplomats: Bridging Commercial and Institutional Entrepreneurship for Society’s Grand Challenges — Organization Science 2025
• Decentralization in Organizations: A Revolution or a Mirage? — Academy of Management Annals 2025
• Big Fish versus Big Pond? Entrepreneurs, Established Firms, and Antecedents of Tie Formation — Academy of Management Journal 2022
• Organizing Form, Experimentation, and Performance: Innovation in the Nascent Civilian Drone Industry — Organization Science 2022
• Strategy and Uncertainty: Resource-Based View, Strategy-Creation View, and the Hybrid Between Them — Journal of Management 2021
• Analytic models in strategy, organizations, and management research: A guide for consumers — Strategic Management Journal 2021
• Get rich or die trying… finding revenue model fit using machine learning and multiple cases — Strategic Management Journal 2020
• Decision weaving: Forming novel, complex strategy in entrepreneurial settings — Strategic Management Journal 2020
• Simple rules for a world of change: Reflections on “turning a process into a capability” — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2020
• Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and Effective Business-model Design — Administrative Science Quarterly 2020
• Bottlenecks, cooperation, and competition in nascent ecosystems — Strategic Management Journal 2019
• How firms navigate cooperation and competition in nascent ecosystems — Strategic Management Journal 2018
• Strategy Formation in Entrepreneurial Settings: Past Insights and Future Directions — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2017
• FailureIsan Option: Institutional Change, Entrepreneurial Risk, and New Firm Growth — Organization Science 2017
• How entrepreneurs leverage institutional intermediaries in emerging economies to acquire public resources — Strategic Management Journal 2017
• Unpacking the CEO–Board Relationship: How Strategy Making Happens in Entrepreneurial Firms — Academy of Management Journal 2017
• Grand Challenges and Inductive Methods: Rigor without Rigor Mortis — Academy of Management Journal 2016
• Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms — Administrative Science Quarterly 2015
• Response to Vuori and Vuori's commentary on “Heuristics in the strategy context” — Strategic Management Journal 2014
• Catalyzing Strategies and Efficient Tie Formation: How Entrepreneurial Firms Obtain Investment Ties — Academy of Management Journal 2012
• The Role of the Entrepreneur in Technology Entrepreneurship — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2012
• Rotating Leadership and Collaborative Innovation — Administrative Science Quarterly 2011
• Rational heuristics: the ‘simple rules’ that strategists learn from process experience — Strategic Management Journal 2011
• CROSSROADS—Microfoundations of Performance: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Dynamic Environments — Organization Science 2010
• Rewiring: Cross-Business-Unit Collaborations in Multibusiness Organizations — Academy of Management Journal 2010
• Life in the fast lane: Origins of competitive interaction in new vs. established markets — Strategic Management Journal 2010
• Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields — Academy of Management Journal 2009
• Optimal Structure, Market Dynamism, and the Strategy of Simple Rules — Administrative Science Quarterly 2009
• Origin of Alliance Portfolios: Entrepreneurs, Network Strategies, and Firm Performance — Academy of Management Journal 2009
• Swimming with Sharks: Technology Ventures, Defense Mechanisms and Corporate Relationships — Administrative Science Quarterly 2008
• Developing Theory Through Simulation Methods — Academy of Management Review 2007
• Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges — Academy of Management Journal 2007
• What makes a process a capability? Heuristics, strategy, and effective capture of opportunities — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2007
• Organizational Boundaries and Theories of Organization — Organization Science 2005
• The global acquisition, leverage, and protection of technological competencies — Strategic Management Journal 2004
• Inter-temporal economies of scope, organizational modularity, and the dynamics of diversification — Strategic Management Journal 2004
• The Seller's Side of the Story: Acquisition as Courtship and Governance as Syndicate in Entrepreneurial Firms — Administrative Science Quarterly 2004
• Integrating Knowledge in Groups: How Formal Interventions Enable Flexibility — Organization Science 2002
• The Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries — Academy of Management Review 2002
• Architectural Innovation and Modular Corporate Forms — Academy of Management Journal 2001
• Paradox, Spirals, Ambivalence: the New Language of Change and Pluralism — Academy of Management Review 2000
• Introduction to the Special Issue: Applications of Complexity Theory to Organization Science — Organization Science 1999
• Exploring the Black Box: An Analysis of Work Group Diversity, Conflict and Performance — Administrative Science Quarterly 1999
• Resource-based View of Strategic Alliance Formation: Strategic and Social Effects in Entrepreneurial Firms — Organization Science 1996
• The Evolution of Intracorporate Domains: Divisional Charter Losses in High-Technology, Multidivisional Corporations — Organization Science 1996
• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PAST RESEARCH, PRESENT FINDINGS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS — Academy of Management Review 1995
• Strategic decision making — Strategic Management Journal 1992
• Better Stories and Better Constructs: The Case for Rigor and Comparative Logic — Academy of Management Review 1991
• Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review — Academy of Management Review 1989
• Making Fast Strategic Decisions In High-Velocity Environments — Academy of Management Journal 1989
• Building Theories from Case Study Research — Academy of Management Review 1989
• Politics of Strategic Decision Making in High-Velocity Environments: Toward a Midrange Theory — Academy of Management Journal 1988
• Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry — Management Science 1988
• Agency- and Institutional-Theory Explanations: The Case of Retail Sales Compensation — Academy of Management Journal 1988
• Control: Organizational and Economic Approaches — Management Science 1985