Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Kathleen Marie Eisenhardt is an American economist.

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Eisenhardt received from Brown University a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Master in computer science and in 1982 from Stanford University with a thesis on organizational theory for Ph. D. doctorate . There she holds a professorship for strategy and organization.

Eisenhardt deals with the topics of organization and strategy of rapidly changing markets and technology companies in the fields of telecommunications , software , computers , biotechnology , the Internet and the semiconductor industry . Further topics of her research are mergers & acquisitions , synergy , entrepreneurship , cooperation and competition with special consideration of complexity, evolution and game theory .

Fonts

• Organizational control from the perspective of agency theory. A field setting example . Dissertation, Stanford University, 1982
• with Shona L. Brown: Competing on the Edge. Strategy as Structured Chaos . Harvard Business School Press, Boston 1998, ISBN 0-875-847-544

Awards

• 1991 Pacific Telesis Foundation Award (Pacific Telesis Foundation)
• 1994 Whittemore Prize for Outstanding Research
• 1994 Stern Best Paper on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• 1999 George R. Terry Book Award (Academy of Management)
• 2001 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution (Administrative Science Quarterly)
• 2007 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award (with Jeff Martin for their essay: Dynamic capabilities. What are they? )

Memberships

• 1997 Academy of Management
• 2007 Strategic Management Society
• 2016 British Academy (External member)

Web links

• Kathleen M. Eisenhardt on the Stanford University website
• Kathleen M. Eisenhardt on the website of the Center for Professional Development