My primary research interest is innovation. This interest is motivated by, and informed by, a prior career developing missile guidance systems for Hughes Aircraft Company. The research takes two forms, entrepreneurship and corporate R&D, which are complementary in generating growth.

CV

entrepreneurship
 

entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Routines

Knott, Anne Marie, (2020) “Learning in Chains and What We Can Learn From It” in The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning (L. Argote & J. Levine, eds), Oxford University Press.

Knott, Anne Marie and Scott Turner (2019), “An Innovation Theory of Headquarters Value in Multibusiness Firms”, Organization Science 30(1): 19-39

Knott, Anne Marie, Anuja Gupta and David Hoopes (2015), “Redesigning Routines for Replication” Strategic Management Journal, 36(6): 851-871.

Knott, Anne Marie (2008) “Improving consistency and quality of service delivery: Implications for Addiction Treatment Clinics” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 35  99–108

Knott, Anne Marie. (2003). “The Organizational Routines Factor Market Paradox”, Strategic Management Journal, 24 (10) 929-943.

Knott, Anne Marie (2001). “The Dynamic Value of Hierarchy”, Management Science, 47 (3) 430-448.

 Knott, Anne Marie and Bill McKelvey (1999). “Nirvana Efficiency: A Comparative Test of Residual Claims and Routines”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 38, 365-383 (lead article).

Entrepreneurial Churn

Elfenbein, Dan, Anne Marie Knott and Rachel Croson, (2017) “Equity Stakes and Exit: An Experimental Approach to Decomposing Exit Delay” Strategic Management Journal, 38(2): 278–299

Elfenbein, Dan and Anne Marie Knott (2015) "Time to Exit: Rational, Behavioral and Organizational Delays” Strategic Management Journal, 36(7) 957-1114, lead article.

Wu, Brian and Anne Marie Knott (2006) “Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry” Management Science 52 (9) 1315-1330US Small Business Administration (SBA) Best Student Paper

Knott, Anne Marie and Hart Posen (2005) “Is Failure Good?” Strategic Management Journal 26 (7) 617-641.

Entrepreneurship Policy

Brent Goldfarb, Seojin Kim, Anne Marie Knott and Rafael Corriedora, “The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Commercialization of University Research” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3399626

Scott, Erin and Anne Marie Knott, “The Schumpeterian Cost of Regulation on Entry and Innovation: The Case of Bail Bonds”  http://ssrn.com/abstract=2463741 Best Paper Nominee-Strategic Management Society Special Conference-Singapore

Knott, Anne Marie. (2005) “Induced Discrimination and Firm Size: Information versus Incentive Effects” Journal of Small Business Economics  25, 393-405

complement
 

complementarity

Knott, Anne Marie and Carl Vieregger (2020), "Reconciling the Firm Size and Innovation Puzzle”, Organization Science 31(2): 245-534.

 Knott, Anne Marie. (2003). “Persistent Heterogeneity and Sustainable Innovation”, Strategic Management Journal, 24 (8) 687-705 (lead article). Emerald Management Reviews Award of Distinction

Knott, Anne Marie (2002). “Exploration and Exploitation as Complements”, in C.W. Choo and N. Bontis (Eds), The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge:  A Collection of Readings, New York, Oxford University Press, 339-358.

R&D
 

corporate r&d

R&D Productivity

Kluppel, Leo and Anne Marie Knott (2023), “Are Ideas Being Fished Out” Research Policy, 52(2): 1-8

Cooper, Michael, Anne Marie Knott and Wenhao Yang, (2022) “RQ Innovative Efficiency and Firm Value” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 57(5): 1649 – 1694..

Knott, Anne Marie and Carl Vieregger, "Does R&D Drive Growth”, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2382885

Knott, Anne Marie  “R&D Outsourcing and the Decline in R&D Productivity” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2756220 2015 Winner- Olin Award: Research That Transforms Business

 Cummings, Trey and Anne Marie Knott (2018) “Outside CEOs and Innovation”, Strategic Management Journal 39(8): 2095-2119.  Winner-Perfect Pitch Competition, Sumantra Ghoshal Conference

 Knott, Anne Marie (2009) " Measuring R&D Effectiveness", Research-Technology Management 53(5) 9-13.

Knott, Anne Marie (2008) “R&D Returns Causality: Absorptive Capacity or Organizational IQ” Management Science 54 (12) 2054-2067

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) RQ Database

Knowledge Physics

Knott, Anne Marie and Hart Posen (2009) “Firm R&D behavior and evolving technology in established industries” Organization Science 20(2): 352-367

Knott, Anne Marie, Hart Posen and Brian Wu (2009) “Spillover Asymmetry and Why It Matters” Management Science 55(3) 373-388

Knott, Anne Marie, David Bryce and Hart Posen. (2003). “On Strategic Accumulation of Intangible Assets”, Organization Science, 14 (2) 192-207. Reprinted in CA Maritan & MA Petaraf (eds) 2011, Competitive Strategy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cambridge, MA.

 
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