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R.E. (Rod) White

Associate Professor, General Management

  • Associate Dean, Faculty Development & Research

Education

  • BA (Hons Bus). UWO
  • MBA, Harvard
  • DBA, Harvard

Contact Information

Profile

Roderick E. White is currently Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research, and an Associate Professor of General Management at Richard Ivey School of Business. Since joining the school in 1979, he has taught Business Policy and Strategic Management at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels. He was a visiting professor at INSEAD during 1996. White earned a BA in Honors Business from The University of Western Ontario, and an MBA and DBA from Harvard University.

His research interests include the functioning of top management teams and questions of business strategy-organization. Currently, he is exploring how evolutionary forces affect interesting business behaviours. He recently received the Academy of Management Review Decade Award for the article, An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institutions. Rod has consulted for numerous organizations. He has served on the Biotron Advisory Board (UWO) and the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.

Teaching

  • Strategic Analysis and Action (MBA)
  • Corporate Strategy (MBA)
  • Foundations of Management Thought (PhD)

Selected Publications

  • The GE Paradox: Competitive Advantage through Fungible Non-Firm-Specific Investment, (with D. Lehmberg, W.G. Rowe, and J. Phillips) Journal of Management, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 5, 1129-1153.
  • Know-How Transfer: The Role of Social, Economic/ Competitive and Firm Boundary Factors (with Ariff Kachra), Strategic Management Journal, 2008, Vol. 29, No. 4, 425-455.
  • Strategic Purity: A Multi-industry Evaluation of Pure versus Hybrid Business Strategies (with Stewart Thornhill), Strategic Management Journal, 2007, Vol. 27 No. 5, 553-561.
  • Entrepreneurs and Evolutionary Biology: The Relationship between Testosterone and New Venture Creation (with Stewart Thornhill and Elizabeth Hampson), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2006, Vol. 100, 21-34.
  • Resource Context Contestability and Emergent Social Structure: An Empirical Investigation of an Evolutionary Theory (with Barbara Pierce), Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2006, Vol. 27, 221-239. Special issue.
  • Darwinism - A New Paradigm for Organizational Behavior? (with Nigel Nicholson), Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2006, Vol. 27, 111-119. Editors' introduction.
  • The Evolution of Social Structure: Why Biology Matters (with B. Pierce), Academy of Management Review, 1999, Vol. 24, No. 4, 843-853.
  • From Apes to Academics: A Bridge Under Construction, Academy of Management Review, 1999, Vol. 24, No. 4, 857-858.
  • An Organizational Learning Framework Organizational Learning: From Intuition to Institution (with M.M. Crossan and H. Lane), Academy of Management Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, 522-537, 1999.
  • The Improvising Organization: Where Planning Meets Opportunity (with M. Crossan, H. Lane & L. Klus), Organizational Dynamics, spring 1996: 20-35. Reprinted in special summer issue (1997) on strategy.
  • Educating for Change (with B. Pierce & J. Rush), Business Quarterly, summer 1995.
  • Building the Strategically Responsive Organization (with Thomas, H., O'Neal, D. and Hurst, D.), (selected, edited proceedings from the 11th Annual International Strategic Management Society Conference). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: Sussex, England, 1994.
  • Top Management Teams and Organizational Renewal (with D. Hurst. & J. Rush), Strategic Management Journal, special edition edited by Hambrick, D.; summer 1989: 87-106. Reprinted in Creative Management, edited by J. Henry, London: Sage Publications, 1991; and in Historical Evolution of Strategic Management (Vol. 1) edited by P. McKiernan, Dartmouth: Ashgate, 1996.
  • Business Policy: A Canadian Casebook (with M. Crossan, J.N. Fry, & J.P. Killing), Prentice Hall Inc.: Scarborough, 1999, 1997, 1992, 1989.
  • Generic Business Strategies, Organizational Context and Performance: An Empirical Investigation, Strategic Management Journal, 7, May-June 1986: 217-231.

Experience

  • Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
  • Research Associate/Assistant, Harvard Business School
  • Research Associate, Richard Ivey School of Business

Expertise

  • Business Strategy
  • Top Management Teamwork
  • Organizational Design
  • Organizational Learning for Strategic Renewal
  • Competitive Strategy
 

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