Anne Miner

Anne Miner is an Emeritus Professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. Her involvement includes the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE), the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition and coordinates the Management and Human Resources' Certificates in Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Miner received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

She was named Scholar of the Year by the Technology and Innovation Management of the Academy of Management in 2004. She has presented papers at schools such as Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, INSEAD, Harvard, Wharton, UCLA, and Minnesota.

Miner received grants to conduct research on technology entrepreneurship, product development, and university start-ups. Her publications tackle issues including organizational learning from failure, organizational improvisation, organizational adaptation, industry-level learning and technological evolution, and product development.

Miner has served as associate editor of Management Science and of Organization Science, and served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Organization. She has made study trips to Singapore, China, Thailand, France, England, Canada and Finland.

Miner teaches courses on the management of innovation and technology, including an introductory course on entrepreneurship in business, nonprofits and the arts. She has offered graduate seminars in strategy, organizational learning , entrepreneurship and research methods. She is one of the architects of the business curriculum in UW- Madison’s MS in Biotechnology.

Miner previously served as the executive vice-president for a small closely-held California start-up firm that provided information services to technical firms. She provided human resource consulting for firms involved in product development and manufacturing, and worked as Assistant to the President at Stanford University on human resources issues across the university.

Selected Accepted Journal Articles

• Gong, Y. & Baker, T. & Miner, A. Organizational routines and capabilities in new ventures. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 375-388.
• Selected Published Journal Articles
• Ciuchta, M. & Gong, Y. & Miner, A. & Letwin, C. & Sadler, A. (2016). Imprinting and the progeny of university spin-offs. Journal of Technology Transfer, 1-22.
• Miner, A. (2015). The fertility of authentic but incomplete designs and the future of the behavioral theory of the firm. Journal of Management Inquiry (24), 329-331.
• Cunha, M. & Miner, A. & Antonocopoulou, E. (2015). Improvisation Processes in Organizations. The Sage Handbook of Process Organizational Studies
• Zheng, Y. & Miner, A. & George, G. (2013). Does learning value of individual failure experience depend on group-level success? Insights from a University Technology Transfer Office. Industrial and Corporate Change (22), 1-30.
• Miner, A. & Gong, Y. & Ciuchta, M. & Sadler, A. & Surdyk, J. (2012). Promoting university start-ups: International patterns, vicarious learning and policy implications. Journal of Technology Transfer (37), 213-233.
• Schwab, A. & Miner, A. (2011). Organizational learning implications of partnering flexibility in project-venture settings: A multi-level framework. Advances in Strategic Management: Project-based Organizing and Strategic Management, 115-145.
• Stewart, A. & Miner, A. (2011). The prospects for family business in research universities. Journal of Family Business Strategy (2), 3-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2011.01.005.
• Miner, A. & Gong, Y. & Ciuchta, M. & Sadler, A. & Surdyk, J. (2010). Promoting university startups: international patterns, vicarious learning and policy implications. Journal of Technology Transfer (37), 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s10961-010-9194-3.
• Miner, A. (2010). The promise of family business as an academic field. Entrepreneurship and Family Business - Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (12), 323 - 336.
• Miner, A. & Gong, Y. & Baker, T. & O'Toole, J. (2010). How does TMT prior experience shape strategy? A routine based framework based on evidence from founding teams. Handbook of Top Management Team Research
• Kim, J. & Kim, J. & Miner, A. (2009). Organizational Learning from Extreme Performance Experience: The Impact of Success and Recovery Experience. Organization Science (20), 958-978. doi: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0439.
• Schwab, A. & Miner, A. (2008). Learning in hybrid-project systems: The effects of project performance on repeated collaboration. Academy of Management Journal (51), 1117-1149. doi: 10.5465/AMJ.2008.35732606.
• Kim, J. & Miner, A. (2007). Vicarious learning from the failure and near-failure of others: Evidence from the U.S. commercial banking industry. Academy of Management Journal (50), 687-714. doi: 10.5465/AMJ.2007.25529755.
• Gong, Y. & Baker, T. & Miner, A. (2007). Failures of entrepreneurial learning in knowledge-based startups. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (26)

Practitioner-Oriented Publications

Miner, A. & Akinsanmi, O. (2016). Idiosyncratic jobs, organizational transformation, and career mobility. The structuring of work in organizations, 61-101.

Presentations

Strategic Management Society Conference ( 2015 ) Micro-Foundations of Strategic Renewal

Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ( 2015 ) Micro-Foundations of Strategic Renewal

Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ( 2015 ) Symposium on Organizational Forgetting

Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ( 2014 ) Learning to Take Risk: The Effects of Success and Distress Experience on Organizational Risk Taking

Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ( 2014 ) Exaptation: An Unrecognized Mechanism in the Evolutionary Theory of Organizations

Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ( 2013 ) The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: The First 50 Years and the Next 50 Years

INFORMS Annual Meeting ( 2012 ) Population level learning: Industry-level variability of learning outcomes from innovations

INFORMS Organization Science Winter Conference ( 2011 ) Improvisation and routines in new organizations

Strategic Management Society Conference ( 2011 ) Impact of post-adoption experience with a managerial innovation on variability of learning outcomes

Academy of Management Annual Meeting ( 2010 ) Bricolage, Effectuation and Improvisation

Academy of Management ( 2006 ) Entrepreneurial learning in knowledge based start ups

Babson Conference for Entrepreneurship ( 2006 ) Failures of entrepreneurial learning in knowledge-based start-ups

University of Wisconsin Internal Conference on Technology Entrepreneurship ( 2006 ) Organizational vicarious learning and international patterns in university start-ups: A preliminary conversation and related evidence

Harvard University seminar ( 2006 ) Knowledge deployment and responses to organizational surprises in startups: The impact of organizational memory, strategic surprise level, and improvisation on response outcomes

Academy of Management ( 2005 ) The Dynamics of Routines and Capabilities in New Ventures

Babson Conference for Entrepreneurship ( 2005 ) Organizational routines and capabilities in new ventures

Academy of Management ( 2004 ) Impact of Interactions Between Organizations and Their Networks on Industry Routines

Academy of Management ( 2004 ) Where do organizational routines come from in new ventures?

Academy of Management ( 2003 ) University technology and landscapes of value creation

Undergraduate Courses

Contemporary Topics (MHR 365 Section 2), Fall 2008.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 365 Section 3), Spring 2009.

Contemporary Topics (MNG 365), Spring 2002.

Contemporary Topics (MNG 365), Spring 2001.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 365 Section 2), Fall 2009.

Entrepreneurship in Business, Non profits and the arts (MHR 365 Section 1), Fall 2010. Download Syllabus

Contemporary Topics (MHR 365 Section 3), Spring 2008.

Graduate Courses

Research and Readings (MHR 999), Spring 2001.

Read & Research Management (MHR 999), Spring 2004.

Read & Research Management (MHR 999), Spring 2005.

Read & Research Management (MHR 999), Spring 2006.

Read & Research Management (MHR 999), Spring 2007.

Reading and Research-Management and Human Resources PhD (MHR 999 Section 88), Fall 2007.

Readings and Research (MHR 990), Spring 2001.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Summer 2002.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2002.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Spring 2003.

Read & Research Management (MHR 990), Spring 2003.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Spring 2004.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2004.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2004.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Spring 2005.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2005.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Spring 2006.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2006.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Spring 2007.

PhD Thesis-Management (MHR 990), Fall 2007.

Emerging Entrepreneurship (MHR 977 Section 1), Fall 2008.

Emerging Entrepreneurship (MHR 977 Section 1), Fall 2009.

Emerging Entrepreneurship (MHR 977 Section 1), Fall 2010.

Doctoral Research Seminar in Management (MNG 976), Spring 2002.

Doctoral Research Seminar in Management (MHR 976), Spring 2003.

Doctoral Research Seminar in Management (MHR 976), Spring 2005.

Doctoral Research Seminar in Management (MNG 976), Spring 2001.

Seminar-Administrative Policy (MNG 870), Fall 2001.

Seminar-Administrative Policy (MHR 870), Fall 2005.

Reading and Research Management (MHR 799), Summer 2002.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Spring 2003.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Summer 2003.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Spring 2004.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Summer 2004.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Spring 2005.

Reading & Research Management (MHR 799), Summer 2006.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 765), Fall 2004.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 765), Fall 2005.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 765 Section 96), Spring 2007.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 765 Section 2), Fall 2007.

Contemporary Topics (MHR 765 Section 96), Spring 2008.

WAVE Practicum II (MHR 738), Spring 2006.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Fall 2001.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Fall 2001.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Fall 2001.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MHR 725), Fall 2002.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Spring 2002.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Spring 2001.

The Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology (MNG 725), Spring 2001.

Learning/Teaching Oriented Publications

• Miner, A. (2011). How does TMT prior experience The Handbook of Research on Top Management Teams.
• Miner, A. & Ciuchta, M. & Gong, Y. (2008). Organizational routines and Organizational Learning” in Handbook of Organizational Routines.

Editorial and Reviewing Activities

• Organization Science - Since January 0001
• Ad Hoc Reviewer