John Joseph

John Joseph is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of California Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business. John received his PhD from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. John has taught in the full-time, part-time and executive education programs at Kellogg, has taught in the core curriculum for Duke’s full-time MBA program, and now teaches core strategy (full and part-time) and executive education programs at UC Irvine. He is a decorated instructor who has received several teaching awards.

John’s research examines organizational designs for better strategic planning, technology development, and growth. John’s research has been published or is forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Advances in Strategic Management, Academy of Management Proceedings and other peer-reviewed publications, and has also developed a number of case studies on strategic decision making. John is a member of the Academy of Management and is a representative-atlarge of the strategic process interest group of the Strategic Management Society. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Organizational Design, and serves as an editorial board member of the management field’s top two journals: Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal. He is currently co-editing a volume of Advances in Strategic Management on Organizational Design.

John’s experience outside academia includes managerial positions in the technology, pharmaceutical and non-profit sectors. His speaking, research and consulting engagements include: Argyle Executive Forum, British Petroleum, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, CMO Council, Dart Enterprises, Duke University Hospital, General Electric, Heidrick and Struggles, Kellogg Center for Non-Profit Management, Market-bridge, Molina Healthcare, Motorola, and Samsung Electronics.

Publications

Recent Publications

• Joseph, J. and Wilson, A. 2018. The Growth of the Firm: An Attention-Based View, Strategic Management Journal, 39(6), 1779-1800.
• Joseph, J., Baumann, O., Burton, R., and Srikanth, K., (Eds.) Advances in Strategic Management: Organization Design, Emerald Publishing: UK.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

• Chatterji, R., Cunningham, C., and Joseph, J. (2019) The Limits of Relational Governance: Sales Force Strategies in the Medical Device Industry, Strategic Management Journal, 40(1), 55-78.
• Dutt, N. and Joseph, J. (2018) Regulatory Uncertainty, Corporate Structure, and Strategic Agendas: Evidence from the U.S. Renewable Electricity Industry, Academy of Management Journal, In-press
• Ocasio, W. and Joseph, J. (2017) An Attention-Based View of Great Strategies, Strategy Science, 3(1) 289-294.
• Joseph, J., Baumann, O., Burton, R., and Srikanth, K., (Eds.) Advances in Strategic Management: Organization Design, Emerald Publishing: UK.
• Joseph, J., Klingebiel R. and Wilson, A. 2016. Organizational Structure and Performance Feedback: Centralization, Aspirations and Termination Decisions, Organization Science, 27 (5): 1065–1083.
• Wilson, A. and Joseph, J. Organizational Attention and Technological Search in the Multibusiness Firm: Motorola from 1974-1997, In G. Gavetti and W. Ocasio (Eds.), (2015) Advances in Strategic Management: Cognition and Strategy. UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Klingebiel R. and Joseph, J. Technology Entry Timing and Innovation Strategy in the Mobile Handset Industry, (2016) Strategic Management Journal, 37: 1002–1020.
• Joseph, J. and Gaba, V. The Fog of Feedback: Ambiguity and Firm-Responses to Multiple Aspiration Levels. (2015) Strategic Management Journal, 36: 1960-1978.
• Joseph, J., Ocasio, W. and Hunter-McDonnell, M. The Structural Elaboration of Board Independence: Executive Power, Institutional Logics, and the Adoption of CEO-only Board Structures in U.S. Corporate Governance, (2014) Academy of Management Journal, 57:1834-1858.
• Gaba, V. and Joseph, J. Corporate Structure and Performance Feedback: Aspirations and Adaptation in M-form Firms, (2013) Organization Science, 24(4): 1102-1119.
• Joseph, J. and Ocasio, W. Architecture, Attention and Adaptation in the Multibusiness Firm: General Electric, 1951-2001. (2012) Strategic Management Journal, 33 6: 633-660.
• Ocasio, W. and Joseph, J. Rise and Fall, or Transformation? The Evolution of Strategic Planning at the General Electric Company, 1940-2006. (2008) Long Range Planning,41: 248-272.
• Ocasio, W. and Joseph, J. An Attention-based View of Strategy Formulation. Linking Decision Making and Guided Evolution in Strategy Process. (2005) In Doz, Y., Porac, J., and Szulanski, G. (Eds.) Advances in Strategic Management.

Harvard Business Review

• Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products
• When First Movers Are Rewarded, and When They’re Not

Awards & Grants

• 2017 Industry Studies Association (ISA) Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award for “Entry Timing and Innovation Strategy in Feature Phones” published in Strategic Management Journal.
• 2017 Center for Organizational Research Small Grant – University of California, Irvine
• 2016 Junior Faculty Research Award – UCI Paul Merage School of Business
• 2016 Innovation in Teaching Award – UCI Paul Merage School of Business
• 2016 CORCLR Faculty Research Grant – UCI Paul Merage School of Business

Education

PhD, Northwestern University

MBA, University of Pennsylvania