Lourdes Sosa

Dr Lourdes Sosa joined LSE as Associate Professor. Prior to LSE, she spent seven years at the London Business School where she taught in the MBA, Executive MBA, Master’s in Management and Executive Education programs. She received her PhD degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. Prior to her academic career she worked in R&D management at General Electric and General Motors.

Dr Sosa studies technological discontinuities, a pervasive phenomenon in which a radical change in technologies disrupts a market, a phenomenon commonly referred to as creative destruction. In her work she uses technological discontinuities as an opportunity to contribute to mainstream strategy's objective of explaining within-market differences in firm performance. Furthermore, by looking at variation in the ability of established firms to adapt to a radical change in technologies, she also finds an opportunity to contribute to research on organizational change.

She is specifically interested in understanding the competitive dynamics of the R&D race that ensues through a technological discontinuity, thus her current interest on the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Biotechnology Revolution.

An active member of the Academy of Management, INFORMS, and the Industry Studies Association, she has won awards from these associations for her research. She is currently in the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal.

Experience

• Associate Professor The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013)
• Assistant Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship London Business School (2006 — 2013)

Expertise Details

Technological discontinuities; disruptive technologies; resource-based view of the firm; organisational change

Research

Article

Pioneering and first mover advantages: the importance of business models Author(s) Constantinos Markides, Lourdes Sosa

50 years of engineering management through the lens of the IEEE Transactions Author(s) Thomas Allen, M. Lourdes Sosa

Gendering the job: networks and recruitment at a call center Author(s) Roberto M. Fernandez, M. Lourdes Sosa

Decoupling market incumbency from organizational prehistory: locating the real sources of competitive advantage in R&D for radical innovation Author(s)M. Lourdes Sosa

From old competence destruction to new competence access: evidence from the comparison of two discontinuities in anticancer drug discovery Author(s)M. Lourdes Sosa

Corporate structure, indirect bankruptcy costs, and the advantage of de novo firms: the case of gene therapy research Author(s)M. Lourdes Sosa

Application-specific R&D capabilities and the advantage of incumbents: evidence from the anticancer drug market Author(s)M. Lourdes Sosa

Book

How can hackathons accelerate corporate innovation? Author(s) Myrna Flores, Matic Golob, Doroteja Maklin, Martin Herrera, Christopher Tucci, Ahmed Al-Ashaab, Leon Williams,