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Michael L. Tushman's Degrees

PhD Organizational Behavior Cornell University
Masters Organizational Behavior Cornell University
Bachelors Psychology Clark University

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According to Wikipedia, Michael L. Tushman is an American organizational theorist, management adviser, and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is known for his early work on organizational design with David A. Nadler, and later work on disruptive innovation, organizational environments, and organizational evolution. He is also co-founder and director of Change-Logic, a consulting firm based in Boston, US.

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Michael L. Tushman's Published Works

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Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments (1986) (5989)
Ambidextrous Organizations: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change (1996) (4229)
Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited (2003) (3878)
Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs: A Cyclical Model of Technological Change (1990) (3204)
Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation (1985) (2393)
Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design. (1978) (2386)
The ambidextrous organization. (2004) (2192)
Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma (2007) (2053)
Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance (2009) (1996)
Special Issue: Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 2 of 2: Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Model for Managing Innovation Streams (2005) (1871)
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present, and Future (2013) (1592)
Special Boundary Roles in the Innovation Process. (1977) (1466)
Process Management and Technological Innovation: A Longitudinal Study of the Photography and Paint Industries (2002) (1390)
Organizational Transformation as Punctuated Equilibrium: An Empirical Test (1994) (1384)
Exploration and Exploitation Within and Across Organizations (2010) (1294)
Boundary Spanning Individuals: Their Role in Information Transfer and Their Antecedents (1981) (1086)
Organizing for Innovation (1986) (985)
A Structural Approach to Assessing Innovation: Construct Development of Innovation Locus, Type, and Characteristics (2002) (906)
Time: A New Research Lens (2001) (765)
On the Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Towards a Sociology of Technological Evolution (1992) (698)
Convergence and Upheaval: Managing the Unsteady Pace of Organizational Evolution (1986) (692)
Social Network Analysis in Organizations (1979) (615)
Competing by design: the power of organizational architecture (1998) (593)
Executive Succession and Organization Outcomes in Turbulent Environments: An Organization Learning Approach (1992) (584)
Meta‐organization design: Rethinking design in interorganizational and community contexts (2012) (582)
Beyond the Charismatic Leader: Leadership and Organizational Change (1990) (576)
A model for diagnosing organizational behavior (1980) (568)
Organizational Ambidexterity in Action: How Managers Explore and Exploit (2011) (557)
Complex Business Models: Managing Strategic Paradoxes Simultaneously (2010) (509)
Organizational Frame Bending: Principles for Managing Reorientation (1989) (462)
Winning through innovation (1997) (459)
External Communication and Project Performance: An Investigation Into the Role of Gatekeepers (2011) (425)
Work Characteristics and Subunit Communication Structure: A Contingency Analysis. (1979) (359)
Characteristics and External Orientations of Boundary Spanning Individuals (1981) (346)
Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving Strategy into Action (2007) (346)
Technical Communication in R & D Laboratories: The Impact of Project Work Characteristics (1978) (338)
The organization of the future: Strategic imperatives and core competencies for the 21st century (1999) (332)
The Coevolution of Community Networks and Technology: Lessons from the Flight Simulation Industry (1998) (310)
Readings in the Management of Innovation (1988) (299)
Organizational designs and innovation streams (2010) (298)
Environmental and Organizational Context and Executive Team Structure (1993) (274)
Perspectives on the productivity dilemma (2009) (272)
Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization (2012) (267)
Organizational Environments and Industry Exit: the Effects of Uncertainty, Munificence and Complexity (2001) (258)
An Investigation into the Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors in a Major R&D Facility : R&D Management (2011) (255)
Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award—“Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited” Ten Years Later (2015) (252)
Inertia, environments and strategic choice: a quasi-experimental design for comparative-longitudinal research (1986) (250)
Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings (1996) (228)
A Political Approach to Organizations: A Review and Rationale (1977) (228)
Research and Relevance: Implications of Pasteur'S Quadrant for Doctoral Programs and Faculty Development (2007) (226)
Introduction: Technology, Organizations, and Innovation. (1990) (220)
Executive Succession, Strategic Reorientation and Performance Growth: A Longitudinal Study in the U.S. Cement Industry in Stable Environments (1996) (219)
Managing through Cycles of Technological Change (1991) (209)
Dominant Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organization Outcomes. (1998) (206)
Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities (2009) (206)
R&D performance as a function of internal communication, project management, and the nature of the work (1980) (195)
Technology Cycles, Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizations (1997) (191)
Relevance and Rigor: Executive Education as a Lever in Shaping Practice and Research (2007) (173)
Competing By Design (1997) (170)
Matrix (1979) (168)
Executive succession, strategic reorientations, and organization evolution: The minicomputer industry as a case in point (1985) (162)
Strategic organization design (1988) (155)
Uncertainty, Social Location and Influence in Decision Making: A Sociometric Analysis (1983) (130)
Impacts of Perceived Environmental Variability on Patterns of Work Related Communication (1979) (114)
Building bridges: the social structure of interdependent innovation (2007) (113)
Managing Communication Networks in R&D Laboratories (1981) (111)
Both/and leadership (2016) (107)
The ambidextrous CEO. (2011) (106)
A Diagnostic Model for Organizational Behavior (1977) (102)
Managing Strategic Innovation and Change (2012) (100)
Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation (2012) (98)
Navigating Change: How CEO's, Top Teams and Boards Steer Transformation (1998) (97)
Characteristics and External Orientation of Boundary Spanning Individuals. (1979) (96)
Open innovation and organizational boundaries: task decomposition, knowledge distribution and the locus of innovation (2013) (94)
Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms (2018) (89)
Innovating Without Information Constraints: Organizations, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero (2014) (84)
Building ambidextrous organizations. Forming your own "skunk works". (1999) (74)
Ambidextrous leadership: Emerging challenges for business and HR leaders (2011) (74)
On the Relationship Between Research and Practice (2007) (74)
Open Innovation and Organization Design (2012) (73)
Top management teams and corporate success in an emerging industry (1986) (70)
Communication Patterns, Project Performance and Task Characteristics: An Empirical Evaluation and Integration in An R&D Setting (2017) (69)
The role of executive team actions in shaping dominant designs: Towards the strategic shaping of technological progress (1992) (68)
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization (2008) (67)
Designing Organizations that Have Good Fit: A Framework for Understanding New Architectures (1992) (63)
Open innovation and organizational boundaries: task decomposition, knowledge distribution and the locus of innovation: Integrating Economic and Organization Theory (2013) (62)
Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities (2003) (59)
Firms, crowds, and innovation (2017) (57)
Communication and Technical Roles in R&D Laboratories: An Information Processing Approach (1980) (55)
Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation (2016) (54)
Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective (2017) (54)
Matter Over Mind? E-mail Data and the Measurement of Social Networks (2011) (50)
M@n@gement in Times of Economic Crisis: Insights Into Organizational Ambidexterity (2010) (46)
The Influence of Supervisory Promotion and Network Location on Subordinate Careers in a Dual Ladder RD&E Setting (1995) (45)
Organizational Technology: Technological Change, Ambidextrous Organizations and Organizational Evolution (2002) (43)
From engineering management/R&D management, to the management of innovation, to exploiting and exploring over value nets: 50 years of research initiated by the IEEE-TEM (2004) (40)
Crossing Boundaries to Increase Relevance in Organizational Research (2009) (37)
Organizational structure as a determinant of performance: Evidence from mutual funds (2012) (34)
Introduction to Special Topic Forum on Time and Organizational Research (2001) (34)
Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (2010) (32)
Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Team Model for Simultaneously Exploring and Exploiting (2010) (31)
Executive leadership and organizational evolution: Managing incremental and discontinuous change. (1988) (30)
Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox (2011) (30)
The Art of Strategic Renewal (2014) (29)
A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Boundary Spanning and Project Supervision on Turnover and Promotion in Research and Development (2015) (28)
7. From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: The Social Context of Entrepreneurial Innovation (2002) (26)
DISCRETION WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF OPPORTUNITY: GENDER HOMOPHILY AND STRUCTURE IN A FORMAL ORG (2011) (26)
The Translucent Hand of Managed Ecosystems: Engaging Communities for Value Creation and Capture (2021) (21)
Implementing New Designs (1997) (21)
Managing organizations : readings and cases (1982) (20)
Managing Corporate Social Networks (2008) (20)
Technical Communication in research and Development Laboratories: The Impact of Project Work Characteristics. (1977) (19)
Technology, Organizations and Innovation: An Introduction (1990) (19)
Technological innovation: Organization responsiveness to environmental shock as an indicator of organizational foresight and oversight: The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context (1997) (18)
Executive Succession: The Changing Characteristics of Top Management Teams. (1986) (16)
Organizational Change: An Exploratory Study and Case History (1975) (14)
Technology and Innovation Management (2013) (13)
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future (2013) (13)
Process Management, Technological Innovation, and Organizational Adaptation (2007) (13)
Leading Sustainable Change (2015) (13)
The Challenges of Ambidextrous Leadership (2015) (13)
The management of organizations : strategies, tactics, analyses (1989) (12)
Strategic Renewal : Proactive Punctuated Change through Innovation Streams and Disciplined Learning (2013) (11)
EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS OF DUAL LADDERS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY. (1990) (11)
External Communication and Project Performance: An Investigation into the Role of Gatekeepers. (1980) (10)
Environmental and Organization Context and Executive Team Characteristics (1993) (10)
Dominant Designs, Innovation Types and Organizational Outcomes (1998) (10)
The Role of Executive Team Actions in Shaping Dominant Designs: Towards Shaping Technological Progress (1992) (9)
Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory: JACC Review Topic of the Week. (2018) (9)
Managed Ecosystems and Translucent Institutional Logics: Engaging Communities (2019) (9)
A Longitudinal Study of the Change in Group Demographics. (1988) (8)
A Longitudinal Study of the Determinants and Effects of Executive Succession. (1985) (8)
Inertia, Environments and Strategic Choice: Quasi-Experimental Designs for Comparative Research (1986) (8)
USA TODAY: Pursuing the Network Strategy (A) (2001) (7)
Rebirth of the Swiss Watch Industry, 1980-1992 (A) (2000) (7)
Leadership Tips for Today to Stay in the Game Tomorrow: The Ambidextrous Leader (2014) (7)
Houston We Have a Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A) and (B) (2014) (7)
The Management of Organizations (1989) (6)
Leading Proactive Punctuated Change (2015) (6)
Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Forms (2002) (6)
Open Innovation and Organizational Design (2012) (6)
Ihe Organization of the Future : Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies for the 21 st Century (2013) (6)
Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors (1982) (5)
D A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO ASSESSING INNOVATION : CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTS by (2000) (5)
From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: Placing Dominant Designs in Social Context (2001) (5)
A Study of NASA Scientists Shows How to Overcome Barriers to Open Innovation (2018) (5)
The Organization of the Future: Principles of Design for the 21st Century (1999) (5)
Innovating Without Information Constraints (2015) (4)
Task Uncertainty and Subunit Communication Structure. (1978) (4)
Innovation Streams and Executive Leadership (2017) (3)
Does Gatekeeping Make a Difference? (1984) (3)
Modes of Technology Transfer as a Function of Position in the Research-Development-Technical Service Spectrum (1979) (3)
Implications of Political Models of Organizations (1980) (3)
The Role of the Board Chair During a Crisis (2020) (3)
Designing and Aligning Organizations: The Congruence Model (2016) (3)
Overcoming cultural resistance to open source innovation (2019) (3)
Technological Discon- tinuities and Organiza- tional Environments (1986) (3)
Victors & Spoils: 'Born Open' (2014) (2)
Denver Public Schools: Innovation and Performance? (2018) (2)
Rebirth of the Swiss Watch Industry, 1980-1992 (B): Hayek and Thomke at SMH (2000) (2)
Organizational Change: An Exploratory Study and Case History. by Michael Tushman (2010) (2)
Houston We Have A Solution: NASA and Open Innovation (B) (2014) (2)
GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative (2010) (2)
The Influence of Boundary Spanning Supervision on the Turnover and Promotion. (1983) (2)
Getting Started with Ambidexterity (2016) (1)
Modes of Technology Transfer as a Function of Position in the Rdt&e Spectrum (2011) (1)
Paul R. Lawrence: A Career of Rigor, Relevance, and Passion (2017) (1)
A Blueprint for Change (1997) (1)
Platforms, Ecosystems, Open and User Innovation: A Strategic Leadership Perspective (2016) (1)
Executive Succession, Strategie Reorientations, and Organization Evolution: The Minicomputer Industry As a Case in Point (1986) (1)
The International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (1995) (1)
Deloitte's Pixel (A): Consulting with Open Talent (2020) (1)
Hema Hattangady and Conzerv (A) (2008) (1)
USA Today: Pursuing the Network Strategy (A) & (B) TN (2002) (1)
IBM Canada: Global Services (A) (2003) (1)
Characteristics and External Orientations of Boundary Spanning Individuals1 (2017) (1)
SMA: Micro-Electronic Products Division (A) (2000) (1)
Tomer Zvulun and The Atlanta Opera: At Crossroads (A) (2018) (1)
IBM Software Solutions (A) (2001) (1)
Approaches to Managing Organizational Behavior: Models, Cases and Readings (1980) (1)
The Influence of Gatekeepers on Project Performance in a Major R&d Facility (2015) (1)
Managed Ecosystems, and Translucent Institutional Logics: Engaging Communities (2019) (1)
Effective Operational Management in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory JACC Review Topic of the Week (2018) (1)
Quietly Brilliant: Transformational Change at HTC (2012) (1)
Knowing When to Redesign (1997) (0)
Impacts of supervisory promotion and social location on subordinate promotion in an R&D setting: an investigation of dual ladders (1991) (0)
Social Network Analysis For Organizations 1 (2007) (0)
The Relation of Internal Communication and R&D Project Performance as a Function of Position in the R&D Spectrum (2015) (0)
"Demystifying the Impact of Crowdsourcing Innovation: What Happens with ""Not Invented Here"" Ideas?" (2014) (0)
Optimizing Organizational Systems: Contrasting Viewpoints or Two Parts of One Systemic Approach? (2019) (0)
Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms (2017) (0)
Developing an Effective Living Group (2005) (0)
Arctic Timber AB: Engineered Woods Division (A) (2005) (0)
The Lessons of Design (1997) (0)
Healing, Transforming, and Innovating: Directing Change in Organizations (1999) (0)
Open Innovation and the Theory of the Firm: (How) do Organizations and Boundaries (still) Matter? (2012) (0)
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (2008) (0)
Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (A) (2000) (0)
Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (A) (Abridged) (2012) (0)
Innovation Adoption and Organizational Identity: Identity Dynamism as a Strategic Resource for Top Management Team Decision Making (2016) (0)
Christine Day at LuLuLemon (2009) (0)
Corning 1996-2000: Growing Corning (2001) (0)
The Relation of Internal Communication to R& D: Project Performance as a Function of the Nature of the Project (2015) (0)
Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (TN) (A) & (B) (2010) (0)
Innovating How to Innovate: Evolutionary Model of Dynamic R&D Paths with Shifting Loci of Innovation (2013) (0)
Ingrid Johnson and Nedbank Business Banking (2009) (0)
Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A) (1999) (0)
Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon (TN) (2010) (0)
Leadership, Learning, and Organization Designs: On Exploring and Exploiting in IBM's Microelectronics Division (2008) (0)
Organizational Learning and Search Track: Technology Across Organizational Boundaries (2022) (0)
A Process for Design (1997) (0)
Choosing a Basic Structure—Strategic Groups (1997) (0)
Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes (2002) (0)
Designing at the Operational Level (1997) (0)
IBM Network Technology (A) (2001) (0)
How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals (2019) (0)
Gunfire at Sea (multi-media case) (2014) (0)
Communication in research and development organizations : an information processing approach. (1976) (0)
Opening Governance & Innovation (2015) (0)
Organizations: A Political Perspective and Some Implications (2015) (0)
The Atlanta Opera (B): New (and Old) Challenges (2019) (0)
Designing at the Enterprise Level (1997) (0)
The Principles of Design (1997) (0)
Mapping the Organizational Terrain (1997) (0)
The Crucial Design Issues (1997) (0)
BT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) (2006) (0)
The Atlanta Opera (C): A Duet (2019) (0)
Organizing for Ambidexterity: (Re)Configuring and Orchestrating Exploration and Exploitation Over Time (2012) (0)
Lawrence, Paul R.: A Career of Rigor, Relevance, and Passion (2020) (0)
Executive Succession : Strategic Reorientations, and Organization Evolution : The Microcomputer Industry As a Case in Point : Technological Forecasting and Social Change (1988) (0)
Ganesh Natarajan: Leading Innovation and Organizational Change at Zensar (A) (2011) (0)
Dynamic Equilibrium: Separating and Connecting to Leverage Strategic Paradoxes (2016) (0)
Architecture of Adaptation: Role of the corporate office in adaptation of the multi-business firm (2012) (0)
Corning 1983-1996: Transition at the Top (2001) (0)
Coordinating Work—Strategic Linking (1997) (0)
A three-day, interactive forum on how to leverage and integrate STRATEGIC ROADMAPPING, STREAMLINED PROCESSES and OPEN INNOVATION for bottom-line results. (2008) (0)
Hema Hattangady and Conzerv (TN) (A) & (B) (2010) (0)
Meta-Organizational Design (2012) (0)
Failure to Adapt: Reasons and Remedies in the Search for Agility (2016) (0)
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal CD Set (2003) (0)
Incumbent Firm Adaptation: New Perspectives on Organizational Change (2014) (0)
Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (A) (2007) (0)

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