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D-Index
56
Citations
111720
World Ranking
669
National Ranking
290

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Daniel A. Levinthal is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a strong emphasis on Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scientist's work spans several specific topics including Innovation and Knowledge Management, Business Strategy and Innovation, Management and Organizational Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Workplace Spirituality and Leadership.

Recent publications by Daniel A. Levinthal include:

  • The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity (2020) in Organization Science
  • Resource Redeployment and the Pursuit of the New Best Use: Economic Logic and Organizational Challenges (2024) in Strategy Science
  • Bringing Politics Back In: The Role of Power and Coalitions in Organizational Adaptation (2024) in Organization Science

Frequent collaborators with Levinthal include Claus Rerup, Brian Wu, Daniel Newark, Daniel Schliesmann, and Alan D. Meyer.

The researcher has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in the Academy of Management Proceedings, followed by Strategy Science, Organization Science, Journal of Organization Design, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Among the awards received, Daniel A. Levinthal has been recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

  • ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • The myopia of learning

    Daniel A. Levinthal;James G. March

  • Adaptation on rugged landscapes

    Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search:

    Giovanni Gavetti;Daniel Levinthal

  • A model of adaptive organizational search

    Daniel Levinthal;James G. March

  • Fortune favors the prepared firm

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems

    Sendil K. Ethiraj;Daniel Levinthal

  • Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation

    Nicolaj Siggelkow;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Demand Heterogeneity and Technology Evolution: Implications for Product and Process Innovation

    Ron Adner;Daniel Levinthal

  • Crossing an Apparent Chasm: Bridging Mindful and Less-Mindful Perspectives on Organizational Learning

    Daniel Levinthal;Claus Rerup

  • Honeymoons and the Liability of Adolescence: A New Perspective on Duration Dependence in Social and Organizational Relationships

    Mark Fichman;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Strategy making in novel and complex worlds: the power of analogy

    Giovanni Gavetti;Daniel A. Levinthal;Jan W. Rivkin

  • Dynamics of Interorganizational Attachments: Auditor-Client Relationships

    Daniel A. Levinthal;Mark Fichman

  • What Is Not A Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy

    Ron Adner;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Role of Individual Attachments in the Dissolution of Interorganizational Relationships

    Mark A. Seabright;Daniel A. Levinthal;Mark Fichman

  • A survey of agency models of organizations

    Daniel Levinthal

  • Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel Levinthal

  • Organizational Adaptation and Environmental Selection-Interrelated Processes of Change

    Daniel A. Levinthal

  • The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects

    Giovanni Gavetti;Henrich R. Greve;Daniel A. Levinthal;William Ocasio

  • Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation

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  • Landscape Design: Designing for Local Action in Complex Worlds

    Daniel A. Levinthal;Massimo Warglien

  • MYOPIA OF LEARNING

    D Levinthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Adner
Ron Adner Dartmouth College
Wesley M. Cohen
Wesley M. Cohen Duke University
Pankaj Ghemawat
Pankaj Ghemawat University of Navarra
Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni Dosi Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
James G. March
James G. March Stanford University
Sidney G. Winter
Sidney G. Winter University of Pennsylvania
Zur Shapira
Zur Shapira New York University
Henrich R. Greve
Henrich R. Greve INSEAD, Singapore
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University

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