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Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

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Business and Management
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
86
Citations
235231
World Ranking
114
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with particular attention to subfields such as Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, Computer Science Applications, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Management and Organizational Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • What is the Eisenhardt Method, really? (2021, Strategic Organization)
  • What is digital transformation? Core tensions facing established companies on the global stage (2022, Global Strategy Journal)
  • Strategy and Uncertainty: Resource-Based View, Strategy-Creation View, and the Hybrid Between Them (2021, Journal of Management)
  • Get rich or die trying... finding revenue model fit using machine learning and multiple cases (2020, Strategic Management Journal)
  • Decision weaving: Forming novel, complex strategy in entrepreneurial settings (2020, Strategic Management Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eisenhardt include:

  • Nathan Furr
  • Ron Tidhar
  • Xavier Mundet
  • Axel Zeijen
  • Rahul Kapoor

Their work is frequently published in journals and proceedings such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Organization Science
  • Strategic Organization
  • Global Strategy Journal

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt has also been recognized with awards including the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum in 2012. Additionally, they have received distinctions such as Dean of Fellow from the Academy of Management and Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

  • Building theories from case study research.

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Melissa E. Graebner

  • Building theories from case study research

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES, WHAT ARE THEY?

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Jeffrey A. Martin

  • Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations

    Shona L. Brown;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Making Fast Strategic Decisions In High-Velocity Environments

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Building Theories from Case Study Research

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PAST RESEARCH, PRESENT FINDINGS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

    Shona L. Brown;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review

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  • Resource-based View of Strategic Alliance Formation: Strategic and Social Effects in Entrepreneurial Firms

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Claudia Bird Schoonhoven

  • Exploring the Black Box: An Analysis of Work Group Diversity, Conflict and Performance

    Lisa Hope Pelled;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Katherine R. Xin

  • Accelerating Adaptive Processes: Product Innovation in the Global Computer Industry

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Behnam N. Tabrizi

  • Politics of Strategic Decision Making in High-Velocity Environments: Toward a Midrange Theory

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;L. J. Bourgeois

  • Organizational Growth: Linking Founding Team, Strategy, Environment, and Growth among U.S. Semiconductor Ventures, 1978-1988.

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Claudia Bird Schoonhoven

  • Control: Organizational and Economic Approaches

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Strategic decision processes in high velocity environments: four cases in the microcomputer industry

    L. J. Bourgeois;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Competing on the Edge : Strategy as Structured Chaos

    Kathleen M Eisenhardt;Shona L Brown

  • Strategic decision making

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Mark J. Zbaracki

  • Better Stories and Better Constructs: The Case for Rigor and Comparative Logic

    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

  • Strategy as simple rules.

    K M Eisenhardt;D N Sull

  • Developing Theory Through Simulation Methods

    Jason P. Davis;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Christopher B. Bingham

  • Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields

    Filipe M. Santos;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis A. Gioia
Dennis A. Gioia Pennsylvania State University
Ann Langley
Ann Langley HEC Montréal
John E. Prescott
John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh
W. Richard Scott
W. Richard Scott Stanford University
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Ron Adner
Ron Adner Dartmouth College
George Tagaras
George Tagaras Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Kevin G. Corley
Kevin G. Corley Imperial College London
Zur Shapira
Zur Shapira New York University
Kathleen M. Carley
Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University

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