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Martin Kenney is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the domain of business, management, and accounting, with 49 publications in this main field. They also contribute to social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with 26 and 20 publications respectively.

Their subfields of study include strategy and management, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, marketing, and management of technology and innovation. The main topics covered in their work feature sharing economy and platforms, digital platforms and economics, digital economy and work transformation, taxation and compliance studies, transportation and mobility innovations, business strategy and innovation, and innovation policy and R&D.

Kenney has published recent research articles such as:

  • Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs: Power Asymmetries, Risks, and Strategies in the Platform Economy (2020) in Academy of Management Perspectives
  • The platform economy: restructuring the space of capitalist accumulation (2020) in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • The platform economy matures: measuring pervasiveness and exploring power (2021) in Socio-Economic Review
  • Platform power and regulatory politics: Polanyi for the twenty-first century (2022) in New Political Economy
  • The Chinese platform business group: an alternative to the Silicon Valley model? (2021) in Journal of Chinese Governance

Frequent co-authors in Kenney's research include John Zysman, David C. Mowery, Dafna Bearson, Angela García Calvo, and Donald Patton. Kenney's work has appeared repeatedly in notable publication venues like SSRN Electronic Journal, Management and Organization Review, New Political Economy, Research Policy, and Policy & Internet.

In addition to journal publications, Kenney has contributed to academic books published by Cambridge University Press and Stanford University Press eBooks. Among these are "Private Equity and the Demise of the Local" (2024) and "The Demise of the Global ICE Industry" (2025) published by Cambridge University Press, and "Public Universities and Regional Growth" (2020) published by Stanford University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context

    Erkko Autio;Martin Kenney;Martin Kenney;Philippe Mustar;Don Siegel

  • Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex

    Martin Kenney

  • 30 years after Bayh–Dole: Reassessing academic entrepreneurship

    Rosa Grimaldi;Martin Kenney;Martin Kenney;Donald S. Siegel;Mike Wright;Mike Wright

  • High-Tech Fantasies: Science Parks in Society, Science and Space

    Doreen B. Massey;Paul Quintas;David Wield

  • Understanding silicon valley : the anatomy of an entrepreneurial region

    Martin Kenney

  • Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.

    Martin Kenney;Richard L. Florida

  • Venture Capital, High Technology and Regional Development∗

    Richard L. Florida;Martin Kenney

  • Technology, entrepreneurship and path dependence: industrial clustering in Silicon Valley and Route 128

    M Kenney;U von Burg

  • Venture capital-financed innovation and technological change in the USA

    Richard L. Florida;Martin Kenney

  • The role of social embeddedness in professorial entrepreneurship: a comparison of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and Stanford

    Martin Kenney;W Richard Goe

  • Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

    Martin Kenney;Bryan Pon

  • On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship

    Satish Nambisan;Donald Siegel;Martin Kenney

  • The Next Wave of Globalization: Relocating Service Provision to India

    Rafiq Dossani;Martin Kenney

  • Reconsidering the Bayh-Dole Act and the Current University Invention Ownership Model

    Martin Kenney;Donald Patton

  • Universities/Research Institutes and Regional Innovation Systems: The Cases of Beijing and Shenzhen

    Kun Chen;Martin Kenney

  • Transplanted Organizations: The Transfer of Japanese Industrial Organization to the U.S.

    Richard Florida;Martin Kenney

  • Coming back home after the sun rises: Returnee entrepreneurs and growth of high tech industries

    Martin Kenney;Dan Breznitz;Michael Murphree

  • Beyond Mass Production: Production and the Labor Process in Japan

    Martin Kenney;Richard Florida

  • Venture capital and high technology entrepreneurship

    Richard Florida;Martin Kenney

  • THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION: JAPANESE TRANSPLANTS IN NORTH AMERICA

    Andrew Mair;Richard Florida;Martin Kenney

  • Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs: Power Asymmetries, Risks, and Strategies in the Platform Economy

    Donato Cutolo;Martin Kenney

  • Digital Technologies, Innovation, and Skills: Emerging Trajectories and Challenges

    Tommaso Ciarli;Martin Kenney;Silvia Massini;Lucia Piscitello

  • Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex

    Kenneth P. Ruscio;Martin Kenney

Frequent Co-Authors

John Zysman
John Zysman University of California, Berkeley
Richard Florida
Richard Florida University of Toronto
Arie Y. Lewin
Arie Y. Lewin Duke University
Catherine J. Morrison Paul
Catherine J. Morrison Paul University of California, Davis
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Maryann P. Feldman
Maryann P. Feldman Arizona State University
Donald S. Siegel
Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University
Ben R. Martin
Ben R. Martin University of Sussex
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University
John P. Walsh
John P. Walsh Georgia Institute of Technology

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