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Rita Gunther McGrath

Rita Gunther McGrath

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
20157
World Ranking
6809
National Ranking
3306

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Rita Gunther McGrath is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on fields within Business, Management, and Accounting. Key subfields include Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably Innovation and Knowledge Management, Technology Assessment and Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, as well as Management and Marketing Education.

Recent publications by McGrath include:

  • Who Learns Fastest, Wins: Lean Startup and Discovery Driven Growth, 2023, Journal of Management
  • The Imagination Premium: an anticipative performance metric, 2021, Strategy and Leadership
  • Innovation preservation and cultivation: where to locate transformational projects, 2022, Strategy and Leadership
  • Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Growth in an Uncertain World: The Role of Serendipity, 2023, Academy of Management Proceedings
  • The strategy spine: how and why you should create one, 2023, The "business & management collection.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alex van Putten
  • Ron Pierantozzi
  • Amy Watson
  • Holly A. Syrdal
  • John E. Osborn

McGrath's work has been published most often in the venues Strategy and Leadership, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Proceedings, and The "business & management collection.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

  • The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C MacMillan

  • Falling Forward: Real Options Reasoning and Entrepreneurial Failure

    Rita Gunther McGrath

  • Exploratory Learning, Innovative Capacity, and Managerial Oversight

    Rita Gunther McGrath

  • Business Models: A Discovery Driven Approach

    Rita Gunther McGrath

  • IMPROVING LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICIES DO MATTER

    Marianne J. Koch;Rita Gunther McGRATH

  • A Real Options Logic for Initiating Technology Positioning Investments

    Rita Gunther McGrath

  • Elitists, risk-takers, and rugged individualists? An exploratory analysis of cultural differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. MacMillan;Sari Scheinberg

  • Defining and developing competence: A strategic process paradigm

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. Macmillan;S. Venkataraman

  • Organizations Unfettered: Organizational Form in an Information-Intensive Economy

    John Child;Rita Gunther McGrath

  • The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business

    Rita Gunther McGrath

  • Real options reasoning and a new look at the R&D investment strategies of pharmaceutical firms

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Atul Nerkar

  • Innovation, competitive advantage and rent: a model and test

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ming-Hone Tsai;S. Venkataraman;I. C. MacMillan

  • Does culture endure, or is it malleable? Issues for entrepreneurial economic development☆

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. MacMillan;Elena Ai Yuan Yang;William Tsai

  • Real Options as Engines of Choice and Heterogeneity

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Walter J. Ferrier;Aubrey L. Mendelow

  • More like each other than anyone else? A cross-cultural study of entrepreneurial perceptions

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. MacMillan

  • Assessing Technology Projects Using Real Options Reasoning

    Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. MacMillan

  • Discovering new points of differentiation.

    I C MacMillan;R G McGrath

  • Learning to live with complexity.

    Gökçe Sargut;Rita Gunther McGrath

  • Three facets of satisfaction and their influence on the performance of innovation teams

    Atul A. Nerkar;Rita Gunther McGrath;Ian C. MacMillan

  • Crafting R&D Project Portfolios

    Ian C. MacMillan;Rita Gunther McGrath

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