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D-Index
47
Citations
20285
World Ranking
1122
National Ranking
490

Todd Zenger publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Todd Zenger sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 155 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Todd Zenger D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Todd Zenger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Todd Zenger is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a specific focus on several subfields including Strategy and Management, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their work covers a range of topics, prominently featuring Innovation and Knowledge Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Business Strategy and Innovation, Management and Organizational Studies, and Philosophy and History of Science.

Frequent publication venues for Todd Zenger include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Strategy Science
  • Academy of Management Review

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Todd Zenger include:

  • Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty, 2021, Academy of Management Review
  • Ownership competence, 2020, Strategic Management Journal
  • Resource origins and search, 2021, Strategic Management Journal
  • The theory-based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices, 2023, Strategic Management Journal
  • The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm, 2022, Organization Science

Todd Zenger collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Teppo Felin
  • Thomas Zellweger
  • Alfonso Gambardella
  • Sérgio G. Lazzarini
  • Peter G. Klein

Best Publications

  • Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements

    Laura Poppo;Todd Zenger

  • A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm--The Problem-Solving Perspective

    Jack A. Nickerson;Todd R. Zenger

  • Organizational Demography: The Differential Effects of Age and Tenure Distributions on Technical Communication

    Todd R. Zenger;Barbara S. Lawrence

  • Testing alternative theories of the firm: transaction cost, knowledge-based, and measurement explanations for make-or-buy decisions in information services

    Laura Poppo;Todd Zenger

  • Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice

    Teppo Felin;Todd R. Zenger

  • The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective Intervention, High-Powered Incentives, and Molecular Units

    Todd R. Zenger;William S. Hesterly

  • The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers

    Daniel W. Elfenbein;Barton H. Hamilton;Todd R. Zenger

  • Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice

    Jack A. Nickerson;Todd R. Zenger

  • Sailing into the wind: Exploring the relationships among ambidexterity, vacillation, and organizational performance

    Peter A Boumgarden;Jackson Nickerson;Todd R Zenger

  • Explaining Organizational Diseconomies of Scale in R&D: Agency Problems and the Allocation of Engineering Talent, Ideas, and Effort by Firm Size

    Todd R. Zenger

  • ENVY, COMPARISON COSTS, AND THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE FIRM

    Jack A. Nickerson;Todd R. Zenger

  • Why do employers only reward extreme performance? Examining the relationships among performance, pay, and turnover.

    Todd R. Zenger

  • Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and a Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm

    Chihmao Hsieh;Jackson A. Nickerson;Todd R. Zenger

  • Entrepreneurs as theorists: on the origins of collective beliefs and novel strategies

    Teppo Felin;Todd R. Zenger

  • Order with Some Law: Complementarity versus Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements

    Sergio G. Lazzarini;Gary J. Miller;Todd R. Zenger

  • Examining the Conditional Limits of Relational Governance: Specialized Assets, Performance Ambiguity, and Long-Standing Ties

    Laura Poppo;Kevin Zheng Zhou;Todd R. Zenger

  • Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries

    Nicholas S. Argyres;Todd R. Zenger

  • Determinants of Incentive Intensity in Group-Based Rewards

    Todd R. Zenger;C. R. Marshall

  • Lean startup and the business model: Experimentation revisited

    Teppo Felin;Alfonso Gambardella;Scott Stern;Todd Zenger

  • Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox

    Lubomir P. Litov;Patrick Moreton;Todd R. Zenger

  • Organizational Economics: An Impending Revolution in Organization Theory?

    William S. Hesterly;Julia Liebeskind;Todd R. Zenger

  • Dealing with the Paradox of Embeddedness: The Role of Contracts and Trust in Facilitating Movement Out of Committed Relationships

    Sergio G. Lazzarini;Gary J. Miller;Todd R. Zenger

  • A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm - A Problem-solving Perspective

    Jackson A. Nickerson;Todd Zenger

Frequent Co-Authors

Teppo Felin
Teppo Felin University of Oxford
Nicholas Argyres
Nicholas Argyres Washington University in St. Louis
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Jeffrey J. Reuer Purdue University West Lafayette
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Karim R. Lakhani
Karim R. Lakhani Harvard University
Nicolai Juul Foss
Nicolai Juul Foss Copenhagen Business School
Michael L. Tushman
Michael L. Tushman Harvard University
Michael G. Jacobides
Michael G. Jacobides London Business School
Kevin Zheng Zhou
Kevin Zheng Zhou University of Hong Kong

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