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D-Index
68
Citations
28607
World Ranking
336
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Will Mitchell was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research contributions spanned the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a primary focus on Strategy and Management. Other subfields included Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, and Accounting.

The scientist's work covered multiple main topics, particularly:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • International Business and FDI
  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
  • Corporate Finance and Governance

Among the recent publications were several papers in noteworthy journals, including:

  • "Empirical inquiry without hypotheses: A question-driven, phenomenon-based approach to strategic management research" (2022), published in Strategic Management Journal
  • "How do pre-entrants to the industry incubation stage choose between alliances and acquisitions for technical capabilities and specialized complementary assets?" (2020), published in Strategic Management Journal
  • "Searching for knowledge in response to proximate and remote problem sources: Evidence from the U.S. renewable electricity industry" (2020), published in Strategic Management Journal
  • "Specialization as a double-edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change" (2021), published in Strategic Management Journal
  • "Billing And Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis" (2022), published in Health Affairs

Will Mitchell frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Navid Asgari, Mahka Moeen, Nilanjana Dutt, Zhiyan Wu, and Garry D. Bruton.

The scientist contributed to various publication venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Health Affairs
  • Organization Science
  • Review of Managerial Science

Will Mitchell was recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations

    Constance E. Helfat;Sydney Finkelstein;Will Mitchell;Harbir Singh

  • Learning from Competing Partners: Outcomes and Durations of Scale and Link Alliances in Europe, North America and Asia

    Pierre Dussauge;Bernard Garrette;Will Mitchell

  • Path-dependent and path-breaking change: reconfiguring business resources following acquisitions in the U.S. medical sector, 1978–1995

    Samina Karim;Will Mitchell

  • Resource redeployment following horizontal acquisitions in Europe and North America, 1988-1992

    Laurence Capron;Laurence Capron;Pierre Dussauge;Will Mitchell

  • Whether and When? Probability and Timing of Incumbents' Entry into Emerging Industrial Subfields

    Will Mitchell

  • SURVIVAL OF BUSINESSES USING COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS TO COMMERCIALIZE COMPLEX GOODS

    Will Mitchell;Kulwant Singh

  • The effect of introducing important incremental innovations on market share and business survival

    Catherine M. Banbury;Will Mitchell

  • Dual clocks: Entry order influences on incumbent and newcomer market share and survival when specialized assets retain their value

    Will Mitchell

  • How a firm's competitive environment and digital strategic posture influence digital business strategy

    Sunil Mithas;Ali Tafti;Will Mitchell

  • Asset Divestiture Following Horizontal Acquisitions: A Dynamic View

    Laurence Capron;Will Mitchell;Anand Swaminathan

  • The Interactions of Organizational and Competitive Influences on Strategy and Performance

    Rebecca M. Henderson;Will Mitchell

  • Selection Capability: How Capability Gaps and Internal Social Frictions Affect Internal and External Strategic Renewal

    Laurence Capron;Will Mitchell

  • THE EFFECT OF OWN-FIRM AND OTHER-FIRM EXPERIENCE ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT SURVIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1987-92

    J. Myles Shaver;Will Mitchell;Bernard Yeung

  • Structural homophily or social asymmetry? The formation of alliances by poorly embedded firms

    Gautam Ahuja;Francisco Polidoro;Will Mitchell

  • Coalition Formation in Standard-Setting Alliances

    Robert Axelrod;Will Mitchell;Robert E. Thomas;D. Scott Bennett

  • Organizational Evolution in the interorganizational Environment: Incentives and Constraints on International Expansion Strategy

    Xavier Martin;Anand Swaminathan;Will Mitchell

  • Precarious collaboration: Business survival after partners shut down or form new partnerships

    Kulwant Singh;Will Mitchell

  • How Open System Intermediaries Address Institutional Failures: The Case of Business Incubators in Emerging-Market Countries

    Nilanjana Dutt;Olga Hawn;Elena Vidal;Aaron Chatterji

  • Two Faces: Effects of Business Groups on Innovation in Emerging Economies

    Ishtiaq P. Mahmood;Will Mitchell

  • Incumbents' use of pre-entry alliances before expansion into new technical subfields of an industry

    Will Mitchell;Kulwant Singh

  • Learning from competing partners: outcomes and durations of scale and link alliances in Europe, North America and Asia

    Bernard Garrette;Pierre Dussauge;Will Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Anand Swaminathan
Anand Swaminathan Emory University
Anita M. McGahan
Anita M. McGahan University of Toronto
J. Myles Shaver
J. Myles Shaver University of Minnesota
Jaideep Anand
Jaideep Anand The Ohio State University
Richard A. Bettis
Richard A. Bettis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Constance E. Helfat
Constance E. Helfat Dartmouth College
Kevin A. Schulman
Kevin A. Schulman Stanford University
Bernard Yeung
Bernard Yeung National University of Singapore
Richard M. Burton
Richard M. Burton Duke University

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