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  1. The Theory-Based View: Economic Actors as Theorists

    Article • Strategy Science, December 2017, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  2. Creating and Capturing Value in Repeated Exchange Relationships: The Second Paradox of Embeddedness

    Article • Organization Science, September 2017, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  3. Organization Design, Proximity, and Productivity Responses to Upward Social Comparison

    Article • Organization Science, February 2017, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  4. Alliance governance

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, November 2016, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

  5. The Lemons Problem in Markets for Strategy

    Article • Strategy Science, June 2016, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  6. CROSSROADS—Strategy, Problems, and a Theory for the Firm

    Article • Organization Science, December 2015, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  7. Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets

    Article • Journal of Organization Design, July 2015, Aarhus University Library

    Todd R Zenger

  8. Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice

    Article • Research Policy, June 2014, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  9. What Is a Relationship Worth? Repeated Exchange and the Development and Deployment of Relational Capital

    Article • Organization Science, February 2014, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  10. Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries

    Article • Organization Science, December 2012, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  11. Organizational Economics of Capability and Heterogeneity

    Article • Organization Science, October 2012, INFORMS

    Professor Nicolai J. Foss, Todd R Zenger

  12. Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox

    Article • Management Science, October 2012, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, April 2012, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

  14. The Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability and Heterogeneity: A Research Agenda

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Nicolai J. Foss, Todd R Zenger

  15. Theories of the Firm–Market Boundary

    Article • Academy of Management Annals, June 2011, The Academy of Management

    Todd R Zenger

  16. The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers

    Article • Management Science, April 2010, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  17. The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations, and key considerations for managing human capital

    Article • Human Resource Management, July 2009, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, June 2009, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

  19. Governing Knowledge Creation: A Problem‐Finding and Problem‐Solving Perspective

    Article • January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Todd R Zenger

  20. Limits to the scale and scope of the firm

    Article • January 2009, Emerald

    Todd R Zenger

  21. Envy, comparison costs, and the economic theory of the firm

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, December 2008, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2008, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Organization Science, October 2008, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2007, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger, Chih Hsieh

  25. A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm—The Problem-Solving Perspective

    Article • Organization Science, December 2004, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  26. Information Intermediaries' Incentives and Corporate Strategy Choices in the US

    Article • September 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Todd R Zenger

  27. Compensating for innovation: Do small firms offer high-powered incentives that lure talent and motivate effort?

    Article • Managerial and Decision Economics, September 2004, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

  28. Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice

    Article • Organization Science, October 2002, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  29. Crafting Internal Hybrids: Complementarities, Common Change Initiatives, and the Team-Based Organization

    Article • International Journal of the Economics of Business, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Todd R Zenger

  30. Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements?

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, January 2002, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, September 1998, Wiley

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Organization Science, June 1997, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

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

    Article • Management Science, June 1994, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  34. Crossroads—The Myth of a Monolithic Economics: Fundamental Assumptions and the Use of Economic Models in Policy and Strategy Research

    Article • Organization Science, August 1993, INFORMS

    Todd R Zenger

  35. Why Do Employers Only Reward Extreme Performance? Examining the Relationships Among Performance, Pay, and Turnover

    Article • Administrative Science Quarterly, June 1992, JSTOR

    Todd R Zenger

  36. Organizational Economics: An Impending Revolution in Organization Theory?

    Article • Academy of Management Review, July 1990, The Academy of Management

    Todd R Zenger

  37. Moving Out of Committed Relationships

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  38. agency problems

    Article • Nature

    Todd R Zenger

  39. Dynamics of organizational structure

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Todd R Zenger

  40. The Lemons Problem in Markets for Strategy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  41. The Determinants of Incentive Intensity in Group-based Rewards

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  42. Being Efficiently Fickle: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Choice

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  43. Incentives, Social Comparison Costs, and the Proximity of Envy's Object

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  44. A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm - A Problem-solving Perspective

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  45. Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  46. Informal and formal organization in new institutional economics

    Article • Emerald

    Todd R Zenger

  47. Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  48. A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm - A Problem-solving Perspective

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  49. Substitutes or Complements? Exploring the Relationship between Formal Contracts and Relational Governance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  50. Order with Some Law: Complementarity vs. Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  51. Informal and Formal Organization in New Institutional Economics

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  52. Envy, Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  53. Capabilities, Transaction Costs, and Firm Boundaries: A Dynamic Perspective and Integration

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  54. Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger, Chih Hsieh

  55. The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  56. Information Aggregation, Matching and Radical Market-Hierarchy Hybrids: Implications for the Theory of the Firm

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  57. Open Innovation, Problem Solving, and the Theory of the (Innovative) Firm

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  58. Do Investors Value Uniqueness in Corporate Strategy? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  59. The Distribution of Value in Relationships: Bargaining Over Relational Capital

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  60. Capabilities, Transaction Costs and Firm Boundaries: A Dynamic Perspective and Integration

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  61. The Economics of Relational (Social) Capital: Exploring the Value of Exchange Relationships in Industrial Procurement

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger

  62. Network Prominence, Bargaining Power, and the Allocation of Value Capture Rights in Alliance Contracts

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Todd R Zenger