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Varghese P. George
Assistant Professor of Management
617-287-7006
varghese.george@umb.edu

 



EducationProfessor Varghese George
Ph.D. and MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Kerala University (India)

Areas of Expertise
Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Alliances; SCM strategy; Business Networks; Geography and Firm Performance.

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Internship, Practicum

Research Interests
Strategic implications of innovation, locus of innovation, particularly the linkages of firms to the sources of innovation arising outside their boundaries.

Selected Publications
George, Varghese “Structure of Interfirm Alliance Networks: Understanding the Influence of Industry Characteristics,” International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, Volume 3, Number 1, 2004.

George, Varghese and Zaheer, Akbar “Reach Out or Reach Within? Performance Implications of Alliances and Location in Biotechnology,” Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 25, Issue 6-7, 2004.

George. Varghese, Zaheer, Akbar and Lofstrom, Shawn “Interpersonal and Interorganizational Trust in Alliances, “ in Cooperative Strategies and Alliances: What We Know 15 Years Later. Editors: Farok J. Contractor and Peter Lorange. Elsevier Science. 2002.

George, Varghese, Rosenkopf, Lori and Metiu, Anca. “From The Bottom Up? Technical Committee Activity and Alliance Formation,” Administrative Science Quarterly. December 2001.

George, Varghese with Farris, George. “ Performance of Alliances: Formative Stages and Changing Organizational and Environmental Influences,” R&D Management, Volume 29, Number 4, 1999.

George, Varghese “Globalization through Interfirm Cooperation: Technological Anchors and Temporal Nature of Alliances across Geographical Boundaries,” International Journal of Technology Management, Volume 10, Number 1, 1995.

George, Varghese and Allen, Thomas J. “Relational Data in Organizational Settings: An Introductory Note for Using AGNI and Netgraphs to Analyze Nodes, Relationships, Partitions and Boundaries,” CONNECTIONS, Volume XVI, Number 1 & 2, 1993.

George, Varghese and Allen, Thomas J. “Changes in the Field of R&D Management over the Past 20 Years,” R&D Management, Volume 19, Number 2, 1989.

Professional Activities
Academy of Management, Ad-hoc reviewer for various management journals

Honors
Best Reviewer:
ASAC-IFSAM Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2000.
Best Paper:
Industry-wide Technical Organizations as Strategic Antecedents of Alliance Formation. With Lori Rosenkopf and Anca Turcanu. ASAC-IFSAM Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2000.

 

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