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Bercovitz, Janet Professor

Positions

Professor, Leeds School of Business

Research

research overview

My research program consists of two main research streams. The first concentrates on extending understanding of academic entrepreneurship and university-industry technology transfer. The second stream focuses on issues of organizational structure and inter-organizational contractual relationships.

keywords

organizational economics, contractual relationships, university-industry technology-transfer, entrepreneurship, innovation strategy, and franchising

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- Understanding Evolving University-Industry Relationships. 171-188. 2012
journal article
- Knowledge Worker Mobility in Context: Pushing the Boundaries of Theory and Methods. Journal of Management Studies. 1-26. 2018
- Franchisee Associations as Sources of Bargaining Power? Some Evidence. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 811-832. 2015
- Who I Am and How I Contract: The Effect of Contractors’ Roles on the Evolution of Contract Structure in University–Industry Research Agreements. Organization Science. 1840-1859. 2014
- Disentangling effort and performance: a renewed look at gender differences in commercializing medical school research. Journal of Technology Transfer. 478-489. 2012
- Spillovers across organizational architectures: The role of prior resource allocation and communication in post-acquisition coordination outcomes. Strategic Management Journal. 710-733. 2012
- The mechanisms of collaboration in inventive teams: Composition, social networks, and geography. Research Policy. 81-93. 2011
- Transaction costs, opportunism, and governance: Contextual considerations and future research opportunities. Marketing Letters. 211-222. 2010
- The influence of inertia on contract design: contingency planning in information technology service contracts. Managerial and Decision Economics. 149-163. 2008
- Academic Entrepreneurs: Organizational Change at the Individual Level. Organization Science. 69-89. 2008
- Fishing upstream: Firm innovation strategy and university research alliances. Research Policy. 930-948. 2007
- Complementarity and Evolution of Contractual Provisions: An Empirical Study of IT Services Contracts. Organization Science. 3-19. 2007
- When is more better? The impact of business scale and scope on long-term business survival, while controlling for profitability. Strategic Management Journal. 61-79. 2007
- The Antecedents and Performance Implications of Cooperative Exchange Norms. Organization Science. 724-740. 2006
- Entpreprenerial Universities and Technology Transfer: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Knowledge-Based Economic Development. Journal of Technology Transfer. 175-188. 2006
- Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters. Regional Studies. 129-141. 2005
- The Role of Voluntary Industry Standards in Environmental Supply-Chain Management.. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 103-123. 2002
- Equity and the Technology Transfer Strategies of American Research Universities. Management Science. 105-121. 2002
- Organizational Structure as a Determinant of Academic Patent and Licensing Behavior: An Exploratory Study of Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania State Universities. Journal of Technology Transfer. 2001
- Environmental Supply-Chain Management in the Computer Industry:A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 83-103. 2000

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 1999
M.B.A., University of California-Berkeley 1988
B.S., University of California-Berkeley 1984

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

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