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Kenneth W. Koput

Associate Professor
Eller Fellow in Management and Organizations

• Ph.D. (1992) Business Administration. University of California, Berkeley
• M.Sc. (1988) Management. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• B.S. (1985) Business Administration. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Current Courses

• MGMT 475 Topics in Management
• MGMT 582D Multivariate Analysis

Selected Areas of Expertise

• Innovation & Path Dependence
• Social & Organizational Networks

Selected Publications

Rose Lou and Kenneth W. Koput. "The Effects of Intellectual Capital in a Knowledge-Intensive Industry: Stocks of Knowledge and Alliance Portfolios." To appear in Research Policy.

Kenneth W. Koput, Michael W. Conaway, and David R. Olson. "The Horse's Hoof: Social Identity, Path Dependence , and Path-Breaking in the Equine Industry." To appear in Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependency: Organizational and Instiutional Path Processes, Edited by Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow. Palgreave.

Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, Douglas R. White, and Jason Owen-Smith (2005).  “Network Dynamics and Field Evolution:  The Growth of Interorganizational collaboration in the Life Sciences.”   American Journal of Sociology, 110 (4), 1132-205.

Kenneth W. Koput (1997) "A Chaotic Model of Innovative Search: Some Answers, Many Question", Organization Science, volume 8, #5, Sept: 528-542.

Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput and Laurel Smith-Doerr (1996), "Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology", Administrative Science Quarterly 41: 116-145, March.

Trond Petersen and Kenneth W. Koput (1991) "Density Dependence and Organizational Mortality: Legitimacy or Unobserved Heterogeneity?", American Sociological Review, vol. 56, #3, June: 399-409.

Awards and Honors

• American Sociological Association, Viviana Zelizere Award for Outstandinbg Scholary Contribution to Economic Sociology, 2007, for “Network Dynamics and Field Evolution”.
• Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contribution, 2002, for “Networks of Learning”
• Named “Young Star” in the area of Strategy and Technology by Tuck Business School, Dartmouth University, 1999
• ANBAR Citation of Excellence, 1998, for “A Chaotic Model of Innovative Search”

 

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