Management & Organizations Faculty : Kenneth 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
	Phone:	520.621.7460
	Fax:	520.621.4171
	Email:	kkoput@eller.arizona.edu
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 405

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

• On sabbatical until Fall, 2008

Selected Areas of Expertise

• Innovation and Path Dependence
• Social and Organizational Networks
• Statistics and& Mathematical Modeling

Selected Publications

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.

Barry M Staw, Sigal G. Barsade and Kenneth W. Koput (1997), "Escalation at the Credit Window: A Longitudinal Study of Banks' Recognition and Write-off of Nonperforming Loans", Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 82, # 1, February: 130-142.

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.

Selected Awards

• 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”