Michael Mol
- Associate Professor of Strategic Management
BSc (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), MSc (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), PhD (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Biography
Visiting Researcher MLab, London Business School. Previously Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, Henley Business School; Research Fellow, London Business School; Assistant Professor in Strategic and International Management, Nijmegen School of Management. Advisor to private companies and public sector bodies. Speaker at business conferences across Europe. Familiar with wide range of theories and research techniques.
Research interests
The strategic management of larger firms, especially management innovation and outsourcing. Focus on how these phenomena occur and influence performance outcomes. Current research projects include analysis of key historical management innovations; conceptualization of the outsourcing process; large scale analysis of effect of knowledge sourcing and knowledge protection on product innovation; large scale analysis of how R&D outsourcing affects product and process innovation. PhD students are working on outsourcing of human resource development in the oil and gas industry; the link between generic organizational configurations & dynamic capabilities and firm performance; the role of learning in outsourcing and insourcing of manufacturing activities.
Teaching activity this year
Masters Portfolio
- IB9W70 Issues in Strategy: Theory and Practice
Undergraduate
- IB3D80 Corporate Strategy Part A
Warwick MBA
- IB9100 Strategic Advantage
- IB91C0 Practice of Management module leader
- IB9S90 Strategic Advantage: MMBA
Publications
Journal articles
- The sources of management innovation: When firms introduce new management practices. Journal of Business Research 62 (2009) (Published): 1269-1280.
- Outsourcing, performance, and the role of E-commerce; A dynamic perspective. Industrial Marketing Management 37 (2008) (Published): 37-45.
- Management innovation. Academy of Management Review 33 (2008) (Published): 825-845.
- An evolutionary stage theory of outsourcing and competence destruction; A triad comparison of the consumer electronics industry. Management International Review 48 (2008) (Published): 65-93.
- How management innovation happens. MIT Sloan Management Review 47 (2006) (Published): 81-88.
- The antecedents and performance consequences of international outsourcing. International Business Review 14 (2005) (Published): 599-617.
- Does being R&D intensive still discourage outsourcing? Evidence from Dutch manufacturing. Research Policy 34 (2005) (Published): 571-582.
- So you call that research? Mending methodological biases in strategy and organization departments. Strategic Organization 3 (2005) (Published): 117-118.
Books
- Giant Steps in Management: Innovations that Change the Way We Work. London: FT Prentice Hall, 2008.
- Outsourcing: Design, Process and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
