Michael Mol

• Associate Professor of Strategic Management

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.

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; offshore outsourcing of knowledge intensive services. My Google Scholar profile is here: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FLqq3eYAAAAJ&hl=en