Professor Jerker Denrell
Professor of Behavioural Science
Research Interests
Implications of learning and decision-making for strategy (behavioural strategy) and organization theory.
Personal Home page: https://sites.google.com/site/jerkerdenrell/
Teaching in 2021-2022
MSc Business
- IB9BA0: Quantitative Methods for Business
Behavioural Science Group
Email: Jerker.Denrell@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 22119 / Room: 3.119
Biography
Prior to joining Warwick Business School in 2012 Jerker Denrell was Professor of Strategy and Decision Making at University of Oxford and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research examines the implications of learning and decision-making for strategy and organization theory. He has published widely on topics such as behavioural strategy, persistence of performance, organizational learning and risk taking in leading journals including Psychological Review, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly. At Warwick he has received a teaching award for "Outstanding Contributions to the Masters Programs" four years in a row. A native of Sweden, Jerker studied philosophy, economics and management at Lund University and mathematics at Stockholm University. He received his PhD from Stockholm School of Economics in 1998.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Rahmandad, H., Denrell, J. and Prelec, D. (2021) "What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study", Strategic Management Journal, 42, 5, 865-897
- Denrell, J. and Liu, C. (2021) "When reinforcing processes generate an outcome-quality dip", Organization Science, 32, 4, 1079-1099
- Denrell, J. and Kovacs, B. (2020) "The ecology of management concepts", Strategy Science, 5, 4, 293-368
- Denrell, J. and Le Mens, G. (2020) "Revisiting the competency trap", Industrial and Corporate Change, 29, 1, 183-205
- Denrell, J., Fang, C. and Liu, C. (2019) "In search of behavioral opportunities from misattributions of luck", Academy of Management Review, 44, 4, 896-915
- Le Mens, G., Denrell, J., Kovács, B. and Karaman, H. (2019) "Information sampling, judgment, and the environment : application to the effect of popularity on evaluations", Topics in Cognitive Science, 11, 2, 358-373
- Liu, C. and Denrell, J. (2018) "Performance persistence through the lens of chance models ", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018, 1, 10736
- Denrell, J. and Le Mens, G. (2017) "Information sampling, belief synchronization and collective illusions", Management Science, 63, 2, 528-547
- Denrell, J., Liu, C. and Le Mens, G. (2017) "When more selection is worse ", Strategy Science, 2, 1, 39-63
- Liu, C., Vlaev, I., Fang, C., Denrell, J. and Chater, N. (2017) "Strategizing with biases : engineering choice contexts for better decisions using the Mindspace approach", California Management Review, 59, 3, 135-161
- Denrell, J. and Kovács, B. (2015) "The effect of selection bias in studies of fads and fashions", PLoS One, Volume 10, Number 4, 1-19, Article number e0123471
- Denrell, J., Fang, C. and Liu, C. (2015) "Perspective—Chance explanations in the management sciences", Organization Science, 26, 3, 923-940
- Jerker Denrell (2015) "Reference-dependent risk sensitivity as rational inference", Psychological Review, 122, 3, 461-484
- Denrell, J., Fang, C. and Zhao, Z. (2013) "Inferring superior capabilities from sustained superior performance : a bayesian analysis", Strategic Management Journal, Volume 34, Number 2, 182-196
- Jerker Denrell (2013) "“Experts” who beat the odds are probably just lucky", Harvard Business Review, Volume 91, Number 4
- Denrell, J. and Liu, C. (2012) "Top performers are not the most impressive when extreme performance indicates unreliability", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.109, No.24, 9331-9336
- Le Mens, G. and Denrell, J. (2011) "Rational learning and information sampling : on the “naivety” assumption in sampling explanations of judgment biases", Psychological Review, Vol.118, No.2, 379-392
- Denrell, J. and Le Mens, G. (2011) "Seeking positive experiences can produce illusory correlations", Cognition, Vol.119, No.3, 313-324
- Denrell, J. and Fang, C. (2010) "Predicting the next big thing : success as a signal of poor judgment", Management Science, Vol.56, No.10, 1653-1667
- Jerker Denrell (2008) "SOCIOLOGY : Indirect social influence", Science, Vol.321, No.5885, 47-48
- Denrell, J. and Kovács, B. (2008) "Selective sampling of empirical settings in organizational studies", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol.53, No.1, 109-144
- Denrell, J. and Shapira, Z. (2008) "Performance sampling and bimodal duration dependence", The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Volume 33, Number 1, 38-63
- Jerker Denrell (2008) "Organizational risk taking : adaptation versus variable risk preferences", Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 17, Number 3, 427-466
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