Ph. D. 1970, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Major: Organization Theory
Minors: Operations Management
Organization Behavior
Dissertation: "Some characteristics of the interaction between budgets and people."

M. Comm. (Hons.)1966, University of Otago, New Zealand
Major: Accounting, Operations Management

B. Comm. 1963, University of Otago, New Zealand
Major: Accounting

ACA (NZ) 1971, Chartered Accountant, New Zealand.

New York University, Stern School of Business Administration
Undergraduate
Management Organizational Analysis
Business Policy
Senior Seminar on Organizational Design

Graduate MBA
Business Strategy and Policy
Industry and Corporate Strategy Studies
International Business Negotiation Exercise
Management Assistance Project
Management and Organizations
The Global Manager and Negotiator

Doctoral
Introduction to Organization Theory
Advanced Topics Seminar
Research Methods

Executive MBA
Management Simulation Experience Modules

"Value creation and knowledge loss: The case of Cremonese stringed instruments," (with Gino Cattani & Zur Shapira) Organization Science, Forthcoming

"Dealing with unusual experience: A narrative perspective on organizational learning," (with Raghu Garud & Caroline Bartel) Organization Science, May-June, 2011, 22 (3): 587-601

"Distributed knowledge and indeterminate meaning: The case of the Columbia shuttle flight," (with Raghu Garud) Organization Studies 2009 (4):397-421

"Learning to design organizations and learning from designing them," (with William H. Starbuck), Organization Science, March-April, 2006, 17 (2): 171-178

"Nicht so schnell nachgaben" (with Rudi F. K. Bresser & Klemens Millonig) Harvard Business Manager, (7/2004): 55-63

"Corporate Reputation and Performance in Germany," (with Joachim Schwalbach) Corporate Reputation Review, (2000) 3 (2): 115-123

"Steinway: A Case of "Reputation by Design," (with Raghu Garud & Suresh Kotha) Corporate Reputation Review (1998) 1 (3) 283-287

Appreciating cultural differences: The case of German reunification," (with Rudi F. K. Bresser) Administration and Society (1997) 29 (4) 440-470

"Run, rabbit, run! But, can you survive?" (with Raghu Garud & Sumita Raghuram) Journal of Management Inquiry (1996) 5 (2): 168-175.

"A frame for deframing in strategic analysis," (with Raghu Garud & Sumita Raghuram) Journal of Management Inquiry (1996) 5 (1): 23-34.

"Intergrations-Zirkel," (Rudi K. F.. Bresser) Personalwirtschaft (1995) 10: 34-40.

"Strategic action generators: A comparison of emphasis placed on generic competitive methods by US and Japanese managers," (with Suresh Kotha & Allan Bird) Strategic Management Journal (1995) 16: 195-220.

"Seeking the institutional balance of power: Avoiding the power of a balanced view," (with David Ahlstrom) Academy of Management Review (1995) 20 (1) 171-192.

"A conceptual model of the effects of areas studies training programs and a preliminary investigation of the model's hypothesized relationships," (with Allan Bird, Susan Heinbuch & Marian McNulty) International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1993) 17: 415-435.

"Preparing managers for foreign assignment: The Expatriate Profile program," (with Allan Bird) Journal of Management Development (1992) 11(7): 58-66.

"Teaching the expatriate experience: A computer-based approach," (with Allan Bird) Journal of Teaching in International Business (1992) 4(1): 69-85.

"A psychoanalytic reading of hostile takeover events," (with Susan C. Schneider) Academy of Management Review (1992) 17(3): 537-567.

"Management development: Choosing the right leadership simulation for the task," (with Stephen A. Stumpf, Thomas P. Mullen & Maria Arnone) Journal of Management Education (1992) 16(2): 220-230.

"The effects of personality type on choices made in strategic decision situations," (with Stephen A Stumpf) Decision Sciences (1991) 22(5): 1047-1072.

International renegotiations: The case of the Dominican Republic and Falconbridge," Natural Resources Forum (1991) 15(4): 258-269.

"Developing entrepreneurial skills through the use of behavioral simulations," (with Stephen A. Stumpf & Thomas P. Mullen) Journal of Management Development (1991) 10(5): 32-46.

"Getting the job done over there: Improving expatriate productivity," (with Allan Bird) National Productivity Review (1991) 10 (Spring): 145-156.

"Using behavioral simulations in teaching strategic management processes," (with Stephen A. Stumpf) Organizational Behavior Teaching Review (1990) 14(2): 43-62.

"Trainings that demystify strategic decision making processes," (with Stephen A Stumpf), Journal of Management Development (1989) 8 (1): 36-42.

"Comment: The concept of ideology in organizational analysis," (with Janice M. Beyer & Alan D. Meyer), Academy of Management Review (1988) 13: 483-489.

"Recognizing contexts and managing processes in universities," (with Rudi K. F. Bresser) Organization Studies (1988) 9: 257-261.

"Context, structure and academic effectiveness: Evidence from West Germany," (with Rudi K. F. Bresser) Organization Studies (1986) 7: 1-24.

"Regulating external threats: The case of the cigarette industry," (with Nikolai Wasilewski) Administrative Science Quarterly (1985) 30: 540-559.

"Toward an applied administrative science," Administrative Science Quarterly (1983) 28: 129-144.

"Crossing mother: Ideological constraints on organizational improvements," Journal of Management Studies (1982) 19: 91-108.

"Business administration and organization studies in the Federal Republic of Germany," (with Rudi K. F. Bresser) International Studies of Management and Organization (1981) 9: 3-16.

"Measuring industrial stagnation: The case of the US railroads," (with Marshall Sarnat) Journal of Industrial Economics (1980) 28: 255-268.

"Testing Mintzberg's managerial roles classification using an in-basket simulation," (with Zur Shapira) Journal of Applied Psychology (1980) 65: 87-95.

"Crisis development and strategic response in European corporations," (with Walter H. Goldberg) Journal of Business Administration (1978) 9: 139-149. Reprinted in Studies in Crisis Management, Chapter 6, edited by Caroline Smart & William T. Sandburg (Montreal: Canada: Butterworth, 1978).

"Transactional analysis in an alcohol safety program," (with Susan H. Clayton) Social Work (1977) 209-213.

"A method for short-term profit analysis," (with Walter H. Goldberg et al. ) Omega (1977) 5: 309-315.

"Strategies for profit: An exploratory study of a behavioral model of Swedish firms," (with Walter H. Goldberg et al.) Management International Review (1977) 17: 35-44.

"Managers' influence on subordinates' thinking about safety," Academy of Management Journal (1975) 27: 34-38.

"Student learning in a restructured environment," (with John M. Dutton) Journal of Research and Development in Education (1972) 27: 6:26-37.

"Budgeting for control," Administrative Science Quarterly (1971) 16: 88-96.

"Semiotic methods and the meaning of strategy in firm annual reports," (with Maria Cristina Cinici). In: G.B. Dagnino (ed.) Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy. Cheltenham, England: Elgar Publishing, 2012. pp. 397-414

"A historical perspective on organizational control," (with Matt Statler). In: S. B. Sitkin, L. B. Cardinal and K. Bijlsma-Frankema, (eds.) Organizational Control. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 16-47

"Making sense of real options reasoning: An engine of choice that backfires?" (with Michael L. Barnett). In: G. Hodgkinson and W. H. Starbuck (eds.), Handbook of Organization Decision Making. New York: Oxford, 2008. pp. 383-398

"Creating better understandings of organizations while building better organizations," (with A. Georges L. Romme and William H. Starbuck). In: D Barry and H. Hansen (eds.) The Sage Handbook of New Approaches to Management and Organization. New York: Sage, 2008. pp. 554-564

"Data indeterminacy: One NASA, two modes," (with Raghu Garud). In: W. H. Starbuck & M. Farjoun (Eds.) Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia disaster, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2005, pp 202-219

"Virtual Organizing," (with Jerold Tomas). In: Malcolm Warner (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2nd Edition, London: Thomson Learning, 2002, pp. 6709-17

"Culture-in-the-making in telework settings," (with Raghu Garud). In: Gary L. Cooper, Sue Cartwright & P. Christopher Early (Eds.), The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, Chichester, England: Wiley, 2001, pp. 573-586

"Managing Institutional and Cultural Contrasts: The Case of Sanyo Electric in the United States," (with Suresh Kotha). In: Joseph L. C. Cheng & Richard B. Peterson (Eds.) Advances in International Comparative Management, Stamford CT, JAI Press, 2000, Vol. 13: 149 - 173

"The potential for virtual work to enhance value in financial services firms," (with Raghu Garud). In: Edward L. Melnick, Praveen R. Nayyar, Michael L. Pinedo & Sridhar Seshadri (Eds.) Creating Value in Financial Services: Strategies, operations and technologies, (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 289 - 302

"Competitive and collective strategies: An empirical examination of strategic groups," (with Rudi K. F. Bresser & T. J. Jithendranathan). In P. Shrivastava, J. Dutton & A. Huff (Eds.) Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 10B, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994). pp. 187-211.

"Managerial skills," In Lawrence K. Jones (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Career Change and Work Issues Phoenix, Oryx, 1992. pp. 177-180.

"Designs for organizational control," In Paul C Nystrom & William H. Starbuck (Eds.) Handbook of Organizational Design New York: Oxford, 1981 pp. 85-115.

"Fear of failure in project management," (with Pierre Guillet de Montheux). In Bo Persson (Ed.) Surviving Failures Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979. pp. 199-217.

"Infrastructures of decision-making: critical assessments," In Anant Negandhi & Bernhard Wilpert (Eds.) Work Organization Research: European and American Perspectives Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1978. pp. 121-125.

"Special Issue: Organization Design," (with William H. Starbuck) Organization Science, 17 (2): 2006, pp. 171-308

"Organization studies in the Federal Republic of German," (with Rudi K. F. Bresser) International Studies of Management and Organization 1981. Complete Issue.

"Managing strategy in academic institutions: Learning from Brazil" by Cynthia Hardy. In: Organization Studies (1992) 13: 480-482.

"Leadership and management in universities," by Titus Oshagbemi. In: Organization Studies (1990) 11: 456-457.

"Conceptual foundations of organization theory," by Edwin M. Hartman. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1989) 43 (2): 331-333.

"Control in business organizations" by Kenneth Merchant. In: Administrative Science Quarterly (1987) 22: 471-472.

Best practices in the virtual workplace," (with Raghu Garud) STERNBusiness (Summer, 1998) pp. 15-17

"The Steinway Piano, a World of Identity" STERNBusiness (Fall, 1998) pp. 37-40

Expatriate Profile A computer training program designed to increase managers' awareness of cross cultural issues. New York: Park Li, 1991, 1996.

Global Directions. A Program to increase managers' awareness of how cross cultural issues impact strategic decisions. New York and Chicago: Park Li, 1993.

Foodcorp: A simulated company in the consumer products industry.
New York: New York University, 1988.

Metrobank: A simulated company in the financial services industry.
New York: New York University, 1985.

Investcorp: A simulated company in the financial services industry
New York: New York University, 1985.

Steinway & Sons: A Multimedia Business Case (with Suresh Kotha),
New York University, 1997

Bridging Cultures (with Allan Bird & Tom Mullen) Park Li, 1998.

"An actor network case: Steinway & Sons," (with Raghu Garud and Suresh Kotha), 26th EGOS Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010

"Material, Symbolic and Institutional Value: The Case of Steinway & Sons," (with Raghu Garud and Suresh Kotha) 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009

"Perspectives on routines: An emerging dialog on routines between evolutionary economics and communities of practice," (with Natalia Levina, Gino Cattani and Emma Vaast), Professional development workshop, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, August 2008

"How firms represent and communicate strategy to stockholders," (with Cristina Cinici) Sub-theme 37: Transforming Others: The Discourse Strategies and Practices of Change, 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, July 10-12 2008

"Data indeterminacy in organizations" (with Raghu Garud) EGOS Conference, Bergen, June 2006 and The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 2006

"Mapping an institutional landscape: Discursive practices in New York City schools," (with Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell) Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu, August, 2005

"Talking about careers," (with Polly Parker) EGOS Conference, Berlin, June 2005

"Data indeterminacy on the Columbia flight," (with Raghu Garud) EGOS Workshop, Santorini, June 2005

"Becoming the Best: The case of Steinway & Sons," EGOS Conference, Copenhagen, July 2003

"In the field - Now what?" Honing technology insights from complex field data," Pre-program Workshop, Academy of Management Meeting, Toronto, 2000

"E-media Journeys in the pluralistic world of the Academy," Pre-Academy Workshop, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, 1999

"Adapting in world that gets bigger and smaller," Centennial Address, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, May 17, 1999

"Technological Changes in the Workplace," Presentation at the Conference on Technological Innovations in Business Education, University of Virginia, April 17-18, 1998.

"Best practices in the virtual workplace," (with R. Garud) Presentation at the Workshop on Achieving Strategic Advantage from Telework, Telecommute America Week, October 20-24, 1997 at New York University.

"The role people play in technological development processes: The case of the Steinways," The International CISTEMA Sponsored Workshop on Path Creation and Dependence, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 1997.

"Local, regional and global maxima and the valleys in between: Lessons from NCR's virtual work initiative," (with R. Garud & D. Accrocco) The Academy of Management Conference, Boston, August 1997

"Quantum physics and career populations," (with J. King & A Hurley) The Academy of Management Conference, Boston, August 1997

"Cultural diversity and the process of German reunification," (with R F. K. Bresser) The Academy of Management Conference, Boston, August 1997

"The quantum mechanics of career paths and trajectories," (with Amy Hurley). Pre-conference meeting of the Careers Division, The Academy of Management Conference, Cincinnati, August, 1996.

"Improbable invasions: United States firms in Japan and Japanese firms in the United States," Symposium presented at The Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August, 1995.

"A frame for deframing in strategic analyses," (with R. Garud and S. Raghuram) The Academy of Management Conference, Dallas, August, 1994.

"Deframing in strategic analyses," (with R. Garud and S. Raghuram) In: Strategic Management Society Program Chicago, September, 1993.

"Exploring patterns in business strategy: An empirical comparison of US and Japanese managers," (with S. Kotha & A. Bird). In: The First IFSAM Conference Proceedings, Tokyo, Japan. September, 1992.

"'Situated' learning for managers preparing to live abroad: An example of a personal computer approach," (with A Bird). In: The Academy of Management Conference, Las Vegas, NA, August, 1992.

"Teaching the expatriate experience: A computer-based approach," (with A. Bird) The Eastern Academy of Management Conference Baltimore, May, 1992.

"Matching managers and international assignments," (with A. Bird) The Conference of the Association of International Business, Miami, October 1991.

"Simulations in entrepreneurship education: Oxymoron or untapped opportunity?" (with S. A. Stumpf & T. P, Mullen) The Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Babson College, Wellesley, MA, 1991.

"Using behavioral simulations in teaching strategy implementation" (with S. A. Stumpf) Symposium paper: The strategy Implementation Challenge: What to teach? How to teach it? The Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA 1988.

"The language of takeovers," (with S. C. Schneider) The Second Meeting, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Pace University, New York, 1987.

"Takeover attempts: What does the language tell us?" (with S. C. Schneider) The Third International Conference on Organizational Symbolism and Corporate Culture Milan, Italy, 1987.

"The impact of crises on industry: The case of the tobacco industry" The First Conference on Industrial Crisis Management. New York University, New York, 1986.

"Policy-making perspectives: Contrast between problem-setting and problem-solving," (with John M. Dutton) The Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, 1986.

"Researching corporate entrepreneurship: Methodological issues and directions," (with A. Ginsberg & I. MacMillan) First Biennial Conference, US Affiliate, International Council for Small Business, Orlando, FL, 1985.

"Narcissistic dilemmas and studies of organizations," The Conference on Alternative Perspectives on Organizations Baruch College, New York, 1985.

"Managing innovation" (with S. A. Stumpf & K. Hartman) In: The Proceeding of the Southern Management Association (New Orleans) 1982. pp. 325-327.

"Paradigm development: A promising construct for organization theory" (with D. Dodge & R. F. K. Bresser) The Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Management, Chicago, 1981. pp. 431-432.

"Rules, achievements and control: Attempting to control a college faculty," (with J. M. Dutton), The ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 1979.

"Socialwissenschaftliche Ausbildung und Modelle," (with M. Patzak) in Konferenzdokumentation: Bedingungen des Lebens in der Zukunft und die Folgen fuer die Erziehung. Berlin: Technische Universitaet, 1978. pp. 482-498.

"One man, two organizations: The fool on the hill" The Conference on Entrepreneurship sponsored by The European Group for Organization Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977.

"The management science implementation gap" (with I. Vertinsky) The International Meeting of the Institute of Management Science, Athens, Greece, 1977.

"The employment of women in universities - trends evident in affirmative action plans," The Proceedings of the American Institute of Decision Science, Atlanta, GA, 1974, p 266.

"The allocation decisions of business school faculty," (with N. Crandall & J. L. Tartar), The Proceedings of the Midwest American Institute of Decision Sciences, Minneapolis, MI, 1974.

"Research in business schools" (with J. L. Tartar & N. Crandall). In: The Proceedings and Abstracts, The American Institute for Decision Sciences, San Francisco, CA 1974. p. 68.

"Design of a faculty" In: The Proceedings of the 20th International Meeting of the Institute of Management Science Tel Aviv, Israel, 1973. pp. 393-398.

"Action research and student learning" The Conference on Action Research London Business School, London, England, 1972.
 

Stern School of Business: Management Department

Management Area, Undergraduate Advisor, 2005-2009
Management Area Undergraduate Director, 1998 - 2003
Coordinator, Management and Organizational Analysis, 1998 -
Management Area Recruiting Committee 1980-1986; 1991-1992; 1996-2000
Management Area Doctoral Committee 1982-1984; 1988 -1992; 1997-2000
Coordinator, Management and Organization Behavior Course 1994-1996
Management Area Doctoral Advisor 1991-1992
Management Area Climate Advisory Committee 1990 -1992
Management Area Promotion and Tenure Committee 1985 -
Graduate Business Policy Course Committee 1989-1992
Management Area Tier VI Coordinating Committee 1986-1987
Member, Management Simulations Project Group 1981-1991

Stern School Admissions and Placement Committee 1994 -1997
Stern School P&T Committee 1995-1996
Stern School Disciplinary Committee 1991-1992

Stern Alternatie, NYU Faculty Council, 2006-2009
New York University Faculty Council, 1993
- Faculty Benefits Committee
- Personnel and Affirmative Action Committee

Co-Director for Electronic Media, 1997-1999

Organization Studies, 2003 -

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2006 -
Strategic Management Journal, 2009 -

Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Administrative Science Quarterly
Human Relations
Journal of Management
Journal of Management Education
Journal of Management Inquiry
Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Management Science
Organizational Behavior and Human Performance
Organizational Behavior Teaching Review
Organization Science
Organization Studies

The Academy of Management
The European Group for Organization Studies
The Institute of Management Science
The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
The New Zealand Society of Accountants
The Strategic Management Society

The International Advisory Network on Organizational Discourse

2003 Conference Grant Award from the National Science Foundation's Innovation and Organization Change Program, #0405384. Conference on Organization Design held at NYU, June 4-6, 2004
1994 The Free University Berlin, Visiting Scholar Grant.
1990 US. Department of Education: Business and International Education Program (with Allan Bird). Grant No. P153A00028.
1988-1991 Four Research Grants, Management Simulations Project
1986 University of Auckland, Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship

Global Gold Medal Award, Interactive Multimedia, Personal/Professional Category, 1998 New York Festivals Multimedia Competition ("Bridging Cultures" CD)
The 1997 Best Paper Award, Journal of Management Inquiry ("A frame for deframing in strategic analysis")
Academy of Management Learning & Education, Outstanding Reviewer Award, Editorial Review Board, 2009

USA
American Express
American Institute of Banking
AT&T
Dow Jones & Company
Honeywell, Inc.
Indiana University
National Council of Savings Institutions
Northern Telecom, Inc.
Park Li, Inc.
Pratt Institute
Waterford-Wedgewood, Ltd.

 New Zealand
Cording Young (NZ) Ltd.
Databank (NZ) Ltd.
DFC (NZ) Ltd.
Fletcher Challenge Ltd.
Nathan Finance (NZ) Ltd.
Unisys-Linc (NZ) Ltd.

Citizenship: USA and New Zealand
Child: Emma Magdalena Dunbar