Joseph T. Mahoney earned a BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, with a doctorate in Business Economics from the Wharton School of Business. Joe joined the College of Business of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, and is currently the Investors in Business Education Professor of Strategy, and Director of Graduates Studies.

Joe’s research interest is organizational economics, which includes: dynamic capabilities and resource-based theory, transaction costs theory, real-options theory, agency theory, property rights theory, stakeholder theory, and the behavioral theory of the firm. He has published over 45 articles in journal outlets such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Organization and the Strategic Management Journal. His publications have been cited over 2,500 times in print from scholars in over 50 countries. In 2005, he published his Sage book intended for first-year doctoral students in the Strategy field: Economic Foundations of Strategy. This research book has been adopted by more than 25 doctoral programs including: Colorado-Boulder, Florida, Florida State,Georgia State, Kansas, Michigan State, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Wharton), Purdue, Rutgers, Syracuse, Texas-Dallas, Washington-Seattle and Wisconsin-Madison; and internationally at Copenhagen Business School, ESADE-Spain, HEC-Paris, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), National Cheng-chi University, National Taiwan University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and York University, Canada.

Joe is an Associate Executive Editor of the newly launched International Journal of Strategic Change Management, and is an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal. He also currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies and has served on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review. For the academic-year, 2008-2009, he is serving as Chair of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division of the Academy of Management.

Joe has taught courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the following programs: undergraduate, Master of Science in Accounting (MSA), Master of Science in Business Administration (MSBA), MBA, Executive MBA (EMBA), Professional MBA (PMBA) and Ph.D. and he has received the outstanding teaching award (as voted by the executives) five times in the Executive MBA program. He has served on 42 completed doctoral dissertation committees, and he is currently serving on committees for 8 dissertations in progress.

Elaine Mosakowski is a professor of Management at the University of Connecticut’s School of Business. After receiving her Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, she has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, UCLA’s Anderson School, Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, and the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. Her research interests revolve around a range of topics that involve the relationship between entrepreneurs, new venture opportunities, firm resources, and firm strategy. These topics include the relationship between new ventures’ social networks and their performance, the influence of knowledge spillovers on firm startups, and the link between an entrepreneur’s identity and his/her motivation. She has published papers in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Management. Her most recent research has focused on problems relating to social innovation and social entrepreneurship, including a study of how personal values influence how a firm’s resources are perceived, evaluated, and deployed toward strategic goals. This research interest is also paralleled by a programmatic initiative that she has co-founded with Dean Chris Earley to create a new learning accelerator for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Connecticut who are interested in sustainable community outreach and public engagement (SCOPE).

Anne Parmigiani is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Oregon and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include vertical interfirm relationships, technology transfer, firm knowledge and capabilities, firm boundaries, and the theory of the firm. Formerly a market analyst and a procurement manager, she has worked in various manufacturing industries and is certified as a professional purchasing manager (CPM). Her work has been published in the Journal of Management Inquiry, the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and the Strategic Management Journal.