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Dr. Manish Srivastava, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech, has published his dissertation as a reference book.  The book, Networks, Clusters and Technological Innovation, can be found on Amazon.com and Libri.de (description provided below).

“Seeing my research published in the form of a book is a great feeling. The book-form and powerful distribution channels such as Amazon.com provide it [my research] multiple legs to travel far and wide around the world to multiple constituencies,” stated Dr. Srivastava about the book’s publication.

About Networks,Clusters and Technological Innovation from Amazon.com

Firms often struggle and falter in their innovation efforts. However, past research has paid little systematic attention on why firms struggle in their innovation efforts. In this book, using a longitudinal research design the author examines how the characteristics of a firm’s ego network and of its cluster independently and jointly impact its technological innovation. This research provides a framework showing how networks and clusters may work in tandem in helping a firm overcome innovation barriers. The empirical evidence indicates that the efficacy of cluster resources increases in the presence of network ties within the cluster. It also shows that firms can mobilize resources of distant clusters using their network ties. The study further demonstrates that resource-rich firms leverage networks resources more effectively than the resource-deficient firms do while resource-deficient firms leverage cluster resources more effectively than the resource-rich firms do. The book makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to alliance, network,cluster, and innovation literatures. The research findings also have important managerial implications.

The School of Business and Economics is proud to host the Research Seminar Series. This series provides our faculty the opportunity to discuss their recent research endeavors in a setting with colleagues, students, and staff. Each Research Seminar will feature a 25-30 minute presentation, 10 minutes of questions, and then refreshments and socializing for everyone in participation. A new presenter will be speaking each month, please check back for a complete schedule.

Maria Schutte

Assistant Professor of Finance, Maria Schutte, will be speaking on “Institutional Ownership and the Idiosyncratic Risk Premium.”

Please join us for Dr. Schutte’s presentation on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 from 3-4pm in the Academic Office Building, first floor, conference room 101.

Maria Schutte

Maria Schutte, assistant professor of finance in the School of Business and Economics was quoted in an article titled: “Buy, Sell, Hold Stock Ratings Being Replaced By New Terms That Stand For…Buy, Sell, Hold” by J. Bansia. This article is featured on the Investor’s Daily Journal website.

Schutte was also featured in Tech Today regarding this article.

The School of Business and Economics is proud to host the Research Seminar Series. This series provides our faculty the opportunity to discuss their recent research endeavors in a setting with colleagues, students, and staff. Each Research Seminar will feature a 25-30 minute presentation, 10 minutes of questions, and then refreshments and socializing for everyone in participation. A new presenter will be speaking each month, please check back for a complete schedule.

Associate Professor of Economics, Bill Breffle, will be speaking on “Assessing the carrying capacity of the Great Lakes natural environment of western Michigan.”

Please join us for Dr. Breffle’s presentation on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 from 3-4pm in the Academic Office Building, first floor, room 101.

Before coming to Michigan Tech in 1985, Karol Pelc worked for electric power industry as an engineer, project leader and R&D manager. At the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, he lectured on production and R&D management. He was the founder and director of the Forecasting Research Center at that university. He has also served as international consultant in R&D and engineering management.

Karol Pelc

During his years at Michigan Tech, Dr. Pelc taught several courses related to engineering/technology management such as economics of technological change, management of technology, project management and international technology management. In 2001, he became co-founder and the first director of the Center for Technological Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship CenTILE. He also initiated and organized the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Club of Michigan Tech. Since the 1990’s, he has been conducting research on technology strategies in Japanese industry, and on knowledge mapping theories and methods. He published actively in academic and professional journals. In 2004, he received the Excellence in Research Award from the International Association for Management of Technology for being the most prolific author in the domain of technology innovation management.

After retiring from Michigan Tech in 2005, as a professor emeritus Dr. Pelc continues to be active in research, teaching and consulting. In the fall of 2005, he was a visiting scholar at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone, Japan. In 2006, he served as Fulbright Professor of technology systems management at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. In 2008, he presented a lecture series on global innovation networks for the International Business and Technology Management Program at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. In the years 2006 – 2008, he was a visiting lecturer of production and technology management at the Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland (formerly L. K. Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management). Dr. Pelc has also continued to teach graduate courses at Michigan Tech during the summer terms (2006-2009).

His publications in the recent years (2005 – 2009) include the book Innovation and Technology Strategy published in Poland (2008), coauthored by W. Kasprzak, chapters contributed to three other books, and several publications in refereed journals such as Transformations (2008), International Journal of Technology Management (2005) and jointly with A. B . Jambekar in Team Peformance Management (2007) and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management (2006). Dr. Pelc has also been actively involved in editorial work and served as guest editor for the International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (2009), and International Journal of Technology Management (2005).

Links to more information

http://pelcinterlec.com/

http://myprofile.cos.com/pelc

http://karol-pelc.blogspot.com/

http://www.sbea.mtu.edu/kipelc