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Professor Anne Miner

Professor -  Management and Human Resources

Degree
PhD, Stanford University

Contact Information:
Anne Miner
5274C Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706

aminer@bus.wisc.edu
(608) 263-4143
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Areas of Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Ethical issues in technology strategy
  • Improvisation
  • Industry learning
  • Inter-organizational relationships
  • New product development
  • Organizational learning
  • Strategic marketing management
  • Technological change
  • Technology Strategy

Biography

Miner directs the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepeneurship (INSITE), the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition and the Research and Cross-Campus programs at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. Miner was founding director for the new MBA concentration in Strategic Management in the Life and Engineering Sciences (SMILES) and teaches a course on technology strategy in SMILES, along with Executive MBA and courses in the M.S. in Biotechnology.

Miner's research highlights organizational learning, including learning from the failure of other organizations and improvisation by new organizations. The Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management named Miner the Scholar of the Year for 2004.

Recent Publications
Schwab, Andreas and Anne S. Miner.  2007. "Shall they dance again? The effects of project performance on repeated collaboration in hybrid short-term project systems." Academy of Management Journal.  Conditional acceptance.

Kim, Ji-Yub(Jay) and Anne S. Miner. 2007. "Vicarious learning from the failure and near-failure of others. Evidence from the U.S. commercial banking industry." Academy of Management Journal. 50(2):687-714.

Gong, Yan, Ted Baker and Anne S. Miner. 2005. "Organizational routines and capabilities in new ventures." Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. p.375-388. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.

Miner, Anne S., Pamela Haunschild and Andreas Schwab. 2003. "Experience and convergence: Curiosities and speculation." Industrial and Corporate Change. 12:789-813.

Baker, Ted, Anne S. Miner and Dale T. Eesley. 2003. "Improvising firms: Bricolage, account giving and improvisational competencies in the founding process." Research Policy. 32:255-276.

Miner, Anne S., Paula Bassoff and Christine Moorman. 2001. "Organizational improvisation and learning: A field study." Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol.46:304-337.

Select Publications
Gong, Yan, Ted Baker and Anne S. Miner. 2006. "Failures of entrepreneurial learning in knowledge-based startups." Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Wellesley, MA: Babson College. Forthcoming.

Kim, Ji-Yub (Jay) and Anne S. Miner. 2006. "Vicarious learning from the failure and near-failure of others: Evidence from the U.S. commercial banking industry." Forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal.

Gong, Yan, Ted Baker and Anne S. Miner. 2005. "Organizational routines and capabilities in new ventures." Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. p. 375-388. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.

Miner, Anne S., Pamela Haunschild and Andreas Schwab. 2003. "Experience and convergence: Curiosities and speculation." Industrial and Corporate Change. 12: 789-813.

Baker, Ted, Anne S. Miner and Dale T. Eesley. 2003. "Improvising firms: Bricolage, account giving and improvisational competencies in the founding process." Research Policy. 32:255-276.

Miner, Anne S., Paula Bassoff and Christine Moorman. 2001. "Organizational improvisation and learning: A field study." Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 46: 304-337.