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ROBERT CONAN RYAN

Phone: 

302-893-7622

E-mail: 

ryanrc111@gmail.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

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RECENT POSITIONS

Visiting Assistant Professor, Strategy, Oakland University (MI)                      (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018)

     

Visiting Assistant Professor, Management, Roger Williams University (RI)  (Fall 2016 - Spring 2017)

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Adjunct Instructor, Managerial Ethics, University of Pittsburgh (PA)                             (Spring 2016)

        

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh                                                             (Dec 2018)

  • Major, Strategic Management

  • Minor, Organizational Learning and Human Cognition

  • Methods focus on Qualitative/Small Set Methods; Structural Equations; Experimental Economics.         

 

Dissertation: “Three Essays on the Dynamics of Industry Formation”

Committee Chair: Barry Mitnick, University of Pittsburgh 

Susan Cohen, University of Pittsburgh

David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon University

Dennis Galletta, University of Pittsburgh

Raja Roy, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

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Master of Business Administration, University of Delaware                                                                

  • Concentration in Econometrics                                                                                     

 

Bachelor of Arts, University of Delaware                                                                               

  • Majors: International Relations; Anthropology

  • Minors: Economics, German                                       

 

PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES  

Mitnick, B.M., and Robert Ryan. (2015) On Making Meaning: Curators, Social Assembly, and Mashups.  Strategic Organization. 

Robert Ryan. (2014) Harmonic Oscillation Theory: Competitive and Cooperative Entrainment as a View of the Firm. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

 

PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS

Robert Ryan. Foreward to book by Rectenwald, M. (2019). Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom. New English Review Press.

Susan Cohen with Robert Ryan and Sean Hsu. (2013) Patterns of innovation. Encyclopedia of Management Theory.  Edited by Eric Kessler.  SAGE Publications, Inc.  

 Susan Cohen with Sean Hsu and Robert Ryan. (2013) Innovation-driven Industry Life Cycles. Technology and Innovation Management Encyclopedia.  Edited by V.K. Narayanan and Gina O’Connor.  Basil Blackwell Publishers.  3rd edition

 

FORTHCOMING

Robert Ryan. (2020). “Beating the system: Unsanctioned institutions in online gaming communities”. Edited by Dr. Matthew McCaffrey: The Virtual Hand: Economic Order and Disorder in Video Game Worlds. Cambridge University Press. Expected release date: mid 2020.

 

UNDER JOURNAL REVIEW (** Denotes from dissertation)

Robert Ryan and Barry Mitnick: The Tiny Acts of Management: Microfoundations of the (21st Century)

Manager.  (Submitted April 2019) Academy of Management Review

**Robert Ryan. [JOB MARKET PAPER] The Identity Chasm: Pioneer Inertia from Lead User Community Embeddedness. Submitting to Strategic Organization  

 

CONFERENCE PAPER UNDER REVIEW

Robert Ryan and Ravi Madhavan (2019). Getting the Label Right: is Industry 4.0 an Industrial Revolution or Technical System? Submitted to SMS Special Conference, Industry 4.0, Berkeley CA, 2020

 

BOOK UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Robert Ryan and Michael Rectenwald, Editors, at least 8 Contributors. (2019, Working Title). Making Sense of the Future: The Central Role of New Noetic Cultures during Industrial Revolutions. Targeted to Cambridge University Press, late 2020.

 

PRESENTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Robert Ryan and Barry Mitnick (2019) The Tiny Acts of Management: Microfoundations of the (21st Century) Manager.  Presenting at Academy of Management, Boston, OMT Division

Barry Mitnick, Caitlin Corrigan, Claire Kaplan, Robert Ryan, and Katherine Yoon. (2016) Wicked Walks: The Logic of Wicked Problems. American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.   

Robert Ryan. (2015) Promethean Cliques, Mercurian Communities: Effects of Community-Building on 3D Desktop Printing and Micro-Computer Industries. Strategic Management Society, Denver

Robert Ryan and Barry Mitnick. (2015). Routines, Frictions, and Parenthetical "Man": The Model of Managerial Rationality. INFORMS, Philadelphia. 

Robert Ryan. (2014) Harmonic Oscillation Theory: Competitive and Cooperative Entrainment as a View of the Firm. Best Paper Proceedings: BPS Division. Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

Barry Mitnick and Robert Ryan. (2012). The Social Construction of Proof. The Society for Business Ethics Conference, Boston. 

 

LATE STAGE WORKING PAPERS (** Denotes based on Dissertation)

**Robert Ryan. Radical Exaptation and Innovation Lags. Targeted to Strategic Organization

**Robert Ryan. Overclocking the Industry: Winning and losing strategies for surpassing industry clockspeed. Targeted to Strategic Management Journal.

Barry Mitnick and Robert Ryan. The Certified Action Model of Institutional Agency. Targeted to Journal of Management

Barry Mitnick, Caitlin Corrigan, Claire Kaplan, Robert Ryan, and Katherine Yoon. Wicked Walks: The Logic of Wicked Problems. Targeted to a Book. 

Barry Mitnick, Caitlin Corrigan, Claire Kaplan, Robert Ryan, and Katherine Yoon. Publicness and Moral Guidance: The ‘Wicked Walk’ of Problems in the Flint Water Crisis. Targeted to a Book.

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Research Interests

 Strategic Management (BPS, TIM, ENT, etc.)

Neoschumpeterian economics and Technoeconomic Paradigms (extension of Carlota Perez)

Empirical research on credibility of new products and technologies

  • Timing of rivals’ strategic initiatives

  • Synthesis of business cycle theories- i.e., Ryan’s own Harmonic Oscillation Theory (HOT)

  • Creators and Curators in business communities (Institutional Theory)

Managerial Ethics and Cognition (SIM, OMT, etc.)

  • Theorizing how actors commit to take action 

  • Cognitive micro-foundations of managerial action (i.e., what managers actually “do”)

  • Theories of testaments, credibility, and speech acts

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Grant-Based Research

(Over $16,500 in research grants)

2015

  • BNY/Mellon Doctoral Research Grant     ($2500)  

  • Berg Center for Ethics Assistantship with Dr. Barry Mitnick   ($3000)

2014

  • International Business Center Travel Grant for Dissertation    ($1700) 

  • Product Development and Management Association: Doctoral Fellow, Paid Conference Participant

<2013 

  • Berg Center for Ethics Assistantship with Dr. Barry Mitnick     ($3000)           

  • Special Research Assistantship with Dr. Barry Mitnick     ($5000)

  • Tafel Fellowship     ($1000)

  • PPG Industries, Inc. Research with Dr. Susan Cohen     ($1500) 

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Other Teaching Experience

University of Pittsburgh:

  • Lecturer (Teaching Fellow): Strategic Management (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)

  • TA Coordinator and substitute instruction: Managerial Ethics (Fall 2011) (Supervision of four other teaching assistants, covering five class sections and almost 300 students; under Dr. Barry Mitnick)

University of Delaware:

  • Supervised Instructor: SAP Configuration (Spring 2010) (1-credit course under supervision of Diane Ferry, MIS instructor) 

  • Supervised Instructor: MIS Capstone Course, Microsoft Project 2007 Training Module (One credit of instruction for 12-credit course sequence under supervision of Diane Ferry, MIS instructor)

  • 3-Credit Course: The Teaching of Anthropology  Anthropology 101 (Spring 2007) (Discussion sections under supervision of Dr. Patricia Sloane-White. Dr. Sloane-White won a university-wide teaching award for this co-instructed course)

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Professional Affiliations

  • Academy of Management (currently active in BPS, TIM, SIM, and MOC divisions)

  • Society for Business Ethics

  • Strategic Management Society

  • Product Development and Management Association

  • Society for the History of Technology

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Reviewing Experience

  • Journal of Business Research

  • Academy of Management Conference (2011-2015)

  • Business and Society Symposium (2010-2011)

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