Dr. Steven Postrel
Steven
Postrel,
Ph.D. is Lecturer and Researcher at U.C. Irvine Merage School of
Business.
Steve has previously taught at UCLA, Northwestern University’s Kellogg
School, UC Irvine’s Graduate School of Management, and Southern
Methodist University’s Cox School of Business,
and has instructed undergraduates and
doctoral students as well as full-time, part-time, and executive MBAs.”
He has published empirical and theoretical research on knowledge
specialization and integration, organizations and impulse control, the
usefulness of game theory in business strategy, retail pricing, and
technology standards competition. He also has strong research interests
in positioning analysis and theories of competitive advantage, as well
as problems of product design and development.
His work has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science,
Industrial and Corporate Change,
Marketing Science, and the Journal of Industrial
Economics. He is an active reviewer for a number of journals and a
frequent presenter and discussant at strategy conferences.
Steve authored
Islands of Shared Knowledge: Specialization and Mutual
Understanding in Problem-Solving Teams,
Competing Networks and Proprietary Standards: the case of
Quadraphonic Sound,
Burning your britches behind you: Can policy scholars bank on game
theory?, and
Multitasking Teams with Variable Complementarity: Challenges for
Capability Management,
and coauthored
Shared Knowledge, “Glitches”, and Product Development
Performance and
Incentives, Routines, and Self-Command.
Steve earned his B.A. in Economics at Princeton University in 1982 and
his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in 1986.
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