Robert Drazin
Professor of Organization and Management
Email: Robert_Drazin@bus.emory.edu
Phone: 404-727-6337
Fax: 404-727-6313
Goizueta Business
School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA
Biography
Prior to joining the Goizueta Business School faculty in 1988, Professor Drazin taught at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Organization and Management in 1982 from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bob is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board for Organization Science and has served as a Consulting Editor for the Academy of Management Journal. His research in the areas of organization theory and the management of innovation in large corporations has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Resource Management, the Columbia Journal of World Business, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Social Inquiry, and Research in Organizational Behavior.
Publications
- With Chris Gresov, Equifinality: A Functional Equivalence Perspective, Academy of Management Review, 2: 403-428, 1997
- With Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Community, Population and Organizational Effects on Innovation: A Multi-Level Perspective, Academy of Management Journal. 39: 1065-1083, 1996
- The Adoption of Competing Technologies as an Organizing Process, Technology Studies, 3: 1-29, 1996
- With R. Kazanjian, Applying the Del Technique to the Analysis of Cross-Classification Data: A Test of CEO Succession and Top Management Team Development, Academy of Management Journal, 6: 1374-1399, 1993
Areas of Specialization
- Organization Design
- Innovation
- Creativity
Professional Memberships and Activities
- National Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory and Business Policy Divisions
Academic Background
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, University of Pennsylvania, 1982