Sarah Kaplan
Bio
Sarah Kaplan is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. She is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction. Her research explores how framing processes of managers and entrepreneurial actors affect the evolution of technologies, organizational response to change, and strategy making inside organizations. Her studies examine the biotechnology, fiber optics, personal digital assistant, financial services and nanotechnology fields. She is Senior Editor at Organization Science, and Associate Editor for The Academy of Management Annals, and sits on the Editorial Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Studies.
Academic Positions
| 2009-present | Associate Professor of Strategy; University of Toronto, Rotman School |
| 2009-present | Fellow; Desautels Center For Integrative Thinking |
| 2009-present | Senior Fellow; Wharton School, Mack Center for Technological Innovation |
| 2004-2009 | Assistant Professor of Management; University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School |
Non-Academic Positions
| 1990-1999 | Management Consultant; McKinsey & Company |
Selected Publications - Papers
- Temporal Work in Strategy Making; Kaplan, S & Orlikowski, W.; Organization Science; forthcoming
- Cognition and Capabilities: A Multilevel Perspective; J.P Eggers and Sarah Kaplan; Academy of Management Annals; 2013
- Strategy & PowerPoint: The Epistemic Culture and Machinery of Strategy Making.; Kaplan, S.; Organization Science; 2011
- Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future.; Kaplan, S.; Journal of Management Studies; 2011
- Bounding an Emerging Technology: Para-Scientific Media and the Drexler-Smalley Debate about Nanotechnology; Kaplan, S and Radin, J.; Social Studies of Science; 2011
- Entrepreneurship and the Construction of Value in Biotechnology.; Kaplan, S. & Murray, F.; Research in the Sociology of Organizations; 2010
- Taking Strategy-as-Practice Across the Atlantic.; Kaplan, S. and P. Jarzabkowski; Advances in Strategic Management; 2010
- Cognition and Renewal: Comparing CEO and Organizational Effects on Incumbent Adaptation to Technical Change; Eggers, JP & Kaplan, S.; Organization Science; 2009
- Framing Contests: Making Strategy Under Uncertainty; Kaplan, S.; Organization Science; 2008
- Cognition, Capabilities and Incentives: Assessing Firm Response to the Fiber-Optic Revolution; Kaplan, S.; Academy of Management Journal; 2008
- Thinking about Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change; Kaplan, S. & Tripas, M.; Research Policy; 2008
Research and Teaching Interests
Strategy formulation, cognitive framing, organizational architecture (relationship between cognition, incentives and capabilities), innovation, technical change
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Senior Editor at Organization Science, Associate Editor at the Annals of the Academy of Management, Co-Editor of Special Issue on New Research Methods for the Strategic Management Journal
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