Bill McEvily

Professor of Strategic Management

Degrees:	PhD, University of Minnesota BS, Clarkson University
Email:	Send an email to Bill McEvily
Phone:	416-946-5291

Bio

Bill McEvily is a Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman, where he teaches courses on social networks, strategy implementation and organizational theory. His research explores social capital as an organizational and strategic resource. Bill’s research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Strategic Management Journal. He is a Senior Editor at Organization Science and has served as guest editor for special issues of Management Science and Organization Science.

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Selected Publications - Papers

Mutual and exclusive: Dyadic Sources of Trust in Interorganizational Exchange; McEvily, B., A. Zaheer, and D. Fudge-Kamal; Organization Science; Issue: 28(1); 2017; Pages: 74-92
Being a Catalyst of Innovation: The Role of Knowledge Diversity and Network Redundancy; Tortoriell, M., McEvily, B. & Krackhardt, D.; Organization Science; Issue: 26(2); 2015; Pages: 423-438
More formally: Rediscovering the missing link between formal organization and informal social structure; McEvily, B., Soda, G. & Tortoriello, M.; Academy of Management Annals; Issue: 8(1); 2014; Pages: 299-345
Better with age? Tie longevity and the performance implications of bridging and closure; With: J.A.C. Baum & T. Rowley; Organization Science; Issue: 23(2); 2012; Pages: 529-546
Not all Bridging Ties are Equal: Network Imprinting and Firm Growth in the Nashville Legal Industry, 1933-1978; With: J. Jaffee & M. Tortoriello; Organization Science; Issue: 23(2); 2012; Pages: 547-563
Whom do you Distrust and How Much Does it Cost? An Experiment on the Measurement of Trust; With: J. Radzevick & R. Weber; Games & Economic Behavior; Issue: 74; 2012; Pages: 285-298
Measuring Trust in an Organizational Context: Review and Recommendations; With: M. Tortoriello; Journal of Trust Research; Issue: 1; 2011; Pages: 23-63
Reorganizing the Boundaries of Trust: From Discrete Alternatives to Hybrid Forms; Organization Science; Issue: 22(5); 2011; Pages: 1266-1276
Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The Impact of Strong Ties, Network Cohesion, and Network Range; With: M. Tortoriello & R. Reagans; Organization Science; Issue: 23(4); 2011; Pages: 1024-1039
All in due time: The development of trust in computer-mediated and face-to-face teams; With: Jeanne Wilson, Susan Straus; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Issue: 99; 2006; Pages: 16-33
Embedded Ties and the Acquisition of Competitive Capabilities; With: Alfie Marcus; Strategic Management Journal; Issue: 26; 2005; Pages: 1033-1055
How to Make the Team? Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Teams; With: Ray Reagans, Ezra Zuckerman; Administrative Science Quarterly; Issue: 49; 2004; Pages: 101-133
Network Structure and Knowledge Transfer: The Effects of Cohesion and Range; With: Ray Reagans; Administrative Science Quarterly; Issue: 48; 2003; Pages: 240-267
Introduction to the Special Issue on Managing Knowledge in Organizations: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge; With: Linda Argote, Ray Reagans; Management Science; Issue: 49; 2003; Pages: v-viii.
Managing Knowledge in Organizations: An Integrative Framework and Review of Emerging Themes; With: Linda Argote, Ray Reagans; Management Science; Issue: 49; 2003; Pages: 571-582
Free to be Trusted? Organizational Constraints on Trust at the Boundary; With: Vincenzo Perrone, ks Zaheer; Organization Science; Issue: 14; 2003; Pages: 422-439
Introduction to the Special Issue on Trust in an Organizational Context; With: Vincenzo Perrone, Aks Zaheer; Organization Science; Issue: 14; 2003; Pages: 1-4
Trust as an Organizing Principle; With: Vincenzo Perrone, Aks Zaheer; Organization Science; Issue: 14; 2003; Pages: 91-103
Bridging Ties: A Source of Firm Heterogeneity in Competitive Capabilities; With: Aks Zaheer; Strategic Management Journal; Issue: 20; 1999; Pages: 1133-1156
Does Trust Matter? Exploring the Effects of Interorganizational and Interpersonal Trust on Performance; With: Vincenzo Perrone, Aks Zaheer; Organization Science; Issue: 9; 1998; Pages: 141-159

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Do you know my friend? Attending to the accuracy of egocentered network data; McEvily, B.; Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Issue: 40; 2014; Pages: 295-313
Contradictory or compatible? Reconsidering the tradeoff in Network Effects on Knowledge Sharing; With: Ray Reagans; Advances in Strategic Management; Issue: 25; 2008; Pages: 275-313
On firmer ground: The collaborative team as strategic research site for verifying network-based social capital hypotheses; With: Ray Reagans, Ezra Zuckerman; Formation and Decay of Economic Networks; 2007
Does Trust Still Matter? Research on the Role of Trust in Interorganizational Exchange; With: Aks Zaheer; The Handbook of Trust; 2006; Pages: 280-300
Can Groups be Trusted? An Experimental Study of Collective Trust; With: Roberto Weber, Cristina Bicchieri, Violet Ho; The Handbook of Trust; 2006; Pages: 52-67
Architects of Trust: The Role of Network Facilitators in Geographical Clusters; With: Aks Zaheer; Trust and Distrust in Organizations; 2004; Pages: 189-213
Environmental competence in two small firms; With: A. Marcus; Better Environmental Decisions; 1999; Pages: 289-307

Honors and Awards

2004	Roman Weil Prize; Tepper School of Business
2003	Guest editor of special issue in 2003; Organization Science
2003	Guest editor of special issue in 2003; Management Science
2003	Russell Sage Foundation research grant
2002	National Science Foundation research grant
1999-2000	Xerox Chair; GSIA
1996-1997	Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
2014	Highly Cited Researcher; Thompson-Reuters
2015	Highly Cited Researcher; Thompson-Reuters

Professional Affiliations/Memberships

Organization Science (Guest Editor), 2003

Management Science (Guest Editor), 2003

Organization Science(Senior editor), 2003 - 2014

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