Curriculum Vita

JOEL A.C. BAUM

 

Associate Dean, Faculty

George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6 CANADA

Voice: 416.978.4914 Fax: 416.978.5813

 

29 September, 2011

Publications

Journals

1.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Christine Oliver. 1991. “Institutional Linkages and Organizational Mortality.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 36: 187-218.

2.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Christine Oliver. 1992. “Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations.” American Sociological Review, 57: 540-559.

3.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Stephen J. Mezias. 1992. “Localized Competition and Organizational Mortality in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898-1990.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 37: 580-604.

4.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Stephen J. Mezias. 1993. “Competition, Institutional Linkages, and Organizational Growth.” Social Science Research, 22: 131-164.

5.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh. 1994. “Organizational Niches and the Dynamics of Organizational Mortality.” American Journal of Sociology, 100: 346-380.

6.                   Korn, Helaine J. and Joel A.C. Baum. 1994. “Community Ecology and Employment Dynamics: A Study of Large Canadian Companies. 1985-1991,” Social Forces, 73: 1-31.

7.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh. 1994. “Organizational Niches and the Dynamics of Organizational Founding.” Organization Science, 5: 483-501.

8.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Helaine J. Korn. 1994. “The Community Ecology of Large Canadian Companies, 1984-1991.” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 11: 277-294.

9.                   Baum, Joel A.C., Helaine J. Korn and Suresh Kotha. 1995. “Dominant Designs and Population Dynamics in Telecommunications Services: Founding and Failure of Facsimile Service Organizations, 1969-1992.” Social Science Research, 24: 97-135.

10.                Baum, Joel A.C. 1995. “The Changing Basis of Competition in Organizational Populations: Evidence from the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1887-1990.” Social Forces, 74: 177-205.

11.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Walter W. Powell. 1995. “Cultivating an institutional ecology of organizations: Comment on Hannan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres,” American Sociological Review, 60: 529-538.

12.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Helaine J. Korn. 1996. “Competitive Dynamics of Interfirm Rivalry.” Academy of Management Journal, 39: 255-291.

13.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh. 1996. “Dynamics of Organizational Responses to Competition.” Social Forces, 74: 1261-1297.

14.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Christine Oliver. 1996. “Toward an Institutional Ecology of Organizational Founding.” Academy of Management Journal, 39: 1378-1427.

15.                Ingram, Paul and Joel A.C. Baum. 1997. “Chain Affiliation and the Failure of Manhattan Hotels, 1898-1980.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 42: 68-102.

16.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Heather A. Haveman. 1997. “Love Thy Neighbor?  Differentiation and Agglomeration in the Manhattan Hotel Industry.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 42: 304-338.

17.                Ingram, Paul and Joel A.C. Baum. 1997. “Opportunity and Constraint: Organizations’ Learning from the Operating and Competitive Experience of Industries.” Strategic Management Journal, 18: 75-98 (Summer Special Issue).

18.                Lamertz, Kai and Joel A.C. Baum. 1998. “The Legitimacy of Organizational Downsizing in Canada: An Analysis of Media Accounts, 1988-1995.” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.  15: 93-107.

19.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Paul Ingram. 1998. “Survival-Enhancing Learning in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898-1980.” Management Science, 44: 996-1016.

·           Reprinted in William H. Starbuck (ed.) 2008. Learning by Populations of Organizations, Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Volume III.  Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

20.                Baum, Joel A.C. and Helaine J. Korn. 1999. “Dynamics of Dyadic Competitive Interaction.” Strategic Management Journal, 20: 251-278.

21.                Korn, Helaine J. and Joel A.C. Baum. 1999. “Chance, Imitative and Strategic Antecedents to Multimarket Contact.” Academy of Management Journal, 42:171-193.

22.                Baum, Joel A.C. 1999. “The Rise of Chain Nursing Homes in Ontario, 1971-1996.” Social Forces, 78: 543-583.

·         Reprinted in Raymond B. Blake and Jeffrey A. Keshen (eds.) 2006. Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt? The Development of Social Policy in Canada. Toronto: Broadview Press.

23.                Baum, Joel A.C., Tony Calabrese and Brian S. Silverman. 2000. “Don’t Go It Alone: Alliance Networks and Startups’ Performance in Canadian Biotechnology, 1991-97.” Strategic Management Journal, 21: 267-294.

·         2005. Highly Cited (Top 1%) Article Award, ISI Web of Knowledge.

·         Reprinted in Ari Ginsberg (ed.) 2010. Strategies for New Venture Development. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

24.                Calabrese, Tony, Joel A.C. Baum and Brian S. Silverman. 2000. “Canadian Biotechnology Start Ups, 1991-97: The Role of Incumbents’ Patents and Strategic Alliances.” Social Science Research, 29: 503-534.

25.                Baum, Joel A.C., Stan Xiao Li and John M. Usher. 2000. “Making the Next Move: How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Shape the Locations of Chains’ Acquisitions.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 45: 766-801.

26.                Banaszak-Holl, Jane, Whitney Berta, Dilys Bowman, Joel A.C. Baum, and Will Mitchell. 2002. “The Rise of Human Service Chains: Antecedents to Acquisitions and their Effects on the Quality of Care in U.S. Nursing Homes.” Managerial and Decision Economics, 23: 261-282.

27.                Silverman, Brian S., and Joel A.C. Baum. 2002 “Alliance-Based Competitive Dynamics in the Canadian Biotechnology Industry.” Academy of Management Journal, 45: 791-806.

28.                Barkema, Harry G., Joel A.C. Baum and Elizabeth A. Mannix. 2002. “Management Challenges in ‘A New Time’: Special Research Forum Introduction.” Academy of Management Journal, 45: 916-930.

29.                Chuang, You-Ta, and Joel A.C. Baum. 2003. “It’s all in the Name: Failure-induced Learning by Multiunit Chains.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 48: 33-59.

30.                Baum, Joel A.C., Andrew V. Shipilov and Tim J. Rowley. 2003 “Where Do Small Worlds Come From?” Industrial and Corporate Change – Special Issue in Honor of James G. March, 12: 697-725.

·         Reprinted in Martin Kilduff and Andrew V. Shipilov (eds.). 2011. Organizational Networks Research. London UK: SAGE Publications.

31.                Baum, Joel A.C., and Brian S. Silverman. 2004 “Picking Winners or Building them? Alliances, Patents and Human Capital as Selection Criteria in Venture Financing of Biotechnology Startups.” Journal of Business Venturing – Special Issue on Evolutionary Approaches to Entrepreneurship in Honor of Howard Aldrich, 19: 411-436.

·         Reprinted in Maureen McKelvey and Luigi Orsenigo (eds.). 2006. The Economics of Biotechnology. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar.

·         2010 Journal of Business Venturing Most Impactful Article of 2004.

32.                Rowley, Tim J., and Joel A.C. Baum. 2004 “Sophistication of Interfirm Network Strategies in the Canadian Investment Banking Industry.” Scandinavian Journal of Management – Special Issue on Interfirm Competition and Cooperation, 20: 103-124.

33.                Rowley, Tim J., Joel A.C. Baum, Andrew Shipilov, Henrich Greve, and Hayagreeva Rao. 2004 “Competing in Groups.” Managerial and Decision Economics, 25: 453-471.

34.                Baum, Joel A.C., Tim Rowley and Andrew V. Shipilov. 2004. “The Small World of Canadian Capital Markets: Statistical Mechanics of Investment Bank Syndicate Networks, 1952-1990.” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 21: 307-325.

35.                Rowley, Tim J., Henrich R. Greve, Hayagreeva Rao, Joel A.C. Baum and Andrew V. Shipilov. 2005. “Time to Break Up: Social and Instrumental Antecedents of Firm Exits from Exchange Cliques.”  Academy of Management Journal, 48: 499-520.

36.                Baum, Joel A.C., Tim Rowley, Andrew V. Shipilov and You-Ta Chuang. 2005. “Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 536-575.

37.                Banaszak-Holl, Jane, Will Mitchell, Joel A.C. Baum and Whitney Berta. 2006.  “Transfer Learning in Ongoing and Newly-Acquired Components of Multiunit Chains: U.S. Nursing Homes, 1991-1997.”  Industrial and Corporate Change, 15: 41-75.

38.                Baum, Joel A.C. 2007. “Cultural Group Selection in Organization Studies.” Organization Studies, 28: 37-47.

39.                Akiko Kamimura, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Whitney B. Berta, Joel A.C. Baum, Carmen Weigelt and Will Mitchell. 2007. “Do corporate chains affect quality of care in nursing homes? The role of corporate standardization.” Health Care Management Review, 32: 168-178.

40.                Aharonson, Barak, Joel A.C. Baum and Maryann P. Feldman. 2007. “Desperately Seeking Spillovers? Increasing Returns, Industrial Organization and the Location of New Entrants in Geographic and Technological Space.” Industrial and Corporate Change, 16: 89-130.

·         Reprinted in Gideon D. Markman and Philip Phan (eds.) 2010. Market Entry, Competitive Dynamics, and Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar.

41.                Baum , Joel A.C., and Kristina Dahlin. 2007. “Aspiration Performance and Railroads’ Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes.” Organization Science, 18: 368-385.

42.                Aharonson, Barak S., Joel A.C. Baum and Anne Plunkett. 2008. “Inventive and Uninventive Clusters: The Case of Canadian Biotechnology.” Research Policy, 37: 1108-1131.

43.                Paruchuri, Srikanth, Joel A.C. Baum and David Potere. 2009. “The Wal-Mart Effect: Wave of Destruction or Creative Destruction?” Economic Geography, 85: 209-231.

44.                Greve, Henrich R., Joel A.C. Baum, Hitoshi Mitsuhashi and Tim J. Rowley. 2010. “Built to Last but Falling Apart: Cohesion, Friction and the Durability of Interfirm Alliances.” Academy of Management Journal, 52: 302-322.

45.                Baum, Joel A.C., Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard. 2010. “Network-independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks.” Management Science, 56: 2094-2110.

46.                Moldoveanu, Mihnea C. and Joel A.C. Baum. 2011. “I Think You Think I Think You’re Lying: The Interactive Epistemology of Trust in Social Networks.” Management Science, 57: 393-412.

47.                Baum, Joel A.C. 2011. “Free-Riding on Power Laws: Questioning the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies.” Organization, 18: 449-466.

48.                Baum, Joel A.C., Bill McEvily and Tim J. Rowley. 2011. “Better with Age? Tie Longevity and the Performance Implications of Bridging and Closure.” Organization Science. Forthcoming.

49.                Baum, Joel A.C. 2011. “North American versus European Approaches to Research on Organizations: An Atlantic Divide? Not.”  Organization Science. Forthcoming.

Edited Books, Conference Proceedings and Journal Special Issues

1.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh (eds.). 1994. Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations. New York: Oxford University Press.  Reviewed in Administrative Science Quarterly (1996), Academy of Management Review (1995), Contemporary Sociology (1994).

2.             Baum, Joel A.C. (ed.) 1996. Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada – Organization Theory, Vol. 17 (No. 13)

3.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Jane E. Dutton (eds.). 1996. The Embeddedness of Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 13). Greenwich CT: JAI Press.

4.                   Baum, Joel A.C. (Series and Volume ed.) 1998. Disciplinary Roots of Strategic Management Research (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 15). Stamford CT: JAI Press.

5.                   Baum, Joel A.C. and Bill McKelvey (eds.). 1999. Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell.  Thousand Oaks CA: Sage. Reviewed in Organization Studies (2002).

6.                   Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 1999. Population-Level Learning and Industry Change. (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 16). Volume eds., Anne S. Miner and Philip C. Anderson. Stamford CT: JAI Press.

7.                   Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2000. Economics meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 17). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Frank Dobbin. Stamford CT: JAI Press. Reviewed in Administrative Science Quarterly (2002).

8.                   Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2001. Multiunit Organization and Multimarket Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 18). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Henrich R. Greve. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

9.                   Baum, Joel A.C. (ed.) 2002. Companion to Organizations. Oxford UK: Blackwell.  Reviewed in Administrative Science Quarterly (2003), Organization Studies (2004).

10.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2002. The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 19). Volume eds., Paul Ingram and Brian S. Silverman. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

11.               Barkema, Harry G., Joel A.C. Baum, and Elizabeth A. Mannix 2002. Special Research Forum: ‘A New Time.’ Academy of Management Journal, 45(5).

12.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2003. Geography and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 20). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Olav Sorenson. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

13.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2004. Business Strategy over the Industry Lifecycle (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 21). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Anita M. McGahan. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

14.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2005. Strategy Process (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 22). Volume eds., Gabriel Szulanski, Yves Doz, and Joseph Porac. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

15.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2006. Ecology and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 23). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum, Stanislav Dobrev and Arjen van Witteloostuijn. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

16.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2007. Real Options Theory (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 24). Volume eds., Jeffrey J. Reuer and Tony W. Tong. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

17.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2008. Network Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 25). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Tim J. Rowley. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

18.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2009. Economic Institutions of Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 26). Volume eds., Brian S. Silverman and Jackson Nickerson. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

19.               Baum, Joel A.C. (Series ed.) 2010. The Globalization of Strategy Research (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 27). Volume eds., Joel A.C. Baum and Joseph Lampel. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

Book Chapters

1.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Robert J. House. 1990. “On the Maturation and Aging of Organizational Populations.” In Jitendra V. Singh (ed.), Organizational Evolution: New Directions: 129-142. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

2.             Tucker, David J., Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh. 1992. “The Institutional Ecology of Human Service Organizations.” In Yeheskel Hasenfeld (ed.), Human Services as Complex Organizations: 47-72. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

3.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh. 1994. “Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some reflections on a theory of organizational evolution.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh (eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations: 3-20. New York: Oxford University Press.

4.             Ginsberg, Ari and Joel A.C. Baum. 1994. “Evolutionary Processes and Patterns of Core Business Change.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh (eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations: 127-151. New York: Oxford University Press.

5.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Jitendra V. Singh. 1994. “Organization-Environment Coevolution.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh (eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations: 379-402. New York: Oxford University Press.

6.             Lant, Theresa K. and Joel A.C. Baum. 1995. “Cognitive Sources of Socially Constructed Competitive Groups: Examples from the Manhattan Hotel Industry.” In W. Richard Scott and Soren Christensen (eds.), The Institutional Construction of Organizations: 15-38. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

7.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1996. “Organizational Ecology.” In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter Nord (eds.) Handbook of Organization Studies: 77-114. London: Sage.

·         Reprinted in Stewart R. Clegg and Cynthia Hardy (eds.) 1999. Studying Organizations: Theory and Method: 71-108. London: Sage Publications.

8.             Baum, Joel A.C. and Jane E. Dutton. 1996. “The Embeddedness of Strategy.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Jane E. Dutton (eds.) The Embeddedness of Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 13): 1-15.  Greenwich CT: JAI Press.

9.                   Baum, Joel A.C., and Brian S. Silverman. 1998. Patent Races, Capital Races, Learning Races and Partnering Races in Canadian Biotechnology, 1991-1997. In Fred Haynes (ed.) Canadian Biotechnology 1998: 60-63.  Toronto: Contact International Inc.

10.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Hayagreeva Rao. 1998. “Strategic Management as a Fish-Scale Multiscience.” In Joel A.C. Baum (ed.) Disciplinary Roots of Strategic Management Research (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 15): 1-16. Stamford CT: JAI Press.

11.               McKelvey, Bill, and Joel A.C. Baum 1999. “Donald T. Campbell’s Evolving Influence on Organization Science.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Bill McKelvey (eds.) Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell: 1-15.  Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.

12.               Baum, Joel A.C. 1999. “Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Bill McKelvey (eds.). Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell: 113-135. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.

13.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Whitney B. Berta. 1999. “Sources, Dynamics and Speed: Population‑Level Learning by Organizations in a Longitudinal Behavioral Simulation.” In Anne S. Miner and Philip Anderson (eds.) Population-Level Learning and Industry Change (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 16): 155-184. Stamford CT: JAI Press.

14.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Brian S. Silverman. 1999. “Complexity in the Dynamics of Organizational Founding and Failure.” In Michael Lissack and Hugh Gunz (eds.) Managing Complexity in Organizations: A View from Many Directions: 292-312.  New York: Quorum Press.

15.               Dobbin, Frank and Joel A.C. Baum. 2000. “Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Frank Dobbin (eds.) Economics meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 17): 1-26. Stamford CT: JAI Press.

16.               Baum, Joel A. C and Frank Dobbin. 2000. “Doing Interdisciplinary Research in Strategic Management -- Without a Paradigm War.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Frank Dobbin (eds.) Economics meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 17): 389-410. Stamford CT: JAI Press.

17.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Brian S. Silverman. 2001. “Complexity, (Strange) Attractors, and Path Dependence in Innovation Trajectories.” In Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe (eds.) Path Dependence and Creation: 169-209.  Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

18.               Greve, Henrich R. and Joel A.C. Baum. 2001. “It’s a multiunit, multimarket world.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Henrich R. Greve (eds.) Multiunit Organization and Multimarket Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 18): 1-28. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

19.               Ingram, Paul and Joel A.C. Baum. 2001. “Interorganizational Learning and the Dynamics of Chain Relationships.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Henrich R. Greve (eds.) Multiunit Organization and Multimarket Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 18): 103-139. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

20.               Baum, Joel A.C.  2001. “Ecology, Organizations.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: 4048-4053. Oxford UK: Permagon.

21.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Timothy J. Rowley. 2002. “Companion to Organizations: Introduction.” In Joel A.C.  Baum (ed.), Companion to Organizations: 1-34.  Oxford UK: Blackwell.

22.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Terry L. Amburgey. 2002. “Organizational Ecology.” In Joel A.C.  Baum (ed.), Companion to Organizations: 304-326.  Oxford UK: Blackwell.

23.               Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Joel A.C. Baum. 2002. “Contemporary Debates in Organizational Epistemology.” In Joel A.C. Baum (ed.), Companion to Organizations: 733-751.  Oxford UK: Blackwell.

24.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Paul Ingram. 2002. “Interorganizational learning and network organizations: Toward a behavioral theory of the ‘interfirm.’” In Mie Augier and James G. March (eds.) The Economics of Choice, Change, and Organization: Essays in Memory of Richard M. Cyert: 191-218. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar.

25.               Mitchell, Will, Joel A.C. Baum, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Whitney Berta, and Dilys Bowman. 2002. “Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of U.S. Nursing Homes, 1991-1997.”  In Chun Wei Choo and Nick Bontis (eds.) Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge: 555-573.  New York: Oxford University Press.

26.               Sorenson, Olav and Joel A.C. Baum 2003.  “Geography and Strategy: The Strategic Management of Space and Place.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Olav Sorenson (eds.) Geography and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 20): 1-19. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

27.               Baum, Joel A.C., and Theresa K. Lant. 2003. “Hits and Misses: Managers’ (Mis)Categorization of Competitors in the Manhattan Hotel Industry.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Olav Sorenson (eds.) Geography and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 20): 118-155. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

28.               Moldoveanu, Mihnea, Joel A.C. Baum, and Tim J. Rowley.  2003. “Information Strategies, Information Regimes, and the Evolution of Interfirm Network Topologies.” In F. Dansereau and F.J. Yammarino (eds.) Research on Multilevel Issues, 2: 221-264.  Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

29.               Moldoveanu, Mihnea, Joel A.C. Baum, and Tim J. Rowley.  2003. “Models as an Explanatory Strategy and the Ubiquity of Information as an Explanation.” In F. Dansereau and F.J. Yammarino (eds.) Research on Multilevel Issues, 2: 287-299.  Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

30.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Hayagreeva Rao. 2004. “Dynamics of Organizational Populations and Communities.” In M. Scott Poole and Andrew H. Van de Ven (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation: 212-258. New York: Oxford University Press.

31.               Baum, Joel A.C. 2004. “Dynamics of Competitive Interaction.” In Subir Choudhury (ed.) Next Generation Business Handbook: 272-293.  New York: John Wiley and Sons.

32.               McGahan, Anita M., Nicholas Argyres and Joel A.C. Baum. 2004. “Context, Technology and Strategy: Forging New Perspectives on the Industry Life Cycle.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Anita M. McGahan (eds.) Business Strategy over the Industry Life Cycle (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 21): 1-21. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier. 

33.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Andrew V. Shipilov. 2006. “Ecological Approaches to Organizations.” In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Tom Lawrence, and Walter Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organizations Studies (2e): 55-110.  London: Sage Publications.

·         Reprinted in: Sierk Ybema and Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema (eds.). 2007. Organization Science. London: Sage Publications.

34.               Baum, Joel A.C. and Bill McKelvey. 2006. “Analysis of Extremes in Management Studies.” In D.J. Ketchen and D.D. Bergh (eds.), Research Methods in Management and Strategy, Volume 3: 123-196.  Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

35.               Dobrev, Stanislav, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Joel A.C. Baum. 2006. “Ecology versus Strategy or Strategy and Ecology?” in Joel A.C. Baum, Stanislav Dobrev and Arjen van Witteloostuijn (eds.), Ecology and Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 23): 1-27. Oxford UK: JAI/Elsevier.

36.               Baum, Joel A.C. 2007. “Competitive and Institutional Isomorphism in Organizational Populations.” In Walter W. Powell and Daniel L. Jones (eds.) Bending the Bars of the Iron Cage: Institutional Dynamics and Processes.  Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press.

37.               Rowley, Tim J., and Joel A.C. Baum. 2008. “The Dynamics of Network Positions and Strategies.”  In Joel A.C. Baum and Tim J. Rowley (eds.), Network Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 25): 643-673. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

38.               Rowley, Tim J., and Joel A.C. Baum. 2008. “Evolving Webs in Network Economies.” In Joel A.C. Baum and Tim J. Rowley (eds.), Network Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 25): xiii-xxxii. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

39.               Lampel, Joseph, and Joel A.C. Baum. 2010. “The Globalization of Strategic Management Research: Permanent Pluralism or Prelude to a New Synthesis?” In Joel A.C. Baum and Joseph Lampel (eds.), The Globalization of Strategy Research (Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 27): xiii-xxxii. Oxford UK: JAI/Emerald.

40.               Baum, Joel A.C., and Henrich R. Greve. 2011. “Budding Branches in Competitive Strategy Research.” In Giovanni Battista Dagnino (ed.), Elgar Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy.  Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar. In press.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1988. “Moderators of the Performance–Leadership Succession Relationship: The case of the National Hockey League, 1926-1986.”  In Steven L. McShane (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 9: 1-10.

2.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1989. “Liabilities of Newness, Adolescence, and Obsolescence: Duration dependence in the dissolution of organizational relationships.” In Robert P. Gephart (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 10: 1-10. Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organizational Behavior Division.

3.             Oliver, Christine, and Joel A.C. Baum. 1989. “Interorganizational Linkages, Core Organizational Characteristics, and Organizational Mortality,” with Christine Oliver. In Frank Hoy (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings: 183-187.

4.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1990. “Why Are There So Many (Few) Kinds of Organizations? A study of organizational diversity.” In Catherine Kirchmeyer (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 11: 1-10. Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organizational Behavior Division.

5.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1990. “Inertial and Adaptive Patterns in Organizational Change.” In Lawrence R. Jauch and Jerry L. Wall (eds.), Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings: 165-169.

6.             Baum, Joel A.C., and Helaine J. Korn. 1992. “The Community Ecology of the Top 200 Canadian Companies, 1984-1991,” with Helaine Korn. In Christine Oliver (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 13: 21-30.

7.             Baum, Joel A.C. 1995. “A Test of Structural Inertia Theory.” In Nelson Phillips (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 16: 11-21.

8.             Baum, Joel A.C., and Whitney B. Berta. 1996. “Sources, Timing, and Speed: Population‑Level Learning by Organizations in a Longitudinal Behavioral Simulation,” with Whitney B. Berta.  In Joel A.C. Baum (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 17: 1-10. Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division.

9.                   Lamertz, Kai, and Joel A.C. Baum. 1996. “The Legitimacy of Organizational Downsizing in Canada: An Analysis of Managerial Accounts, 1988-1995,” with Kai Lamertz.  In Joel A.C. Baum (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 17: 37-46. Honourable Mention Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division.

10.                Baum, Joel A.C., and Brian S. Silverman. 1998. “Alliances, Patents and Competitive Dynamics in Canadian Biotechnology.” In Marie-France Turcotte (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 19:1-10.

11.                Baum, Joel A.C. 1998. “Survival Advantages of Chain Nursing Homes in Ontario, 1971-1996.” In Tom Cotrell (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 19:1-10. Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division.

12.                Calabrese, Tony, Joel A.C. Baum and Brian S. Silverman. 1999. “The Impact of Incumbents’ Patenting and Technological Alliances on the Founding of Canadian Biotech Firms, 1991-97.” Kimberly Bates (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada: 11-20. Best Paper Award of Excellence, Technology Management Division.

13.                Baum, Joel A.C., Tony Calabrese and Brian S. Silverman. 1999. “Alliances, Networks, and Startup Performance in Canadian Biotechnology.” In Michael Mauws (ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada: 1-11.

14.                Chuang, You-Ta, and Joel A.C. Baum. 2002. “It’s All In the Name: A Learning from Failure Perspective on the Adoption of Common Naming Strategies by Multiunit Chains.”  In Dennis Nagao (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM.

15.                Baum, Joel A.C., and Brian S. Silverman. 2003. “Picking Winners or Building them?  Selection Criteria in New Venture Financing and Performance.”  In Dennis Nagao (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.

16.                Baum, Joel A.C., Tim J. Rowley, Andrew V. Shipilov and You-Ta Chuang. 2004. “Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners.”  Dennis Nagao (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.

17.                Baum, Joel A.C., Bill McEvily and Tim J. Rowley. 2008. “Better with Age? Tie Longevity and the Performance Implications of Bridging and Closure.”  George Solomon (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.

20.               Greve, Henrich R., Joel A.C. Baum, Hitoshi Mitsuhashi and Tim J. Rowley. 2008. “Built to Last but Falling Apart: Cohesion, Friction and the Durability of Interfirm Alliances.”  George Solomon (ed.), Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.  Glueck Best Paper Award, finalist, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management.

21.               Baum, Joel A.C., Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard. 2009. “Network-independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks.” George Solomon (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.  Best Paper Award, Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management.

22.               Fleischer, Anne H. and Joel A.C. Baum. 2010. “Leader of the pack: Network position and information leadership among security analysts.”  Leslie Toombs (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.

23.               Shipilov, Andrew V., Stan X. Li and Joel A.C. Baum. 2011. “A Matching Theory of Embedded Interfirm Tie Formation.” Leslie Toombs (ed.), Academy of Manage­ment Best Paper Proceedings. CD-ROM. August.