"Somewhere, something wonderful is waiting to be known"
- Carl Sagan


Jonathan P. O'Brien
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Lally School of Management & Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Phone: 518-276-6841
Fax: 518-276-8661
e-mail: obriej8{at}rpi.edu

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PUBLICATIONS - PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

  • O'Brien JP, David P, Yoshikawa T, Delios A. 2014. How capital structure influences diversification performance: A transaction cost perspective. Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming.
  • O'Brien JP, David P. 2013. Reciprocity and R&D search: A behavioral theory perspective applied to a communitarian context. Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming.
  • Brush, TH, Dangol R, O'Brien JP. 2012.Customer capabilities, switching costs and bank performance. Strategic Management Journal, 33: 1499-1515.
  • McClelland P, O'Brien JP. 2011. Transaction cost economics and corporate governance: The case of CEO age and financial stake. Managerial and Decision Economics, 32: 141-158.
  • Le T, O'Brien JP. 2010. Can two wrongs make a right? State ownership and debt in transition economies. Journal of Management Studies, 47: 1297-1316.
  • O'Brien, JP, Drnevich P, Crook R, Armstrong, C. 2010. Does business school research add economic value for students? Academy of Management Learning & Education, 9: 638-651.
  • David P, O'Brien J, Yoshikawa T, Delios A. 2010. Do shareholders or stakeholders appropriate the rents from corporate diversification? The influence of ownership structure. Academy of Management Journal, 53: 636 - 654.
  • O'Brien JP, David P. 2010. Firm growth and type of debt: The paradox of discretion. Industrial and Corporate Change, 19: 51-80.
  • O'Brien JP, Folta TB. 2009. A transaction cost perspective on why, how, and when cash impacts firm performance. Managerial and Decision Economics, 30: 465-479.
  • O'Brien JP, Folta TB. 2009. Sunk costs, uncertainty and market exit: A real options perspective. Industrial and Corporate Change, 18: 807-833.
  • David P, O'Brien JP, Yoshikawa T. 2008. The implications of debt heterogeneity for R&D investment and firm performance. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 165-181.
  • Folta TB, O'Brien JP. 2008. Determinants of firm-specific thresholds in acquisition decisions. Managerial and Decision Economics, 29: 209-225.
  • Folta TB, Johnson DR, O'Brien JP. 2006. Uncertainty, irreversibility, and the likelihood of entry: An empirical assessment of the option to defer. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 61: 432-452.
  • Folta TB, O'Brien JP. 2004. Entry in the presence of dueling options. Strategic Management Journal, 25: 121-138.
  • O'Brien JP. 2003. The capital structure implications of pursuing a strategy of innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 24: 415-431.
  • O'Brien JP, Folta TB, Johnson DR. 2003. A real options perspective on entrepreneurial entry in the face of uncertainty. Managerial and Decision Economics, 24: 515-533.
  • Goddard M, Holland M, O'Brien J, Hansen D. 1994. Improving conditioning with unsignaled, but not signaled, unconditioned stimuli. Learning and Motivation, 25: 288-312.

PUBLICATIONS - PEER REVIEWED PROCEEDINGS

  • David P, O'Brien J, Yoshikawa T, Delios A. 2009. Stakeholder influences on diversification: Implications for shareholders and stakeholders. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
  • O'Brien JP, Drnevich P, Crook R. 2008. Does business school research add economic value for students? Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
  • O'Brien JP, McClelland P. 2008. Transaction cost economics and CEO stock holdings. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
  • O'Brien JP, David P. 2007. Revisiting the agency theoretic view of capital structure. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
  • David P, O'Brien J. 2006. Capital structure, R&D investment, and firm performance: Effects of heterogeneity amongst lenders. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

PUBLICATIONS - BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Folta TB, O'Brien JP. 2007. Market versus managerial valuations of real options. In Reuer JJ, Tong TW (Eds.). Advances in Strategic Management Volume 24: Real Options Theory.
  • Folta TB, O'Brien JP. 2005. Entry in the presence of dueling options. In Rugman AM, Li J (eds). Real Options and International Investment (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005
  • O'Brien JP. 2004. A Strategic Perspective on Capital Structure: The Implications of Trying to be an Innovator. In Bettis R. (ed). Strategy in Transition, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS: RESEARCH

  • Winner of the 2010 Karen Legge Prize, awarded in recognition of exceptional contribution by an early career academic to the Journal of Management Studies.
  • Finalist for the Academy of Management Learning and Education's 2010 Best Paper Award.
  • Recipient of Distinguished Paper Award (BPS Division) for being one of the top 5 papers (out of 741 submissions) at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
  • Recipient of the Management Education Division's Best Paper Award (sponsored by the Graduate Management Admissions Council) at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
  • One of five finalists for the Business Policy & Strategy Best Dissertation Competition (Academy of Management, Honolulu HI, 2005).
  • One of five finalists for the Technology and Innovation Management Best Dissertation Competition (Academy of Management, Honolulu HI, 2005).
  • One of four finalists for the SAP Best Strategy Dissertation Award (Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy, Vallendar Germany, 2005).

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS: OTHER

  • Recipient of the 2009 Dean's Award for Outstanding Curriculum Design and Delivery, Lally School of Management & Technology, RPI.
  • Recipient of a BPS Division Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
  • Selected to participate in the 2004 BPS New Faculty Consortium at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management (New Orleans, LA).
  • Selected to participate in the 2002 BPS Doctoral Student Consortium at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management (Denver, CO).

DOCTORAL STUDENT SUPERVISION

  • Murad Mithani: Ph.D., December, 2012.
    • Winner of the Pondy Award for best paper from a dissertation (OMT Division) at the 2013 Academy of Management annual meeting.
  • Jaya Dixit: Ph.D., May, 2014 (Expected).

TEACHING

  • Introduction to Management (Undergraduate)
  • Sports Management (Undergraduate)
  • Strategic Management (Undergraduate)
  • Strategic Resource Allocation (Graduate)
  • Seminar in Organization Theory (Doctoral)


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