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Philip Birnbaum-MoreProfessor of Management and OrganizationUSC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808Phone:213-740-0744Education:PhD, University of Washington; BA, UC-BerkeleyOverview
Phil Birnbaum-More specializes in competitive strategy formulation and implementation, especially in high technology firms in global markets. He has published three books on R&D management and organization design and more than 100 articles in scholarly and practitioner journals. He served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management and on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, and the Journal of High Technology Management. Business Week twice named Professor Birnbaum-More as one of the top faculty members at Marshall. Before joining USC, he was on the faculty at Indiana University.
Research
Reprint of: The effect of multi-knowledge individuals on performance in cross-functional new product development teams • 2012Ideation in Emergent Teams: A Laboratory Study • 2012Transcending Knowledge Differences in Cross-Functional Teams • 2012Practices to Improve Group Creativity: a Longitudinal Field Investigation • 2011Final Report: Reciprocal Learning in Problem-Solving Teams: A Multi-method Investigation of Knowledge Bridging in Emergent Groups • 2010The Use of Transformative Devices to Facilitate the Emergence of Knowledge Collaboration in Cross-Boundary Temporary Groups. Workshop on Digital Innovation • 2008Knowledge Configuration in New Product Development Team and Performance • 2002Case: Sharp-Xerox Stratgic Alliance in Personal Copiers (A): Forming the Business Alliance, (B): The Golden Years, (C): The Digital Transition, and (D): Postscript • 2002Factors Influencing New Product Development in High-Tec Industry: A Cross-National Study • 2001Culture context, and structure: A test on multinational banks in Hong Kong • 1998Organization structure of multinational banks in Hong Kong from a culture-free perspective • 1998The Current State of Organization Theory: Weed Patch or Well Tended Garden? • 1997Time to Market in OA Industries. • 1997Case: Competitive Strategy in Deregulated Telecommunications • 1996Effective Structuring of Product Development Projects in U.S. High Technology Firms. • 1995Case: AT&T's Acquisition of McCaw Cellular • 1995Case: Competitive Dynamics in Laser Printers 1984-93 • 1995Comment on C. Antonelli. Generic Versus Localized Knowledge: A Model of Technical Choice • 1995Innovation timing advantages: Sources and applications. • 1995New Product Development Throughput Time: the Japanese Portion of a Cross-National Study. • 1995Technology Awareness and Competitive Advantage. (Chapter 2) • 1995Managing the Globalization of Industrial Research: Observation from japanese and U.S. automotive and Electronic Industries. • 1994Culture Context, and Structure: A Test on Multimational banks in Hong Kong • 1994New Product Development: A Multinational Comparison and Perspective • 1994Understanding the Sources of Innovation Timing: An Empirical Test of Three Theories • 1994Achieving High Performance Through Interfunctional Knowledge Creation and Synthesis: The case of product development • 1993Effective Structuring of Product Development Groups in U.S. Firms: An Information Processing Perspective • 1993Competitive Timing and Cycle Time in New Product Development • 1992Case: The Spreadsheet Software Sector and Microsoft's Excel • 1992Case: The Computer Graphics Sector and Intergraph • 1991Competitive Advantage and the Basis of Competition • 1991Discovering the Basis of Competition in Thirteen Industries • 1990International Research Management: Studies in Interdisciplinary Methods from Business, Government, and Academia • 1990Competing with Cycle Time in the Worldwide DRAM Market • 1990Competing with Technology in Ethical Pharmaceuticals • 1989Management Values in Hong Kong and The People's Republic of China • 1989Competitive Strategy in the Plain Paper Copier Industry • 1988Competitive Advantage and the Basis of Competition: Semiconductors, Specialty, Chemicals, and Diesel Engines • 1988The Behavioral Science of Leadership: An Interdisciplinary Japanese Research Program • 1988Coping with Environmental and Market Forces Impacting High Technology Industry in the 1990's • 1988Competitive Advantage and the Basis of Competition • 1987Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research: Theory and Practice of Problem-Focused Research and Development • 1987Cultural Values of Managers in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong • 1985Impact of Culture on organizational Structure of Banks in Hong Kong • 1985A Reexamination of the Relationships Among Supervisory Ratings of Job Characteristics, Job Incumbents' Task Perceptions, and Work Satisfaction: Evidence from Hong Kong • 1984Strategic Management of Technology • 1984Organization Structure: Culture Free or Culture Bound • 1984Strategic Management of Industrial Technology: A Review of the Issues • 1984The Choice of Strategic Alternatives Under Increasing Regulation in High Technology Companies • 1984Firm Attributes Associated with Inward Foreign Licensing by U.S. Firms • 1983Methods Used in a Cross-Cultural Study of Multinational Banks in Hong Kong • 1983Interconnecting Cycles, Intertwining Uncertainties: A General Management Perspective on Technology Strategy • 1983Strategic Management of Technology: A Review of the Issues • 1983Modern Management Techniques for Engineers and Scientists • 1983Predictors of Long-Term Research Performance • 1983Organizational Responses to Regulation: A Comparison of High Technology Industrial and Research University Response • 1982The Organization and Management of Interdisciplinary Research: A Progress Report • 1982Industrial Response Patterns to Health and Safety Regulation: A Resource Dependence Approach • 1981Predictors of Long-Term Research Performance • 1981Organizational Response to Regulation: The Case of Research Universities and the Regulation of Research Funds • 1981Academic Interdisciplinary Research: Characteristics of Successful Projects • 1981Organization Theory: A Structural and Behavioral Analysis 4th Edition • 1981Contingencies for Academic Research Performance • 1981Problems and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches: Appropriate Matching of Research Questions and Research Organizations • 1980Research on Research Effectiveness: Where Do We Stand in 1980 • 1980Population Ecology: Old Wine in New Bottles? • 1980Integration and Specialization in Research Teams • 1979Organizational Effectiveness Under Increasing Regulation in High Technology Companies: The Choice of Strategic Alternatives • 1979Integrating Technology in Strategic Planning of Technically Oriented Corporations • 1979Research Team Composition and Performance • 1979Academic Interdisciplinary Research: Problems and Practice • 1979Managing Academic Interdisciplinary Research Projects • 1979Politics and Markets: The World's Political Economic System • 1979Research Team Composition and Performance • 1979Status and Performance in Small Professional Organizations: The Case of Scientific Research Projects • 1979In-Process Predictors of Research Performance • 1978Status and Performance in Interdisciplinary Research Projects • 1978An Assessment of Studies in Interdisciplinary Research • 1978Safety Training (A) & (B) • 1978Will the Corporation Survive? • 1978Literature Issues and Research Findings for Academic Interdisciplinary Reseach Projects • 1977Managing Alternative Forms of Academic Interdisciplinary Research Projects • 1976Case: Safety Training (A) and (B) • 1976Categories, Counts, and Proportions: Alternative Results in Measuring Team Functional Diversity
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