Brian Silverman
Associate Dean, Research and Academic ResourcesJ.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman School of Management
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Rotman School of Management
Bio
Brian Silverman is the J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management, and Professor of Strategic Management, Area Coordinator, Strategic Management Area, and Associate Dean, Research & Academic Resources at Rotman. His research focuses on the interaction between a firm’s competitive strategy and organizational structure to affect its performance – in particular, its ability to access and exploit technological capabilities. He studies diverse industries including biotechnology, information processing, consumer electronics, and transportation. He has served in numerous roles in varied academic organizations. He also serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Organization, and is a former Series Editor of Advances in Strategic Management.
Academic Positions
2004-Present J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management, and Full Professor, Strategic Management; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
2001-2004 Magna International Professor of Strategy (2003-2004), and Associate Professor, Strategic Management; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
1998-2001 Assistant Professor, Competition and Strategy; Harvard Business School
1995-1998 Assistant Professor, Strategic Management; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
SHORT-TERM VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
March-April 2016 Visiting Professor; University of Cambridge
Spring 2015 Visiting Fellow; London Business School
Feb 2014 Visiting Fellow; Technion
Fall 2010 Visiting Scholar; Stern School of Business, New York University
March 2010 Visiting Professor; Singapore Management University
March 2009 Visiting Professor; Universite de Paris I
May 2005 Visiting Professor; Universite de Paris XI
Spring 2004 Senior Fellow; The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2003 Visiting Scholar; Columbia Business School
Honors and Awards
2017 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize; Strategic Management Journal
2017 Gould Prize; American Journal of Sociology
2017 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award; American Sociology Association, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section
2005-2016 Excellence in Teaching Award; Rotman School of Management
2012 Best Paper Award; Israel Strategy Conference
2010 Best Paper Proceedings; Academy of Management, Business Policy & Strategy Division
2010 Most Impactful Paper; Journal of Business Venturing
2003 Best Paper; Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
2003 Best Professor; University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management 2nd-year MBA class
2002 Runner-up, Best Professor; University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management 2nd-year MBA class
2001 Noted Alliance Expert; Corporate Strategy Board, Washington DC
2000 Two papers nominated for McKinsey/Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize
1999 Best Paper Award of Excellence; Technology and Innovation Management Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
1998 Honourable Mention Award of Excellence; Organization Theory Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
1997 Best Paper Award; Organization Theory Division, ASAC
1997 Honourable Mention Award; Policy Division, ASAC
1997 Best Professor; University of Toronto 1st -Year MBA class
1997 Finalist, Best Dissertation Award; Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of Management
Selected Publications - Papers
Public Contracting for Private Innovation: Government Capabilities, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes Bruce, J.R., J.M. de Figuieredo and B.S. Silverman Strategic Management Journal 2019
On the Genesis of Interfirm Relational Contracts de Figueiredo, J.M. & B.S.Silverman Strategy Science 2017
Asset Ownership and Incentives in Early Shareholder Capitalism: Liverpool Shipping in the 18th Century Silverman, B.S. & P. Ingram Strategic Management Journal 2017
The Cultural Contingency of Structure: Evidence from Entry to the Slave Trade In and Around the Abolition Movement Ingram, P. & B.S. Silverman American Journal of Sociology 2016
The Effect of Social Interaction on Economic Transactions: Evidence from Changes in Two Retail Formats Goldfarb, A., R.C. McDevitt, S. Samila & B.S. Silverman Management Science 2015
Water under the Bridge: Determinants of Franchise Renewal in Water Provision Chong, E., S. Saussier & B.S. Silverman Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 2015
Learning by Hiring or Hiring to Avoid Learning? Tzabbar, D., B.S. Silverman & B. Aharonson Journal of Managerial Psychology 2014
Learning through Foreign Market Participation: The Relative Benefits of Exporting, Importing, and Foreign Direct Investment Almodovar, P., J. Saiz-Briones & B.S. Silverman Journal of Technology Transfer 2014
Firm Survival and Industry Evolution in Vertically Related Populations de Figueiredo, J.M. & B.S. Silverman Management Science 2012
Arms Race or Detente? The Effect of Alliance Announcements on Rivals' Market Values Oxley, J.E., R.C. Sampson & B.S. Silverman Management Science 2009
Churn, Baby, Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant and Fringe Firms in a Segmented Industry de Figueiredo, J.M. & B.S. Silverman Management Science 2007
The 'Problem' of Creating and Capturing Value Nickerson, J.A., B.S. Silverman & T.R. Zenger Strategic Organization 2007
Videos
Profiting from Others' Innovation Portfolios: Brian Silverman
SILVERMAN / Basic Predictions of Transaction Cost Economics
STR Nuggets: What makes a good research question? by Brian Silverman - University of Toronto
Profiting from Others' Innovation Portfolios: Brian Silverman
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Books
Addressing Endogeneity Issues in Alliance Research; Martinez, O., J.E. Oxley & B.S. Silverman; in L. Mesquita, R. Ragozzino & J.J. Reuer (editors), Collaborative Strategy: A Guide to Strategic Alliances, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, in press; 2016
Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems: Advances in Strategic Management, volume 30; Adner, R., J.E. Oxley & B.S. Silverman (editors); Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2013
History and Strategy: Advances in Strategic Management volume 29; Kahl, S.J., B.S. Silverman & M.A. Cusumano (editors); Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2012
History in Strategy Research: What, Why, and How; Ingram, P., H. Rao & B.S. Silverman; in S.J. Kahl, B.S. Silverman & M.A. Cusumano (editors), History and Strategy: Advances in Strategic Management volume 29, Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2012
The Economic Institutions of Strategy; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman (editors); London UK: Emerald Press; 2009
New Frontiers in the Strategic Management of Organizational Change; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman; in J.A. Nickerson & B.S. Silverman (editors), The Economic Institutions of Strategy, London UK: Emerald Press; 2009
How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks; de Figueiredo, J.M. & B.S. Silverman; in R.G. Ehrenberg and P. Stephan (editors), Science and the University, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; 2007
Inter-firm Alliances: A New Institutional Perspective; Oxley, J.E. & B.S. Silverman; in E. Brousseau and J. Glachant (editors), New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007
Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification; Silverman, B.S.; London, UK: Routledge Press; 2002
The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management: Advances in Strategic Management volume 19; Ingram, P. & B.S. Silverman, editors; Stamford CT: JAI Press; 2002
Organizational Economics; Silverman, B.S.; in J.A.C. Baum, editor, Blackwell Companion to Organizations, London: Blackwell Publishers; 2001
Complexity, Attractors and Path Dependence and Creation in Technological Evolution; Baum, J.A.C. & B.S. Silverman; in R. Garud and P. Karnoe (editors), Path as Process (Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2001
Complexity in the Dynamics of Organizational Founding and Failure; Baum, J.A.C. & B.S. Silverman; in M. Lissack and H. Gunz (editors), Managing Complexity in Organizations, New York: Quorum Press; 1999
Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressure in the U.S. Interstate Trucking Industry; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman; in J.A.C. Baum (editor), Advances in Strategic Management 15; 1998; Pages: pp. 37-61
Papers
- Addressing Endogeneity Issues in Alliance Research; Martinez, O., J.E. Oxley & B.S. Silverman; in L. Mesquita, R. Ragozzino & J.J. Reuer (editors), Collaborative Strategy: A Guide to Strategic Alliances, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, in press; 2016
- Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems: Advances in Strategic Management, volume 30; Adner, R., J.E. Oxley & B.S. Silverman (editors); Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2013
- History and Strategy: Advances in Strategic Management volume 29; Kahl, S.J., B.S. Silverman & M.A. Cusumano (editors); Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2012
- History in Strategy Research: What, Why, and How; Ingram, P., H. Rao & B.S. Silverman; in S.J. Kahl, B.S. Silverman & M.A. Cusumano (editors), History and Strategy: Advances in Strategic Management volume 29, Bingley UK: Emerald Press; 2012
- The Economic Institutions of Strategy; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman (editors); London UK: Emerald Press; 2009
- New Frontiers in the Strategic Management of Organizational Change; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman; in J.A. Nickerson & B.S. Silverman (editors), The Economic Institutions of Strategy, London UK: Emerald Press; 2009
- How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks; de Figueiredo, J.M. & B.S. Silverman; in R.G. Ehrenberg and P. Stephan (editors), Science and the University, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; 2007
- Inter-firm Alliances: A New Institutional Perspective; Oxley, J.E. & B.S. Silverman; in E. Brousseau and J. Glachant (editors), New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007
- Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification; Silverman, B.S.; London, UK: Routledge Press; 2002
- The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management: Advances in Strategic Management volume 19; Ingram, P. & B.S. Silverman, editors; Stamford CT: JAI Press; 2002
- Organizational Economics; Silverman, B.S.; in J.A.C. Baum, editor, Blackwell Companion to Organizations, London: Blackwell Publishers; 2001
- Complexity, Attractors and Path Dependence and Creation in Technological Evolution; Baum, J.A.C. & B.S. Silverman; in R. Garud and P. Karnoe (editors), Path as Process (Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2001
- Complexity in the Dynamics of Organizational Founding and Failure; Baum, J.A.C. & B.S. Silverman; in M. Lissack and H. Gunz (editors), Managing Complexity in Organizations, New York: Quorum Press; 1999
- Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressure in the U.S. Interstate Trucking Industry; Nickerson, J.A. & B.S. Silverman; in J.A.C. Baum (editor), Advances in Strategic Management 15; 1998; Pages: pp. 37-61
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