Dan Wadhwani

Dan is the Fletcher Jones Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of the Pacific, and a 50% Professor in the MPP Department at CBS. A business historian by training, he uses historical approaches to study entrepreneurship, organizations, and industries. His publications have used historical sources and methods to examine the emergence of new industries, the evolution of organizational forms, and the creation of novel market categories and valuation systems. Most recently, he has co-edited Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University Press), which examines the epistemic, theoretical, and methodological opportunities and challenges of using historical approaches in management and organizational research. While at CBS, he will be engaged in a collaborative project on historical and historicist perspectives on entrepreneurship.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts - BA Yale University (1987 — 1991)
  
• PhD University of Pennsylvania (1995 — 2002)

Primary research areas

• Business History
• Entrepreneurship
• Organization Studies
• Strategy

Selected publications

• Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (co-edited with Marcelo Bucheli), New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• ”Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category—Modern Indian Art” (with Mukti Khaire), Academy of Management Journal. (December 2010).
• “Schumpeter’s Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship,” (with Geoffrey Jones) Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2006). Revised and republished in M. Bucheli and R.D. Wadhwani, Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• “Historical Reasoning and the Development of Entrepreneurship Theory,” The Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research (Hans Landstrom and Franz Lohrke, eds.), Cheltemham: Edward Elgar, October, 2010.
• “Institutional Foundations of Personal Finance: Innovation in the in U.S. Savings Banks,” Business History Review (Fall 2011).