Founding Members

The Board of Directors of the Organizational Design Community (ODC) consists of the following members:

Richard M. Burton Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA Richard M. Burton is Professor of Management and Organization at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He holds a D. B. A. and an M.B.A. from the University of llinois, Urbana. He teaches MBA and PhD courses in organizational design and computational organization theory. His research interests are in organizational design and computational organization theory. Richard Burton has published several books and papers in the major journals within the area of Organizational Design. Together with Børge Obel, he is the developer of the OrgCon (Organizational Consultant), a knowledge base software program which aids the organizational designer.

Anne Bøllingtoft Associate Professor, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark Anne Bøllingtoft is Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. In 2005, she handed in her thesis titled 'The Bottom-up Business Incubator: A Collaborative Approach to (Entrepreneurial) Organizing?' Her research area covers entrepreneurship with specific focus on business incubators and new organizational structures and forms. Her research focuses on collaborative communities in different contexts – the emergence and development of collaborative communities, the design of them and structures in the communities as well as identification of the coordinating mechanisms.

Timothy N. Carroll Assistant Professor, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, USA Tim Carroll is an assistant professor of management in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, Dr. Carroll was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2002. Dr. Carroll's research centers on issues in organization design and strategy, such as organizing for innovation, managing fast-track project teams, and the emergence of new organizational forms. His research has been published in Organization Science and Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory as well as several edited book volumes. Dr. Carroll has taught strategy, organizational behavior, and organizational design at the undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and executive levels. He has provided consulting and executive education services to companies such as ABB, Boeing, Deutsche Bank, GE, Lafarge, Motorola, Osram, Progress Energy, Schering, Siemens, Teradata, Union Pacific, Vestas and Waffle House. Prior to receiving his PhD, Dr. Carroll consulted with McKinsey & Co., working with clients in the health care and technology industries.

Lex Donaldson Professor, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Lex Donaldson has been a visitor at the universities of Aston, Iowa, London, Maryland, Northwestern and Stanford. His current interests are organizational theory, organizational structure and corporate governance. He is presently working on a new theory of organizations. Professor Donaldson's body of work includes a significant contribution to the development of contingency theory as well as founding stewardship theory – which has become a major influence in the area of corporate governance. His contribution to the organizational behavior literature is immense. He has authored five research texts as well as numerous academic articles and book chapters. His texts are used in the doctoral programs of leading business schools such as Harvard and Wharton. Donaldson is the author of six books about organizations and management, among them: The Contingency Theory of Organizations, Performance-Driven Organizational Change, and For Positivist Organization Theory. He also co-authored with Frederick G. Hilmer Management. Redeemed: Debunking the Fads that Undermine Our Corporations, a book for managers and the general public in which they defended the role and status of managers. This book was simultaneously published in New York and Sydney, translated into German, Dutch and Spanish and was a finalist in the 1997 Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award. A profile of Professor Lex Donaldson has been published in 2005 in a prestigious series of articles entitled Vita Contemplativa, in which distinguished scholars describe their life's work in the context of their personal history. This article was published in the 26th volume of Organization Studies and follows the honor he received in 2003 when his work received one of the highest possible accolades: a worldwide survey of 95 academics from the Academy of Management Learning and Education nominated his work on the Contingency Theory of Organizational Structures as one of the world's top 73 management theories, ranked on criteria of importance, usefulness to management practice and scientific validity.

Jay Galbraith President and founder of Galbraith Management Consultants, USA Dr. Jay Galbraith is an internationally recognized expert on Global organization design. He is the president and founder of Galbraith Management Consultants, an international consulting firm that specializes in solving strategy and organizational design challenges across corporate, business unit, and international levels. His firm also assists with international partnering arrangements, including joint ventures and network-type organizations. Working with companies ranging from small manufacturing firms to large global firms, his theories on gaining a significant competitive advantage through customer-centricity have been implemented by top-level executives throughout the world. Jay's widely-used Star Model^TM , has successfully transformed organizations across a broad span of industries. Currently, he is focusing on rapidly reconfigurable organizational units to accommodate the demands of customers and markets across multinational boundaries. Over 40 years of research and practical applications give Jay a breadth of experience that few, if any, management consultants can claim. His thorough understanding of the fast-changing world of global competition is exactly what today's companies need in order to stay ahead of their competitors. As the author of numerous publications, including over a dozen books and a long list of research papers, Dr. Galbraith is regularly asked for his expert opinion by the media, including BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Economist, and The Financial Times. Dr. Galbraith is an Affiliated Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and Professor Emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has previously served as a business school professor on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Technical Institute (MIT). Jay speaks frequently at conferences worldwide. He receives widespread acclaim for delivering his extensive knowledge of global organization design in a clear, concise manner that audiences find informative and educational.

Diem Ho, PhD Manager of University Relations for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Dr Diem Ho manages all IBM University Programs in EMEA relating to skills development, technology access and collaborative research. He drives the IBM Academic Initiative to provide IBM software for free to faculty members and students for research and education purposes. Diem's past research interests covered many disciplines in Science, Technology and Finance/Economics. He has published widely in physics, mathematics, image processing, remote sensing, engineering, optimization and finance. Recently, he has given lectures intensively on Higher Education Reforms. He is an associate editor of the journal of Computational Economics (Kluwer) and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is a member of the board of Career Space, a consortium of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) companies, which helps to develop generic skills profiles relevant to key jobs in ICT and provide curriculum guidelines to universities meet industry needs. Before assuming his current position, he was an EMEA practice leader with the IBM Management Technologies Consulting Group, specialized in Banking and Finance sector. Before joining IBM, Diem was a university professor and he continues to supervise PhD thesis to-date. Diem obtained two Master degrees and a PhD in Magnetopheric Physics at Stanford University, California.

George P. Huber Professor Emeritus, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Dr. George P. Huber holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Business Administration. He received his B.S.M.E. and M.S.I.E. degrees from the University of Missouri and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has held full time positions with the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company, the Procter and Gamble Manufacturing Company, the U.S. Department of Labor, Execucom Systems Corporation, and the Universities of Wisconsin, California, and Texas, and has served as associate dean for research in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wisconsin and The University of Texas. He has also served as a consultant to many corporations and public agencies. Dr. Huber's current research focuses on organizational change, organizational design, and organizational decision-making. He has also conducted and published research in the areas of information technology and individual and group decision-making. His pioneering article, "The Nature and Design of Post-Industrial Organizations," was awarded first prize in an international prize competition sponsored by The Institute of Management Sciences in 1983. His co-authored article, "Fit, Equifinality, and Organizational Effectiveness" was selected as the best article of the year in the Academy of Management Journal for 1993. In 1993, his co-edited book, "Organizational Change and Redesign: Ideas and Insights for Improving Performance", was published by Oxford University Press and in 2003 his book, "The Necessary Nature of Future Firms", was published by Sage Publications. Dr. Huber is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute and of the Academy of Management and is a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame.

Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson Associate Professor, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson is MindLab Associate Professor at the Department of Management at Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus. She holds a MA in Commerce and International Languages and a PhD from the University of Southern Denmark. She teaches E-MBA and MA classes in Organizational Design, Change Management, and International Management. Her research interests relate to issues of organizational design. Seeing an organization as an information processing entity, she has focused in particular on how micro level information processing and decision making influences the appropriateness of particular designs. Her work has been published in various international journals and books, and she is the co-editor of several books on Organizational Design. She is currently involved in the research project MindLab where she, together with Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University, Richard M. Burton, Duke University, and Børge Obel, Aarhus University studies the impact of shared emotions on organizational information processing and decision making.

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, USA and School of Science, Aalto University, Finland Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa received her Ph.D. and MBA from University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on Clicks and Mortars, Customer Insight, E-Commerce, Information Systems within a number of industry areas, such as E-Business, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Music Industry and the Web. Sirkka Jarvenpaa has received several professional awards; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1997; Harvard Business School Grant, 1995; and The Center for International Business and Education Grant, 1995.

Peter Klaas Vice President, Vestas, Denmark Peter Klaas is Director of Organization Development, People & Culture in Vestas Nacelles A/S. He has extensive managerial experience, including two CEO positions and a number of other managerial and consultancy positions in different industries. Peter believes that a strong sense of urgency is the single most important leadership asset and his core competencies are building strong leadership teams, execution and turn-around. Peter is also a member of the international research community in Organization Design and publishes papers and articles on both academic and managerial issues. Peter Klaas's main research areas are organization design and the mechanisms involved in organizational change over time. Departing from a view on organizations as information processing entities, he has focused on how functional relationships between information processes and information structures drives and limits the dynamic development of the structure over time. Of special interest to Klaas is how these relationships influence and determine organizational size and growth rates. Creating growth and maximizing organizational size are of key interest to managers for a large number of reasons, including strategic, economic, political and institutional reasons. His areas of interest are dynamics of organization design, organizational growth and oorganization fit and performance.

Thorbjørn Knudsen Professor, Department of Management & Marketing, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Thorbjørn Knudsen is full professor at the Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark, where he is also the leader of research unit Strategic Organizational Design. He teaches management and quantitative market analysis. His research focuses on Strategic Organization, Evolutionary Economics, and mathematical organizational design. Thorbjørn Knudsen has published several papers in the major international journals: Organization Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of International Business Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and many others. In addition he has authored, co-authored and edited a number of books. He received the Danish "Tietgenprisen in 2003; the Statoil Research Award in 2001, and "Den Fynske Fond for Erhvervsøkonomisk Forsknings Forskerpris" in 1999.

Raymond E. Miles Professor Emeritus and Former Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA Raymond E. Miles is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from Stanford. He is the author of six books and over 50 articles and chapters based on his research on leadership and managerial philosophies, organizational development, organization design, and alternative arrangements of strategy, structure and process. His current research and writing focus on collaborative approaches to innovation. Miles has lectured widely in Europe, Asia and Latin America and has been a visiting professor and visiting scholar at leading institutions in the US and abroad. He has served on the Board of Directors of NYSE listed firms and several small firms and start-ups.

Børge Obel Professor, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark Børge Obel is Professor at The Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus and a professor at EIASM. Børge Obel holds an MSc (Econ.), a Lic. Oecon and a Dr. Oecon from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His research interests fall within strategy, management, organizational design, expert systems, and quantitative approaches to organizational design. Together with Professor Burton, he has published a third edition of their organizational design book, Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design: Developing Theory for Application, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. In 2006 their book Organizational Design: A step-by-step- approach, was published at Cambridge University Press. Professor Obel has published numerous academic papers including papers in ASQ and Management Science. He also serves on a number of company boards.

Phanish Puranam Professor, Strategic and International Management Area, London Business School, United Kingdom Dr. Phanish Puranam is Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He holds a London Business School Term Chair and is also Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre at the School, which functions as the nodal point for the School's India related research programmes. Phanish's research interests centre on the design of collaborative structures – between firms as well as between units within a firm. In particular, he focuses on problems of coordination that arise in such situations, and how they are managed. He is currently working on a series of theory development projects on "The Foundations of Organization Design" funded competitively by the European Research Council (380,000 Euros over three years). He is also guest co-editor of a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on the "Design of Strategic Organizational Architecture", to appear in 2012. In addition to publishing his research on the structuring of alliance and outsourcing arrangements, post-merger integration, inter-divisional collaboration and reorganizations in internationally reputed academic journals, Phanish has also worked with companies such as Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, 247Customer, Unisys, IBM, Tata Consulting Services and CapGemini in advisory/training roles on these topics. He currently focuses his attention on European/US companies with an interest in India as well as Indian companies that are actively globalizing. Phanish obtained his PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and joined the faculty of London Business School in 2001.

Charles C. Snow Professor, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, USA Charles C. Snow is the Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. He has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the strategic management of innovation and entrepreneurship, organization design, and new organizational forms. Professor Snow has published widely in academic and practitioner journals on various management topics. He has also co-authored or edited ten books on organizations and management, including the classic Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process (McGraw-Hill, 1978) and Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth (Stanford University Press, 2005). He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College (Amos Tuck School), Norwegian School of Management, and the University of Oregon. Currently, he is a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne (2007-12) and the University of Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences in Denmark (2007-12). He has taught management subjects to executives and MBA students in more than 25 countries. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and is listed in Who's Who in the Management Sciences, Great Writers on Organizations, and The IEBM Handbook of Management Thinking.

Henk W. Volberda Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy and Chairman of the Department of Strategic Management & Business Environment at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Scientific Director of INSCOPE. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and City University Business School, London. Professor Volberda obtained his doctorate cum laude in Business Administration of the University of Groningen. Henk's research on organizational flexibility and strategic change received the NCD Award 1987, the ERASM Research Award 1994, the Erasmus University Research Award 1997, Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 1993, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Strategy Award 2003, the Erim Impact Award 2003 and 2005 and the SAP Strategy Award 2005. His work on strategic renewal, coevolution and new organizational forms has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Decision Support Systems, European Business Forum, European Management Journal, European Management Review, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, International Studies of Management & Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Omega, Organization Development Journal, Organization Studies and Organization Science. For his work on alliance capabilities (together with Ard-Pieter de Man and Johan Draulans) he received the Dutch ROA Award 1999 (best consultancy article). Moreover, his research on absorptive capacity and internal networks (together with Raymond van Wijk and Frans van den Bosch) received an honorable mention of the McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper Prize. Professor Volberda has worked as a consultant for many large European corporations and published in many refereed books and journals. He is director of the Erasmus Strategic Renewal Program and program director of the Erasmus Institute of Management (ERIM). His books, "Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive" (1998) published by Oxford University Press and "De Flexibele Onderneming: Strategieen voor Succesvol Concurreren" (2004) published by Kluwer, received wide acclaim. His book together with Tom Elfring "Rethinking Strategy" (Sage, 2001) was awarded with the ERIM Best Book Award.