The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management

MILLERThe Eli Broad Graduate School of Management Department of Management Michigan State University 632 Bogue Street, N475 BCC East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 Phone: 517 353-6428 E-mail: mi

KENT D MILLER

The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management

Department of Management Michigan State University

632 Bogue Street, N475 BCC East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 Phone: (517) 353-6428 E-mail: millerk@broad.msu.edu

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Strategic management, organizational learning and change, managerial spirituality, research methods

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2021 Chairperson, Management, Eli Broad Graduate School of

Management, Michigan State University

2005-Present Professor, Management, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management,

Michigan State University

2019 Visiting Professor, General Administration and Human Resources,

Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil

1997-2005 Associate Professor, Strategic Management, Krannert Graduate

School of Management, Purdue University Promotion to Professor approved in April, 2005

1998-1999 Visiting Associate Professor, Management and Organizational

Behavior, Leonard N Stern School of Business, New York University 1991-1997 Assistant Professor, Strategic Management, Krannert Graduate School

of Management, Purdue University

1988-1990 Research Assistant, Strategic Management and Organization, Carlson

School of Management, University of Minnesota

1984-1987 Program Consultant, Institute for International Development, Inc.

Established the Fundación de Asistencia para la Pequeña Empresa (FAPE), a nonprofit small business financial and administrative assistance organization in Guatemala Management consulting with similar organizations in seven other Latin American and Caribbean countries

1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Taught courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics

EDUCATION:

1991 University of Minnesota

Ph.D., Business Administration

Major field: Strategic Management and Organization

Supporting field: Economics

Dissertation: “Strategic Flexibility Responses to Perceived Environmental Uncertainties: Evidence from Central America and Panama.”

Period of doctoral studies: August, 1987 - July, 1991 GPA: 4.0/4.0

1984 University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.A., Economics

1982 Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

B.A., Economics

COURSES TAUGHT:

2005-Present Executive MBA Michigan State University:

Strategic Management Organizational Analysis

MBA Michigan State University:

Strategic Management Consulting Process Management Consulting Strategic Management Consulting Projects 1991-2005 Ph.D Purdue University:

Process Theory and Methods Research Methods in Strategic Management Organizational Knowledge

Major Topics in Strategic Management Strategy and Organizational Dynamics Theory Testing in Strategic Management International Strategy

German International School of Management and Administration:

Strategic Management Projects in Management

MBA Purdue University:

Strategic Management International Strategy Strategy Implementation in Multinational Corporations

Undergraduate Purdue University:

Managerial Policy International Management

1998-1999 MBA New York University:

Competitive Analysis

Undergraduate New York University:

Business Policy and Strategy 1982-1984 Undergraduate University of Wisconsin, Madison:

Intermediate Macroeconomics Introductory Microeconomics Introductory Macroeconomics

HONORS:

2005 Distinguished Research Mentor, National Science Council, Taiwan

2004 Krannert Faculty Fellow (included $10,000 award)

1997 Elected to Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars

1992 Academy of Management International Management Division Junior

Faculty Workshop

1992 Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the Honor Society for Collegiate

Schools of Business

1990 Academy of Management Doctoral Consortium, Business Policy and

Planning Division

1989 Elected to the Honors Society of Phi Kappa Phi

1982 Elected to the Wheaton College Scholastic Honors Society

1982 Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award

1981 Elected to Omicron Delta Epsilon, National Economics Honor Society

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

2009-2012 National Science Foundation Innovation and Organizational Change

Program ($370,960 with Brian Pentland)

2008 Eli Broad College of Business Pilot Funding for External Grant

Initiative ($15,000 with Brian Pentland)

2000 Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises

($10,000)

1997 Krannert Center for International Business Education & Research

($7,200)

1996 Krannert Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises

($6,870)

1995 Krannert Center for International Business Education & Research

($3,709)

1995 Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant ($1,356)

1994 Krannert Center for International Business Education & Research

($6,800)

1993 Krannert Center for International Business Education & Research

($4,000)

1992 Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant ($625)

1990-1991 Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc

(MUCIA) Ph.D Dissertation Research Grant ($10,000)

1990-1991 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation

Fellowship ($11,000 plus tuition) 1990-1991 Curtis L Carlson School of Management Dissertation Fellowship

($1,000) 1987-1988 University of Minnesota Graduate School Fellowship ($8,000 plus

tuition)

PUBLICATIONS:

Miller, K D., & Lin, S 2021 “Strategic Issue Diagnosis by Top Management Teams: A

Multiple-Agent Model.” Strategic Organization: forthcoming.

Choi, S., & Miller, K D 2021 “Ongoing Customization in Project-based

Organizations.” Industrial and Corporate Change: 30(1): 109-122.

Miller, K D 2020 “Discernment in Management and Organizations.” Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 17(5): 373-402 Selected by the editors as the

JMSR best paper for 2020.

Miller, K D., Gomes, E., & Lehman, D W 2019 “Strategy Restoration.” Long Range Planning, 52(5), Article 101855: 1-15.

Chanda, S S., & Miller, K D 2019 “Replicating Agent-based Models: Revisiting

March's Exploration-Exploitation Study,” Strategic Organization, 17(4): 425-449

Republished in the SO! James G March Tribute Collection, a virtual special issue.

Miller, K D 2019 “Responding to Fundamentalism: Secularism or Humble Faith?”

Academy of Management Perspectives, 33(3): 307-322.

Miller, K D 2017 “Interfaith Dialogue in a Secular Field.” Management Research Review, 40(8): 824-844.

Miller, K D 2017 “Organizing with the Spirit.” Christian Scholar’s Review, 46(3):

213-231

Miller, K D 2016 “Reflections on Integrated Risk Management.” In Andersen, T J

(Ed.), Routledge Companion on Strategic Risk Management: 115-118 New York:

Routledge

Miller, K D & Martignoni, D 2016 “Organizational Learning with Forgetting:

Reconsidering the Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff.” Strategic Organization, 14(1):

53-72 Republished in the SO! James G March Tribute Collection, a virtual special

issue

Miller, K D & Lin, S 2015 “Analogical Reasoning for Diagnosing Strategic Issues in

Dynamic and Complex Environments.” Strategic Management Journal, 36(13):

2000-2020

Hærem, T., Pentland, B T., & Miller, K D 2015 “Task Complexity: Extending a Core

Concept.” Academy of Management Review, 40(3): 446-460 Nominated as a finalist for

the 2020 AMR Managerial Practice Award.

Miller, K D 2015 “Organizational Research as Practical Theology.” Organizational Research Methods, 18(2): 276-299.

Miller, K D 2015 “Agent-Based Modeling and Organization Studies: A Critical Realist

Perspective.” Organization Studies, 36(2): 175-196.

Miller, K D., Choi, S., & Pentland, B T 2014 “The Role of Transactive Memory in the

Formation of Organizational Routines.” Strategic Organization, 12(2): 109-133.

Miller, K D 2013 “Tacit knowledge.” In E H Kessler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of

Management Theory: 821-824 Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

Miller, K D., Pentland, B T., & Choi, S 2012 “Dynamics of Performing and

Remembering Organizational Routines.” Journal of Management Studies, 49(8):

1536-1558 Received Emerald Citation of Excellence for 2015

Miller, K D., & Tsang, E W K 2011 “Testing Management Theories: Critical Realist

Philosophy and Research Methods.” Strategic Management Journal, 32(2): 139-158 Miller, K D., & Lin, S 2010 “Different Truths in Different Worlds.” Organization Science, 21(1): 97-114.

Miller, K D 2009 “Organizational Risk after Modernism.” Organization Studies,

30(2-3): 157-180

Miller, K D., Fabian, F H., & Lin, S 2009 “Strategies for Online Communities.”

Strategic Management Journal, 30(3): 305-322.

Iyer, D N., & Miller, K D 2008 “Performance Feedback, Slack, and the Timing of

Acquisitions.” Academy of Management Journal, 51(4): 808-822.

Miller, K D 2008 “Simon and Polanyi on Rationality and Knowledge.” Organization Studies, 29(7): 933-955.

Miller, K D 2007 “Risk and Rationality in Entrepreneurial Processes.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(1-2): 57-74.

Chen, W., & Miller, K D 2007 “Situational and Institutional Determinants of Firms’

R&D Search Intensity.” Strategic Management Journal, 28(4): 369-381.

Miller, K D 2006 “A Case for Including Religious Organizations in Management

Research.” Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 3(3): 214-230.

Miller, K D., Zhao, M., & Calantone, R 2006 “Adding Interpersonal Learning and Tacit

Knowledge to March’s Exploration-Exploitation Model.” Academy of Management Journal, 49(4): 709-722.

Miller, K D 2005 “The Problem of Method and the Practice of Management Research.”

In D J Ketchen, Jr., & D D Bergh (Eds.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, vol 2: 143-177 Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.

Miller, K D., & Arikan, A 2004 “Technology Search Investments: Evolutionary, Option

Reasoning, and Option Pricing Approaches.” Strategic Management Journal, 25(5):

473-485

Miller, K D., & Chen, W 2004 “Variable Organizational Risk Preferences: Tests of the

March-Shapira Model.” Academy of Management Journal, 47(1): 105-115.

Miller, K D., & Shapira, Z 2004 “An Empirical Test of Heuristics and Biases Affecting

Real Option Valuation.” Strategic Management Journal, 25(3): 269-284.

Miller, K D., & Chen, W 2003 “Risk and Firms’ Costs.” Strategic Organization, 1(4):

355-382

Miller, K D., & Waller, H G 2003 “Scenarios, Real Options and Integrated Risk

Management.” Long Range Planning, 36(1): 93-107.

Miller, K D 2002 “Knowledge Inventories and Managerial Myopia.” Strategic

Management Journal, 23(8): 689-706.

Miller, K D., & Folta, T B 2002 “Option Value and Entry Timing.” Strategic

Management Journal, 23(7): 655-665.

Miller, K D 2002 “Competitive Strategies of Religious Organizations.” Strategic Management Journal, 23(5): 435-456.

Folta, T B., & Miller, K D 2002 “Real Options in Equity Partnerships.” Strategic Management Journal, 23(1): 77-88 Republished in A L Rugman & J Li (Eds.) 2005 Real Options and International Investment, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

Bromiley, P., Miller, K D., & Rau, D 2001 “Risk in Strategic Management Research.”

In M A Hitt, R E Freeman, & J S Harrison (Eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management: 259-288 Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.

Miller, K D., & Reuer, J J 1998 “Asymmetric Corporate Exposures to Foreign

Exchange Rate Changes.” Strategic Management Journal, 19(12): 1183-1191

Miller, K D., & Reuer, J J 1998 “Firm Strategy and Economic Exposure to Foreign

Exchange Rate Movements.” Journal of International Business Studies, 29(3):

493-513 Republished in A L Rugman & J Li (Eds.) 2005 Real Options and International Investment, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

Miller, K D 1998 “Economic Exposure and Integrated Risk Management.” Strategic Management Journal, 19(5): 497-514 Republished in T J Andersen (Ed.) 2016 Routledge Companion on Strategic Risk Management: 119-139 New York: Routledge.

Reuer, J J., & Miller, K D 1997 “Agency Costs and the Performance Implications of

International Joint Venture Internalization.” Strategic Management Journal, 18(6):

425-438

Miller, K D., & Reuer, J J 1996 “Measuring Organizational Downside Risk.” Strategic Management Journal, 17(9): 671-691.

Miller, K D., & Leiblein, M J 1996 “Corporate Risk-Return Relations: Returns

Variability versus Downside Risk.” Academy of Management Journal, 39(1): 91-122

Miller, K D 1993 “Industry and Country Effects on Managers' Perceptions of

Environmental Uncertainties.” Journal of International Business Studies, 24(4):

693-714

Miller, K D 1992 “A Framework for Integrated Risk Management in International

Business.” Journal of International Business Studies, 23(2): 311-331 Republished in

R L Tung (Ed.) 1994 International Management, Aldershot, England: Dartmouth

Publishing Company

Miller, K D., & Bromiley, P 1990 “Strategic Risk and Corporate Performance: An

Analysis of Alternative Risk Measures,” Academy of Management Journal, 33(4):

756-779

PRESENTATIONS:

Miller, K D “How to Publish in the Best Academic Journals.” ANPAD Annual Meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, October 1, 2019

Miller, K D “International Career, Research Networks, and Impact to the Country of Origin.” ANPAD Annual Meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, October 3, 2019

Miller, K D., & Lin, S “Strategic Issue Diagnosis by Top Management Teams: A

Multiple-Agent Model.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 14, 2018

Miller, K D “Interfaith Dialogue in a Secular Field.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 13, 2018

Miller, K D “Reflective Believing and Interfaith Dialogue.” MSR Research

Consortium, Chicago, Illinois, August 9, 2018

Miller, K D “Fundamentalism or Humble Faith?” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 8, 2017

Miller, K D “Reflective Believing and Interfaith Dialogue.” Professional Development Workshop at the International Association of Management Spirituality & Religion Conference, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 20, 2017

Choi, S., & Miller, K D “Organizational Team Formation: Projects, Processes, and Performance.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August

8, 2016

Miller, K D., Gomes, E., & Lehman, D W “Strategy Restoration: Conceptualization and Theory.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 7, 2016

Miller, K D “Knightian Research Agenda.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 11, 2015

Miller, K D “A Critical Realist Perspective on Agent-Based Modeling.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 4, 2014 Selected among the Best Papers for the Research Methods Division

Miller, K D “A Critical Realist Perspective on Agent-Based Modeling.” Department of Management and Organizations, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 28, 2014

Miller, K D., & Gomes, E “Organizational Renewal: Review, Proposal, and Guidance for Theory Development.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 13, 2013

Choi, S., & Miller, K D “Ongoing Innovation through Knowledge Combination

Routines.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 13, 2013

Miller, K D “Prospects for Developing a Theory of Entrepreneurial Imagination.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 12, 2013

Chaffin, D., & Miller, K D “A Micro Perspective of Demand-side Strategy: Value Co-creation Routines.” European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Montréal, Canada, July 6, 2013

Miller, K D., & Snyder, P “Stability and Change in Organizational Routines:

Integrating Practices Research.” European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Montréal, Canada, July 5, 2013

Bruce R Kennedy Memorial Ethical Leadership visiting scholar at Seattle Pacific University School of Business and Economics, May 15-17, 2013

Miller, K D., & Lin, S “Analogical Reasoning in Complex and Dynamic

Environments.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts,

August, 2012 Selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award from the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division

Miller, K D “A Critical Realist Perspective on Agent-Based Modeling.” Department of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, April 5, 2012

Choi, S., & Miller, K D “Routinized Knowledge Combination.” Strategic Management Society Conference, Miami, Florida, November, 2011

Miller, K D., Pentland, B T., & Choi, S “Dynamics of Performing and Remembering Organizational Routines.” Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, February, 2011

Miller, K D., & Martignoni, D “Organizational Learning with Bounded Rationality.” Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, February, 2011 Miller, K D., Choi, S., & Pentland, B T “Social Networks in Organizational Routines.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, August, 2010

Miller, K D., & Martignoni, D “Organizational Learning with Bounded Rationality.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, August, 2010

Miller, K D “Outline for a Theology of Organizations.” Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April, 2009

Miller, K D., Fabian, F H., & Lin, S “Strategies for Online Communities.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August, 2008

Discussant for session on “Behavioral Theory and the Impact of Risk Taking in Strategic Decisions.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August, 2008

Miller, K D., & Lin, S “Different Truths in Different Worlds.” Academy of

Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 2007 Selected among the Best Papers for the Organization and Management Theory Division

Miller, K D “Risk and Rationality in Entrepreneurial Processes.” Strategic

Entrepreneurship Journal Launch Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July, 2007.

Iyer, D N., & Miller, K D “Performance Feedback, Slack, and the Timing of

Acquisitions.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2006

Miller, K D., Zhao, M., & Calantone, R “Adding Interpersonal Learning and Tacit Knowledge to March’s Exploration-Exploitation Model.” Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, February, 2006

Miller, K D., Zhao, M., Calantone, R “Exploration and Exploitation with Interpersonal Learning and Tacit Knowledge.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2005

Miller, K D 2005 “The Problem of Method and the Practice of Management Research.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2005

Two-day academic seminar at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, on (1) my areas of research and (2) the process of publishing academic research in the field of management Participants included young faculty and doctoral students from throughout Taiwan Program was sponsored by Taiwan’s National Science Council, July, 2005 Miller, K D “Simon and Polanyi on Rationality and Knowledge.” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, November, 2004

Miller, K D “Rationality and Relationality.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 2004

Chen, W.-R., & Miller, K D “Determinants of Firms’ Technological Search Intensity.” Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, January, 2004

Miller, K D., & Chen, W.-R “Variable Organizational Risk Preferences: Tests of the March-Shapira Model.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2002

Miller, K D “Should Firms Hedge Risk?” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August, 2002

Miller, K D., & Chen, W.-R “Why Risk Matters.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D C., August, 2001

Miller, K D., & Arikan, A “Technology Investments as Real Options: An Evolutionary Perspective and Model.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D C., August, 2001

Miller, K D., & Shapira, Z “Behavioral Option Theory: Foundations and Evidence.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August, 2000

Miller, K D “Knowledge Inventories and Managerial Myopia.” Academy of

Management Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August, 2000 Selected among the Best Papers for the Business Policy and Strategy Division

Miller, K D., & Folta, T B “Option Value and Entry Timing.” INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, February, 2000

Miller, K D., & Folta, T B “Entry Timing and Option Value.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1999