Tammy Madsen: Keck Foundation Professor of Strategic Management
Dr. Tammy L. Madsen (BSME, UCSB; MS, USC; Ph.D., UCLA) is the Keck Foundation Professor of Strategic Management and a former Associate Dean of the Leavey School of Business. She teaches in the areas of strategy and innovation in the MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Development programs at SCU. The Leavey School has consistently recognized Tammy for her outstanding teaching, research, and service contributions. She also has been honored with the SCU President’s Special Recognition Award for her work.
Dr. Madsen’s current research explores a variety of questions such as: How does a fundamental shock to an industry affect the competition between entrants and incumbents? How do dynamic capabilities and co-innovation help a platform leader grow an ecosystem? What types of resources and capabilities help firms develop a sustainable versus temporary advantage (what matters)? How durable or persistent is a capability-based advantage? and What drives a cluster’s renewal after an economic shock? Her research has received various awards from the Strategic Management Division, Academy of Management, including the Glueck Best Paper Award, and appears in outlets such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Knowledge Management and International Marketing Review. Tammy serves on the editorial review boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Organization Science, and is a member of the Board of Editors, Strategic Management Review. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management (AOM) and has previously served in a five-year leadership role for the AOM's Strategic Management Division. Tammy also serves as the Director of the Strategic Research Foundation's Dissertation Grant Program for the Strategic Management Society and on the Board of Advisors, Global Innovation Institute.