Industrial competition, technological change, and corporate policy:
"The U.S. National Innovation System," manuscript, 2008, with Judith Walls.
"Shakeouts, Innovation, and Industrial Strategy and Policy," Australian Economic Review, vol. 40 no. 1, March 2007, pp. 106-112. 
"Entrepreneurs Seeking Gains: Profit Motives and Risk-Aversion in Inventors'
Commercialization Decisions," manuscript, 2007, with
Thomas Astebro.
"On the Theory of Product Market Characteristics and the Industry Life Cycle,"
manuscript,
2006.
"Product Market Characteristics and the Industry Life Cycle,"
manuscript,
2005.
"Two Roads to Riches? The (In)Frequency of Disruptive Technological Change,"
manuscript,
2007.
"Assessing the Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firm Performance, Plant Productivity, and Workers: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data,"
manuscript, 2006, with Donald S. Siegel.
"Assessing the Effects of Ownership Change on Women and Minority Employees: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data," International
Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 14 no. 2, July 2007, pp. 161-178, with John Marsh and Donald S. Siegel.
"Assessing the Effects of Ownership Change on Careers: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data,"
manuscript, 2005, with Donald S. Siegel and Tomas Lindstrom.
"Ownership Change, Productivity, and Human Capital: New Evidence
from Matched Employer-Employee Data in Swedish Manufacturing,"
in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming, with Donald S. Siegel and Tomas Lindstrom.
"Information Technology and Dynamics of Industry Structure: The UK
IT
Consulting Industry as a Contemporary Specimen," manuscript, 2002. 
"Bodyshopping versus Offshoring: Determinants of Outsourcing Behavior by Indian Software and Information Technology Firms," manuscript, 2007, with Sumit K. Majumdar and Ashok Nag.
"Lighting Industry," in Innovation in Global Industries - U.S. Firms Competing in a New World, National Academies Press, 2008, pp. 163-205, with Susan Sanderson, Judith Walls, and Yin-Yi Lai. This volume is a focus report of the National Academies. Covered in Business Week (slide show gives industry-specific coverage).
"Predictable Cross-Industry Heterogeneity in Industry Dynamics," in
Albert N. Link and F. M. Scherer, eds., Essays in Honor of Edwin
Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation and Technological
Change, Springer, 2005, pp. 275-279.
"Industry Shakeouts and Technological Change," International
Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 23 no. 1-2, February 2005,
pp. 23-43, with Steven Klepper.
"Salaries and Career Opportunities in the Banking Industry: Evidence
from the Personnel Records of the Union Bank of Australia," Explorations
in Economic History, vol. 38 no. 2, April 2001, pp. 195-224, with
Andrew
Seltzer.
"Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Producers and Competitive
Ramifications
in the U.S. Television Receiver Industry," Strategic Management
Journal,
vol. 21 no. 10-11, October-November 2000, pp. 997-1016, with Steven
Klepper.
"Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Producers and Competitive
Ramifications
in the U.S. Television Receiver Industry," reprinted in Constance E.
Helfat,
ed.,
The Blackwell/Strategic Management Society Handbook of
Organizational
Capabilities: Emergence, Development and Change, Blackwell,
2003.
"The Making of an Oligopoly: Firm Survival and Technological Change
in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry," Journal of Political
Economy,
vol. 108 no. 4, August 2000, pp. 728-760, with Steven Klepper.
"Technological Extinctions of Industrial Firms: An Inquiry into
their
Nature and Causes," Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 6 no.
2, March 1997, pp. 379-460, with Steven Klepper.
"Technological Extinctions of Industrial Firms: An Inquiry into
their
Nature and Causes," reprinted in David B. Audretsch and Steven Klepper,
eds., Innovation, Evolution of Industry and Economic Growth,
Edward
Elgar, 2000.
"Innovation and Industry Shakeouts," Business and Economic
History,
vol. 25 no. 1, Fall 1996, pp. 81-89, with Steven Klepper.
"Shakeouts: Firm Survival and Technological Change in New
Manufacturing
Industries," PhD dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Department
of
Social & Decision Sciences, September 1995. 
"Technological Change and Industry Shakeouts," mimeo, Carnegie Mellon University, 1993, with Steven Klepper.
"B & B Enterprises," computer software, available from John D.
Sterman,
Sloan School of Management, MIT E52-562, Cambridge, MA 02139, with Erik
Beinhocker, Mark Paich, and John D. Sterman, 1991. Revised
version available online: 
Economic growth, environment, and technological change:
"Technology Benchmarks for Sustained Economic Growth," manuscript,
2006.
"Political Instability and Growth in Dictatorships," Public
Choice, vol. 125 no. 3-4, December 2005, pp. 445-470,
with Jody Overland and Michael Spagat.
"Should Environmental Regulators Be Allowed to Tailor Standards?,"
manuscript,
2003, with Anthony G. Heyes.
"Technology Requirements for Population and Economic Growth,"
manuscript,
1998.
"Making Global Models Accessible: The Earth Systems Project," The
Earth Simulation Newsletter, vol. 1 no. 1, 1994, pp. 3-5. (This is
not a peer-reviewed publication, but may be of interest
nonetheless.)
"Beyond the Limits," computer software, available from Laboratory
for
Interactive Learning, Hood House, University of New Hampshire, Durham,
NH 03824, with assistance from Jennifer Newbury and Aaron Young, 1997
(1992).
"The Gaia Hypothesis and Daisyworld," computer software, with
assistance
from Michelle Bell, Peter J. Poole, Kevin Rathbun, Erik Trimble, and
Aaron
Young, 1993 (1990).
"New Technologies in Simulation Games," System Dynamics Review, vol. 9 no. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 135-152.
"Software to Communicate Global Models," in Crookall, David and Kiyoshi Arai, eds., Global Interdependence, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. 57-65, with Peter J. Poole.
"SIMGAME User Manual," "SIMGAME Development Manual," and "SIMGAME
Code,"
System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management, working papers
D-4115,
D-4116, and D-4117, 1989.
Conference papers published in proceedings:
"Industry Life Cycles and Their Causes (Synopsis)," Academy of
Management Proceedings, 2003, pp. BPS I1-I6.
"IT and Competition (Synopsis)," Academy of Management
Proceedings, 2003, pp. TIM E1-E6.
"International Dynamics of Product Market Competition", in Tarek Khalil, Hussein El-Gammal, Louis A. Lefebvre, Yasser Hosni, and Hassan El-Laithy, eds., Civilization, Modern Technology and Sustainable Development, International Association for Management of Technology, 1999, pp. 787-796.
"Technology Requirements for Population and Economic Growth," in Tarek Khalil, Hussein El-Gammal, Louis A. Lefebvre, Yasser Hosni, and Hassan El-Laithy, eds., Civilization, Modern Technology and Sustainable Development, International Association for Management of Technology, 1999, pp. 797-803.
"New Technologies in Simulation Games," in David F. Anderson, George
P. Richardson, and John D. Sterman, eds., System Dynamics '90,
System
Dynamics Society, 1990, pp. 1047-1059.
Book reviews:
Review of Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr, BFGoodrich:
Tradition
and Transformation, 1870-1995, H-Business, 1997. Read
review.
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