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Teppo Felin (born 1970s) is the Douglas D. Anderson Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Huntsman School of Business at
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. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Study. From 2013 to 2021, Felin was Professor of Strategy at the
Saïd Business School Saïd Business School (Oxford Saïd or SBS) is the business school of the University of Oxford. The School is a provider of management education and is consistently ranked as one of the world's top business schools. Oxford School of Management ...
at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
. His current research focuses on cognition, rationality, perception, organizational economics, markets and strategy.


Life and work

Born in
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,
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, Felin obtained a Ph.D. from the
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at the
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. After his graduation in 2005, he was appointed as an associate professor at the
Marriott School of Management The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1891 and renamed i ...
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. In 2013, he was appointed Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was a visiting professor at the
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in 2004-05, and at the
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in 2007. He is co-editor of the journal '' Strategic Organization'' and associate editor of Academy of Management Annals. His research has been published in
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, Journal of Management, '' Organization Science'', PLOS ONE,
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,
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,
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, and other research outlets. In 2012, he edited a special issue on markets, aggregation and the wisdom of crowds (in the journal Managerial and Decision Economics) which included contributions from political scientist Scott E. Page, economist
Bruno Frey Bruno S. Frey (born 4 May 1941 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss economist and visiting professor for Political Economy at the University of Basel. Frey's research topics include Political economy and Happiness economics, with his published wor ...
, economist Nicolai J. Foss, economist
Peter Leeson Peter T. Leeson (born July 29, 1979) is an American economist and the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University. The website Big Think listed him in 2012 among "Eight of the World's Top Young Economists". He is a Fello ...
, social psychologist
Steve Kozlowski Steve W.J. Kozlowski (born 1952) is an American Industrial-Organizational psychologist. His research mainly focuses on how individuals, teams and organizations learn, develop and adapt. He currently teaches at University of South Florida. Career S ...
, organizational scholar
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, physicist Claudio Castellano, biologist David Sumpter, sociologist Robb Willer, and many others. In the early 2000s, Felin, Nicolai J. Foss, and
Peter Abell Peter Abell (born 1939) is a British social scientist, currently professor emeritus at the London School of Economics where he has founded and directed the "Interdisciplinary Institute of Management". He has been teaching for many years at L ...
were engaged in research on the foundations of organizations and strategy, which resulted in the 2005 article "Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations." He is doing research with biologist
Stuart Kauffman Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylv ...
on the emergence of novelty in economic settings. This work has recently been applied to the context of the
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and the problem of designing laws. This article received responses from Constitutional scholars Steven G. Calabresi and
Sanford Levinson Sanford Victor Levinson (born June 17, 1941) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on constitutional law. A professor at the University of Texas Law School, Levinson is notable for his criticism of the United States Constitution as ...
and Nobel Laureate
Vernon L. Smith Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at Georg ...
. In 2015, Teppo Felin interviewed entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Peter Thiel Peter Andreas Thiel (; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in F ...
at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
. Felin is also doing research with mathematician
Jan Koenderink Jan Johan Koenderink (born 10 February 1943, Stramproy) is a Dutch physicist and psychologist known for his researches on visual perception, computer vision, and geometry. Koenderink earned a bachelor's degree from Utrecht University in 1964, a ...
and psychologist Joachim Krueger (Brown University) on the nature of cognition, rationality and perception. A general audience version of this research was published in
Aeon The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ...
Magazine, under the title "The Fallacy of Obviousness". Related to this essay, Felin was interviewed by economist Russ Roberts for the podcast
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. He has also collaborated with theoretical physicist George Ellis and biologist
Denis Noble Denis Noble (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Ph ...
on a set of articles published in the journal ''Genome Biology.''


Selected publications

Articles, a selection:Teppo Felin
Google Scholar profile. * Felin, Teppo, and Nicolai J. Foss.
Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations
" ''Strategic organization'' 3.4 (2005): 441. * Felin, Teppo, and William S. Hesterly.
The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: Philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge
" ''Academy of Management Review'' 32.1 (2007): 195-218. * King, Brayden G., Teppo Felin, and David A. Whetten.
Finding the organization in organizational theory: A meta-theory of the organization as a social actor
" ''Organization Science'' 21.1 (2010): 290-305. * Felin, Teppo, and Todd R Zenger.
Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice
" ''Research Policy'' 43.5 (2014): 914-925.


References


External links


Teppo Felin
Personal website at sites.google.com
Teppo Felin
University of Oxford website {{DEFAULTSORT:Felin, Teppo 1970s births Living people Finnish academics Finnish business theorists David Eccles School of Business alumni Brigham Young University faculty Academics of Saïd Business School Finnish expatriates in the United States Finnish expatriates in the United Kingdom