Bruce Mitchel Kogut (born 1953) is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Director of the Stanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at the

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and one of ...

. He is particularly known for his work on corporate governance, and with

Udo Zander Udo Zander (born March 30, 1959) is a Swedish organizational theorist, and Professor in Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics until 2012. He is particularly known for his work with Bruce Kogut on knowledge-based theory of th ...

on knowledge-based theory of the firm.

Biography

Kogut obtained his BA in Political Science in 1975 at the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...

, his MA in International Affairs in 1978 at the

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, New York and in 1983 his PhD at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

.Kogut CV
July 2007. Accessed 02.02.2015 After graduation in 1983 Kogut started his academic career at the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

as Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, where he got promoted Associate Professor and eventually Chaired Professor. From 1993 to 1995 he was also Director of Wharton's Emerging Economies Programs, and from 1997 to 2000 Associate Dean for its Doctoral Programs. From 1994 to 2002 he also co-directed the Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization. In 2003 he moved to

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

, where he was appointed the Eli Lilly Chair in Innovation, Business and Society. From 2004 to 2006 he was also Scientific Director at the EIASM in Brussels, and from 2005 to 2007 founding Director of Insead Social Entrepreneurship Program. Since 2007 back in the United States he is Sanford Bernstein Chaired Professor at the

. Kogut's research interests are in the field of "comparative and economic sociology, strategy, comparative methods, social entrepreneurship, and governance." Kogut teaches courses on Governance, Governance and Ethics, and Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems and holds a courtesy affiliation in the Department of Sociology at

Selected publications

* Bowman, Edward H., and Bruce Mitchel Kogut, eds. ''Redesigning the firm.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Articles, a selection: * Kogut, Bruce.
Joint ventures: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
" ''Strategic management journal'' 9.4 (1988): 319-332. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology
" ''Organization science'' 3.3 (1992): 383-397. * Kogut, Bruce, and Harbir Singh.
The effect of national culture on the choice of entry mode
" ''Journal of international business studies'' (1988): 411-432. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
Knowledge of the firm and the evolutionary theory of the multinational corporation
" Journal of international business studies (1993): 625-645. * Zander, Udo, and Bruce Kogut.
Knowledge and the speed of the transfer and imitation of organizational capabilities: An empirical test
" Organization science 6.1 (1995): 76-92. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
What firms do? Coordination, identity, and learning
" ''Organization science'' 7.5 (1996): 502-518. * Almeida, Paul, and Bruce Kogut.
Localization of knowledge and the mobility of engineers in regional networks
" Management science 45.7 (1999): 905-917.

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