Martin Ganco is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management & Organization department
at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His
research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and technology,
business strategy and complexity theory. Martin’s current line of research
focuses on how organizational and knowledge contexts shape entrepreneurship. By
focusing on the context as a driver of entrepreneurship, his work extends and
complements the dominant theories of entrepreneurship and highlights that entrepreneurial
tendencies and capabilities can be actively managed. Martin examines these
questions in a number of settings including the semiconductor industry, legal
services industry and by studying career histories of scientists and engineers.
In 2011, he received a prestigious Wiley
Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award. He earned his PhD in Business
Administration from the University of Illinois.
Ganco, M. Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Effect of Knowledge Complexity on Employee Mobility and Entrepreneurship. Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Campbell, B.A., Ganco, M., Franco, A., Agarwal, R. 2012. Who Leaves, to Go Where, and Does it Matter: Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship and the Effects on Parent Firm Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 33: 65-87.
Agarwal, R. , Ganco, M., Ziedonis, R. 2009. Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility. Strategic Management Journal, 30: 1349.
Ganco, M., Agarwal, R. 2009. Performance Differentials between Diversifying Entrants and Entrepreneurial Start-Ups over the Industry Life Cycle: A Complexity Approach. Academy of Management Review, 34: 228-252.
Van de Ven, A.H., Ganco, M., Hinnings, C.R., Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and Institutional Design. Academy of Management Annals, Forthcoming.
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2012
National Science Foundation Grant #1159364, ($209,000), 2012
Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award, Business Policy and Strategy, 2011
Job-Hopping in the Shadow of Patent Enforcement (with Rajshree Agarwal and Rosemarie Ziedonis)
Using What You Know: Patented Knowledge in Incumbent Firms and Employee
Entrepreneurship (with Alfonso Gambardella and Florence Honore)
What Do I Take With Me: The Impact Of Transfer and Replication of Resources on Parent and Spin-out Firm Performance (with Ben Campbell, April Franco and Rajshree Agarwal)
