PK Toh is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management and Organization department. His research examines firms’ management of technologies, using firms’ R&D activities as settings to study issues of firm heterogeneity and competitive strategies that are central to strategy research. His research papers have been published in leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Journal. He obtained his PhD in Strategy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2007, and a BBA (1st class honors) from the National University of Singapore in 1998. He is an Editorial Board member of Organization Science, and also reviews for Strategic Management Journal and Management Science. He was awarded the 3M Corporation non-tenured faculty grant, finalist in Best Dissertation competition at the Academy of Management, Best Student Paper prize at the Strategic Management Society, and multiple Best Reviewer awards. Prior to embarking on his academic career, he was a currency options trader at JPMorgan. He also has two piano performance diplomas (LTCL and FTCL) from the Trinity College of London.
Toh PK. 2013. The paradox of collaboration in inventive activities. Academy of Management Conference Best Paper Proceedings, BPS Division.
Toh PK, Kim TK. Why put all eggs in one basket: a competition-based view of how technological uncertainty affects a firm’s technological specialization. Organization Science, forthcoming.
Toh PK, Polidoro F. A competition-based explanation of collaborative invention within the firm. Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Toh PK. Chicken, or the egg, or both? The interrelationship between a firm’s inventor specialization and scope of technologies. Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
Polidoro F, Toh PK. 2011. Letting rivals come close or warding them off? The effects of substitution threat on imitation deterrence. Academy of Management Journal, 54(2): 369-392
Clarkson G, Toh PK*. 2010. 'Keep out' signs: the role of deterrence in the competition for resources. Strategic Management Journal, 31(11):1202-1225.
(* Authors' names in alphabetical order)
Toh PK. 2008. The mutually-reinforcing interrelationship between organization structure and firm resource. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, TIM Division.
Ahuja G, Toh PK. Three entries: 'Innovations', 'Radical Innovations', and 'Disruptive Innovations' in Hitt M. A. and Ireland R. D., (Ed) 2005. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management & Entrepreneurship
Organization Science Editorial Board 2013-
2010-12. 3M Corporation non-tenured faculty grant.
2008. Finalist, Best Dissertation Award, TIM Division, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim.
2006. Booz Allen Hamilton/Strategic Management Society PhD Fellowship for Best Student Paper Award, for the paper: Performance Effects of Resource Interdependence: A Study of Firms' Products and Process Innovations (with Gautam Ahuja)
2005, 2006. Best Reviewer Award, BPS Division, Academy of Management
2005, 2008. Best Reviewer Award, TIM Division, Academy of Management
2005. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan Research Award
2005. Charles H. Gessner Fellowship, Michigan
2005. Center for International Business Education (CIBE) Fellowship, Michigan
1998. First-class Honors in Business (Finance)
1998. Dean's List, Business Administration - National University of Singapore
