Publications
Samina’s research has been published in a wide array of top journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. She currently serves as Deputy Editor at Organization Science, and on the editorial review boards of Journal of Organization Design (where she was Senior Editor 2013-2017), Strategic Management Journal (where she was Associate Editor 2014-2020), Strategic Organization, and Strategy Science.
- Acquisitions
- Alliances
- Bottlenecks
- Competition
- Complex Systems
- Decentralization
- Decision making
- Hierarchy
- Human capital
- Innovation
- Knowledge recombination
- Modularity
- Organization design
- Patenting
- Reconfiguration
- Resource redeployment
- Scientists
- Sector: Airlines
- Sector: Banking
- Sector: Education
- Sector: Energy
- Sector: Medical devices
- Sector: Petrochemicals
- Sector: Pharmaceuticals
- Startups
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Examining Alliance Portfolios Beyond the Dyads: The Relevance of Redundancy and Nonuniformity Across and Between Partners (2017)
We use spectral graph partitioning methodology to analyze the architecture of complex systems that contain directed and weighted component interactions, and in which each component is interdependent (directly or indirectly) on every other component. We illustrate this method in the airline industry and how it allows holistic comparison of different system architectures.
UNPACKING FUNCTIONAL ALLIANCE PORTFOLIOS:HOW SIGNALS OF VIABILITY AFFECT YOUNG FIRMS’ OUTCOMES (2014)
This article investigates how alliance portfolio composition affects young firms’ outcomes. We propose how alliance portfolio composition—number, functional domains (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing), and single-purpose or multi-purpose nature of alliances within the portfolio—may affect a young firm’s likelihood of achieving a liquidity event (IPO or acquisition). We study over 8000 VC-backed firms from 10 industry sectors and find that alliance portfolios (to a certain extent) increase a firm’s liquidity event likelihood. Further, firms with heterogeneous alliance portfolios, including portfolios with fewer alliance partners, are more likely to experience an IPO versus acquisition.