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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Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions (2024)
As executives face businesses that are more or less profitable they often respond by moving resources between businesses. But which specific resources do they move? We study innovation active firms and their decisions to redeploy inventors between business units. Examining the US petrochemical industry, we find that generalist inventors (vs specialists in few domains) are more likely to be redeployed, while brokers (i.e., inventors who connect others) in the collaboration network are less likely to be redeployed. In addition, conditions that alter opportunity costs at the source unit matter. When there are larger proportions of generalists (and brokers), this facilitates redeployment of that type of inventor, and knowledge interdependencies in the source unit mitigate redeployment to a target unit.