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Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
BA MBA (Sharif University of Technology) PhD (Toronto)
I am a strategy scholar interested in the antecedents of innovation and collaboration within creative settings. In particular, I explore how the technological and institutional contexts in which individuals and firms operate shapes their choice of collaboration and consequently the characteristics of their innovations in terms of novelty and impact. I explore these topics in three related research streams.
In my first research stream, I explore how the technological context, such as the pace of change, modularity, and breadth of applications, moderate the costs and benefits associated with knowledge diversity and distant recombinations. The findings contribute to our understanding of the relationship between knowledge diversity and the characteristics of innovation output in terms of novelty and impact. In the second research stream, I take a step back to study how the external environment influences the decision of individuals and firms to collaborate and the composition of their collaborative arrangements in the first place. I specifically focus on how the characteristics of the surrounding technological and institutional environments influence the collaboration choice of individuals and firms and, consequently, their innovation output. Finally, in my third research stream, I focus on how scientists and inventors choose the topics or areas in which they invest their efforts.
Before joining academia, I was an entrepreneur and worked as a consultant. In 2006, I founded a video game production company, which was acquired by Samsung Co, three years later. As a consultant, I worked with executives in a range of industries such as auto, oil, education, software and hardware.I currently advise several startups in the fields of mobile apps, cloud computing, and blockchain technology.”
2015: AOM TIM Division Best Paper Award Finalist
2014: AOM BPS Division Best Dissertation Award Finalist
2012: REER Conference Best Student Paper Award Finalist
2012: Winner of the Best Paper Award (joint with Sarah Kaplan), DRUID Conference 2012
2011: Distinguished Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, AOM 2011
2011: NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp, NBER/Kauffman Foundation
2008-2012: Doctoral Fellowship, Rotman School of Management
2008-2012: Graduate Student Endowment Award, University of Toronto
2001-2008: Full Scholarship, Sharif University of Technology
2023
Blomfield M; Vakili K
Organization Science 2023 Vol 34:1 p 100-128
2021
Vakili K; Teodoridis F; Bikard M
Organization Science 2021 Vol 33:5 p 1741-1755
Vakili K; Kaplan S
Strategic Management Journal 2021 Vol 42:6 p 1159-1183
2019
Teodoridis F; Vakili K; Bikard M
Administrative Science Quarterly 2019 Vol 64:4 p 894-927
Vakili K; Rahmandad H
Organization Science 2019 Vol 30:6 p 1125-1393
Hannigan T; Haans R F J; Vakili K; Tchalian H; Glaser V; Kaplan S; Wang M; Jennings P D
Academy of Management Annals 2019 Vol 13:2 p 586-632
2018
Vakili K; Zhang L
Strategic Management Journal 2018 Vol 39:7 p 1860-1886
Vakili K; Zhang L
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles 2018
Vakili K; Teodoridis F; Bikard M
Organization Science 2018 Vol 30:2 p 426-445
Teodoridis F; Bikard M; Vakili K
HBR.org 2018
2017
Teodoridis F; Vakili K; Bikard M
Academy of Management Proceedings 2017 Vol 2017:1 p 16768
2016
Vakili K
Organization Science 2016 Vol 27:6 p 1504-1524
McGahan A; Vakili V
Academy of Management Journal 2016 Vol 59:6 p 1917-1939
2015
Vakili K; McGahan A M; Rezaie R; Mitchell W; Daar A S
PLoS ONE 2015 Vol 10:3 p 44409
Kaplan S; Vakili K
Strategic Management Journal 2015 October Vol 36:10 p 1435-1457
2017
Teodoridis F; Vakili K; Bikard M
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