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Devkamal Dutta Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship 603.862.2944 Dev [dot] Dutta [at] unh [dot] edu |
Fields of Specialization:
Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
Education:
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Professional Experience:
Dev Dutta is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics (WSBE), University of New Hampshire.
Dev brings with him about ten years of academic research experience in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business. Dev's research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, amongst others. He has also widely presented his research at national and international conferences, notably at annual conferences of the Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
In 2008, Dev was nominated for Kaufmann Foundation’s prestigious Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (only five fellowships are awarded each year at the national level). In addition, his PhD thesis was a finalist in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Industries Studies Dissertation Award and won the runners-up prize in the 2009 Emerald Publishing/European Foundation for Management Development - Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Management and Governance category.
Along with his research experience, Dev has over five years of teaching experience in strategic management and entrepreneurship and about fifteen years of industry experience in strategic management. His teaching experience has been at undergraduate, masters (MBA/EMBA) and doctoral (DBA) levels in different locations in the United States, Canada, China, and India. He has also supervised students’ honors theses, independent studies, internships, and applied research projects, at both undergraduate and masters levels.
Dev's industry experience covers his role as a strategic management specialist in the Indian IT industry for over fifteen years. As part of this, Dev was extensively involved in formulating and implementing several large-scale strategy initiatives (such as the Balanced Scorecard, CMM and People CMM) in two of India’s largest software services companies between 1986-2001.
Recent Research:
Dev's current research projects examine the role of entrepreneurial alliance partnerships in technology networks. He is interested to explore the ways in which such partnerships facilitate innovation, given the knowledge inflows, network structural arrangements, alignment of capabilities, and technological distance between alliance partners. For these projects, Dev collaborates with researchers from around the world, including the United States, Canada, China and India.
Refereed Journal Articles
1. Dutta, D. 2012. Firms in turbulent environments and the competition-cooperation paradox: Insights from Hegel's Dialectic. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy (in print).
2. Dutta, D. 2012. Inter-organizational relationships and firm performance: Impact of complementary knowledge and relative absorptive capacity. Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 13 (2) (in print).
3. Hora, M. and Dutta, D. 2012. Entrepreneurial firms and downstream alliance partnerships: Impact of portfolio depth and scope on technology innovation and commercialization success. Production and Operations Management Journal, Special Issue on Technology Commercialization, Entrepreneurship, and Growth-driven Operations (conditionally accepted).
4. Dutta, D. 2011. 'Giants' partnering with 'Innovators': The strategic nature of outsourcing relationships in entrepreneurial configurations. International Journal of Business Insights & Transformation, 4 (2): 26-29.
5. Dutta, D., Gwebu, K. and Wang, J. 2011. Strategy and vendor selection in IT outsourcing initiatives: Is there a method in the madness? Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Special Issue on IS Outsourcing, 14 (2): 6-25.
6. Dutta D., Li, J. and Merenda, M. 2011. Fostering Entrepreneurship: Impact of Specialization and Diversity in Education. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 7 (2): 163-179.
7. Dutta, D. and Beamish, P. 2009. Discretion and internationalization: Impact of environmental determinants of managerial discretion and host country experience on entry mode choice. International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Special Issue on Advances in Market Entry Mode Theory Development, 2 (3/4): 267-285.
8. Dutta, D. and Thornhill, S. 2008. Evolution of entrepreneurial growth intentions: Toward a cognition-based model. Journal of Business Venturing, 23 (3): 307-332.
9. Dutta, D. and Crossan, M. 2005. The nature of entrepreneurial opportunities: Understanding the process using the 4I organizational learning framework. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29 (4): 425-449.
Refereed Practitioner Journal Article
1. Dutta, D. 1999. Building and sustaining competitive advantage in the knowledge era: Can information technology help?JIMS 8M: The Journal of Indian Management & Strategy, 4 (3): 17-29. Reprinted in Sengupta, A.K. and Gupta, A. (Eds.): Creating corporate advantage. New Delhi: Excel Books.
Refereed Book Chapters
1. Dutta, D. 2011. Globalizing Indian business schools: Need for adopting constructivism in teaching and learning. In Agarwal, R. and Pandey, A. (Eds.): Globalizing India: Role & response of Indian B-Schools. New Delhi: All India Management Association and Excel Books Private Limited.
2. Fang, Y. and Dutta, D. 2008. Explaining organizational virtuality: Insights from the knowledge-based view. In St. Amant, K. et al (Eds.): Handbook of research on virtual workplaces and the new nature of business. Hershey, PA: IDEA Group, Inc.
3. Dutta, D. 2006. Becoming a learning organization in the software industry: Is CMM the silver bullet? In Walters, B. and Tang, Z. (Eds.): IT-enabled strategic management: Increasing returns for the organization. Hershey, PA: IDEA Group, Inc.
4. Dutta, D. 2000. HRD and organizational competence. In Kandula, S.R. and Bapuji, H. B. (Eds.) Perspectives on HRD and OD in Indian organizations. Hyderabad: Academy of Human Resources Development.
Cases
1. Dutta, D. 2006. Andrew Morton. In Leenders, M.R., Johnson, P.F., Flynn, A.E. and Fearon, H.E. Purchasing and Supply Management: With 50 Supply Chain Cases. Boston, McGraw-Hill Irwin.
2. Thornhill, S., Dutta, D. and Friedman, D. 2003.Van City Credit Union: Corporate venturing into uncharted waters. London, ON: Ivey Publishing.
Conference Proceedings
Hora, M. and Dutta, D. 2010. David partnering with Goliath: Alliance depth, product development, and entrepreneurial success. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Dutta, D. 2008. Developing a strategic framework for outsourcing/offshoring: Insights for emerging economy firms. StrategicManagement Society Special Conference, Hyderabad, India.
Conference Presentations
Gupta, V., Dutta, D. and Chen, X. 2012. Impact of entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation on shareholder value: Managing strategic contradictions through ambidexterity. Won the Best Paper Award at the Eastern Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia.
Dutta, D. and Hora, M. 2010. Alliance partnerships and acquisition likelihood in the biotech industry: Balancing exploration and exploitation of knowledge. Strategic Management Society Conference, Rome.
Dutta, D. 2009. Path-dependence, VRIN resources and managers: Integrating the Resource-based View with the Upper Echelons Theory of the firm. Advanced Summer School on Path Dependence and Self-reinforcing Processes in Organizations, Markets and Industries, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
Hora, M. and Dutta, D. 2009. Alliance depth, success, and strategic orientation of the firm: Evidence from the biotech industry. INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.
Wang, J., Dutta, D. and Gwebu, K. 2009. The brave new world of entrepreneurship in immersive virtual environments. Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.
Dutta, D., Li, J., Merenda, M. 2009. Fostering entrepreneurial behavior through entrepreneurship education: Impact of specialization and diversity in educational initiatives. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Proceedings, Boston, USA.
Dutta, D., Saeed, A. 2009. From space to imaginative space: Re-presenting the global in international management. International Critical Management Studies Conference, Warwick University, UK.