Michael Lounsbury


Michael Lounsbury is an American organizational theorist, Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology at the University of Alberta, and expert in innovation and institutions.

Biography

Lounsbury received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1999. Previously, he was a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University.
Currently he is a Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology at the University of Alberta, where he is the director of the Technology Commercialization Centre. He also is a Research Officer at the Canadian National Institute for Nanotechnology.
He is editor-in-chief of Research in the Sociology of Organizations published by Emerald Group Publishing, co-editor of Organization Studies published by SAGE Publications, and Associate Editor of Academy of Management Annals. Formerly, he was editor-in-chief of Journal of Management Inquiry published by SAGE Publications.
In 2010, Lounsbury was awarded the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize at the University of Alberta. In 2006, he received the Western Academy of Management's Ascendant Scholar Award as well as the Petro-Canada Young Innovator award. He was also the winner of James Thompson Award from the American Sociological Association in 1996.

Work

His research has contributed to the new institutionalism by focusing on entrepreneurial dynamics and the emergence of new industries and practices. He has published research on social movement activism in the building of a recycling industry, money manager professionalization in the mutual fund industry, and the co-evolution of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
His book, The Institutional Logics Perspective, was the 2013 co-winner of the Academy of Management's George R. Terry book award. The prize is awarded to the book that makes the most outstanding contribution to management knowledge.

Publications

His work has been published in top social science journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Studies. A selection: