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Alan Meyer, Mentor
Management

Eric Dahl, McNair Scholar

Alan D. Meyer, Lundquist Professor of Entrepreneurial Management, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984. He joined the UO faculty in 1984, and has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and as a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University. Meyer specializes in the areas of organization design, strategy, innovation, and change. He is widely known for his research on organizations’ responses to upheavals in their environments—both unexpected shocks that create natural experiments in organizational change and disruptive changes in the structure of industries, leading to the formation of cross-industry alliances and generating new organizational forms. Meyer also directs two major studies funded by the National Science Foundation, one of which focuses on corporate venture investing. The second study supported by NSF is tracking the emergence and evolution of social networks engaged in commercializing scientific discoveries in nanotechnology. Currently, Meyer serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for Organization Science.