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MING-JER CHEN PhD, MBA.

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Academic research is central to my professional activities, and over the past 20 years I have devoted my attention to the study of competition. My competitive dynamics research grew out of a discomfort with the gap between the constant exchange of moves and countermoves in “real-world” business and the relatively “static” treatment of the subject in the business strategy literature. In contrast to the approaches traditionally taken to study this topic, my research approach is rooted in the competitive actions of the firm. Using the individual competitive move as the basic unit of analysis, I have integrated ideas and theories from an array of disciplines to develop new theories, variables, and measures at this level. I enjoy working in new territory, exploring fundamental issues important to both academics and managers.

Another activity I value in the academic arena is mentoring and developing future researchers and educators. Mentorship is the deeply humane confluence of research, teaching, and service, a rewarding partnership which fosters ongoing, lifelong, mutual learning. Throughout my career, I have benefited from the generous mentorship of several eminent scholars, and I have also taken great pride in working closely with junior colleagues, both in the U.S. and Asia, in developing their research and teaching careers. For the last 10 years I have been deeply involved in the Academy of Management’s career-related consortia, offering research and publication workshops, sponsoring international scholars to study and visit for a year in the U.S., and assisting doctoral candidates at various institutions.

Academic Publications

．Current Publications

Don Hambrick and Ming-Jer Chen. 2008. “New Academic Fields as Admittance-Seeking Social Movements: The Case of Strategic Management” Academy of Management Review, 33:32-54 .

Chen, Ming-Jer, Kuo-Hsien Su, and Wenpin Tsai. 2007. “Competitive Tension: The Awareness-Motivation-Capability Perspective”. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1): 101-118.

Nag, Rajiv, Donald C. Hambrick and Ming-Jer Chen. 2007. “What is Strategic Management, Really? Empirical Induction of A Consensus Definition of the Field.” Strategic Management Journal. 28:935-955.