Denisa MINDRUTA

Associate Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

Biography

Denisa Mindruta is an Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. She obtained her PhD in strategic management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines how organizations and individuals within organizations create and appropriate value through strategic partnering. A number of her projects have examined the matching process driving partnership formation, both theoretically and empirically. She has explored this phenomenon in a variety of contexts involving contractual relationships between employees, teams, firms, universities, and non-profit organizations. Denisa’s research was published in the Strategic Management Journal and the American Journal of Political Science.

Her work has been recognized with several awards and fellowships. Denisa was a finalist for the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition and for the Wiley Blackwell Dissertation Award. She obtained the AOM Technology and Innovation Management Division Best Conference Paper Award in 2008. She is also a Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellow.

Denisa currently serves on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review. Over the years, she has served as Representative-at-Large for the Strategic Human Capital (2014-2016), the Cooperative Strategies (2016-2018), and the Competitive Strategies (2017-2019) Interest Groups at the Strategic Management Society. She has recently been elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management for the 2018-2020 term.

At HEC Paris, she teaches Technology and Innovation Strategy in the PhD, specialized masters, and MBA programs.

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Scientific articles

Generalist vs. Specialist CEOs and Acquisitions: Two‐sided Matching and the Impact of CEO Characteristics on Firm Outcomes

Strategic Management Journal, June 2021, vol. 42, n° 6, pp 1184-1214, (in coll. with G. Chen, S. Huang, P. Meyer-Doyle)

Estimating Value Creation from Revealed Preferences: Application to Value-Based Strategies

Strategic Management Journal, October 2017, vol. 38, pp 1964-1985, (in coll. with O. CHATAIN)

A Two-sided Matching Approach for Partner Selection and Assessing Complementarities in Partners’ Attributes in Inter-firm Alliances

Strategic Management Journal, January 2016, vol. 37, n° 1, pp 206-231, (in coll. with M. MOEEN, R. AGARWAL)

Value Creation in University - Firm Research Collaborations: A Matching Approach

Strategic Management Journal, June 2013, vol. 34, n° 6, pp 644-665,

Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program

American Journal of Political Science, 2003, vol. 47, n° 1, pp 143-158, (in coll. with J. Scholz, M. Schneider, M. Lubell, M. Edwardsen)

Was Huntington Right? Testing Cultural Legacies and the Civilizational Border

International Politics, 2002, vol. 39, n° 2, (in coll. with A. Mungiu-Pippidi)

Proceedings

From unemployed to business owner: Improving the returns from firm creation through experimentation

2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (E. LIZUNOVA)

Intellectual Property Rights and Market Entry Incentives: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2020 , 2020 , 1 (M. HETU, W. G. Mitchell)

Applications and Contributions of Matching Methods to Strategy Research

2018 Academy of Management Meeting , 2018 , 1 (J. E. OXLEY)

Value creation in university-firm research collaborations: a matching approach

Best Paper Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Academy of Management ; Winner of the 2008 Technology and Management Division Best Conference Paper , 2008

Working papers

Intellectual Property Rights and New Technology Development: How the Replacement Effect and Capabilities Influence Firm Investment Following a Reduction In IPR

Cahier de Recherche , 2022

Generalist vs. Specialist CEOs and Acquisitions: Two-sided Matching and the Impact of CEO Characteristics on Firm Outcomes

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Estimating Value Creation from Revealed Preferences: Application to Value-Based Strategies

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Institutions and the Direction of Innovative Search: Change and Persistence Between and Within Countries

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

A Two-Sided Matching Approach for Partner Selection and Assessing Complementarities in Partners’ Attributes in Inter-Firm Alliances

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Institutions and the direction of innovative search: Change and persistence between and within countries

Mimeo , 2014

Capabilities or Institutional Opportunities? An Investigation on How Capitalist Regimes Impact Exploration and Exploitation Strategies

Mimeo , 2023