Patricia H. THORNTON
Senior Research Fellow
Strategy and Business Policy
Biography
Patricia H. Thornton is Senior Research Fellow, Strategy and Business Policy and the Institute for Organizations and Society, HEC, Paris and the Grand Challenge Faculty and Professor of Sociology and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University. Her research interests focus on how institutions and organizations affect attention and strategy. She is first author with William Ocasio and Michael Lounsbury of The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process which received the George R. Terry award from the Academy of Management for outstanding contribution to management knowledge. She is currently interested in institutional analysis of three domains, innovation and entrepreneurship, inclusiveness and diversity, and solutions to grand challenges. She Received her Ph.D. at Stanford University. You may find further information about her at http://patriciathornton.com
Scientific articles
Books
Chapters in edited books
Working papers
Scientific articles
Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990, vol. 13, n° 3, pp 231-241, (in coll. with Howard H. Goldman, Bruce L. Stegner, Maurice Rappaport, James E. Sorensen, C.Clifford Attkisson)
Academy of Management Review, Forthcoming, (in coll. with J. ALMANDOZ)
Books
Chapters in edited books
Working papers
Education
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Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University - USA
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2021- Senior Research Fellow, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
- 2019-2020 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
Scientific Activities
Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation
- Innovation School Task Force Member
- American Sociological Association Sections: Organizations, Occupations, Work, Economic Sociology, Culture
- Academy of Management Sections: Organization Management Theory, Entrepreneurship
- European Group on Organization Studies
- Member, Advisory Council, Center for New Venture Entrepreneurship
- Member, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Research Triangle
- Co-founder and board of directors, Interim Inc. Residential Treatment Services, authored plan to raise seed capital
- Co-founder, Monterey County Respite Child Care Center
- Monterey County Social Services Commission, supervisorial appointment
- Co-founder and board of directors, Campus Community Improvement Association