Alan Meyer
Academy of Management Scholar Alan Meyer of the University of Oregon studies industry emergence, corporate venturing, and technology entrepreneurship. His early research explored the healthcare sector, with a focus on hospitals’ responses to ‘environmental jolts’—unexpected shocks that created natural experiments in organizational change.
Nanotechnology and venture capital are recent research contexts, where the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported his work on corporations’ adoption of venture capitalists’ investment practices, and the emergence of a network of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors seeking to commercialize nanotechnology. Meyer has been awarded grants totaling more than $2.1 million by the NSF, the National Center for Health Services Research, the U.S. Army Research Institute, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, and the Australian Research Council.
Academy of Management Scholar Alan Meyer of the University of Oregon studies industry emergence, corporate venturing, and technology entrepreneurship. His early research explored the healthcare sector, with a focus on hospitals’ responses to ‘environmental jolts’—unexpected shocks that created natural experiments in organizational change.
Nanotechnology and venture capital are recent research contexts, where the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported his work on corporations’ adoption of venture capitalists’ investment practices, and the emergence of a network of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors seeking to commercialize nanotechnology. Meyer has been awarded grants totaling more than $2.1 million by the NSF, the National Center for Health Services Research, the U.S. Army Research Institute, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, and the Australian Research Council.
Meyer cofounded the Lundquist Center for Entrepreuership’s Technology Entrepreneurship Program, an interdisciplinary course of study that enables graduate students in business, law, and the sciences to work in multi-disciplinary teams to pursue the commercialization of
leading-edge technologies invented by scientists at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Oregen Health & Science University, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He currently facilitates bootcamp-style Academy of Management workshops that mentor young African management scholars in Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa.
Meyer has served as an associate editor and a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Journal. He has also co-edited special issues of Academy of Management Journal.
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