About Martin
Martin Ganco is the Robert Pricer Chair in Enterprise Development and Professor in the Management and Human Resources department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the Academic Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship and a principal in the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE Cluster Initiative). Martin’s research interests include strategic human capital, entrepreneurship, innovation, platforms, and complexity theory. Martin’s research focuses on how organizational and knowledge contexts shape entrepreneurship and innovation while emphasizing the role of human capital. Martin examines these questions in a number of settings including workers in high-technology firms, service industries and by studying career histories of scientists and engineers. He earned his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois. He currently serves as a Senior Editor of Organization Science and previously served as an Associate Editor of Strategic Management Journal.
Selected Accepted Journal Articles
Kaul, A. & Ganco, M. & Raffiee, J. (2021). WHEN SUBJECTIVE JUDGMENTS LEAD TO SPINOUTS: EMPLOYEE ENTREPRENEURSHIP UNDER UNCERTAINTY, FIRM-SPECIFICITY, AND APPROPRIABILITY Academy of Management Review
Selected Published Journal Articles
Ganco, M. & Liu, J. & Wang, H. & Yamaguchi, S. (2024). Strategic Restraint: When do Human-Capital-Intensive Companies Choose (Not) to Use Noncompete Agreements? Strategic Management Journal
Agarwal, S. & Miller, C. & Ganco, M. (2023). Growing Platforms within Platforms: How Platforms Manage the Adoption of Complementor Products in the Presence of Network Effects? Strategic Management Journal
Bapna, S. & Ganco, M. (2023). Equity Crowdfunding and Access to Capital for User Entrepreneurs: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment MIS Quarterly
Honoré, F. & Ganco, M. (2023). Entrepreneurial Teams’ Acquisition of Talent: Evidence from Technology Manufacturing Industries Using a Two-Sided Approach Strategic Management Journal
Agarwal, R. & Ganco, M. & Raffiee, J. (2022). Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Early Career Immigration Constraints on New Venture Formation Organization Science
Bapna, S. & Ganco, M. (2021). Gender Gaps in Equity Crowdfunding: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Management Science
Ganco, M. & Miller, C. & Toh, P. (2020). From Litigation to Innovation: A Firm’s Ability to Litigate and Its Expansion into New Domains Strategic Management Journal
Ganco, M. & Kapoor, R. & Lee, G. (2020). From Rugged Landscapes to Rugged Ecosystems: Structure of Interdependencies and Firms’ Innovative Search Academy of Management Review
Coff, R. & El-Zayaty, A. & Ganco, M. & Mawdsley, J. (2020). Firm-specific Human Capital at the Crossroads: A Conversation on Current Issues and Future Directions Advances in Strategic Management
Byun, H. & Raffiee, J. & Ganco, M. (2019). Discontinuities in the Value of Relational Capital: The Effects on Employee Entrepreneurship and Mobility Organization Science
Starr, E. & Ganco, M. & Campbell, B. (2018). Strategic Human Capital Management in the Context of Cross-Industry and Within-Industry Mobility Frictions Strategic Management Journal
Ganco, M. (2017). NK Model as a Representation of Innovative Search Research Policy
Agarwal, R. & Campbell, B. & Franco, A. & Ganco, M. (2016). What Do I Take With Me?: The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship. Academy of Management Journal
Ganco, M. & Ziedonis, R. & Agarwal, R. (2015). More Stars Stay, but the Brightest Ones Still Leave: Job Hopping in the Shadow of Patent Enforcement Strategic Management Journal
Gambardella, A. & Ganco, M. & Honore, F. (2015). Using What You Know: Patented Knowledge in Incumbent Firms and Employee Entrepreneurship. Organization Science
Gambardella, A. & Ganco, M. & Honore, F. (2015). Using What You Know: Patented Knowledge in Incumbent Firms and Employee Entrepreneurship Organization Science
Ganco, M. (2013). Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Effect of Knowledge Complexity on Employee Mobility and Entrepreneurship. Strategic Management Journal
Campbell, B. & Ganco, M. & Franco, A. & Agarwal, R. (2012). Who Leaves, to Go Where, and Does it Matter: Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship and the Effects on Parent Firm Performance. Strategic Management Journal
Ganco, M. & Agarwal, R. (2009). Performance Differentials between Diversifying Entrants and Entrepreneurial Start-ups: A Complexity Approach. Academy of Management Review
Agarwal, R. & Ganco, M. & Ziedonis, R. (2009). Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility. Strategic Management Journal
Ganco, M. & Hoetker, G. (2009). NK Modeling Methodology in the Strategy Literature: Bounded Search on a Rugged Landscape. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management.
Ganco, M. & Honore, F. & Raffiee, J. Entrepreneurial Team Assembly: Knowledge Transfer, Customer Transfer, and Matching Models Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration
Selected Submitted Journal Articles
Ganco, M. & Posen, H. & Kim, S. (2022). Vicarious Experimentation Through Imitation: Evidence From Video Game Sequel Releases Academy of Management Journal
El-Zayaty, A. & Ganco, M. & Coff, R. (2021). Unpacking the Impacts of Human Capital Aggregation
Working Papers
Albert, D. & Ganco, M. Interface as a Design Choice: How the Implementation of Interfaces Influences Coordination and Performance in Modular Systems
Professional Organizations
Academy of Management BPS Division, 2013, Executive Committee
Academy of Management ENT Division, Research Committee
Academy of Management TIM Division, Best Paper Awards Committee
Strategic Management Society, Associate Program Chair & Program Chair, 2015-2017
Consortium for Research in Strategy
Editorial and Reviewing Activities
Organization Science – Since January 2017
Editorial Board Member
Academy of Management Review – Since January 2017
Editorial Board Member
Strategic Management Journal – Since January 2016
Associate Editor
Academy of Management Discoveries – Since January 2014
Editorial Board Member
Strategic Management Journal – January 2013 – December 2016
Editorial Board Member
Popular Media
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