Brian S. Silverman

Magna International Professor of Strategy
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto

Ph.D. 1996 Berkeley × MA 1992 Berkeley × SM 1990 MIT × AB 1985 Harvard

(416) 946-7811 × silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca
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At the University of Toronto since 2001, and 1995-98 × Previously at Harvard Business School, 1998-2001.

Dissertation

"Technical Assets and the Logic of Corporate Diversification"
Chaired by David Teece.

Research Interests

Competitive strategy. Cooperative strategy. Management of innovation. Theory of the firm.

Books

Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification
London, England: Routledge (2002).

Selected Publications

“Why Aren’t Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate For-Hire Trucking” with Jackson Nickerson × Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 12(1), 91-118 (2003).

"Alliance-based Competitive Dynamics" with Joel Baum × Academy of Management Journal 45(4), 791-806 (2002).

"How Does Innovative Activity Change as Industries Mature?" with Anita McGahan × International Journal of Industrial Organization 19(7), 1141-60 (2001).

"Don't Go It Alone: Alliance Networks and Startups' Performance in Canadian Biotechnology" with Joel Baum and T. Calabrese × Strategic Management Journal 21(3), 267-294 (2000).

"Technological Resources and the Direction of Corporate Diversification: Toward an Integration of the Resource-Based View and Transaction Cost Economics" × Management Science 45(8), 1109-1124 (1999).

"Technological Overlap and Interfirm Cooperation: Implications for the Resource-Based View of the Firm" with David Mowery and Joanne Oxley × Research Policy 27(5), 507-523 (1998).

"Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and Organizational Mortality in the U.S. Trucking Industry" with Jackson Nickerson and John Freeman × Strategic Management Journal 18, 31-52 (1997).

"Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer." with David Mowery and Joanne Oxley × Strategic Management Journal 17, 77-91 (1996).

Work Experience

Co-founder, ICM Group - Menlo Park, CA

Consultant, Temple, Barker & Sloane - Lexington, MA

Paralegal, Nutter, McClennen & Fish - Boston