Mariann Jelinek

Mariann Jelinek is an American organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Strategy at the College of William & Mary, considered an icon[1] for her contributions in the field of management of technology and innovation.[2][3]

Biography

Born in 1942, in 1960 Jelinek started to study English, French, Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her A.B. in 1967, her M.A. in English Literature in 1968 and her Ph.D. in English Literature in 1973. In 1977 she obtained his D.B.A. in Administrative Systems from Harvard Business School with the thesis, entitled "Institutionalizing innovation."

Jelinek started her academic career with appointments at the Tuck School of Business, the McGill University, and the University at Albany, SUNY. In 1984 she was appointed Professor at the Case Western Reserve University, and in 1989 moved to the College of William & Mary, where she was Professor of Strategy for 22 years. Since 2001 she is Fellow at the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) at the North Carolina State University, becoming Academic Fellow in 2002. In the years 2007-2010 she was also Visiting Research Scholar at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, and was Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Mariann Jelinek was married to the American organizational theorist Joseph A. Litterer (1926-1995).

Jelinek's research interests are in the fields of management of technology and innovation, and organizational change, specifically the leveraging information for strategic advantage.[4]

Selected publications
  • Lau, James B., and Mariann Jelinek. Behavior in organizations. Irwin, 1979.
  • Jelinek, Mariann. Institutionalizing innovation: A study of organizational learning systems. New York: Praeger, 1979.
  • Jelinek, Mariann, Joseph August Litterer, and Raymond E. Miles. Organizations by design: Theory and practice. Business Publications, 1981.
  • Jelinek, Mariann, and Claudia Bird Schoonhoven. The innovation marathon: Lessons from high technology firms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

Articles, a selection:

  • Jelinek M. (1980) "Toward Systematic Management: Alexander Hamilton Church," Business History Review 54: p. 63-79.
  • Goldhar, Joel D., and Mariann Jelinek. "Plan for economies of scope." Harvard Business Review 61.6 (1983): 141-148.
  • Adler, Nancy J., and Mariann Jelinek. "Is "organization culture" culture bound?." Human Resource Management 25.1 (1986): 73-90.
gollark: School but instead of reading random poems you memorise 'life skills' would be quite ae ae ae, as they say.
gollark: If I were to redesign school, it would be much less regimented (you would not be grouped by year etc.), more flexible (an actually sane schedule and more/earlier choice of subjects), and focus on more general skills (not overly specific reading of books, or learning procedures for specific maths things, or that sort of thing). Additionally, more project-based work and more group stuff.
gollark: Those are specific uses of some of those things, yes. Which is why those are important. Although programming isn't intensely mathy and interest is trivial.
gollark: I assume you mean interpersonal? School is really bad for that as it stands because you're artificially segmented into people of ~exactly the same age in a really weird environment.
gollark: *Ideally*, at least, school works as a place to learn things from those who know them well and discuss it with interested peers.

References
  1. Therese F. Yaeger; Peter F. Sorensen (2009). Strategic Organization Development: Managing Change for Success. IAP. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-60752-211-9.
  2. Leonard-Barton, Dorothy. Wellsprings of knowledge: Building and sustaining the sources of innovation. Harvard Business Press, 1998.
  3. Chesbrough, Henry, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, eds. Open innovation: Researching a new paradigm. Oxford university press, 2006.
  4. Mariann Jelinek, Ph.D. The Richard C. Kraemer Professor of Strategy, Emerita. at mason.wm.edu. Accessed 11.2014
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