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Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Henry W. Bloch Endowed Research Fellow

Contact Information 208 Bloch School Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration University of Missouri-Kansas City 5110 Cherry Street Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 Phone: (816)235-2322 Fax: (816)235-6529 Email: arendr@umkc.edu > Curriculum Vitae

Scholarship

Richard Arend’s research explores unusual modes of firm value creation and destruction in new and incumbent ventures. His current interests include creative game playing, dynamic capabilities, and asset transfer mechanisms. He is published in a number of journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, and European Management Journal.

 

Selected Key Publications

Arend, R.J. (2012)  “Ethics-Focused Dynamic Capabilities: A Small Business Perspective”, Small Business Economics: forthcoming (available online, 2012).  

Arend, R.J.  & Chen, Y. (2012) “Entrepreneurship as complex, dynamic, disequilibrious....”,Strategic Organization!: 10(1): 86-96. 

Arend, R.J.  & Levesque, M. (2010) “Testing the Resource-Based View: Simulation Results for Violating VRIO.”,Organization Science: 21:913-930. 

Arend, R.J.  & Levesque, M. “Testing the Resource-Based View: Simulation Results for Violating VRIO.”, Organization Science [forthcoming]. 

Arend, R.J. (2009)  “Reputation for Cooperation: Contingent Benefits in Alliance Activity”, Strategic Management Journal: 30(4): 371-386.  

Arend, R.J.  & Bromiley, P. (2009) “Assessing the Dynamic Capabilities View…” Strategic Organization!7(1): 75-90. 

Arend, R.J.  (2007) “Abandoning [Entrepreneur]ship: children and victims first.” Strategic Organization!5(4): 409-422. 

Arend, R.J.  (2006) “SME-Supplier Alliance Activity in Manufacturing: Contingent Benefits and Perceptions.” Strategic Management Journal: 27(8): 741-764. 

Seale, D.A., Arend, R.J. & Phelan, S. (2006) "Modeling alliance activity: Opportunity cost and the shadow of the future in an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: 100(1) 60-75. 

Arend, R.J.  (2006) “Tests of the Resource-Based View: do the empirics have any clothes?.” Strategic Organization! 4(4): 409-422. 

Arend, R.J. & Seale, D.A. (2005) "Modeling Alliance Activity: An Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma with Exit Option". Strategic Management Journal: 26(11): 1057-1074.

 

Education

PhD - University of British Columbia [Canada]

Post-Doctorate - University of British Columbia

MBA - York University [Canada]

BASc - University of Toronto [Canada]

 

Academic Positions Held

Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, as of July 1, 2010.