We pursue frontier research and exemplary scholarship at the highest international level. SOD members publish in leading journals in strategy, organization science, management science, and related fields; present their work at major international conferences and seminars; and contribute to the scholarly community through editorial and reviewing service.
The group is active in international research communities including the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Organizational Design Community, Theoretical Organizational Models Society, Experimental Organization Science community, and Carnegie School of Organizational Learning.
Recent work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Nature Communications, Organization Science, Research Policy, Science Advances, and Strategic Management Journal.
Below, we highlight selected recent publications and earlier contributions that have helped shape SOD’s research profile. Complete publication records are available through the SDU Research Portal.
Selected recent publications
Denrell, J., Christensen, M., Knudsen, T., & Liu, C. (2026). Fast learning and sustained exploration: The role of timely performance feedback. Strategic Management Journal. Advance online publication.
Gelastopoulos, A., Analytis, P. P., Le Mens, G., & van de Rijt, A. (2026). The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in. Science Advances, 12(8), Article eadr4237.
Denrell, J., Christensen, M., Knudsen, T., & Liu, C. (2025). The impact of learning mode and speed on mutual learning. Academy of Management Review. Advance online publication.
Becker, M. C. (2025). Mechanisms of organizational imprinting: From entrepreneur to organization. Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(1), 119–156.
Lauenstein, F., Newark, D. A., & Baumann, O. (2025). How mixed performance feedback shapes exploration: The moderating role of self-enhancement. Organization Science, 36(1), 166–185.
Anvari, F., Billinger, S., Analytis, P. P., Franco, V. R., & Marchiori, D. (2024). Testing the convergent validity, domain generality, and temporal stability of selected measures of people’s tendency to explore. Nature Communications, 15, Article 7721.
Christensen, M., Dahl, C. M., Knudsen, T., & Warglien, M. (2023). Context and aggregation: An experimental study of bias and discrimination in organizational decisions. Organization Science, 34(6), 2163–2181.
He, L., Analytis, P. P., & Bhatia, S. (2022). The wisdom of model crowds. Management Science, 68(5), 3635–3659.
Billinger, S., Srikanth, K., Stieglitz, N., & Schumacher, T. R. (2021). Exploration and exploitation in complex search tasks: How feedback influences whether and where human agents search. Strategic Management Journal, 42(2), 361–385.
Becker, M. C., Rullani, F., & Zirpoli, F. (2021). The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes. Research Policy, 50(10), Article 104349.
He, Y. (2021). Revisiting Ellsberg’s and Machina’s paradoxes: A two-stage evaluation model under ambiguity. Management Science, 67(11), 6897–6914.
Colombo, M. G., Foss, N. J., Lyngsie, J., & Rossi Lamastra, C. (2021). What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge. Research Policy, 50(1), Article 104134.
Selected earlier contributions
Baumann, O., Eggers, J. P., & Stieglitz, N. (2019). Colleagues and competitors: How internal social comparisons shape organizational search and adaptation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2), 275–309.
Stieglitz, N., Knudsen, T., & Becker, M. C. (2016). Adaptation and inertia in dynamic environments. Strategic Management Journal, 37(9), 1854–1864.
Dobrajska, M., Billinger, S., & Karim, S. (2015). Delegation within hierarchies: How information processing and knowledge characteristics influence the allocation of formal and real decision authority. Organization Science, 26(3), 687–704.
Knudsen, T., & Srikanth, K. (2014). Coordinated exploration: Organizing joint search by multiple specialists to overcome mutual confusion and joint myopia. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(3), 409–441.
Billinger, S., Stieglitz, N., & Schumacher, T. R. (2014). Search on rugged landscapes: An experimental study. Organization Science, 25(1), 93–108.
Puranam, P., Raveendran, M., & Knudsen, T. (2012). Organization design: The epistemic interdependence perspective. Academy of Management Review, 37(3), 419–440.
Christensen, M., & Knudsen, T. (2010). Design of decision-making organizations. Management Science, 56(1), 71–89.
Knudsen, T., & Levinthal, D. A. (2007). Two faces of search: Alternative generation and alternative evaluation. Organization Science, 18(1), 39–54.