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Scott F Rockart

Scott F Rockart

Associate Professor of the Practice
Fuqua School of Business
srockart@duke.edu
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
A204 Fuqua Sch of Bus, Durham, NC 27708
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Learning in cycles

Journal Article Organization Science · January 1, 2019 Organizations face a key challenge in dynamic environments: the contexts in which experience is gained will not always match the contexts in which experience will be applied. This challenge has been investigated largely in terms of progressive environmenta ... Full text Cite

The rate and potential of capability development trajectories

Journal Article Strategic Management Journal · January 1, 2015 This paper examines differences in the rate and potential of firms' capability development trajectories. Capability development trajectories are the paths over which firms' capabilities change with experience and other activities. While prior research focu ... Full text Cite

Interdependency, competition, and industry dynamics

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Does interdependency affect firm and industry profitability? an empirical test

Journal Article Strategic Management Journal · February 1, 2010 Strategy researchers have argued that heterogeneity in firms' practices and profitability within and across industries may derive from industry-level differences in the extent of interdependencies among firms' activities. Theoretical models have clarified ... Full text Cite

Application description and policy model in collaborative environment for sharing of information on epidemiological and clinical research data sets.

Journal Article PloS one · 2010 BACKGROUND: Sharing of epidemiological and clinical data sets among researchers is poor at best, in detriment of science and community at large. The purpose of this paper is therefore to (1) describe a novel Web application designed to share information on ... Full text Open Access Cite

System dynamics and strategy

Journal Article System Dynamics Review · December 1, 2008 System dynamics research has made numerous contributions to a range of management subfields, including operations, organization behavior, marketing, behavioral decision making, and strategy. In this paper, we focus on the role for system dynamics research ... Full text Cite

Interdependency, competition, and industry dynamics

Journal Article Management Science · April 1, 2007 A systematic understanding of industry dynamics is critical to strategy research because individual firm performance dynamics both reflect and affect change at the industry level. Descriptive research on industry dynamics has identified a dominant pattern ... Full text Cite

Interdependency, competition, and the distribution of firm and industry profits

Journal Article Management Science · May 1, 2006 Coordination of interdependencies among firms' productive activities has been advanced as a promising explanation for sustained heterogeneity in capabilities among firms. In this paper, we extend this line of research to determine the industry structures a ... Full text Cite

Overcoming the improvement paradox

Journal Article European Management Journal · January 1, 1999 Despite the demonstrated benefits of improvement programs such as total quality management and reengineering, most improvement programs end in failure. Companies have found it extremely difficult to sustain even initially successful process improvement pro ... Full text Cite