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Catherine Maritan
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Catherine Maritan
Associate Professor of Management

(315) 443-9610
Room 523
Management
Whitman School of Management
cmaritan@syr.edu

PhD (strategic management), Krannert School of Management, Purdue University

 

Research Interests
Professor Maritan studies strategy process and her research focuses on how firms build and use capabilities.

Her work has been pulished in leading outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management, and Managerial and Decision Economics.

She serves on the editorial boards of the Stratetgic Management Journal and the Journal of Management. Before entering academia, she worked as a mining engineer and as a corporate banker in North America and Europe. 

Selected Publications:
"Investing in Capabilities: The Dynamics of Resource Allocation,” (forthcoming), Organization Science, with Coen, C.

"Investing in Capabilities: Bidding in Strategic Factor Markets with Costly Information," Managerial and Decision Economics, 2008, 29: 227-239, with Florence, R.

"Plant Roles and Decision Autonomy in Multinational Plant Networks." Journal of Operations Management, 2004, 22: 489-503. Brush, T., Karnani, A. (Recipient of Journal of Operations Management 2004 Best Paper award.)  

"An Agent-Based Model of Investing in Capabilities: Processes, Decisions and Pperformance", Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, 2004, N1-N6. Coen, C.

"Heterogeneity and Transferring Practices: Implementing Flow Manufacturing in Multiple Plants." Strategic Management Journal, 2003, 24: 945-959, Brush, T.