Stanislav Dobrev studies corporate demography and organizational ecology, evolutionary patterns of competition, organizational transformation, strategy and design, and organizational structure and entrepreneurship. Dobrev's research includes "Positioning among Organizations in a Population: Moves between Market Segments and the Evolution of Industry Structure" written with T. Kim published in Administrative Science Quarterly 51 (2006); "The Evolution of Organizational Niches: U.S. Automobile Manufacturers, 1885-1981" written with T. Kim and G. Carroll published in Administrative Science Quarterly 47 (2002); and "Revisiting Organizational Legitimation: Cognitive Diffusion and Sociopolitical Factors in the Evolution of Bulgarian Newspaper Enterprises, 1846-1992" published in Organization Studies 22/3 (2001).
His research has been referenced in the Times, El Mundo, INC, Capital Ideas, and CIO-Asia. Additionally, he serves on several editorial boards, is a member of the American Sociological Association and the Academy of Management, and is an ad hoc reviewer for a number of academic publications.
Dobrev's professional experience includes being a market research analyst for the GartnerGroup and a business development analyst for On-Command Corporation.
Dobrev has held positions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and the American Institutes for Research,. He was recently given a second research grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
He received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in sociology from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1993, followed by a master's degree in sociology in 1995 and a PhD in 1997 from Stanford University. He joined INSEAD in 2008.
Outside of academia, Dobrev enjoys rock music, theater, and skiing.
Research Areas
Dynamics of Organisational Populations; Evolutionary Patterns of Competition and Imitation; Market Segmentation and Organisational Positioning; Category Formation and the Emergence of New Organisational Forms ; Career Staging Processes in Organisations; Entrepreneurship.
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