Stephen J. Mezias - Faculty Profile | INSEAD

Stephen J. Mezias

Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Stephen J. Mezias

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +971 2 651 5339
Campus: Abu Dhabi

Research Areas

The Ecology of Industry Emergence, Business Models for the Base of the Pyramid, The Institutions of Global Financial Integration, Private Equity in Emerging Markets

Teaching Areas

Winning in Emerging Markets, Media and Internet, Entrepreneurial Field Studies, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Biography

Stephen Mezias is full professor in the Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise area. Based at the Abu Dhabi campus, he teaches the field trip classes, Doing Business in the Middle East, for the MBA, EMBA, and Tiemba degree programs; he visits the other campuses to offer the social entrepreneurship elective for the MBA program. He is active in the Academy of Management on the program and in many past executive roles and is currently on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. His current research focuses on the emergence of new industries, with a focus on the commercialization gap, the effects of entrepreneurship incubators in emerging markets, with a focus on how participants make sense of the experience, and the ecosystem to support social entrepreneurship in Portugal. Stephen is a citizen of the United States and received an M.S. statistics and Ph.D. in organization behavior from Stanford University.

Publications

Gioia D., March J. G., Olsen J. P., Levinthal D., Argote L., Walsh J. P., Mezias S. J., Greve H., Meyer A. D., Shapira Z., Lant T. (2020). A Special “Provocations and Provocateurs” Section Honoring Jim March. Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(2)

Mezias S. J., Schloderer F. (2016). Achieving Minimal Consensus for New Industries: Bringing Isomorphism Back in.

Mezias S. J., Goutam P. (. (2016). Private Equity as Canary in a Coal Mine: Building the Ecosystem for Effective Global Financial Integration. Managerial and Decision Economics, 37(1)

Mezias S. J., Fakhreddin M. S. (2015). Building Boundary Capabilities at the Base of the Pyramid. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 4(1)

Mezias S. J., Amijee A. (2014). Private Equity and Value Creation in Frontier Markets: The Need for an Operational Approach. Alternative Investments Analyst Review, 3(3)

Mezias S. J., Fakhreddin M. S. (2012). From Private to Public: Community Institutions, Corporate Social Action, and Sustainable Economic Development.

Bridwell-Mitchell E. N., Mezias S. J. (2012). The Quest for Cognitive Legitimacy:Organizational Identity Crafting and Internal Stakeholder Support. Journal of Change Management, 12(2)

Mezias S. J., Kim J., Pedersen J. S., Svejenova S., Mazza C. (2011). Transforming Film Product Identities: The Status Effects of European Premier Film Festivals, 1996-2005.

Mezias S. J., Lant T. K., Mezias C. M., Miller J. I. (2010). Creating attention and favorability during the emergence of new industries: The case of film in America, 1894–1927.

Mezias J. M., Mezias S. J. (2010). Country Level Corruption as a Liability of Foreigness: Effects in Staffing, Incentives and Activities.

Lant T. K., Mezias S. J. (2010). Situated Learning and Brokerage as Keys to Successful Knowledge production: An Experiential Review.

Mezias S. J., Miller J. I. (2008). Storming Legitimacy Barriers: Capacities for Social Action, Attention, and Favorability During the Emergence of the American Film Industry, 1894-1927.

Mezias S. J., Regnier M. (2007). Walking the Walk as well as Talking the Talk: Replication and the Normal Science Paradigm in Strategic Management Research. Strategic Organization

Mezias S. J., Boyle E. (2005). Blind Trust: Market Control, legal Environments, and the Dynamics of Competitive Intensity in the Early American Film Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(1)

Mezias S. J., Murphy P., Chen Y. (2002). Aspiration-Level Adaptation in an American Financial Services Organization: A Field Study . Management Science, 48(10)

Mezias S. J., Chen Y., Murphy P., Biaggio A., Chuawanlee W., Hui H., Okumura T., Starr S. (2002). National Cultural Distance as Liability of Foreignness: The Issue of Level of Analysis. Journal of International Management, 8(4)

Mezias S. J., Boyle E. (2002). Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction.

Mezias S. J., Boyle E. (2002). Legal Environments and the Population Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Litigation and Foundings in the Early American Film Industry, 1897-1918.

Mezias S. J., Murphy P., Chen Y., Calhoun M. (2002). Dynamic Performance Measurement Systems for a Global World: The Complexities to Come.

Mezias S. J. (2002). Industry Creation, Legitimacy and Foundings: The Case of American Film Industry, 1896-1928.

Mezias S. J., Kuperman J. (2001). Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Strategic Communities: The Emergence of the American Film Industry, 1895-1930. Journal of Business Venturing, 16(3)

Murphy P., Mezias S. J., Chen Y. (2001). Adapting Aspirations to Feedback: The Role of Success and Failure.

Mezias S. J., Mezias J. M. (2000). Resource Partioning and the Founding of Specialist Firms: The American Feature Film Industry, 1912-1929. Organization Science, 11

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