Alan d meyer biography of barack

Meyer, Professor Emeritus, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, studies industry emergence, field configuring events, regional identities, corporate venturing, and technology entrepreneurship using organizational theory and sociology as theoretical frames.  He is a field researcher who triangulates between archival data and primary data gathered through interviews and naturalistic observation.  His early research explored the health care sector, with a focus on hospitals’ responses to “environmental jolts” – unexpected shocks that created natural experiments in organizational change.

Subsequent work has investigated the dot-com crash, Ebola and Covid epidemics, industry cluster emergence, and other major discontinuities.  Nanotechnology and venture capital are recent rese