Adelaide Wilcox King
Associate Professor of Commerce
Office phone: 434-924-4048
e-mail: adelaide@virginia.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Strategic Management, Kenan-Flagler Business School,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.B.A., General Management and Marketing, Darden School,
University of Virginia
B.A., Economics, Davidson College
Areas of Expertise:
Professor King specializes in strategic management, with a particular interest in the influence of executive psychology and cognition on how competitive advantage is created, maintained, and sustained. Her research focuses on behavioral approaches to managing resources, corporate governance, and measuring organizational knowledge-based capabilities.
Professional Activities:
Professor King served as an associate editor for Academy of Management Review from 2008 to 2011, and Senior Associate Dean at McIntire from 2006 to 2008. She has published in Strategic Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Journal of Management; Organization Studies; Journal of Engineering and Technology Management; and Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.
Selected Publications:
"Looking inside: Psychological influences on structuring a firm’s portfolio of resources," Journal of Management, 2011 (with M. Garbuio and D. Lovallo).
"Editors’ comments. Mythbusting: What we hear and what we’ve learned about AMR," Academy of Management Review, 2011 (with D. Lepak).
"Construing organizational identity: The role of embodied cognition," Organization Studies, 2010 (with C.V. Harquail).
"Editors' comments: Developing novel theoretical insight from reviews of existing theory and research," Academy of Management Review, 2010 (with J. LePine).
"Disentangling inter- and intra-firm causal ambiguity, a conceptual model of causal ambiguity and competitive advantage," Academy of Management Review, 2007.
"Measuring organizational knowledge: A conceptual and methodological framework," Strategic Management Journal, 2003 (with C. Zeithaml).
"Capturing knowledge and knowing through improvisation: What managers can learn from the thoracic surgery board certification process," Journal of Management, 2001 (with A. Ranft).
"Competencies and firm performance: Examining the causal ambiguity paradox," Strategic Management Journal, 2001 (with C. Zeithaml).
"Beyond products: New strategic imperatives for developing competencies," Special issue of Journal of Engineering and Technology Management on technological learning, the management of knowledge, and firm growth and performance (M. Hitt and D. Ireland, eds.), 2000 (with S. Fowler, S. Marsh, and B. Victor).