joanvjoseph.com - Joan V. Joseph

Description: I am a computational social scientist, musing about firms and inequality, broadly defined.

innovation (8552) digitalization (234) globalization (161) inequality (89) corporate strategy (87) computational social science (30) competitive strategy (8) theory of the firm

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I am a computational social scientist, musing about firms and inequality, broadly defined. I am also an incoming [Fall 2023] Strategy & Entrepreneurship Ph.D. student at The John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St.Louis.

My research interests revolve around the causes and consequences of firm heterogeneity. They begin with the historical development of firm strategies as key for understanding the integrated strategy of the firm in the context of internationalization and extend to the extent to which the relationships between firms and the institutional contexts within which they operate can account for sustained heterogeneous performance. More broadly, I am interested in the comparative study of firms as institutions and st

My intellectual inquiry contends with issues such as how to best conceptualize and measure firms' responses to the globalization of finance, trade, and production and how to best theorize and measure how firms strategize to develop and sustain competitive advantage, with an empirical focus on dynamic complementarities among firms' activities as the basic units of competitive advantage.