David Tan
- Professor of Management Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor
Education
- PhD Emory University (2009)
- BSBA Creighton University (2004)
Academic Expertise
- competitive strategy
Positions Held
- Senior Editor, Organization Science, 2020 to present
- At the University of Washington since 2013
- Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Assistant Professor, 2009-2013
Selected Publications
“Bad Medicine: Litigation, Competition, and the Marketing of Prescription Opioids”
Tan, D., and West, N., (2023). Strategic Management Journal.
“The Road Not Taken: Technological Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Innovations”
Tan, D., (2021). Organization Science.
“How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status”
Tan, D., and Rider, C., (2021). Organization Science.
“Far from the Tree? Do Private Entrepreneurs Agglomerate Around Public Sector Incumbents During Economic Transition?”
Tan, D., and Tan, J., (2017). Organization Science.
“Let Them Go? How Losing Employees to Competitors Can Enhance Firm Status”
Tan, D., and Rider, C.I., (2017). Strategic Management Journal.
“Fit by Adaptation or Fit by Founding? A Comparative Study of Existing and New Entrepreneurial Cohorts in China”
Zhang, C., Tan, J., and Tan, D., (2016). Strategic Management Journal.
“Making the News: Heterogeneous Media Coverage and Corporate Litigation”
Tan, D., (2016). Strategic Management Journal.
“Labor Market Advantages of Organizational Status: A Study of Lateral Partner Hiring by Large U.S. Law Firms”
Rider, C.I., and Tan, D., (2014). Organization Science.
“Categorical Coherence, Classification Volatility, and Examiner-Added Citations”
Tan, D., and Roberts, P., (2010). Research Policy, Vol. 29(1), pp. 89–102.
“Mimetic Entry and Bandwagon Effect: The Rise and Decline of International Equity Joint Ventures in China”
Xia, J., Tan, J., and Tan, D., (2008). Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 29(2), pp. 195–217.
“Environment–Strategy Co-Evolution and Co-Alignment: A Staged Model of Chinese SOEs Under Transition”
Tan, J., and Tan, D., (2005). Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 26(2), pp. 141–157.
Honors and Awards
- Poets and Quants, Best 40 under 40 MBA Professors, 2023
- Tan, D. and West, N. “Bad medicine: litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids.” Best Conference Paper in Stakeholder Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, October 2020
- Tan. D. and Rider, C. “Let them go? How losing employees to competitors can enhance firm status.” Best Conference Paper in Strategic Human Capital IG, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Denver, CO, October 2015