Todd H. Chiles
Associate Professor
Management
Trulaske College of Business
Office:
443 Cornell Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Office Hours:
T: 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM, R: 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM, and by appointment
Phone: (573) 884-9709
E-Mail: chilest@missouri.edu
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Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1996. Professor Chiles is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. He teaches strategic management and organization design, and was an O'Brien Teaching Excellence Award finalist. His research interests are in entrepreneurship, organization and process theory, and their intersection. His work in these areas uses constructivist approaches to explore complex creative processes such as organizational emergence, strategic change, and novelty creation. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science, among others. He has served as guest editor at Organization Studies and is on the editorial advisory board of Perspectives on Process Organization Studies. Prior to his academic career, he worked eight years in industry, primarily at IBM and the IBM spin-off company Lexmark International, as an R&D engineer, project manager, market planner, and competitive strategist.
Publications
Chiles, T. H., Vultee, D. M., Gupta, V. K., Greening, D.
W., and Tuggle, C. S. (2010). "The philosophical foundations of
a radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship." Journal of Management Inquiry,
19(2): 138-164.
Chiles, T. H., Tuggle, C. S., McMullen, J. S., Bierman, L., and Greening, D. W. (2010). "Dynamic creation: Extending the radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship." Organization Studies, 31(1): 7-46.
Chiles, T. H., Gupta, V. K., and Bluedorn, A. C. (2008). "On Lachmannian and effectual entrepreneurship: A rejoinder to Sarasvathy and Dew." Organization Studies, 29(2): 247-253.
Chiles, T. H., Bluedorn, A. C., and Gupta, V. K. (2007). "Beyond creative destruction and entrepreneurial discovery: A radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship." Organization Studies, 28(4): 467-493.
Horner, S. V., Chiles, T. H., and Lam, L. W. (2007). "Entrepreneurship in the experience economy: The evolution of the Hard Rock Cafe'." In R. A. Ajami & M. M. Bear (eds.), The Global Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Value Creation: 137-165. New York: Routledge.
Chiles, T. H., Meyer, A. D., and Hench, T. J. (2004). "Organizational emergence: The origin and transformation of Branson, Missouri's musical theaters." Organization Science, 15(5): 499-519.
Chiles, T. H. (2003). "Process theorizing: Too important to ignore in a kaleidic world." Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2(3): 288-291.
Chiles, T. H. and Meyer, A. D. (2001). "Managing the emergence of clusters: An increasing returns approach to strategic change." Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 3(3): 58-89.
Chiles, T. H. and Choi, T. Y. (2000). "Theorizing TQM: An Austrian and evolutionary economics interpretation." Journal of Management Studies, 37(2): 185-212.
Chiles, T. H. and McMackin, J. F. (1996). "Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics." Academy of Management Review, 21(1): 73-99.