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Donald Bergh, PhD

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Professor; Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration
Department of Management

Donald Bergh


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Biography at a Glance

Donald D. Bergh (PhD, University of Colorado Boulder) is the Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration and professor of management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.

Bergh comes most recently from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Business. He had previously served at Cornell University’s Statler School of Hospitality and The Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. He also serves as visiting Lecturer at University College Dublin (Ireland) and visiting Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands).

His research interests lie primarily in corporate strategy (diversification, divestitures, acquisitions) and research methodology where his work has appeared in many of the management field’s highest rated academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Organization Science (OS), Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management (JOM), the Journal of Management Studies (JMS), Organizational Research Methods (ORM), Strategic Organization (SO) and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), among others. He has more than 30 contributions to Financial Times Top 50 journals. Included in the 2024 global ranking of the top 2% of scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University.
 
He has served as an associate editor of AMJ, ORM and JMS, guest co-editor of four ORM special issues, and was the inaugural chair of the Scientific Integrity and Rigor Task Force of JOM (2017-2020), the first of its kind in the management field. He is currently a member of the editorial review boards of AMJ, SMJ, ORM, JMS and SO. Along with David Ketchen, Jr., he co-edited the Emerald series, Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, volumes 1 through 10. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management.
 
He has held numerous leadership positions in the Strategic Management Society including serving as the founding chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group and founding co-chair of the Research Methods Community, and was co-chair of the 35th Annual International Conference. He served as founding co-chair of the Strategic Management Society Conference Research Methods Paper Prize.

Education

  • PhD, Business Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • MBA, Business Administration, Utah State University
  • BS, Business Administration, Utah State University

Featured Publications

Bergh, D. D., D’Oria, L., Crook, T. R., & Roccapriore, A. 2024. Is knowledge really the most important strategic resource? A meta-analytic review. Strategic Management Journal, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3645

Aguinis, H., Bergh, D. D., & Molina-Azorin, J. F. 2023. Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 54(2): 219-232.

Bergh, D.D., Boyd, B.K., Byron, K., Gove, S., & Ketchen, D.K. Jr. 2022. What constitutes a methodological contribution? Journal of Management, 48: 1835–1848.

Bergh, D.D., Ketchen, D.J. Jr., Orlandi, I., Heugens, P., & Boyd, B. 2019. Information asymmetry in management research: Past accomplishments and future opportunities. Journal of Management, 45: 122–158.

Bergh, D.D., Sharp, B., Aguinis, H., & Li, M. 2017. Is there a credibility crisis in strategic management research? Evidence on the reproducibility of study findings. Strategic Organization, 15: 423–436.

Bergh, D.D., Aguinis, H. Heavey, C., Ketchen, D.J., Jr., Boyd, B.K., Peiran, S., Lau, C. & Joo, H. 2016. Using meta–analytic structural equations modeling to advance strategic management research: Guidelines and an empirical illustration via the strategic leadership–performance relationship. Strategic Management Journal, 37: 477–497.

Bergh, D.D., Connelly, B.L., Ketchen, D.J., Jr. & Shannon, L.M. 2014. Signaling theory and equilibrium in strategic management research: An assessment and research agenda. Journal of Management Studies, 51: 1334–1360.

Bergh, D.D. 2001. Executive retention and acquisition outcomes: A test of opposing views on the influence of organizational tenure. Journal of Management, 27: 603–622.

Bergh, D.D., & Lawless, M.W. 1998. Portfolio restructuring and limits to hierarchical governance: Effects of environmental uncertainty and diversification strategy. Organization Science, 9: 87–102.

Bergh, D.D. 1997. Predicting divestitures of unrelated acquisitions: An integrative model of Ex Ante conditions. Strategic Management Journal, 18: 715–732.


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