Stine Grodal

Teaches KHC HC 501: Innovation, Culture & Society I

Stine Grodal is assistant professor of strategy and innovation at Boston University. Her main streams of research focuses the emergence of categories in nascent markets and the strategic actions market participants take to create and exploit these emerging social structures. Grodal’s work is interdisciplinary and he combines insights from sociology to address novel questions in organizational theory and strategic management. An essential driver of all of her research is a close engagement with the phenomenon of interest. She is, therefore, deeply committed to field methods and use interviews, ethnography, and in-depth archival research, combining these methods with quantitative analyses when appropriate.

Grodal’s research is published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and American Sociological Review, among others.

Her research has won several awards. Grodal’s paper “Hedging Your Bests: Explaining Executives Labeling Strategies in Nanotechnology,” published in Organization Science, received the 2009 Best Paper Award at the EGOS conference. A symposium based on his Academy of Management Review paper “The Co-evolution of Categories and Technologies during Industry Emergence” received the 2014 Best Symposium Award. Her published article in the Academy of Management Journal titled “Help-seeking and Help-giving as an Organizational Routine” has won the Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Best Paper Award, and Grodal gave a keynote address at the POS annual conference in June 2015. Her research has also won a large and competitive NSF grant, which has formed the foundation of recent collaborative work on categories and industry evolution. Before coming to Boston University, Grodal received a PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University and a BA and MA in psychology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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