Sharon Matusik

Sharon F. Matusik is an American business strategy scholar. She is the dean at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder and a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship. Matusik’s research focuses on understanding the knowledge-intensive firm and the contribution of firm knowledge to competitive advantage in strategic management entrepreneurship.

Education and career

Matusik, a first-generation college student, graduated with honors from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.[1] After working in employee benefits consulting for Hewitt Associates, she completed her PhD in strategic management from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in 1998.[2]

Matusik served on the faculty at Rice University before moving to the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2004,[3] where she served as Academic Research Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.[4] She rose through the ranks to become Professor in the Leeds School in 2014. In 2016, Matusik was named interim senior associate dean for Faculty and Research, and in 2017, she was appointed interim dean at the Leeds School of business, subsequently permanent dean.[5][6]

Research

Matusik and Hill examined the role of "contingent workers" in knowledge flows that affect competitive advantage of a firm – temporary employees, independent contractors; workers at outsourcing firms, contract workers on-site at a firm, consultants, etc. Reliance on contingent workers can stimulate information flows inside a firm by causing firms to codify of tacit knowledge inside the firm, but also puts the firm at risk of having its special expertise appropriated.[7] Matusik has also studied entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as the role of “offensive” and “defensive” patents in the pricing of initial public offerings,[8] the role played by venture capitalists in the success or failure of startup firms[9][10]

References
  1. "Sharon F. Matusik (faculty profile)". Leeds School of Business. University of Colorado. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  2. Matusik, Sharon F. (1998). Ephemeral resources and firm knowledge: the case of the contingent workforce (PhD thesis). University of Washington. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  3. Taubel-Bruce, Kyra. "M&O Alumni Highlights: Sharon Matusik ('98)". University of Washington Foster Blog. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. "Sharon Matusik, University of Colorado, Boulder | SMS | Strategic Management Society". www.strategicmanagement.net.
  5. Hernandez, Elizabeth. "Sharon Matusik named dean of CU Boulder's Leeds School of Business". Denver Post. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  6. "Matusik named interim business school dean". University of Colorado. 1 December 2016.
  7. Matusik, S. F., & Hill, C. W. (1998). The utilization of contingent work, knowledge creation, and competitive advantage. Academy of management review, 23(4), 680-697. https://www.jstor.org/stable/259057
  8. Heeley, M. B., Matusik, S. F., & Jain, N. (2007). Innovation, appropriability, and the underpricing of initial public offerings. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 209-225. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20159848
  9. Fitza, M., Matusik, S. F., & Mosakowski, E. (2009). Do VCs matter? The importance of owners on performance variance in start‐up firms. Strategic Management Journal, 30(4), 387-404.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/smj.748
  10. Matusik, S. F., & Fitza, M. A. (2012). Diversification in the venture capital industry: leveraging knowledge under uncertainty. Strategic Management Journal, 33(4), 407-426. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/smj.1942
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