Catherine Magelssen
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
BS (UC Berkeley) PhD (Rutgers)
Dr Catherine Magelssen studies multinational firm strategy. In particular, her research focuses on how firms govern their transactions between organizational units, the implications of these practices for performance, and firm response to institutional and environmental changes. Her recent work can be grouped into two streams addressing questions related to internal and external firm contracting, and the management of intellectual property and innovation. Her research has been recognized with the Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award from the Academy of International Business and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management.
Her work has been published in top academic journals such as Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Magelssen serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Review. She also has engaged with policy makers and practitioners at events such as the International Tax Policy Forum, European Tax Policy Forum, Institute for Fiscal Studies Conference, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development BEPS project.
Dr. Magelssen has taught courses in various degree programs at London Business School, including the Corporate Strategy elective and the core Understanding General Management course for the MBA and Executive MBA degree programs and the core Strategy course and International Business course for the PhD program.
Dr Magelssen is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. She holds a PhD from Rutgers University and a BS from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining academia, she worked as an economic consultant where she managed global transfer pricing projects, advised multinational firms on the structuring of intra-firm relationships, valued intangible assets, and helped firms integrate global operations post-acquisition.
Catherine talks about her research on how ownership of strategic assets affects innovation. Click here to read the paper.
- cmagelssen@london.edu
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- Catherine Magelssen CV
- Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award (Haynes Prize) for most promising scholar under 40 years old
- Academy of Management, IM Division Best Dissertation Award entitled “D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University Best Dissertation Award”
- 2023 Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) Research in Strategic Management (RSM) Grant of $25,000 with co-author Minyuan Zhao for research project on “Legal and Economic Ownership of Intellectual Property within Multiunit Firms.”
- 2023 Leadership Award, SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group.
- 2023 Finalist, Best Proposal Award, SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group.
- 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review.
- 2022 Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Journal.
- 2015 Finalist, INFORMS Best Dissertation Award, TIMES
- 2015 Finalist, Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award
- 2012 Finalist, Best Paper Award, Technology Innovation Management AOM
- 2012 Rutgers University Dissertation Fellowship
- 2012 Rutgers University Summer Research Scholarship (Competitive)
- 2012 Dean’s Competition for Summer Research Funding (Competitive)
- 2011 Finalist, Temple Academy of International Business Best Paper Award
2022
Institutional disruptions and the philanthropy of multinational firms
Ballesteros L; Magelssen C
Organization Science 2022 Vol 33:4 p 1501-1522
The Contractual Governance of Transactions within Firms
Magelssen C; Rich B; Mayer K
Organization Science 2022 Vol 33:6 p 2226-2249
2020
Allocation of property rights and technological innovation within firms
Magelssen C
Strategic Management Journal 2020 Vol 41:4 p 758-787
Outsourcing and insourcing of organizational activities: the role of outsourcing process mechanisms
Damanpour F; Magelssen C; Walker R M
Public Management Review 2020 Vol 22:6 p 767-790
2015
Learning from outsourcing: the effects of outsourcing strategy on organizational efficiency
Magelssen C; Sanchez F; Damanpour F
Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 2015
2012
Adoption cycle of managerial innovation: Effects of innovation social status and transaction costs
Damanpour F; Magelssen C
Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 2012
Initiation, implementation and complexity of managerial innovation
Damanpour F; Chiu H; Magelssen C
in Pitsis T S, Simpson A and Dehlin E, Handbook of organizational and managerial innovation, Edward-Elgar Press, 2012
2010
Early adopters and radical regulatory reform in India: first in line for trade protection
Feinberg S; Magelssen C; Smith M
Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 2010
2024
Barriers to organizational performance: experimental evidence of the importance of relational contracts
Brahm F; Lafortune J; Magelssen C; Tessada J
Working Paper
Headquarters versus subsidiary management of R&D subsidiaries: evidence from the introduction of broadband communication technology
Magelssen C; Ballesteros L; Troyer C
Working Paper
How do internal and external contracts differ? Evidence from the semiconductor industry
Magelssen C; Mayer K; Rich B
Working Paper
Motive and opportunity: information and communication technologies and the exploration of new knowledge
Magelssen C; Troyer C
Working Paper
Strategy or gluttony? The location of ownership rights to intangible assets within the firm
Magelssen C
Working Paper
2021
Discontinuance, replacement, and retraction of managerial innovation in service organizations
Damanpour F; Magelssen C; Walker R
Working Paper
The effects of outsourcing strategy on organizational efficiency
Magelssen C; Sanchez F; Damanpour F
Working Paper
Timing is everything: Political action and the value of experience over the policy life cycle
Feinberg S; Magelssen C; Smith M
Working Paper
Trade protection, vertical linkages and firm strategy
Feinberg S; Magelssen C; Smith M
Working Paper
2020
Inside the MNC: The structure of ownership of firm specific advantages
Magelssen C; Feinberg S
Working Paper
2015
The cycle of adoption of organizational innovation: A longitudinal study of adoption, de-adoption, and re-adoption
Damanpour F; Magelssen C
Working Paper
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Corporate Strategy
Gain insight into the nature of corporate – as opposed to business – strategy. Many companies are not single businesses but 'groups', comprising a portfolio of more or less separate business units and one or more levels of 'corporate' management.
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Corporate Strategy