Recently published research:
Tiberiu Ungureanu, Jason Sigler, Zeynep Yavic, & Christopher McLeod (2026 – In press) Versatile Beginnings, Specialized Success. Journal of Sport Management.
Mark Strazicich, Pete Groothuis, John Dawson, & Tiberiu Ungureanu (2026 – In press) A Rising Tide Raises all Boats: The changing distribution of salaries in the NBA over time. Journal of Sport Economics.
Kannan Srikanth & Tiberiu Ungureanu (2025). Organizational adaptation in dynamic environments: Disentangling the effects of how much to explore versus where to explore. Strategic Management Journal 46(1), 19–48 (link to online version) (link to my local copy)
Marlo Raveendran, Kannan Srikanth, Tiberiu Ungureanu, George L. Zheng (2023). How Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices? Organization Science 34(6):2464-2486. (link to online version) (link to my local copy)
Published Book Chapters:
Leiblein, M.J., Macher, J.T., Ungureanu, T. 2019. “Why do small firms benefit less from alliances than large firms?” The Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK (link to my local copy)
Works in progress:
Ungureanu, T., Srikanth, K., Baumann, O., How Organizational Structure Shapes Adaptive Strategy (Revise and Resubmit at Strategic Management Journal, based on second dissertation chapter)
Sigler, J., Anand, J., Ungureanu. T., & Yavic, Z. Hitting a Curveball: Strategic Factor Markets, Uncertainty, and Performance. (Revise and Resubmit at Strategy Science)
Ungureanu, T., & Sigler, J. Beyond Moonlighting: Differentiating Cognitive Effects of Side-Gigs on Employee Performance (Revise and Resubmit at Management Decision)
Fourne, S., Ungureanu, T., & Sigler, J. Changes in Attention Focus and Capacity: How Front-line Human Resource Slack drives MLB Team Performance (Under Review at Long Range Planning)
Ungureanu, T., Playing the Arms Race: How bandit models can help understand exploration–exploitation tradeoffs in experiential learning (Preparing manuscript. Target: SMJ)
Ungureanu, T., Lewis, M., & Kent, J. The Purpose of a Strategic Management Professor (Preparing manuscript. Target: AMLE)
Seminar and conference presentations
| Hierarchies of Adaptation: Structuring Organizational Exploration in Dynamic Environments – AOM 2025 (Copenhagen – Best Paper Proceedings); – University of North Florida Research Seminar February 2026; – Florida Gulf Coast University Research Seminar April 2026 Commitment Follows Structure: How to allocate resources in hierarchical organizations (with O. Baumann and K. Srikanth) – 5th Vienna Conference on Strategy, Organizational Design, and Innovation, June 2022 – Academy of Management Virtual Conference, August 2021 – Theoretical Organizational Model Virtual Conference, July 2021 – Carnegie School of Organizational Learning Virtual Conference, August 2020 Optimal exploration in dynamic environments: How environmental dynamism and firm memory influence optimal exploration intensity versus exploration breadth (with K. Srikanth) – Upcoming presentation at Academy of Management Virtual conference, August 2021 – Theoretical Organizational Models Virtual Conference, July 2021 – Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium – Virtual presentation – March 2021 – Theoretical Organizational Models Student Workshops, Virtual presentation, February 2021 – University of Southern Denmark virtual research seminar, December 2020 Nested learning: How to balance exploration and exploitation in multi-level organizations (with O. Baumann and K. Srikanth) – Theoretical Organizational Models Virtual Conference, July 2020 – Academy of Management Virtual Conference, August 2020 – Best Paper Proceedings – Published in Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2020, No. 1, p. 21013). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. – Carnegie School of Organizational Learning Virtual Conference, August 2020 The role of Complexity and Tacitness in Mergers and Acquisitions – Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA, August 2019 |