Strategic Innovation, New Product Design and Development, Organizational Design
Dave Owens is a well-established authority on innovation and new product development who has lended his expertise to Fortune 500 companies and students alike.
Professor Owens has
consulted for NASA, The Smithsonian, Nissan LEAF, Gibson Music, American
Conservatory Theater, Alcatel, Tetra Pak, Tennessee Valley Authority, Cisco,
LEGO, The Henry Ford Museum and many other organizations. He has done product
design work for well-known firms, including Daimler Benz, Apple Computer, Dell
Computer, Coleman Camping, Corning World Kitchen, Steelcase and IDEO Product
Development.
Professor Owens’ work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, London Guardian and San Jose
Mercury News, as well as on NPR's Marketplace.
Professor Owens is executive director of The Wond'ry, Vanderbilt University's center for creativity, innovation, design, and making.
Professor
Owens’ book Creative People Must Be
Stopped! Six Ways We Stop Innovation Without Even Trying has received acclaim
from academics and corporate executives across the world.
Professor
Owens' research focuses on the management of innovation in product, process,
and service industries. He also studies the effects of social status on
organizational effectiveness and design.
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Ciampa, E.J., Hunt, A. A., Arenson, K.O., Mordes, D.A., Oldham, W.M., Woo, K.v., Owens, D.A., Canon, M.D., and Dermody, T.S. (2011), “A Workshop on Leadership for MD/PhD Students.” Medical Education Online 2011, 16, 7075.
Phillips, D., and Owens, D. A., (2005), "Incumbents, Innovation, and Competence: The Emergence of Recorded Jazz, 1920 - 1929." Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts, Vol. 32. No. 3. London, UK: Elsevier BV.
Owens, D. A., M.A. Neale (2003), "Der Mythos vom egalitaeren Medium: Email und Status." in Vermittlungskulturen in Wandel: Brief, Email, SMS, edited by Joachim R. Hoeflich and Julian Gebhardt. Frankfurt Germany: Peter Lang GmbH.
Owens, D. A. and R. I. Sutton (2002), "Status Contests in Meetings: Negotiating the Informal Order," in Groups at Work: Advances in Theory and Research, edited by M. E. Turner. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
Owens, D. A., M. A. Neale, and R. I. Sutton (2000), "Technologies of Status Management: Status Dynamics In Email Communications." In Neale, M.A., Mannix, E.A., and Griffith, T.L. Research on Groups and Teams Vol. 3 - Technology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Owens, D. A., "Structure and Status in Design Teams (2000) : Implications for Design Management." Academic Review of the Design Management Journal. Vol. 1, Boston, MA: Design Management Institute.
Owens, D. A., E. A. Mannix, and M. A. Neale (1998), "The Strategic Formation of Groups," in Research on Groups and Teams, Vol. 1, edited by M. A. Neale and E. A. Mannix. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Larsen, E. and D. A. Owens (1997), "Silicon Valley: The Model for 21st-Century Business Culture?" Daimler Benz Technology and Society Research Group, Delta Series.
Owens, D. A. (1997), "'Got Culture?' Products, Groups and Identity in the Age of Mass-Customization," in RANA Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3.
Owens, D. A. (1995), "Cultural Design: Accounting for User Values in a Multicultural Context." Daimler Benz Technology and Society Research Group, Research Series.
"Competitive Strength, Legitimacy, and Innovative Activity: The Birth of Recorded Jazz in Chicago and the Midwest, 1921 to 1929." Academy of Management, Washington D.C.: 2001
"Using the Business School Cirriculum in Design Management Education". National Science Foundation Roundtable, California Polytechnic Institute Pomona, CA. 2001
"On the Inside Looking Out: Constructing the Boundary Between Identity and Landscape in Early-Stage Ventures." Venture Entrepreneurship on the Technological Frontier Conference: Vanderbilt University, 2000
"Uncertainty and the Choice of Organizing Logic in Groups: The Effects on Performance." Symposium paper for Academy of Management Meeting: Organizational and Management Theory Division. Chicago, 2000
"Electronic Status Negotiation: Status-based Differences in E-mail Communication Patterns." Stanford / Columbia / JAI Conference: "Research on Groups and Teams : Issues in Technology." Columbia University, 1999
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