Current Postdocs

Current Postdocs

Linus Dahlander, Sweden, Sept 2008-Aug 2010
Kim Klyver, Denmark, Jan 2009-Dec 2009
Juha Mattsson, Finland, Jan 2009-Dec 2009
Dijana Tiplic, Norway, Sept 2008-Aug 2010

Linus Dahlander
Doctor of Philosophy, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola (2006)

My research investigates how new ideas and innovations are developed outside the formal boundaries of firms. I am particularly interested in situations where problems are increasingly complex and a large number of individuals collaborate to advance a knowledge frontier. In such instances, many new ideas and innovations emerge in communities and networks that span organizational boundaries where few traditional planning mechanisms are at play. My research seeks to understand how these communities and networks unfold over time and how they resolve coordination problems especially when individuals are distributed and autonomous – self-selecting tasks and collaboration partners.

In my postdoctoral work at Stanford, I work on the Mimir project that explores how networks shapes ideas led by professors Dan McFarland, Woody Powell, Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning.

Dijana Tiplic
Doctor of Philosophy: Norwegian School of Management, (2008)

In my research, I am intrigued by how the structure of connections among agents influences their learning outcomes. In particular, I am interested in the imitation learning process as a primary mechanism for the replication of success. Success is contagious, and its replication represents a fundamental challenge in everyday life of agents (individuals and organizations alike). My research focuses on how agents learn by imitating others who are successful, and what consequences for the system as a whole arise when individual agents pursue rational imitation strategies. I build on ideas of learning from a variety of disciplines such as behavioral decision making, social learning, and computer science to inform organization theory. My work contributes to three main sets of literatures: 1) organizational learning, 2) diffusion, and 2) social networks.

At Stanford, I work with Professor Francisco Ramirez. We analyze how the knowledge base of higher education discourse has been shifting towards more rationalized accounts. In addition, I am involved in the project on cross-national study of curricula and changes associated with globalization and multiculturalism.