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Dr. Donald Gerwin
Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Research Professor

Address: 29 rue Jasmin, 75016 Paris, France
Phone & Fax from inside France: 01 45 27 44 79
Phone & Fax from outside France: 33 1 45 27 44 79
E-mail: dgerwin@sprott.carleton.ca


Biography

Donald Gerwin received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. He is an emeritus professor and adjunct research professor in the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and lives in Paris. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Management of Technology and Innovation, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. At Carleton, he held a research chair in technology management and headed the Research Program in Managing Technological Change financed by the Canadian government and high-tech firms. Previously, he was a Research Professor at the School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

He is co-author of Management of Advanced Manufacturing Technology: Strategy, Organization and Innovation, and has published in Management Science, Operations Research, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, and other journals. He has served as the Department Editor for Manufacturing Systems for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, an Associate Editor for Management Science, and on the editorial boards of other journals.

He has been invited to do research at ESSEC (Cergy, France), University of Paris X (Nanterre, France), the International Institute of Management (Berlin), IIASA (Vienna), and the Institute for Social Research in Industry (Trondheim, Norway). His research interests are in managing new product development within and between firms.

Recent Professional Activities

“Manufacturing Flexibility: A Strategic Perspective,” listed as one of the 50 most frequently cited Operations Management publications in A. Pilkington & J. Meredith, 2009, The evolution of the intellectual structure of operations management, 1980-2006: A citation/co-citation analysis, Journal of Operations Management, 27, pp. 185-202.

Invited to present a paper at the Product Innovation and Technology Management (PITM) Conference, San Diego CA, May 2008.

Delivered annual Izzet Sahin Memorial Lecture at the Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 2006.

Visiting Professor, Department of Management of Technology and Innovation, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 2005-

Guest Scholar, Department of Entrepreneurship, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria, June 2005.

"An Agenda for Research on the Flexibility of Manufacturing Processes" selected by the editors of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management as one of the six most influential articles published in the 25 year history of the journal, March 2005. Reprinted in the special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal, Vol. 25 No. 5, November 2005, pp. 1171-1182.


Recent Publications

Donald Gerwin, Nadia Bhuiyan and Vince Thomson, "A Quantitative Evaluation of Concurrent Product Development Effectivness Theories," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, forthcoming.

Jan van den Ende, Ferdinand Jaspers and Donald Gerwin, “Involvement of System Firms in the Development of Complementary Products: The Influence of Novelty,” Technovation, Vol. 28, No. 11, November 2008, pp. 726-738.

"New Product and Service Development in Strategic Alliances," in Charles Wankel (ed.), 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, Vol. 1, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 2008, pp. 335-344.

“Buyer-Vendor Relations for Components: The Extreme Example of Custom Integrated Circuits,” Research Policy, Vol. 35, No. 5, June 2006, pp. 673-690.

Nadia Bhuiyan, Vince Thomson and Donald Gerwin, “A Systematic Framework for Implementing Concurrent Engineering,” Research and Technology Management, Vol. 49, No. 1, January-February 2006, pp. 38-43.

Nadia Bhuiyan, Donald Gerwin and Vince Thomson, “Simulation of the New Product Development Process for Performance Improvement,” Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 12, December 2004, pp. 1690-1703.

"Coordinating New Product Development in Strategic Alliances," Academy of Management Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 241-257.

Donald Gerwin and J. Stephen Ferris, "Organizing New Product Development Projects in Strategic Alliances," Organization Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-February 2004, pp. 22-37.

"Conceptualizing and Implementing Integrated Product Development," in P. Le Moal (ed.) Savoir Gérer: Mélanges en L’Honneur de Jean-Claude Tarondeau, Vuibert, Paris, 2003, pp. 169-181.

Nadia Bhuiyan, Vince Thomson, and Donald Gerwin, "Implementing Concurrent Engineering: A Case Study," Proceedings of the 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE 2003), Madeira Island, Portugal, July 2003.

Donald Gerwin and Nicholas J. Barrowman, "An Evaluation of Research on Integrated Product Development," Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 7, July 2002, pp. 938-953.

Donald Gerwin and Darren Meister, "Coordinating New Product Development in an International Joint Venture," International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2002, pp. 27-43.

Nadia Bhuiyan, Donald Gerwin, and Vince Thomson, "Evaluating the Performance of Concurrent Processes," Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Montreal, November 2001.

Nadia Bhuiyan, Vince Thomson and Donald Gerwin, "Evaluating the Performance of Concurrent Processes," Proceedings of the 7th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2000), The International Society for Productivity Enhancement, University of Lyon I, Lyon France, July 2000, pp. 157-164.

"Team Autonomy in New Product Development," Business Horizons, Vol. 42, No. 4, July-August 1999, pp. 29-36.

Donald Gerwin, Darren Meister and Linda Moffat, "A Case Study of New Product Development in an International Partnership," Proceedings of the 5th International Product Development Conference, European Institute for Advanced Study in Management (Brussels), Como Italy, May 1998, pp. 451-460.

Donald Gerwin and Linda Moffat, "Authorizing Processes Determining Team Autonomy During New Product Development," Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Vol. 14, Nos. 3 and 4, September-December 1997, pp. 291-313.

Donald Gerwin and Linda Moffat, "Withdrawal of Team Autonomy During Concurrent Engineering," Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 9, September 1997, pp. 1275-1287.

Donald Gerwin and Gerald Susman (eds.), Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management on Concurrent Engineering, Vol. 43, No. 2, May 1996.

"Increasing Semiconductor Manufacturing's Strategic Value to a Firm," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 42, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 112-118 (lead article).


Revised:12 July 2011.  

 
 
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