Stine Grodal

I am a Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. My research examines the central question of this course: how industries and technologies emerge, evolve, and get remade, and why some incumbents navigate those shifts while others do not. Over the past two decades I have studied transformation across a wide range of sectors, including nanotechnology, computing, hearing aids, tobacco and e-cigarettes, robotics, crowdfunding, and healthcare, tracing how new technologies acquire meaning, how product categories rise and fall, and how the timing of entry shapes which firms capture a new market. My recent work focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence as a force for industry change.

I am the author of more than thirty articles in the leading journals in management and sociology including Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, and Organization Science. My interdisciplinary research on how technologies, industries, and markets evolve has erned some of the field's top honors, including the 2024 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award, The EGOS best paper award, and multiple Academy of Management best paper awards. My 2021 Academy of Management Review article on rigor in qualitative research was the most-cited Academy of Management Review paper published that year. I am also a leading voice on qualitative and computational methods for organizational research, regularly training scholars worldwide through invited talks and webinars that have drawn thousands of participants.