Research

My current research focuses on the spread of management practices within the American business community. Projects include the preparation of a monograph that examines a global bank's benchmarking program, and analysis of the diffision and demise of a total quality program.

Other work includes analysis of internationally based social entrepreneurship as an international phenomenon and the way it is organized around a "hero model" (with Mike Lounsbury), and research on the spread of municipal resolutions that seek to preserve civil liberties in the post 9/11 era (with Bogdan Vasi).

Publications

Chang Kil Lee and David Strang, "The international diffusion of public-sector downsizing: network emulation and theory-driven learning." International Organization 60 (2006): 883-909.

David Strang and Mary C. Still, "Does ambiguity promote imitation, or hinder it? an empirical study of benchmarking teams." European Management Review 3 (2006): 101-12.

Robert David and David Strang, "When fashion is fleeting: transitory collective beliefs and the dynamics of TQM consulting." Academy of Management Journal 49 (2006): 215-33.

David Strang and Dong-Il Jung, "Organizational Change as an Orchestrated Social Movement: Recruitment to a Quality Initiative." In G.F. Davis, D.McAdam,W.R.Scott, and M.N.Zald, eds., Social Movements and Organization Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

David Strang and Mary C. Still, "In Search of the Elite: Revising a Model of Adaptive Emulation with Evidence from Benchmarking Teams." Industrial and Corporate Change 13 (2004): 309-33.

David Strang and Young-Mi Kim, "Diffusion and Domestication of Managerial Innovations: The Spread of Scientific Management, Quality Circles, and TQM between the United States and Japan." Pp. 177-99 in S. Ackroyd, P. Thompson, P. Tolbert and R. Batt, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization. Oxford University Press, 2004.