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Paul Miesing

Position: Associate Professor Paul Miesing
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1977
Email: paul.miesing@albany.edu
Contact Information: Phone: (518) 442-4942
Office: BA315
Personal Website: www.albany.edu/~pm157/
Biography:

Paul Miesing conducts research and training in the area of "Strategic Management" broadly including strategic vision and executive leadership; organizational learning and transformation; technology transfer; cross-culture management and organization; corporate social responsibility and business ethics; and strategic and pedagogical use of information technology. He has helped many audiences, including companies, civic groups, industry associations, and government agencies, both locally and internationally. He was a Fulbright lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai during 1998-1999 and teaches at several other universities around the world.

 

Academic Subfields:

Business Ethics; International Business

Research Interests: Current research projects in Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability.

Applied Interests:

Facilitating strategic change

Professional Honors:

Mentioned in several editions of "Who's Who in America"

Received or contributed to numerous grants and awards, including from General Electric Fund, Sloan Foundation, and the Center for Creative Leadership

Served as reviewer for Fulbright Senior Specialists Program and National Science Foundation

Obtained a Fulbright Scholar Award to the People's Republic of China

Article on "Using Electronic Networks in Management and Executive Learning" in the Journal of Workplace Learning received one of MCB's Awards for Excellence

Affiliations:

Joint Appointments to Rockefeller College's Department of Public Policy, PhD Program in Information Science, and Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research

Member of Academy of Management; Beta Gamma Sigma (national honor society in business); International Association for Business and Society (charter member)

 

Teaching Philosophy:

If a single approach characterizes my teaching philosophy, it is to create the learning environment and get out of the way. In pursuit of a lively and healthy intellectual environment, I have used and developed cases, exercises, in-baskets, and simulations. I have extensively integrated information technologies that are changing the way we work, teach, learn, and live into my teaching.

Recent Publications:

University Technology Transfer in China: Progress but Room for Improvement. P. Miesing, M. Tang, and M. Li (forthcoming). Chapter 10 in D. Siegel, M. Wright, and A. Link (eds.), Handbook of University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press)

What Motivates Me? P. Miesing and E.J. Pavur (2011). in J.F. Marques, S. Dhiman, & J. Biberman (Eds.), Managing in the Twenty-first Century: Transforming Toward Mutual Growth (Palgrave-MacMillan): 195-200

Board of Director Composition and Financial Performance in a Sarbanes-Oxley World. R.K. Van Ness, P. Miesing, and J. Kang (2010). Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, 10 (5): 56-74

The Impact of Illegal Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing on the Media Industry, Goel, S., Miesing, P., & Chandra U. (2010). California Management Review.

Understanding Governance & Corporate Boards: Is Theory A Problem? Van Ness, R., Miesing, P., & Kang, J. (2009) European Journal of Management, 7 (9), 186-199.

NGOs, Social Venturing, and Community Citizenship Behavior, Easterly, L. & Miesing, P. (2009). Business & Society, Vol 48 (4): 538-564.

Exercise: Stakeholder Negotiations, Miesing, P. & Pavur, E.J. (2008). Journal of Strategic Management Education, Vol.4.

Exercise: scenario planning, Miesing, P. & Van Ness, R.K. (2007). Organization Management Journal, 4 (2): 148-167.

Towards a model of effective knowledge transfer within transnationals: The case of Chinese foreign invested enterprises. Miesing, P., Kriger, M. P., & Slough, N. (2007), Journal of Technology Transfer, 32 (1-2): 109-122.

An empirical Taxonomy of SOE governance in transitional China, Hua, J., Miesing, P.,& Li, M. (2006). Journal of Management and Governance, 10, 401-433.

How important are stakeholder relationships? Alexander, C. S., Miesing, P., & Parsons, A. L. (2005). Academy of Strategic Management Journal, 4, 1-7.

Courses:

MGT 513: Organization Behavior (MBA)
MGT 682: Strategic Management (MBA)
MGT 685: Global Strategic Management
INF 720: PhD Pro Seminar in Managing Information and Technology in Organizations

 

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