BYU Strategy Professor Jeff Dyer Named Most Influential Young Management Scholar

PROVO, Utah – Apr 01, 2013 – Brigham Young University strategy professor Jeff Dyer was recently recognized for his impact on academic and business professionals, being named the most influential management scholar by the Academy of Management Perspectives.

Dyer, the Horace Beesley Professor of Strategy and the organizational leadership and strategy department chair at BYU’s Marriott School of Management, was ranked by the number of times his work was cited in scholarly articles and by the number of relevant indexed search results.

“Jeff Dyer has made a remarkable impact on strategic thinking in organizations around the world,” says Gary Cornia, Marriott School dean. “His work is cited by both academics and practitioners as groundbreaking.”

The academy ranked Dyer No. 1 among those who received degrees since 1991. He was ranked No. 22 among all management scholars. Topping the list was Stanford professor James March, who earned his terminal degree in 1953.

“We have long looked at citations as a measure of influence,” Dyer says. “The interesting twist with this ranking is that they add a new methodology — non-.edu Google searches — to measure whether or not business people know of you and are influenced by your work. It was surprising to see that there have been almost a half million non-.edu Google searches for my name.”

Dyer is known for his publications in the Harvard Business Review and the Strategic Management Journal and is the only strategy professor to have published five times in both. His article “The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage” was recognized by ScienceWatch as the second most-cited paper in economics and business between 1998 and 2008. He is also the lead author of business best-seller “The Innovator’s DNA”. These works have had a large influence on the world of business strategy.

“We are very proud of Jeff and the recognition he brings to the Marriott School,” Cornia says.

The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, public management, information systems, and entrepreneurship. The school’s mission is to prepare men and women of faith, character and professional ability for positions of leadership throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.