Jeffrey G. York
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives • Research Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship • Professor • Dean鈥檚 Faculty Fellow
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations • Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

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Jeffrey G. York is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, the Research Director for the听Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, and a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute.听

Prior to his current role ProfessorYorkserved as the Chair of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability division, as the Chair of the Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics Division, and as an Associate Editor for theJournal of Business Venturing. ProfessorYorkhas taught classes in business planning, entrepreneurial thinking and environmental ventures at the undergraduate, MBA and PhD levels and received his PhD from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.听

ProfessorYork鈥檚 teaching and research are focused on environmental entrepreneurship, the simultaneous creation of ecological and economic goods. He is interested in how and why entrepreneurs create new products, services, and industries that reduce environmental degradation. 听

ProfessorYork鈥檚 research has appeared in journals such as the听Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science,andStrategic Management Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Organization Science, and听Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Research

Published Papers

Vedula, Siddharth, Jeffrey G. York, Michael Conger, and Elizabeth Embry. 2021.听听鈥淕reen to Gone? How Institutional Logics Impact the Survival of Hybrid Ventures.鈥 Forthcoming at听Organization Science.

Drake, David and Jeffrey G. York. 鈥淜icking Ash: Drivers of Coal Divestiture.鈥 Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming.

O鈥橬eil, Isobel, Deniz Ucbasaran, and Jeffrey G. York. 鈥淭he Evolution of Founder Identity as an Authenticity Work Process.鈥 In Press. Journal of Business Venturing.

York, Jeffrey G. 2020. 鈥淏ook Review: The 360掳 Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation.鈥 Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(4): 43-46.

Waldron, Theodore, Chad Navis, Olivia Aronson, Jeffrey G. York, and Desiree F. Pacheco. 2019. 鈥淰alues-Based Rivalry: A Theoretical Framework of Rivalry Between Activists and Firms.鈥 Academy of Management Review. 44(4): 800-818.

Jones, Jessica, Jeffrey G. York, Michael Conger, Michael J. Lenox, and Siddharth Vedula. 2019, 鈥淭he Collective Construction of Green Building: Industry Transition towards Environmentally Beneficial Practices.鈥 Academy of Management Perspectives. 33(4): 425-449.

Vedula, Siddharth, Jeffrey G. York and Andrew Corbett. 2019. 鈥淭hrough the Looking-Glass: The Impact of Regional Institutional Logics and Knowledge Base Characteristics on Opportunity Recognition and Market Entry.鈥 Journal of Management Studies, 56(7); 1414-1451.

York, Jeffrey G. 鈥淏ook Review: The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet.鈥 2019. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2); NP13-NP15.

*Wry, Tyler and Jeffrey G. York. 2019. 鈥淏lended Colors or Black and White? Avoiding Dichotomous Thinking in Entrepreneurship and Identity.鈥 Academy of Management Review, 44(1): 215-219.

York, Jeffrey G., Siddharth Vedula, and Michael J. Lenox. 2018. 鈥淚t鈥檚 Not Easy Building Green: The Impact of Public Policy, Private Actors, and Regional Logics on Voluntary Standards Adoption.鈥 Academy of Management Journal, 61(4):1-32.

Conger, Michael, Jeffery S. McMullen, Brian Bergman, and Jeffrey G. York. 2018. 鈥淐ategory Membership, Identity Control, and the Reevaluation of Prosocial Opportunities.鈥 Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2): 179-206

*Wry, Tyler and Jeffrey G. York. 2017. 鈥淎n Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise.鈥 Academy of Management Review, 42(3): 437-460.

York, Jeffrey G., Timothy J. Hargrave and Desiree F. Pacheco. 2016. 鈥淐onverging Winds: Logic Hybridization in the Colorado Wind Energy Field.鈥 Academy of Management Journal, 59(2): 579-610.

York, Jeffrey G., Isobel O鈥橬eil and Saras Sarasvathy. 2016. 鈥淓xploring Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives.鈥 Journal of Management Studies, 53(5): 695-737.

Pacheco, Desiree F., Jeffrey G. York, and Timothy J. Hargrave. 2014. 鈥淭he Co-evolution of Industries, Social Movements and Institutions: Wind Power in the United States.鈥 Organization Science, 25(6): 1609-1632.

York, Jeffrey G. and Michael J. Lenox. 2014. 鈥淪ocio-Cultural Determinants of De Novo Versus De Alio Entry in Emerging Industries.鈥 Strategic Management Journal, 35(13): 1930-1951.

Sarasvathy, Saras D., Suresh Bhagavatula, Jeffrey G. York, and K. Kumar. 2014. 鈥淎n Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges and Proactive Possibilities.鈥 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(1): 71-93.

York, Jeffrey G., Saras D. Sarasvathy, and Andrew C. Wicks. 2013. 鈥淎n Entrepreneurial Perspective on Value Creation in Public-Private Ventures.鈥 Academy of Management Review, 38(2): 307-309.

York, Jeffrey G. and S. Venkataraman. 2010. 鈥淭he Entrepreneurship-Environment Nexus: Uncertainty, Innovation and Allocation.鈥 听Journal of Business Venturing, 25(5): 449-463.听

*Meek, William R., Desiree F. Pacheco, and Jeffrey G. York. 2010. 鈥淭he Impact of Social Norms on Entrepreneurial Action: Evidence from the Environmental Entrepreneur Context.鈥 Journal of Business Venturing, 25(5): 493-509. *Equal authorship.听

Pacheco, Desiree F., Jeffrey G. York, Thomas J. Dean, and Saras D. Sarasvathy. 2010. 鈥淭he Co-Evolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories.鈥 Journal of Management, 36(4): 974-1010. 听

York, Jeffrey G. 2009. 鈥淧ragmatic Sustainability: Translating Environmental Ethics into Competitive Advantage.鈥 Journal of Business Ethics, 85(1): 97-109.听

de Colle, Simone and Jeffrey G. York. 2009. 鈥淲hy Wine is not Glue: The Unresolved Problem of Socially Responsible Investing.鈥 Journal of Business Ethics, 85(1): 83-95.

Articles by Jeffrey G. York