Fulton Hall 424B
Telephone: 617-552-4277
Email: metin.sengul@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0001-8138-0014
Competitive strategy; corporate strategy; and organization design.
Professor Metin Sengul is an Associate Professor of Management and Organization at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His research explores the drivers of organization design choices in complex organizations. Much of his work focuses on strategic decisions by managers of multiunit-multimarket firms, such as diversified firms, business groups, and multinationals, and dual-purpose companies.
Professor Sengul is an active member of Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. Before entering academia, he worked as a consultant, serving primarily the healthcare industry. He also co-founded an advertisement agency, wherein he served as a managing-partner. At the Carroll School he currently teaches the M.B.A. core course Strategic Management and M.B.A. elective Competitive Strategy.
“Beyond shareholder value maximization: Accounting for financial/social tradeoffs in dual-purpose companies.” (With Battilana, J., Obloj, T., Pache, A.-C.) Academy of Management Review, 47 (2), 237-258. April, 2022.
“The impact of executive verbal communication on the convergence of investors’ opinions.” (With Guo, W., & Yu, T.) Academy of Management Journal, 64 (6), 1763-1792. December, 2021.
“What do multiple objectives really mean for performance? Empirical evidence from the French manufacturing sector.” (With Obloj, T.) Strategic Management Journal, 41 (13), 2518-2547. June, 2020.
“Rivals’ negative earnings surprises, language signals, and firms’ competitive actions.” (With Guo, W., & Yu, T. ) Academy of Management Journal, 63 (3), 637-659. June, 2020.
“The dual-purpose playbook: What it takes to do well and do good at the same time.” (With Battilana, J., Pache, A.-C., & Kimsey, M.) Harvard Business Review, 97 (2), 124-133. March-April, 2019.
“The allocation of capital within firms.” (With Almeida Costa A., & Gimeno, J.) Academy of Management Annals, 13 (1), 43-83. January, 2019.
“Organization design and competitive strategy: An application to the case of divisionalization.” Advances in Strategic Management, 40, 207-228. December, 2018.
“Better safe than sorry: Subsidiary performance feedback and internal governance in multiunit firms.” (With Obloj, T.) Journal of Management, 43 (8), 2526-2554. November, 2017.
“Harnessing productive tensions in hybrid organizations: The case of work integration social enterprises.” (With Battilana, J., Pache, A.-C., & Model, J.) Academy of Management Journal, 58 (6), 1658-1685. November, 2014.
“Constrained delegation: Limiting subsidiaries' decision rights and resources in firms that compete across multiple industries.” (With Gimeno, J.) Administrative Science Quarterly, 58 (3), 420-471. September, 2013.
“Incentive life-cycles: Learning and the division of value in firms.” (With Obloj, T.) Administrative Science Quarterly, 57 (2), 305-347. June, 2012.
“Strategic delegation: A review, theoretical integration, and research agenda.” (With Gimeno, J., & Dial, J.) Journal of Management, 38 (1), 375-414. January, 2012.
“The influence of macro structure in the international realm: IGO interconnectedness, export dependence, and immigration links in the foreign market performance of transnational firms.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54 (2), 229-267. June, 2009.
“Information technology and transnational integration: Theory & evidence on the evolution of modern multinational enterprise.” (With Sengul, M.) Journal of International Business Studies, 40 (9), 1496-1514. December, 2009.
“Misery loves company: The spread of negative impacts resulting from an organizational crisis.” (With Yu, T., Lester, R.H.) Academy of Management Review, 33 (2), 452-472. April, 2008.
Selected Teaching Cases
“Garmin 2019.” (With J. Gimeno & J. Wee.) INSEAD case #06/2019-6356. 2019.
“Analysing the Macro Environment.” (with J. Gimeno & D. Simonovich.) INSEAD note #04/2018-6398. 2018.
“Garmin at the Crossroads.” (With J. Gimeno & P. DeBruin.) INSEAD case #06/2019-6356. 2019.
“Strategic Analysis of the Business Environment.” (With J. Gimeno & D. Simonovich.) INSEAD note #11/2017-6352-Ed. 2017.
“Metal Can and Container Industry in 2014.” (With M. Lee.) INSEAD case #01/2015-6111. 2015.
“IMAX (A): The Introduction of Digital Media Re-Mastering Technology.” (With A.T. Venino & J. Gimeno.) INSEAD case #02/2014-5836. 2012.