Faculty and Instructors

Chad Navis

Assistant Professor - Management & Human Resources

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Chad Navis is an assistant professor in Management and Human Resources at the Wisconsin School of Business. As a principal in the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepeneurship (INSITE), he directs the Entrepreneurship Residential Learning Community (ERLC) and is faculty liaison for both the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition and the Qualcomm Wireless Challenge. He additionally oversees the PhD Minors in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation.

His research draws on organizational identity and institutional theories to examine the role of founders’ prior experience, market category characteristics, and audience expectations in understanding how, and to what effect, entrepreneurs pursue and give meaning to their new ventures. These interests integrate multiple levels of analysis to inform the role of micro-level socio-cognitive processes and macro-level cultural influences in entrepreneurship.

In a separate but related stream of research, Navis draws on his interest in organizational and firm-collective identity theories to examine the variable impact of activist campaigns against corporate practices on target firms and industries, relating such variance to differences in the likelihood and extensiveness of changed corporate practices.

Navis has been a presenter at several conferences of the Academy of Management, and others. His industry experience includes presently advising two start-up ventures, and previous roles as a planning and control analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and as a senior business analyst with American Management Systems, now CGI Group.

He joined the Wisconsin School of Business in 2009, after completing his Ph.D. from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.

He earned an MBA from the University of Georgia and a B.S. in Industrial Management from Clemson University.

Selected Published Journal Articles

Navis, C., & Glynn, M. (2011). Legitimate Distinctiveness and the Entrepreneurial Identity: Influence on Investor Judgments of New Venture Plausibility. Academy of Management Review (36)

Navis, C., & Glynn, M. (2010). How New Market Categories Emerge: Temporal Dynamics of Legitimacy, Identity, and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990–2005. Administrative Science Quarterly (55), 439-471.

Selected Submitted Journal Articles

Waldron, T., Markman, G., & Navis, C. (2012). Activists' Strategies for Confronting Firms. Organization Science

Submitted Working Papers

Navis, C., Ozbek, O., & . The Right People in the Wrong Places: The Selection Paradox of New Venture Emergence and Survival.

Navis, C., Waldron, T., Fisher, G., & Leitzinger, J. When Activists Attack: Activism, Identity, and Changes to Corporate Practices.

Navis, C. Old Mindsets and New Opportunities: The Legitimacy Paradox of New Venture Founding Teams.

Navis, C., Fisher, G., Raffaelli, R., & Glynn, M. Failure to Deliver: Institutional Dynamics and the Non-Emergence of the Online Grocery Market.

Glynn, M., Navis, C., Marquis, C., & Li, M. Making a Name: Organizational Foundings, Symbolic Legitimacy, and Institutional Conditions.

Professional Organizations

Academy of Management

Presentations

2011 Southern Management Association Meeting
Firm Identity and the Effectiveness of Activist Campaigns

2011 West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship
The Market That Wasn't: The Non-Emergence of the Online Grocery Category

2011 Academy of Management Meeting
Firm Identity and the Effectiveness of Activist Campaigns

2011 Academy of Management Meeting
IDEA Award Presentation for Best Published Entrepreneurship Papers in 2010, Recounting "How New Market Categories Emerge: Temporal Dynamics of Legitimacy, Identity, and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005"

2011 Spring INSITE Seminar
How New Market Categories Emerge: Temporal Dynamics of Legitimacy, Identity, and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005

2010 ERLC Research Seminar
How New Market Categories Emerge: Temporal Dynamics of Legitimacy, Identity, and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005

2009 Academy of Management Meeting
Old Mindsets and New Opportunities: How Founders' Prior Experience Affects New Venture Survival

2009 Academy of Management Meeting
Rethinking Research Possibilities at the Nexus of Identity, Institutions, and Entrepreneurship

2008 Academy of Management Meeting
Old Mindsets and New Opportunities: How Senior Executive Experience Affects New Venture Survival

2007 Harvard Business School, Centennial Conference on Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
Entrepreneurship in an emerging field: Legitimacy, Identity, and Status Dynamics in Satellite Radio, 1991-2005

2007 Academy of Management Meeting
Crossing the Legitimacy Threshold: Entrepreneurial Identity Claims in Satellite Radio, 1997-2005

2007 Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Construction of New Firms and New Industry Sectors: Identity, Legitimacy, and Competition in Satellite Radio

2006 Academy of Management Meeting
Broadcasting Legitimacy and Strategic Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Impression Management in the Satellite Radio Industry

2006 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC)
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Legitimacy and Strategic Identity in New Industries: A Study of the Evolution of Satellite Radio

2005 West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship
How Technological and Cultural Entrepreneurship Co-Evolve: Tuning in to the ‘Next Big Thing’ in Satellite Radio

2005 Academy of Management Meeting
Innovation Amplified: The Staged Dynamics of Inter-firm Collaboration in Satellite Radio

Editorial Boards

Journal of Management Studies - Since October 2011
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Organization Science - Since August 2011
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Organization Studies - Since June 2011
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Journal of Business Venturing - Since January 2011
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