Department of Management: Juan Florin

Juan Florin
Assistant Professor of Management

E-mail: jflorin@bryant.edu

education:

Ph.D. in Strategy, University of Connecticut, 2001
M.B.A. in Marketing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987
B.A. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986

academic interests:

Strategy: interfirm cooperation and interfirm learning; entrepreneurship: start-up and
high-growth strategies, fundability of high potential new ventures, founder performance; international
business; cross-cultural issues in management

teaching:

Strategy (undergraduate and MBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

professional activities:

Fifteen years of experience in management positions of small and mid-size international firms;
founder and president of small business.

Selected publications:

Florin, J.M. (2001) Born To Go Public: Human Capital, Social Capital, and Fundability of
High-Potential Technology New Ventures. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.

Lubatkin, M., Florin, J.M., and Lane, P. (2001) Learning together and apart: A model of
reciprocal interfirm learning. Human Relations.

Florin, J.M. and Schulze, W. (2001) Born to go public? Founder performance in new, high growth,
technology ventures. In Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Babson College.

Florin, J.M. (1997) Organizing for efficiency and innovation: The case for non-equity interfirm
cooperative arrangements. In Cooperative Strategies: North American Perspectives (P.W.
Beamish and J.P. Killing, eds.). The New Lexington Press, San Francisco.

Jain, S.C. and Florin, J.M. (1996) The new international alliance: Gaining competitive advantage
based on value-added cooperation. In Global Management (R. Berndt, ed.). Springer-Verlag,
Berlin.

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