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Dr Jeffrey Lee FUNK
Associate Professor
Email: etmfjl@nus.edu.sg
Phone: (65)
6516 7446
Fax: (65) 6776 0755
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Education |
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1980 - 1985
Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA
Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, December 1984
Thesis: "The Potential Societal Benefits from Developing Flexible Assembly Technologies."
M.S., Mechanical Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy.
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1974 - 1978
California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo , CA
B.S., Physics , June 1978.
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Main Employment |
- 2007 - Current
National University of Singapore
Division of Engineering Technology Management
Associate Professor
- 2003 – 2007
Hitotsubashi University
Innovation Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
Professor
- 1996 - 2003
Kobe University
Research Institute of Economics and Business & Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor
- 1995
University of Michigan
Industrial & Operations Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI.
Visiting Assistant Research Scientist
- 1991 - 1995
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
Joint appointment in the Departments of Management & Organization and Management Science and Information Systems
Assistant Professor of Business
- 1985 - 1991
Westinghouse Electric (Productivity & Quality Center, Research and Development Center) in Pittsburgh, PA
Internal Consultant, Senior Engineer
- 1978 - 1980
Hughes Aircraft Co., Newport Beach, CA.
Member of Technical Staff
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Grants and Awards |
- NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award
(2004)
- IEEE Engineering Management Society Award for best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management in 1997 (1999)
- Senior Research Fulbright Fellowship to spend the summers of 1993 and 1994 at Tokyo University
- Award for Distinguished Communication, Honorable Mention for best paper published in Technical Communication in 1989 Society for Technical Communication (1990)
- Principal Investigator, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Programmable Automation and Design for Manufacturing Economic Models."
(1986-1989)
- Mitsubishi Exchange Program
(1988)
- American Electronics Association Japanese Educational Fellowship
(1985)
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation Educational Fellowship
(1982) Hughes Aircraft Company Educational Fellowship (1978 - 1980)
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Recent Publications |
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"Components, Systems, and Technological
Discontinuities: Lessons from the IT Sector," Long range Planning,
Vol. 41, No. 5, October 2008. |
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"Systems, Components, and Modular
Design: The case of the U.S. semiconductor industry,"
International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 42, No. 24, pp. 387-413, October 2008. |
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"Systems, Components, and Technological
Discontinuities: The case of the semiconductor industry," Industry and Innovation, Vol. 15, Issue 5
(October, 2008) |
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"Direct Network Effects, Small World Networks, and Industry Formation," Telecommunications Policy, forthcoming. |
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"The Emerging Value Network in the Mobile Phone Industry: the case of Japan and its Implications for the Rest of the World," Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1, February-March 2009. |
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“The Co-Evolution of Technological Change and Methods of Standard Setting: the case of the mobile phone industry,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 73-93, February 2009. |
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“Vertical Disintegration and
Entrepreneurship: The Case of Broadcasting,” best paper proceedings, Academy of Management, Philadelphia , PA , August
2007. |
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“Technological Change within Hierarchies: The Case of the Music Industry,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology , Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-16, January 2007. |
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“Mobile Shopping: Visions from Japan ,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change , Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 341-356, March 2007. |
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“Solving the Startup Problem in Western Mobile Internet Markets,” Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 14-30, February 2007. |
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“The Future of Mobile Phone-Based Intranet Applications: A View from Japan ,” Technovation , Vol. 26, Issue 12, December 2006, pp. 1337-1346. |
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“The future of the mobile phone Internet: An analysis of technological trajectories and “lead users” in the Japanese market,” Technology and Society , Vol. 27, No. 1, pp 69-83, 2005. |
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Key Technological Trajectories and the Expansion of Mobile Internet Applications, Info - The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications , Vol. 6, No. 3, 2004. |
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“The Product Life Cycle Theory and Product Line Management: the case of mobile phones,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , Vol. 51. No. 2, pp. 1 – 11, 2004. |
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“Standards, Dominant Designs and Preferential Acquisition of Complementary Assets through Slight Information Advantages,” Research Policy , Vol. 32, pp. 1325-1341, 2003. |
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“Market and Committee Based Mechanisms in the Creation and Diffusion of Global Industry Standards: the case of mobile communications,” (with David Methe), Research Policy , Vol. 30, No. 4, 2001. |
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“Competition between Regional Standards and the Success and Failure of Firms in the World-Wide Mobile Communication Market,” Telecommunications Policy , Vol. 2, No. 4, 1998. |
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"Engineering Identity in a Japanese Factory," Organization Science , with Martin Kilduff and Ajay Mehra, Vol. 8, No. 6, November-December, 1997. |
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"Concurrent Engineering and the Underlying Structure of the Design Problem," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , Vol. 44, No. 3, August 1997. |
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"Just-in Time Manufacturing and Logistical Complexity: A Contingency Model," International Journal of Operations and Production Management , Vol. 15, No. 5, 1995, pp. 60-71, 1995. |
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Books |
Mobile Disruption: Key Technologies and Applications Driving the Mobile Internet, NY: John Wiley, 2004. Global Competition Between and Within Standards: The case of mobile phones, London: Palgrave, 2002
(Chapters)
“Mobile Phone Industry: A Microcosm of Deregulation, Globalization, and Technological Change in the Japanese Economy,” in Japanese Telecommunications Market and Policy in Transition, R. Taplin. (ed), London: Routledge, 2006.
“The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan’s i-Mode System,” in Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries, BRIE-IGCC E-Economy Project, Washington D.C.: Brookings, pp. 369 – 388, 2001.
(Reviews)
Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan by Darius Mehri, Cornell University Press, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 31, No.3, July 2006.
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Courses Taught |
- Entrepreneurship and New Industry
Creation (Hitotsubashi University)
- Innovation/Technology Management (Penn
State , University of Michigan , Kobe University ,
Hitotsubashi University)
- Network/Information Industries (Hitotsubashi
University)
- Internet Strategy (Kobe University,
Hitotsubashi University)
- Comparative US and Japanese management
(Kobe University)
- Organizational Design (Penn State)
- Quality Control (Penn State)
- Manufacturing Strategy (Penn State)
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Consulting Work
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Nokia,
Bouygues Telecom, Hutchison Telecom, NTT DoCoMo,
Vodafone, Gerson Lehrman Group, Panasonic |
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