Desmond Ng
Degree (s):
Ph.D., 2001,
MSc, 1996,
BSc,1994,
Position:
Assistant Professor in Agribusiness and Strategic Management
Department:
Agricultural Economics
Primary Research
Area:
My current research focus is concerned with strategic change
and performance processes at micro, dyadic or social network and institutional
levels of investigation. This emphasizes firm and inter-firm level sources of
competitive advantage that employ a social network perspective in dynamic
environments. This includes the development and synthesis of approaches to
explain: 1) organizational change using an absorptive capacity and dynamic
capabilities perspective with explicit consideration for dynamic social
networks, 2) Schumpeterian entrepreneurship and innovation in supply chain
networks, 3) institutional change from a complexity science perspective where
the institution is a system of nested network relationships, and 4) entrepreneurship and the management of
knowledge relationships in a knowledge intensive economy.
Research Interest:
Strategic management and organization theory, complexity,
agent-based modeling, system dynamics modeling, institutional and evolutionary
theories, Austrian economics, value chain strategies, social network dynamics.
Primary Room / Phone
Number:
349B
(979) 845-1192
Fax Number:
(979) 862-1563
Primary E-mail:
dng@ag.tamu.edu
Selected
Publications:
Ng, D., Sonka,
S., and Westgren, R. 2003. Co-evolutionary
Processes in Supply Chain Networks, Journal of Chain and Network Science, 3(1):45-58.
Ng, D. 2003.The Social Structure of Organizational Change and Performance, Emergence: a Journal of Complex Issues in Organization and Management, 5, (1): 79-101.
Ng, D. 2004. The Social Dynamics of Diverse and Closed Networks, Human Systems Management, 23: 111-122.