Brian T Pentland
Professor
Accounting and Information Systems
Phone: (517) 432-2927
Email: pentland@bus.msu.edu
Personal Website: http://www.msu.edu/~pentlan2
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vita
Course
- ITM 913: Doctoral Seminar in Design
Spring semester Every other year
- WMBA 813: Information Technology Management
Fall 2007
- ACC 824: IT Governance and Control
Spring Every year
Research interests/Areas of expertise
- Organizational routines; research methods for sequence and process analysis; and field studies of technical work
Bio(s)
- Brian T. Pentland received his PhD in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and SB in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. His publications have appeared in Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Technology Studies and elsewhere.
Articles
- Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S.. (2005). Organizational routines as a unit of analysis. Industrial and Corporate Change
- Pentland, B T. (2003). Sequential variety in work processes. Organization Science
- Pentland, B T. (2003). Conceptualizing and Measuring Variety in Organizational Work Processes. Management Science
- Feldman, M. S. and Pentland, B. T.. (2003). Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change. administrative science quarterly
- Chung, M.J., P. Kwon and B. Pentland. (2002). Making Process Visible: A Grammatical Approach To Managing Design Processes. Journal of Mechanical Design
- Kwon, P. M. J. Chung, and B. Pentland,. (2002). A Grammar-Based Framework for Integrating Design and Manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
- Pentland, B T. (1999). Building process theory with narrative: From description to explanation. Academy of Management Review