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Personal profile
Biography
Ralf is the Associate Dean Research (Training & Performance) and Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. He is the co-founder of the Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Research Centre at Macquarie Business School and the former Global Representative for the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. He previously served as the Program Director Master in Marketing Strategy, the Director Research and Director Research Training at Macquarie Business School. He previously served as the Campus Director at the Newcastle Business School.
Ralf looks at how organizations use organizational renewal and innovation to stay ahead of competition. He leads projects on service-oriented business models and organizational change to help organizations sense, shape and seize market opportunities and improve their strategic performance. Ralf worked for multinational organizations in the automotive (BMW Group), telecommunications (o2 Telefónica) and consulting industries and provided consulting services to organizations such as Oxfam, ABC Commercial and Ernst & Young.
Ralf's work has been recognized by several international and national associations, invitations to speak at industry conferences, and he authored journal publications in FT50 outlets including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Business Venturing, as well as in A*/A journals such as Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Long Range Planning. He also served as the global representative for the Academy of Management's Strategic Management Division and is on the Technology and Innovation Management division's panel for the Best Paper Award. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research.
Research interests
His research interests focus predominantly on the question of how organisations can improve performance. In order to derive and solve interesting and relevant research questions, he uses core strategy theories, and the resource-based and dynamic capability views of firm strategy in particular, as well as (open) innovation and service strategy literature. He has used these lenses to investigate managerially relevant problems, such as service-dominant business models, and the impact of market sensing and reconfiguring activities on operational capabilities.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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DAAD23: Bridging the academic-practitioner gap: A comparative study in Australia and Germany
Piehler, R., Wilden, R., Padigar, M., Klein, K., Schade, M., Schewe, M., Frese, F. & Steding, S.
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Resilience and Mental Health in Mining Pilot Long Application
Mitchell, R., Bankins, S., Carter, L., Garcia, P., Gu, J., Jepsen, D., Lin, N., Thornthwaite, L., Tolentino, L., Trau, R., Webster, C., Wilden, R., Boyle, B. & McNeil, K.
1/03/23 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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Resilience and Mental Health in Mining C29020
Mitchell, R., Bankins, S., Branicki, L., Carter, L., Garcia, P., Jepsen, D., Kalfa, S., Lin, N., Maley, J., Snell, L., Thornthwaite, L., Tolentino, L., Trau, R., Webster, C., Wilden, R., Gu, J. & Boyle, B.
1/04/20 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Resilience and Mental Health in Mining
Mitchell, R., Garcia, P., Webster, C., Wilden, R., Thornthwaite, L., Snell, L., Maley, J., Lin, N., Bankins, S., Tolentino, L., Carter, L., Jepsen, D., Branicki, L., Breyer, Y., Meney, B., Boyle, B., Trau, R. & Gu, J.
27/03/20 → 1/02/22
Project: Consultancy
Research Outputs
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The architecture of dynamic capability research identifying the building blocks of a configurational approach
Wilden, R., Devinney, T. M. & Dowling, G. R., 2016, In: Academy of Management Annals. 10, 1, p. 997-1076 80 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
242 Citations (Scopus) -
Open service innovation: The role of intermediary capabilities
Randhawa, K., Wilden, R. & Gudergan, S., Sept 2018, In: Journal of Product Innovation Management. 35, 5, p. 808-838 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
58 Citations (Scopus) -
Dynamic capabilities and performance: strategy, structure and environment
Wilden, R., Gudergan, S. P., Nielsen, B. B. & Lings, I., Feb 2013, In: Long Range Planning. 46, 1-2, p. 72-96 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
560 Citations (Scopus) -
The impact of dynamic capabilities on operational marketing and technological capabilities: investigating the role of environmental turbulence
Wilden, R. & Gudergan, S. P., Mar 2015, In: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 43, 2, p. 181-199 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Revisiting James March (1991): Whither exploration and exploitation?
Wilden, R., Hohberger, J., Devinney, T. M. & Lavie, D., 2018, In: Strategic Organization. 16, 3, p. 352-369 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
119 Citations (Scopus)
Press/Media
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How Aussie business can improve its bottom line
10/12/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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In praise of middle managers: your critical connectors
27/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Job cuts in middle management risk losing key innovators
6/12/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Impacts
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Resilience and Mental Health in Mining
Rebecca Mitchell (Participant), Jun Gu (Participant), Patrick Garcia (Participant), Cynthia Webster (Participant), Leanne Carter (Participant), Laramie Tolentino (Participant), Ralf Wilden (Participant), Nidthida Lin (Participant), Denise Jepsen (Participant), Louise Thornthwaite (Participant), Karen McNeil (Participant), Candy Ying Lu (Participant), Raymond Trau (Participant), Sharif Burra (End user), Rae O'Brien (End user) & Sarah Bankins (Participant)
Impact: Organisation impacts, Health impacts