Teppo Felin

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Felin obtained a Ph.D. from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

After his graduation in 2005, he was appointed as an associate professor at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. In 2013, he was appointed Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was a visiting professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 2004-05, and at the Helsinki University of Technology in 2007. He is co-editor of the journal Strategic Organization and associate editor of Academy of Management Annals.[http://aom.org/Publications/Annals/Incoming-Editorial-Team.aspx Incoming Editorial Team] Academy of Management Annals. His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Science, PLOS ONE, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Erkenntnis, and other research outlets. In 2012, he edited a special issue on markets, aggregation and the wisdom of crowds (in the journal Managerial and Decision Economics) which included contributions from political scientist Scott E. Page, economist Bruno Frey, economist Nicolai J. Foss, economist Peter Leeson, social psychologist Steve Kozlowski, organizational scholar Margit Osterloh, physicist Claudio Castellano, biologist David Sumpter, sociologist Robb Willer, and many others.Felin, Teppo. "[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mde.v33.5-6/issuetoc Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds: An introduction and comparative agenda.]" Managerial and Decision Economics 33 (2012): 283-451.

In the early 2000s, Felin, Nicolai J. Foss, and Peter Abell were engaged in research on the foundations of organizations and strategy, which resulted in the 2005 article "Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations." He is doing research with biologist Stuart Kauffman on the emergence of novelty in economic settings.Felin, Teppo, Stuart Kauffman, Roger Koppl and Giuseppe Longo. "Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 8 (2014): 269-282. This work has recently been applied to the context of the United States Constitution and the problem of designing laws.Devins, Caryn, Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman and Teppo Felin. "[http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/against-design/ Against design.]" Arizona State Law Journal 47 (2015): 609-681. This article received responses from Constitutional scholars Steven G. CalabresiSteven Calabresi. "[http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/friedrich-a-hayek-the-u-s-constitution-and-institutional-design/ Friedrich A. Hayek, the U.S. Constitution, and Institutional Design.]" Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 231-240. and Sanford LevinsonSanford Levinson. "[http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/on-the-inevitability-of-constitutional-design/ On the Inevitability of Constitutional Design.]" Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 249-256. and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith.Vernon L. Smith. "[http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/design-is-the-source-of-variation-selection-is-the-filter/ Design is the Source of Variation; Selection is the Filter.]" Arizona State Law Journal 48 (2016): 257-260. In 2015, Teppo Felin interviewed entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel at the University of Oxford.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jMbJmkGrY|title=Teppo Felin in conversation with Peter Thiel|date=1 May 2015|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2016|via=YouTube}}

Felin is also doing research with mathematician Jan Koenderink and psychologist Joachim Krueger (Brown University) on the nature of cognition, rationality and perception.{{Cite journal | doi=10.3758/s13423-016-1198-z| pmid=27928763| pmc=5570804|title = Rationality, perception, and the all-seeing eye| journal=Psychonomic Bulletin & Review| volume=24| issue=4| pages=1040–1059|year = 2017|last1 = Felin|first1 = Teppo| last2=Koenderink| first2=Jan| last3=Krueger| first3=Joachim I.}} A general audience version of this research was published in Aeon Magazine, under the title "The Fallacy of Obviousness".{{Cite news|url=https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-really-blind-to-the-gorilla-on-the-basketball-court|title=The Fallacy of Obviousness – Teppo Felin {{!}} Aeon Essays|last=|first=|date=|work=Aeon|access-date=2018-08-02|language=en}} Related to this essay, Felin was interviewed by economist Russ Roberts for the podcast EconTalk.{{Cite web|url=http://www.econtalk.org/teppo-felin-on-blindness-rationality-and-perception/|title=Blindness, Rationality, and Perception – Econlib|website=www.econtalk.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-02}} He has also collaborated with theoretical physicist George Ellis and biologist Denis Noble on a set of articles published in the journal Genome Biology.{{Cite journal|last1=Felin|first1=Teppo|last2=Koenderink|first2=Jan|last3=Krueger|first3=Joachim I.|last4=Noble|first4=Denis|last5=Ellis|first5=George F.R.|date=2021-02-10|title=The data-hypothesis relationship|journal=Genome Biology|volume=22|issue=1|pages=57|doi=10.1186/s13059-021-02276-4|issn=1474-760X|pmc=7874637|pmid=33568195 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal|last1=Felin|first1=Teppo|last2=Koenderink|first2=Jan|last3=Krueger|first3=Joachim I.|last4=Noble|first4=Denis|last5=Ellis|first5=George F. R.|date=2021-02-10|title=Data bias|journal=Genome Biology|volume=22|issue=1|pages=59|doi=10.1186/s13059-021-02278-2|issn=1474-760X|pmc=7874446|pmid=33568166 |doi-access=free }}

Articles, a selection:[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mrkH09UAAAAJ Teppo Felin] Google Scholar profile.

• Felin, Teppo, and Nicolai J. Foss. "[http://sites.google.com/site/teppofelin2/FelinFossSO05.pdf Strategic organization: A field in search of micro-foundations]." Strategic organization 3.4 (2005): 441.
• Felin, Teppo, and William S. Hesterly. "[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.134.6863&rep=rep1&type=pdf The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: Philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge]." Academy of Management Review 32.1 (2007): 195-218.
• King, Brayden G., Teppo Felin, and David A. Whetten. "[http://sites.google.com/site/teppofelin2/KingFelinWhetten09.pdf Finding the organization in organizational theory: A meta-theory of the organization as a social actor]." Organization Science 21.1 (2010): 290-305.
• Felin, Teppo, and Todd R Zenger. "[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733313001790 Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice]." Research Policy 43.5 (2014): 914-925.

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• [https://sites.google.com/view/teppofelin/home Teppo Felin] Personal website at sites.google.com
• [https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/teppo-felin Teppo Felin], University of Oxford website

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