College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 445
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-4929
Email: curba.lampert@fiu.edu
Curba M. Lampert
Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair
Professor, Department of International Business
College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, MANGO 445
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-4929
Email: curba.lampert@fiu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Management
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Master of Public Policy
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
University of California, Irvine, California
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Technology and Innovation
Professional Activities
Curba Morris Lampert is the Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Florida International University. Professor Lampert holds a Ph.D. in Management from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, an M.P.P. from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.
Professor Lampert studies technology strategy and innovation, focusing on issues of knowledge management, value creation and appropriation, and entrepreneurship in the large corporation. Her current research examines barriers to imitation, corporate venture capital, and internal knowledge generation for complex problems. She has published articles in leading scholarly journals that include the Academy of Management Annals, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Research Policy, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Strategic Management Journal. Her publications have garnered over 5,000 citations.
Professor Lampert teaches courses and seminars in strategy, entrepreneurship, international business, and healthcare management to executive, DBA, MBA, and undergraduate students. On 12 occasions, she received the MBA Teaching Award, an honor presented to one faculty member of the MBA program and voted on by the graduating cohort.
Professor Lampert leads in institution-building. In her professional organizations, she is the Engagement Officer and the Representative-at-Large for the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. She has served as Track Chair at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting and on the All-Academy Theme (AAT) Committee of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. In addition, Professor Lampert has organized numerous plenary Showcase Panel sessions, Professional Development Workshop sessions, and symposia at the Strategic Management Society (SMS), the Academy of International Business (AIB), and the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meetings.
Professor Lampert regularly contributes her academic expertise to the practitioner audience, worldwide, and across a variety of industries. Her most recent engagement focuses on value-based healthcare with the Cleveland Clinic.
Courses Taught
- Analysis Of Corp Pol
- Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship: New Business Development
- Fundamentals of International Business
- Global Start-ups
- Global Strategy and Business Models
- Master's Project in International Business
- Master's Project in Management
- Strategic Management
- Strategy Development and Implementation
Publications
Roy R., Lampert C. M., Polidoro F., & Kim M.
(2025).
Creating a Breakthrough Invention: NASA’s Internal Knowledge Generation for the Space Shuttle.
Research Policy
, 54(10)
.
Thomason B., Chawla N., Gabriel A., Greenberg D., Lampert C. M., Moergen K., Sumpter D., & Umphress E.
(2022).
How Organizations Can Take a Lead in Protecting Reproductive Rights.
MIT Sloan Management Review
, 64(1)
.
Polidoro, F., Lampert, C. M., & Kim, M.
(2022).
External Knowledge Sourcing, Knowledge Spillovers and Internal Collaboration: The Effects of Intrafirm Linkages on Firm-University Co-Authorship Linkages.
Strategic Management Journal
, 43(13)
.
Lampert, C. M., Kim, M., & Polidoro, F.
(2020).
Branching and Anchoring: Complementary Asset Configurations in Conditions of Knightian Uncertainty.
Academy of Management Review
, 45(4)
.
Kim, M., Lampert, C. M., & Roy, R.
(2020).
Regionalization of R&D Activities: (Dis)economies of Interdependence and Inventive Performance.
Journal of International Business Studies
, 51(7)
.
- Roy, R., Lampert, C. M., & Sarkar, M. B. (2019). The Pre-Commercialization Emergence of the Combination of Product Features in the Charge-Coupled Device Image Sensor. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13(4).
- Lampert, C. M., Kim, M., Hubbard, T., Roy, R., & Leckie, G. (2019). Fearlessly Swimming Upstream to Risky Waters: The Role of Geographic Entry in Innovation. Journal of Management Studies, 56(7).
- Lampert, C. M., & Kim, M. (2019). Going Far to Go Further: Offshoring, Exploration, and R&D Performance. Journal of Business Research, 103.
- Roy, R., Lampert, C. M., & Stoyneva, I. (2018). When Dinosaurs Fly: The Role of Firm Capabilities in the 'Avianization' of Incumbents during Disruptive Technological Change. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(2).
- Ahuja, G., Lampert, C. M., & Tandon, V. (2014). Paradigm-Changing vs. Paradigm-Deepening Innovation: How Firm Scope Influences Firm Technological Response to Shocks. Organization Science, 25(3).
- Ahuja, G., Lampert, C. M., & Novelli, E. (2013). The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and its Determinants. Academy of Management Review, 38(2).
- Ahuja, G., Lampert, C. M., & Tandon, V. (2008). Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation. Academy of Management Annals, 2.
- Ahuja, G., & Lampert, C. M. (2001). Entrepreneurship in the Large Corporation: A Longitudinal Study of How Established Firms Create Breakthrough Inventions. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6-7).