Ph.D, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, 2005

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University, 2005–Present

Concurrent and Previous Appointments:

Senior Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-Present

Research Fellow, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 2006

Lecturer, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1998–2004

Visiting Scholar, Copenhagen Business School, 2003–2004

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Turin, Italy, 2003

Editorial Activities

Reviewer, Administration Science Quarterly

Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal

Reviewer, Organization Science

Reviewer, American Sociological Review

Reviewer, The European Physical Journal B

Publications

Levine, S.S., & Prietula, M.J. (2006). Towards a Contingency Theory of Knowledge Exchange in Organizations. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings: Atlanta.

Levine, S.S., & Kurzban, R. (2006). Explaining Clustering in Social Networks: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Cascading Benefits. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27(2-3), 173-187.

Levine, S.S., & Prietula, M. J. (2005). Beyond Markets and Communities: A Comparative Approach to Knowledge Exchange in Organizations. In Agent 2005 Conference Proceedings: Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago.

Levine, S. S. (2001). Kindness in Cyberspace? The Sharing of Valuable Goods Online. In EICAR Best Paper Proceedings: Munich, Germany.

Honours & Awards

Citation of Excellence Award (with R. Kurzban) for one of the 50 most important articles published in business in 2006

Bentley College/HEC Outstanding Student Paper Award, Academy of Management 2006

William H. Newman Award Nominee, Academy of Management 2006

Organization Science VIP Award, Winter Conference, 2004

CIBER Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2003, 2004

Zeidman-Shills Fellowship Award, The Wharton School, 2002–03, 2003–04

The Mack Center for Technological Innovation, Dissertation Research Grant, 2002

Wharton Doctoral Fellowship, 1997–8, 1998–9, 1999–2000, 2000–1, 2001–2

The Mack Center for Technological Innovation, Research fellowship, 2001

Emerging Technologies Center, Research fellowship, 2000

Course Taught in SMU

Business, Government and Society

Selected Consulting Activities

Strategic management of firm and individual knowledge

Open source innovation

Research Areas

Knowledge

Social networks

Open Source Innovation

Institutions and financial bubbles

Professional service firms: consulting, banking, engineering

Current Projects

Knowledge Search and Exchange in Firms (with M.J. Prietula, Goizueta, Emory U.)

Cooperation and Clustering in Networks (with R. Kurzban, Psychology, U. of Pennsylvania)

Financial Bubbles as Episodes of Institutionalization (with E. J. Zajac, Kellogg, Northwestern U.)

Sociological Considerations in Product Architectural Design (with J. M. Pennings, Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania)

A New Organizational Form? A Framework for Collective Open Source Innovation (with M.J. Prietula, Goizueta, Emory U.)