Research Interests
- Strategy, Organization, Technology, Commercialization, Dynamic Capabilities, and Innovation
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
B.S., Brigham Young University
Jeffrey A. Martin is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. Named to Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Cited Researcher List” (2024), he is internationally recognized for his research on dynamic capabilities and innovation, with his work being cited over 31,000 times.
Dr. Martin’s seminal work with Kathleen Eisenhardt was one of the foundational papers establishing dynamic capabilities research in strategic management. Their paper “Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They?” has influenced strategy research for over two decades and won the Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award. This body of work has been published in top journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management.
From 2018-2020, he served as Visiting Associate Professor at the USAF Air University as part of a Vice Chief of Staff directive to accelerate innovation across the Air Force. Dr. Martin received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his MBA from the University of Michigan.
Wales, William J., Maksim Belitski, Jeffrey A. Martin and Tatiana R. Stettler, (2025, forthcoming). Breaking Away from the Pack: Uncovering the Characteristics of Exceptional Firms in Power-Law Performance Distributions. Academy of Management Perspectives.
Belitski, Maksim, Jeffrey A. Martin, Tatiana R. Stettler and William J. Wales (2023). Organizational Scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth. Journal of World Business, 58(5).
Belitski, Maksim, Tatiana R. Stettler, William J. Wales and Jeffrey A. Martin (2023). Speed and Scaling: An investigation of accelerated firm growth. Journal of Management Studies.
Javadian, Golshan, Crystal Dobratz, Alka Gupta, Vishal K. Gupta and Jeffrey A. Martin (2020). Qualitative research in entrepreneurship studies: A state-of-science. Journal of Entrepreneurship.
Martin, Jeffrey A. and Daniel G. Bachrach. 2018. Dynamic managerial capabilities: Middle managers, managerial social capital, transactive memory systems and their relationship and inter- and intra-organizational relationships. Industrial Marketing Management.
Helfat, Constance E. & Jeffrey A. Martin (2015). Dynamic managerial capabilities: Review and assessment of managerial impact on strategic change. Journal of Management 41(5): 1281-1312.
Graebner, Melissa E., Jeffrey A. Martin, and Phillip T. Roundy (2012). Qualitative data: Cooking without a recipe. Strategic Organization 10(3): 276-284.
Martin, Jeffrey A. (2011). Dynamic Managerial Capabilities and the Multibusiness Team: The Role of Episodic Teams in Executive Leadership Groups. Organization Science 22(1): 118-140.
Martin Jeffrey A. and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (2010). Rewiring: Cross-business-unit collaborations in multibusiness organizations. Academy of Management Journal 53(2): 265-301.
· An earlier version of this paper won the Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy Division Inaugural Research-to-Practice Award (since renamed the Sumantra Ghoshal Award)
Martin, Jeffrey A. and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (2004). Coping with decline: Dynamic capabilities and recombinative organizational form as mechanisms for corporate entrepreneurship. Advances in Strategic Management, 21: 357-382.
Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. and Jeffrey A. Martin (2000). Dynamic capabilities: What are they? The Strategic Management Journal.21(10-11): 1105-1121.
· Winner of the Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award for the Strategic Management Journal 2007.
· Designated a “Current Classic” Thomson Reuters Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators. Ranked #1 among Business and Economics Papers published 2000-2010.