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Charles Snow

Professor of Business Administration, Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow
Department: Management and Organization
Office: 415 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-2463
Fax: 814-863-7261
E-mail: csnow@psu.edu
Member of Faculty Since: 1974

Personal Homepage:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ccs4/blogs/charles_snow_blog/

Introduction

Professor Snow is a native Californian who has been at Penn State since 1974. During his career, he has taught students and executives in the United States and in more than 25 countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. He has also been a visiting professor at The Amos Tuck School (Dartmouth College), Norwegian School of Management, University of Oregon, University of Melbourne (2007-12), and University of Aarhus Business School (Denmark, 2007-11). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and is listed in the Who's Who in the Management Sciences, Great Writers on Organizations, and The IEBM Handbook of Management Thinking.

Current Research

During 2009-10, Professor Snow will be working on three research projects. The first project is a continuation of his research on collaborative innovation with colleagues in California, Norway, Austria, and Denmark. He will be on sabbatical from July 1 to December 31, 2010 and will be working with those colleagues on papers and data collection. The second project involves his ongoing work as a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. There he collaborates with faculty on their own research projects. Lastly, Professor Snow is the Co-Editor of a Special Issue of Organizational Dynamics entitled "Organization Designs for the 21st Century Global Economy." He and his editorial team have invited authors to write papers on organization design topics, and the Special Issue will be published in spring 2010.

Expertise

Collaborative Innovation, Organization Design, New Organizational Forms

Publication List

Charles C. Snow and Scott A. Snell, "Strategic Human Resource Management",  Oxford Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, December 2010.

Raymond E. Miles, Grant Miles, Charles C. Snow, Oystein D. Fjeldstad, and Christopher Lettl, "Designing Organizations to Meet 21st Century Opportunities and Challenges",  Organizational Dynamics, Spring 2010.

Charles C. Snow, Oystein D. Fjeldstad, Christopher Lettl, and Raymond E. Miles, "Organizing Continuous Product Development and Commercialization: The Collaborative Community of Firms Model",  Journal of Product Innovation Management, Winter 2010.

Wayne S. DeSarbo, Peter Ebbes, Duncan K.H. Fong, and Charles C. Snow, "Revisiting Customer Value Analysis in a Heterogeneous Market",  Journal of Modeling in Management, Winter 2010.

Raymond E. Miles, Grant Miles, Charles C. Snow, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, and Hector Rocha, "The I-Form Organization",  California Management Review, Summer 2009.

Media Mention

RETROSPECTIVE: Raymond Miles and Charles Snow's Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process,  Academy of Management Executive

Editorship

Strategic Management Journal
Journal of Management
Journal of World Business
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management




Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University,  1973 
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley,  1972 
B.S., Business Management, San Diego State University,  1967 

Courses

MGMT 471, Strategic Management
MGMT 301H, Principles of Management (Honors)
MGMT 100, Principles of Management (Non-Business Students)