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Skidmore College
Management and Business Department
David Cohen

David Cohen

Contact Information & Background

Associate Professor, Chair
Department of Management & Business
dcohen1@skidmore.edu
Office: PMH 209

Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. in management, with a specialization in strategic management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • J.D., University of Chicago
  • B.A., University of Chicago

Courses

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Strategic management, including strategy process, the middle-management perspective on strategy process, and strategy process as a complex adaptive system
  • Social network analysis
  • Neo-institutionalism and organizational identity

Recent Publications

  • Meyer, C., Cohen, D. and Nair, S. (2020), "From automats to algorithms: the automation of services using artificial intelligence", Journal of Service Management, Published online ahead of print March 22, 2020. DOI: 10.1108/JOSM-05-2019-0161

  • Meyer, C.R., Cohen, D.G., and Gauthier, J. (2019) Social entrepreneurship, stakeholder management, and the multiple fitness elements of sustainability: where cash is no longer king, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2019.1661614.

  • Gauthier, J., Cohen, D.G. and Meyer, C.R. (2019) Top management team characteristics and social value creation. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 10(2), 252-263. DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541012

2015 Conference Presentations

  • Meyer, C.R., Cohen, D.G., and Gauthier, J. Heeding the Red Queen: Sustainability, Entropy, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship. To be presented at the 12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference in New York, New York, November 2015.

  • Gauthier, J., Meyer, C.R., and Cohen, D.G. The Role of Framing in Sustainability Championing: Implications for Social Intrapreneurs. To be presented at the 12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference in New York, New York, November 2015.

  • Cohen, D.G., Meyer, C.R., Nair, S. Mind the Gap: Social Entrepreneurs as Network Bridges in the Funding of Stem Cell Research. Presented at the: 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 10, 2015