Management Assistant

Per L. Bylund

CURRICULUM VITAE

******@*****.*** * 573-***-****

Research Interests: Strategic management, Entrepreneurship: theory of the firm, resource-based

view, transaction cost economics, venture capitalism, firm growth, Austrian economics.

Teaching Interests: Strategic management, Entrepreneurship.

PRESENT POSITIONS

Adjunct Professor of entrepreneurship and management, 2012-2013, Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of

Business, University of Missouri.

Postdoctoral research fellow in economics and organizations, 2012-2013, Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Research Fellow, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of Missouri.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics; University of Missouri, June 27, 2012. Title:

Specialization and the Firm. Committee: Peter G. Klein (chair), Allen C. Bluedorn, Michael L. Cook,

Michael E. Sykuta, Randall E. Westgren.

Master s Degree, Political Science. Lund University, Sweden, June 2005. Title: Man and Matter: A

Philosophical Inquiry into the Justification of Ownership in Land from the Basis of Self-Ownership.

(Published in Libertarian Papers.) Committee chair: Mats Sj lin.

Master s Degree, Informatics. J nk ping International Business School, Sweden, June 1999. Title: Mi-

cro Payments on the Internet: Criteria for Micro Payment Systems. Awarded the BEST scholarship.

Committee chair: Carita bom.

B.Sc., Business Administration. J nk ping International Business School, March 1998. Major in corpo-

rate finance, accounting.

RESEARCH

Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

Bylund, P. L. 2011. Division of Labor and the Firm: An Austrian Attempt at Explaining the Firm in the

Market, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 14(2): 188-215.

Bylund, P. L. 2010. Piracy, Inc.: On the Bearing of the Firm Analogy to Pirate Organization. Review of

Austrian Economics 23(3): 299-305.

Bylund, P. L. 2008 Unblocking a Free Market Perspective in Labor Economics. Etica & Politica / Ethics

& Politics, X(2): 236-247.

Articles Currently Under Review

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary. Strategic Man-

agement Journal.

Bylund, P. L., & McCaffrey, M. 2012. Can Entrepreneurs Cope with Regime Uncertainty? Insight from

New Institutional Economics. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

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Bylund, P. L., & Borodin, A. 2012. Ethicality of the Firm in the Market: An Integrated Approach to Cor-

porate Social Responsibility. Academy of Management Perspectives.

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Ronald Coase s Nature of the Firm and the Socialist Calculation Debate. Journal of

the History of Economic Thought.

Book Chapters

Bylund, P. L., Holbrook, C. M., & Klein, P. G. forthcoming. They Have the Internet on Computers

Now? Entrepreneurship and Economics in The Simpsons. In J. C. Hall (Ed.) Homer Economicus:

The Simpsons and Economics. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Foss, N. J., Klein, P. G., & Bylund, P. L. forthcoming. Entrepreneurship and the Economics of the Firm.

In D. Hjorth (Ed.) Handbook of Organisational Entrepreneurship.

Bylund, P. L. 2010. The Modern Welfare State: Leading the Way on the Road to Serfdom. In T. E.

Woods (Ed.) Back on the Road to Serfdom: 35-53. Wilmington: ISI Books.

Book Reviews

Bylund, P.L., Review of K.I. Westeren (ed), Foundations of the Knowledge Economy: Innovation, Learn-

ing and Clusters (2012), reviewed in Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, forthcoming.

Bylund, P.L., Review of P. Lewin, Capital in Disequilibrium: The Role of Capital in a Changing World

(2012), reviewed in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. Review of P. T. Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 80(1): 260-262.

Bylund, P. L., & Mondelli, M. P. 2009. Review of M. Yunus, Creating a World without Poverty: Social

Business and the Future of Capitalism. Electr. Journal of Sustainable Development. 1(3): 125-127.

Other

Wicksell, K. 2011. Carl Menger. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 14(4): 462-470. (Translator.)

Research in Progress

Working Papers

Bylund, P. L. 2012 Coase and Williamson Dehomogenized: Specialization and the Transaction Cost The-

ories of the Firm. Prepared for the Journal of Management.

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Explaining Firm Emergence: Specialization, Transaction Costs, and the Integra-

tion Process. Accepted for presentation at the International Society for New Institutional Economics

meeting, San Diego.

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary. To be pre-

sented at the Academy of Management meeting, Boston.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Role of the Firm in Strategic Factor Markets. Working paper, McQuinn Cen-

ter for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Columbia, MO.

In Progress

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Exploration in the Market: The Entrepreneur s Island of Specialization. First

draft.

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Bylund, P. L. 2012. Causes of Integration and Outsourcing: a Case Study of Organizational Struc-

ture in Software Development Firms. Collecting data.

Bylund, P. L., & Klein, P. G. 2012. The Place of Austrian Economics in Entrepreneurship Research. Pre-

pared for P. Boettke (Ed.), New Thinking on Political Economy. Outlined.

Conference Presentations

Bylund, P. L. 2012. Ronald Coase s Nature of the Firm and the Socialist Calculation Debate. Paper

presented at the History of Economics Society meeting, St. Catharines, Ontario.

Bylund, P. L. 2012. The Economic Case for Integration. Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Con-

ference, Auburn, AL.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. Simulating the Role of Specialization at the Firm/Market Boundary. Paper pre-

sented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Washington DC. Selected by faculty to repre-

sent the department at conference.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Firm as an Island of Specialization. Paper presented at the Multi- and Micro-

Level Issues in Strategic Entrepreneurship conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Coasean and Williamsonian Transaction Cost Theories of Organization: A

Critical Analysis from a Specialization Perspective. Paper poster presented at the Agricultural and

Applied Economics Association meeting, Pittsburgh PA.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. Transaction Cost Theories of Economic Organization Dehomogenized: a Spe-

cialization-Based Approach. Paper presented at the History of Econ. Society meeting, Notre Dame.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: An Austrian Approach. Professional

development workshop paper at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Atlanta GA.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Firm as Extra-Market Specialization. Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars

Conference, Auburn AL.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: the Role of the Firm in the Creation of

Factor Markets. Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn AL.

Bylund, P. L. 2011. The Firm and Strategic Factor Markets: the Role of the Firm in the Creation of

Factor Markets. Paper presented at the Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City PA.

Bylund, P. L. 2010. The Firm as Extra-Market Specialization. Paper presented at the Southern Eco-

nomic Association meeting, Atlanta GA.

Bylund, P. L. 2010. Causal-Realist Answers to the Coasean Question. Or: Traveling Back to the Fu-

ture with Durkheim. Paper presented at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn AL.

Bylund, P. L. 2009. Piracy, Inc: On the Bearing of the Firm Analogy to Pirate Organization. Paper

presented at the Southern Economic Association meeting, San Antonio TX.

Bylund, P. L. 2009. The Theory of the Firm: Coasean Misconceptions and Austrian Solutions. Aus-

trian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City PA.

Professional Development

Journal of Management Studies conference, JMS Doctoral Workshop 2012

Academy of Management meeting, BPS Doctoral Consortium 2010

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Invited Lecturer

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mi., April 2012

Rhodes College, Memphis, Tn., November 2008

Research Positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in economics and organizations, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012-2013.

Researcher, F retagsamt gande (corporate ownership project), Svenskt N ringsliv, 2012

McQuinn Research Fellow, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, 2008-2012.

Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Peter G. Klein, University of Missouri, 2007-2009, 2011-2012.

BRIDG Fellow, Business Research and Information Development Group, res. assistantship, 2007-2008.

Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships

Warren and Sylvia Samuels Young Scholars Award, History of Economics Society, 2012.

John Bies International Travel Scholarship, Graduate School, University of Missouri, 2012.

Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute of Humane Studies: Bernard Marcus Fellow 2011-2012; Dan

Searle Fellow 2010-2011; Thomas C. & Irene W. Graham Fellow 2009-2010; Cortopassi Fellow

2008-2009.

HES Young Scholar, The Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program, History of Econom-

ics Society, 2011.

Albert R. Hagan Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Agricultural Economics, awarded the top graduate

student in the department, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Mis-

souri, April 11, 2011.

Superior Graduate Student Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Dept of Agricultural

and Applied Economics, Graduate Student Association, University of Missouri, 2010; 2009.

Frank Miller Graduate Student Award, for leadership provided to graduate students in the department

and to the agricultural economics graduate program, Department of Agricultural and Applied Eco-

nomics, University of Missouri, December 4, 2009.

Richard E. Fox Foundation Research Paper Contest, 2nd place, Austrian Student Scholars Conference,

Grove City PA, October 30-31, 2009.

Margaret Rowley Fellowship, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009.

Scholarship, Tekn. Dr. Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse f r Internationellt Industriellt F retagande (The

Dr. Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for Advanced Education in International Industrial Entrepreneur-

ship), 2008-2011.

Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty program, University of Missouri, 2008-2009.

BEST scholarship, JUSEK and VSJ, for best informatics/information science thesis in Sweden, 1999.

TEACHING

Instructor, MGMT 4970 Strategic Management, spring 2013

Instructor, MGMT 4770 Entrepreneurial Innovation Management: Enterprise Operations, spring 2013

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Instructor, MGMT 4710 The Entrepreneurial Process, spring 2013

Instructor, MGMT 4750 Entrepreneurship Innovative Management, fall 2012

Instructor, MGMT 4710 The Entrepreneurial Process, fall 2012

Instructor, AE3251 Intermediate Price Theory (for agribusiness mgmt majors), fall 2010.

Teaching assistant, AE3251 Intermediate Price Theory, spring 2010

Teaching assistant, AE3286 Economics of Managerial Decision Making, fall 2009

Teaching assistant, AE1041 Applied Microeconomics, fall 2009

Other

Advanced Graduate Teaching Skill Development Program, Division of Applied Social Sciences, Univer-

sity of Missouri, 2008-2010

Industry experience leading workshops and business discussion groups to identify key methods for solu-

tions to organizational problems 1999-2007; Chief Competency Officer and internal educator

at WOCHB. Westergren och Boman 2001-2003

Participated in a three-day teaching workshop (Institute for Humane Studies), Washington DC, 2011

SERVICE

Professional Service

Ad Hoc Referee, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, International Studies

of Management and Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of

Business Venturing, Small Business Management, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Econom-

ics, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Review of Austrian Econ., Studies in Emergent Orders.

Academy of Management meeting; Reviewer Business Policy and Strategy division, 2012; 2011.

Southern Economic Association meeting; Discussant Market Structure 2011; Discussant Industrial

Organization Topics I 2010; Panelist 2009.

AAEA General Meeting; Moderator 2010, Session Organizer 2009.

Austrian Scholars Conference; Session chair 2012; 2011.

Executive Committee of Graduate student association: Vice pres. 2008-2009, Techn. officer 2009-2010.

Executive Committee, AAEA, GSS section, 2008-2010.

Professional Affiliations

Academy of Management (BPS, ENT divisions), Strategic Management Society, International Society for

New Institutional Economics, American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association,

History of Economic Society, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Positions Held

Manager of IT and Development, nordengren ett, Malm, Sweden. 2006-2007.

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Business Analyst, Guide Konsult, Malm, Sweden. 2005-2006.

Business and IT Consultant, WOCHB. Westergren och Boman, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000-2003.

Business Process Technology Consultant, Datastrategi / Mogul.com, Stockholm, Sweden. 1999-2000.

Business Projects (Startups)

Founder/CEO, New Chapter Content Services, internet-based text editing and transl. services, 2004-2005.

Founder/CEO, Aparadigmal Productions, web systems consulting firm. 2002-2004.

Founder, CD-spr tten, music mail order firm. 1993.

LANGUAGES

Swedish (native), English (fluent), German (good), Mandarin Chinese (good).

REFERENCES

Peter G. Klein

Associate Professor and Director of the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri

135 Mumford Hall 573-***-****

Columbia, MO 65211 ******@********.***

Allen C. Bluedorn

Emma S. Hibbs Distinguished Professor of Management, Assoc. Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri

404C Cornell Hall 573-***-****

Columbia, MO 65211 *********@********.***

Joseph T. Salerno

Professor

Lubin School of Business, Pace University

Room W-434, 1 Pace Plaza 212-***-****

New York, NY 10038 ********@****.***

Randall E. Westgren

Professor and McQuinn Chair of Entrepreneurial Leadership

Division of Applied Social Sciences

University of Missouri

141 Mumford Hall *********@********.***

Columbia, MO 65211

More references available upon request.

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