Office: Hilton 333
Phone: 310.338.7411
Email: pring@lmu.edu
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Areas of Expertise
• Strategic Alliances and Networks
• Corporate and Business Level Strategies
• Corporate Governance
Biography
Peter Smith Ring is a Strategic Management professor at the College of Business Administration. He has been a visiting professor and research scholar at Insead; IESE; Nanyang Business School (as a Fulbright Scholar); CEIBS; University of Bologna; University of Bocconi; Université de Paris IX – Duaphine; University of Catania; and University College Dublin; and as the Advanced Institute of Management Research Visiting International Fellow at Strathclyde University. Ring’s research focuses on networks and strategic alliances, the processes for managing strategic alliances, the role of trust in inter-organizational relationships, strategies for managing competitive and political environments, and public sector-private sector collaboration. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Strategic Management Journal and the California Management Review.
Education
| • PhD: |
UC-Irvine (1986) |
| • MPA: |
Harvard University (1970) |
| • LLB: |
Georgetown University (1966) |
| • BA: |
St. Anselm College (1963) |
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Research
Ring is interested in the governance structures and developmental processes of networks and strategic alliances; public-private partnerships; the management of innovation; the roles of trust in transaction processes; contract as an organizational trope; strategic behavior of multinational firms; and comparative management processes of the public and private sectors.
Recent Publications
• Oxford Handbook of Inter-organizational Relations, Oxford University Press (Chris Huxham, Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers and Peter Smith Ring, Eds.), (2008), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Ring, P.S., Van de Ven, A.H. (2006). “Relying on trust in cooperative inter-organizational relationships”, in R. Bachmann and A. Zaher (eds), Handbook of Trust Research, 144-164. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
• Ring, P.S. (2006). "Revisiting Our Views of Contract and Contracting Processes in the Context of Alliance Governance," in Strategic Alliances: Governance and Contracts (Africa Arino and Africa Arino and Jeffrey J. Reuer Eds.), 173-183. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ring, P.S., Bigley, G., D'Aunno, T., and Khanna, T. (2005). "Introduction to the Special Topic Forum -- How Governments Matter", Academy of Management Review, 30(2), 308-320.
• Ring, P.S., Arino, A., de la Tore, J. (2005). "Relational Quality: Its Elements and Role in Interorganizational Trust." European Management Reivew, Vol. 2, 14-27.
• Ring, P.S., Doz, Y., and Olk, P. (2005). "Managing Formation Processes in R&D Alliances". California Management Reivew, 47(4), 137-156.