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Peter Thompson

Hal and John Smith Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Professor

peter.thompson@gatech.edu

404-510-1592

Academic Areas: Strategy and Innovation

Office: 4438

Biography

Peter Thompson joined Scheller in 2014. Prior to joining Scheller he served on the faculty at Emory, Florida International, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Houston.

Peter’s research, which includes both theoretical and empirical work, has covered a variety of fields, including endogenous growth theory, industry evolution, entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and medical decision making.

Peter has taught courses covering most major areas of economics, at Ph.D., MBA and undergraduate levels.

Education

Ph.D. Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, 1993
M.Sc. Agricultural Economics, University of East Anglia (UK), 1985
B.Sc. Agricultural Economics, University of Reading (UK), 1984

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship and Occupational Choice
Organizational Learning
Technological Change
Industry Evolution

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Year	Title	Journal	Author(s)	Type
2022	The Wage Persistence Puzzle. Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs	Strategic Management Journal	Francesca Melillo Jeroen Mahieu Peter Thompson	Published Papers
The Wage Persistence Puzzle. Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs [with Jeroen Mahieu and Francesca Melillo]. Strategic Management Journal. 43(2):213-236
2021	Shooting Stars? Uncertainty in Hiring Entrepreneurs Francesca Melillo,, and Toke Reichstein]	Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal	Francesca Melillo Jeroen Mahieu Toke Reichstein Peter Thompson	Published Papers
Melillo,Francesca, Jeroen Mahieu, Toke Reichstein, and Peter Thompson (2021):. Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalShooting Stars? Uncertainty in Hiring Entrepreneurs, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 15(4):526-567 ).
2019	Experience and Entrepreneurship	Industrial and Labor Relations Review	Chris Rider Olenka Kapcerczyk Peter Thompson Joacim Tag	Published Papers
Chris Rider, Olenka Kapcerczyk, Peter Thompson and Joacim TagExperience and Entrepreneurship [2019): Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 72(5):1149–1181.
2019	Breaking the Mirror. Modular Encapsulation and Japanese Dominance of the Professional Camera Sub-Market, 1955-1974	Industrial and Corporate Change	Paul Windrum Michelle Haynes Peter Thompson	Published Papers
Paul Windrum, Michelle Haynes and Peter Thompson (2019): Breaking the Mirror. Modular Encapsulation and Japanese Dominance of the Professional Camera Sub-Market, 1955-1974. Industrial and Corporate Change. 28(5):1029-1056.
2018	Density Dependence of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: Competition, Opportunity Cost, or Minimum Efficient Scale?	Management Science	Gorkem Aksaray Peter Thompson	Published Papers
Gorkem Aksaray and Peter Thompson (20180: Density Dependence of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: Competition, Opportunity Cost, or Minimum Efficient Scale? Management Science, 64(5): 2263-2274
2016	Skill Balance and Entrepreneurship. Evidence from Online Career Histories	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	Li-Wei Chen Peter Thompson	Published Papers
Li-Wei Chen and Peter Thompson (2016): Skill Balance and Entrepreneurship. Evidence from Online Career Histories. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40(2):289-305.
2016	Hierarchies and Entrepreneurship	European Economic Review	Joacim Tag Thomas Astebro Peter Thompson	Published Papers
2015	New Firm Performance and the Replacement of Founders.	Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal	Jing Chen Peter Thompson	Published Papers
Jing Chen and Paster Thompson (2015): New Firm Performance and the Replacement of Founders. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(3):243–262 ).
2012	The Relationship Between Unit Cost and Cumulative Quantity	Journal of Economic Perspectives	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“The Relationship Between Unit Cost and Cumulative Quantity and the Evidence for Organizational Learning-by-Doing.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(3), (Summer 2012).
2011	Entrepreneurs- Jacks of all Trades or Hobos	Research Policy	Astebro, Thomas Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
"Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?” [with Thomas Astebro], Research Policy, 40:637–64 (June 2011).
2011	Stars and Misfits- Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions	Management Science	Åstebro, Thomas Chen, Jing Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Stars and Misfits. Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions.” [with Thomas Astebro and Jing Chen]. Management Science, 57:1999-2017 (November 2011)
2011	Employee Spinoffs and the Choice of Technology	Review of Economic Dynamics	Chen, Jing Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Employee Spinoffs and the Choice of Technology” [with Jing Chen], Review of Economic Dynamics, 14:455–474 (June 2011).
2010	Learning by Doing	Chapter 11 in the Handbook of Economics of Technical Change	Thompson, Peter	Other
“Learning by Doing.” Chapter 11 in the Handbook of Economics of Technical Change, edited by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, North-Holland/Elsevier (March 2010).
2008	Desperate Housewives- Communication Difficulties and the Dynamics of Marital un-Happiness	The Economic Journal	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Desperate Housewives? Communication Difficulties and the Dynamics of Marital (un)Happiness,” The Economic Journal, 118:1640-1669 (October 2008).
2007	How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Forget?	Management Science	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Forget?” Management Science, 53(6):908-918 (June 2007).
2007	Submarkets and the Evolution of Market Structure	RAND Journal of Economics	Klepper, Steven Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
"Submarkets and the Evolution of Market Structure” [with Steven Klepper], RAND Journal of Economics, 37(4):862-888 (March 2007).
2006	Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers	Review of Economics and Statistics	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Inventor- and Examiner-Added Citations,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(2):383-389 (March 2006)
2005	Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers- A Reassessment	American Economic Review	Thompson, Peter Kean, Melanie Fox	Published Papers
“Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment” [with Melanie Fox Kean]. American Economic Review, 95(1): 450-460 (March 2005).
2005	Selection and Firm Survival- Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry	Review of Economics and Statistics	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1):26-36 (February 2005).
2001	How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn?	Journal of Political Economy	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study,” Journal of Political Economy, 109(1):103-137 (February 2001).
2001	The Microeconomics of an R&D-Based Model of Endogenous Growth	Journal of Economic Growth	Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“The Microeconomics of an R&D-Based Model of Endogenous Growth,” Journal of Economic Growth, 6(4):263-283 (December 2001).
2001	Learning from Experience and Learning From Others	American Economic Review	Thornton, Rebecca Achee Thompson, Peter	Published Papers
“Learning from Experience and Learning From Others. An exploration of learning and spillovers in wartime shipbuilding” [with Rebecca Achee Thornton], American Economic Review, 91(5):1350-1368 (December 2001).

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