Ellen Thomas

“To Pivot or Not To Pivot: On the Relationship between Pivots and Revenue among Startups”
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019.

“Startup Incubators and the Role of Social Capital”
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference, June 2017.

“Distinguishing Access to Social Capital from Using It: A Survival Analysis”
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference , June 2017.

“Collaboration and Critical Mass among Nascent Companies”
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017.

“Social Capital, Density, and Startup Survival: An Empirical Study Using the Kauffman Firm Survey”
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017.

“The Impact of Knowledge Type and Environmental Dynamics on Producer-Supplier Collaborations in New Product Development”
Product Development and Management Association , November 2015.

“Integrating client-sponsored projects into marketing and entrepreneurship classes”
Marketing Management Association , September 2015.

“Integrating Client-Sponsored Projects into MBA Classes”
Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, May 2015.

“The Influence of Producer-Supplier Exchanges and Environmental Dynamics on NPD”
Academy of Marketing Science , May 2015.

“Product Design, Innovativeness, and the Moderating Effects of Environmental Uncertainty”
Product Development and Management Association, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2014.

“Predicting Entrepreneurial Success from Social Capital”
International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD), July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2014.

“The Effects of Product Innovativeness on Platform Product Design and Market Performance ”
International Management Research Academy, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2014.

“Supplier Integration in New Product Development: Communication and Buyer Performance”
Society for Marketing Advances, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2013.

“Exploring the Strategic Use of Platform-based Planning ”
Atlantic Marketing Association, September 2011.

“The Relationship between Platform Product Design and Environmental Uncertainty ”
American Marketing Association, August 2011.

“Are Traditional Macro-level Diffusion Models Appropriate When Forecasting Organization Adoption of High-tech Products?”
American Marketing Association, August 2008.

“A review and Framework of Global Strategies for Managing Parallel Imports”
Atlantic Marketing Association, September 2007.

Ellen J. Thomas, Jifeng Mu, Fangcheng Tang. 2015. “Who Knows What in NPD Teams: Communication Context, Mode and Task Contingencies.” Journal of Product Innovation Management , vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 20.

Porchiung Ben Chou, Ellen Thomas. 2015. “A Game Theory Perspective of Asymmetric Alliances for New Product Development.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, vol. 19 , no. 1/2 , pp. 99-116 .

Ellen J. Thomas. 2014. “Platform-based Product Design and Environmental Turbulence: The Mediating Role of Strategic Flexibility.” European Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 107-124.

Ellen J. Thomas. 2013. “Supplier Integration in New Product Development: Computer Mediated Communication, Knowledge Exchange and Buyer Performance.” Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 890-899.

Ellen J. Thomas. 2012. “Exploring the Strategic Use of Platform-based Planning.” Atlantic Marketing Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 31-43.

Sean McDade, Ellen J. Thomas, Terence Oliva. 2010. “Forecasting Organizational Adoption of High-Technology Product Innovations Separated by Impact: Are Traditional Macro-Level Diffusion Models Appropriate?.” Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 298-307.

Susan Mudambi, Terence Oliva , Ellen J. Thomas. 2009. “Industrial Marketing Firms and Knowledge Transfer: Toward a Basic Typology of Community Structures.” Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 181-190.