RICARDO G. FLORES EDUCATION ACADEMIC HONORS PUBLISHED ARTICLES Journal of International Business Studies

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1 RICARDO G. FLORES Department of Business Administration Wohlers Hall-1206 S. Sixth Street - Tel. (217) ; Fax (217) rgflores@illinois.edu EDUCATION 2003 Present, Urbana-Champaign IL, USA Ph.D. student Department of Business Administration (Organizational Behavior) Research interests: Strategic adaptation to environmental jolts (i.e., globalization, institutional change, technological discontinuities). Processes of technological evolution. Dissertation: Organizational Responses to Competence-Destroying Technological Discontinuities: The Case of the American College of Radiology (ACR) : A substantial body of research examining organizational responses to competence destroying technological discontinuities (CDTDs) has emerged over the past two decades. Studies have found that incumbent organizations often suffer acute performance decline or even death in the face of CDTDs and have sought to identify organizational factors and processes that mitigate this damage and thus promote successful adaptation. This project seeks to add to this body of research by examining how a distinctive organization (the American College of Radiology) successfully adapted to the emergence of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging, a new technology that threatened the organization s competence and very identity. Through a content analysis of historical records obtained directly from the ACR, I build a process model of organizational adaptation to technological change. The study contributes to the literature both through its explicit focus on the adaptive process, and through its efforts to understand the adaptive responses of a different type of organization (a professional organization rather than the technology producers studied in most prior research). The dissertation also aims to make a secondary contribution to the broader literature on technological evolution. While the study s primary goal is to understand the process of organizational adaptation within the ACR itself, I also examine how its actions and choices have affected the broader field of medical device imaging over the years since NMR technology first emerged , Urbana-Champaign IL, USA MBA (Master in Business Administration-International Finance) Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Mendoza, Argentina B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering (5-year degree) Summa Cum Laude ACADEMIC HONORS Robert Ferber Award FMC Technologies, Inc., Fellowship Award (Campus-wide competition) Included in the Incomplete Campus wide List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students. Summer 2006, 2008 & at Urbana-Champaign 2008 Best Reviewer Award, Technology & Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management Richard D. and Anne Marie Irwin Fellowship Award (Campus-wide competition) Best Interactive Paper Award. Academy of Management. Organizational Development & Change Division. PUBLISHED ARTICLES Flores, R., & Aguilera, R Globalization and location choice: An analysis of U.S. multinational firms in 1980 and Journal of International Business Studies, 38: Aguilera, R., Flores, R., & Vaaler, P Is it all a matter of grouping? Examining the regional effect in global strategy research. In S. Tallman (Ed.), A New Generation in International Strategic Management: Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Vaaler, P., Flores, R., & Aguilera, R Simulated annealing and the impact of country regional groupings on U.S. multinational corporate investment decisions. In D. J. Ketchen, & D. D. Bergh (Eds.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management: Amsterdam: Elsevier (JAI). 1

2 PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS Flores, R. (2006). Technological discontinuities and organizational adaptation: Exploring the role of organizational identity. In K. Mark Weaver (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, ISSN Flores, R., Aguilera, R., & Tarman, M. (2005). The evolution of internationalization patterns: The case of U.S. MNCs between 1980 and 2000" Proceedings of the 47 th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES Flores, R. Organizational Responses to Competence-Destroying Technological Discontinuities: The Case of the American College of Radiology (ACR). Process Research Method (PDW). Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, IL, August, Flores, R., Vaaler, P., Aguilera R. Understanding the Impact of Regional Grouping Schemes in International Business Research using Simulated Annealing. Academy of International Business, Milan, Italy, August, Flores, R. Learning from colleagues: Reviewing what we should know before doing a multisite ethnography. Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August, Flores, R., Aguilera, R., Vaaler, P. A Simulated Annealing approach to understanding which regions matter for explaining MNC location. Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. Are partner preferences changing with Globalization? Location Choices of U.S. International JVs. Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. Reevaluating regional effects in International Business. Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, June, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. Globalization and location choice: An analysis of U.S.- based MNCs ( ). Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, August 12, Flores, R. Technological discontinuities and organizational adaptation: Exploring the role of organizational identity. Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, August 11, Best Interactive Paper Award, Organization Development and Change Division. Flores, R. Technological discontinuities and organizational adaptation: Exploring the role of organizational identity. 10th Anniversary Conference on Reputation, Image, Identity & Competitiveness, New York, May 25, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R."Globalization and internationalization position: An analysis of location choice of U.S.- based MNCs ( )". Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy (ACCS) Berlin, Germany, May 20, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. The evolution of the internationalization patterns: The case of the U.S.-based MNCs. Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, July 10, Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. Globalization and MNCs location choices. American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 14,

3 WORKING PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Flores, R. Learning from colleagues: Reviewing what we should know before doing a multisite ethnography. Organizational Research Methods. OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS Vaaler, P., Aguilera, R., & Flores, R. A simulated annealing approach to understanding which regions matter for explaining MNC location. Flores, R. Technological discontinuities and organizational adaptation: Organizational identity as facilitating and constraining factor. Flores, R., & Aguilera, R. Institutional arbitrage and the strategic choices of multinational firms: Assessing the location choices of U.S. MNCs International Joint Ventures. Kraatz, M., Zajac, E., & Flores, R. Organizational identity as adaptive resource: The case of the American Liberal Art Colleges: Flores, R, & Huseyin, L. The business of Business Schools: The case of the top 100 U.S. Business Schools. AWARDS Summer Research Grant,, : 2006, 2007, 2008 Campus Research Travel Grant,, 2006 European Union Center Research Grant,, Summer 2005, 2007, 2009 CIBER PhD Professional Development Award,, 2005 Harry Gray scholarship, -UC, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Beta Gamma Sigma, MBA Program,, 2003 National Award Petroleum Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1994 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor BADM 310: Management and Organizational Behavior Rating: Not Yet Available/5.0 Summer Instructor BADM 310: Management and Organizational Behavior Rating: 4.5/5.0 Summer Instructor BADM 310: Management and Organizational Behavior Rating: 4.8/5.0 Summer Instructor BADM 449: Strategic Management and Business Policy Spring Instructor Graduate Academy for College Teaching (Center for Teaching Excellence) Summer Instructor BADM 310-GIS (Online Class): Management and Organizational Behavior Summer/Fall Spring Teaching Assistant BADM 310: Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Assistant: MBA 403: HR Management and Organizational Behavior/ MBA 402: Principles of Process Management/ MBA 401: Financial Management

4 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad hoc reviewer Human Relations, 2009-Present. Ad hoc reviewer Journal of International Business Studies, 2008-Present. Assistant to ODC Program Chair, Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, 2007 Ad hoc reviewer Academy of Management Conference: Hawaii-2005; Atlanta 2006; Philadelphia 2007, Anaheim 2008, Chicago Ad hoc reviewer Academy of International Business, Indianapolis 2007, Milan 2008, San Diego Co-organizer NSDC-AOM Annual Conference, IM division (AOM) volunteer, webcast project, Hawaii, PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE Summer 2008-Research Assistance-Dr. Matthew Kraatz Research on the role of identity on the adaptation of Colleges of Liberal Art and Sciences in the U.S. Summer 2008-Research Assistance-Dr. Marcelo Bucheli Research on the evolution of the petroleum industry in Argentina and Latin America. Summer 2007/Fall 2008-Research Assistance-Dr. Huseyin Leblebici Research on organizational structures within Top 100 business schools in the U.S. Summer 2007/Fall 2008-Research Assistance-Dr. Dr. Ruth Aguilera Research on evaluation of regional schemes using simulated annealing. Spring 2007/Fall 2008-Research Assistance-Dr. Paul Vaaler Research in the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)-DAC Project: Simulated Annealing and the impact of country regional grouping on US MNCs investment decisions. Summer 2004/2005/2006-Research Assistance-Dr. Dr. Ruth Aguilera Research on location choice of MNCs and support in LIR 554 Comparative Employment Relations Systems Fall 2006-Research Assistance-Dr. Sonali Shah Research on emergence of MRI industry. Fall 2003-Research Assistance-Dr. Dr. Rose Luo Research on CEO compensation after changes in regulation in the U.S Petrobras (Formerly Pecom Energy) Santa Cruz, Argentina Senior Reservoir Engineer Petrobras (Formerly Pecom Energy) El Tigre, Venezuela Internal Consultant/Training Leader Petrobras (Formerly Pecom Energy) Río Negro & Neuquén, Argentina Reservoir Engineer 4

5 REFERENCES Matthew Kraatz 343A Wohlers Hall (217) Huseyin Leblebici 308 Wohlers Hall (217) Ruth Aguilera 306 Wohlers Hall (217) Geoffrey Love 10 Wohlers Hall (217)