Ian McCarthy
Academic Director, TECK Program
Professor, Technology and Operations Management / Strategy / Business and Society / Innovation and Entrepreneurship
W.J. VanDusen Professor
Segal
Room: SGL 3955
Phone: 778.782.5298
Email: imccarth@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Credentials
B.Eng, M.Sc., Ph.D.Biography
I am the W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation and Operations Management. I came to SFU from the University of Warwick, England where he was a Reader and Head of the Organizational Systems Strategy Unit. I worked for several years as a manufacturing engineer before earning his Ph.D. in operations strategy from the University of Sheffield.
My research and teaching focus on operations management, change and innovation management, and social media. I have published well-cited articles that help us to better understand issues such as:
- How firms should work with and learn from creative consumers?
- How firms should design new product development processes?
- Using gamification practices in business.
- The dark and bright side of social media functionality.
- Why do some technology patents get licensed while others do not?
- The determinants and impact of licensing speed.
- Intellectual property strategies when crowdsourcing.
- Creating and capturing value from big data.
- Measuring and dealing with bullshit in the workplace,
- The threats and opportunities of deepfakes.
- Evolutionary analysis of firm strategic configurations.
- The multiplexity of entrepreneurial networks.
- Management control systems.
- The impact of outsourcing on industry size.
My publication record can be viewed here.
I enjoy monitoring the progress of the biggest and best football club in England (i..e, Everton F.C.) and blogging about the management of innovation, operations, and strategic change at It Depends.
I receive many emails from potential Ph.D. students claiming to be closely interested in me and my research. To prove you have read my profile and are not just sending a robot-like boilerplate enquiry, please begin your email to me by concisely stating (i) who is the current manager of Everton F.C., and (ii) the focus of my first ever journal publication. Then explain how my current research fits with your interests, how you think your research could eventually benefit society, and why you wish to become an academic.
Google Scholar: Ian McCarthy
Research Interests
Operations management; outsoucing; mass customization; innovation management; user innovation; creative consumers; new product development; social media; gamification; taxonomy; cladistics; complexity theory; organizational design; change management
Selected Publications
articles and reports
Johnson, M. R., & McCarthy, I. P. (2022). Cultural similarity and impartiality on voting bias: The case of FIFA's World's Best Male Football Player Award. PLoS ONE, 17(7 July). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270546
Ferreira, C., Hannah, D., McCarthy, I., Pitt, L., & Lord Ferguson, S. (2022). This Place Is Full of It: Towards an Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale. Psychological Reports, 65(6), 751-763. http://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120978162
Lee, L. W., Boon, E., & McCarthy, I. P. (2021). Does getting along matter? Tourist-tourist rapport in guided group activities. Tourism Management, 87. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104381
Pitt, C., Park, A., & McCarthy, I. P. (2021). A bibliographic analysis of 20 years of research on innovation and new product development in technology and innovation management (TIM) journals. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 61. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2021.101632
Greiner, J., Naik, H., Johnson, M. R., Liu, D., Silvestre, B., Ballouk, H., & McCarthy, I. P. (2021). Learning from the first wave: Lessons about managing patient flow and resource utilization on medical wards at providence health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare, 9(2). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100530
Cappa, F., Oriani, R., Peruffo, E., & McCarthy, I. (2021). Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance*. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(1), 49-67. http://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12545
Robson, K., de Beer, J., & McCarthy, I. P. (2020). Open branding: Managing the unauthorized use of brand-related intellectual property. Business Horizons, 63(6), 773-785. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2020.07.001
McCarthy, I. P., Hannah, D., Pitt, L. F., & McCarthy, J. M. (2020). Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit. Business Horizons, 63(3), 253-263. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2020.01.001
McCarthy, I. P., Hannah, D. R., & McCarthy, J. (2020, April). Bullshit is everywhere. Here's how to deal with it at work. Conversation.
Lee, L. W., Dabirian, A., McCarthy, I. P., & Kietzmann, J. (2020). Making sense of text: artificial intelligence-enabled content analysis. European Journal of Marketing, 54(3), 615-644. http://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-02-2019-0219
Lee, L. W., Hannah, D., & McCarthy, I. P. (2020). Do your employees think your slogan is “fake news?” A framework for understanding the impact of fake company slogans on employees. Journal of Product and Brand Management, 29(2), 199-208. http://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-12-2018-2147
Kietzmann, J., Lee, L. W., McCarthy, I. P., & Kietzmann, T. C. (2020). Deepfakes: Trick or treat? Business Horizons, 63(2), 135-146. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2019.11.006
Baccarella, C. V., Wagner, T. F., Kietzmann, J. H., & McCarthy, I. P. (2020). Averting the rise of the dark side of social media: The role of sensitization and regulation. European Management Journal, 38(1), 3-6. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.011
Robertson, J., McCarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. (2019). Leveraging social capital in university-industry knowledge transfer strategies: a comparative positioning framework. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 17(4), 461-472. http://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2019.1589396
Baccarella, C. V., Wagner, T. F., Kietzmann, J. H., & McCarthy, I. P. (2018). Social media? It's serious! Understanding the dark side of social media. European Management Journal, 36(4), 431-438. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.07.002
McCarthy, I. P., Silvestre, B. S., von Nordenflycht, A., & Breznitz, S. M. (2018). A typology of university research park strategies: What parks do and why it matters. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 47, 110-122. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2018.01.004
McCarthy, I. P., Collard, M., & Johnson, M. (2017). Adaptive organizational resilience: an evolutionary perspective. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 28, 33-40. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.07.005
McCarthy, I. P., & Ruckman, K. (2017). Licensing speed: Its determinants and payoffs. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 46, 52-66. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2017.11.002
Ruckman, K., & McCarthy, I. (2017). Why do some patents get licensed while others do not? Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(4), 667-688. http://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtw046
de Beer, J., McCarthy, I. P., Soliman, A., & Treen, E. (2017). Click here to agree: Managing intellectual property when crowdsourcing solutions. Business Horizons, 60(2), 207-217. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2016.11.002
Bogers, M., Zobel, A. K., Afuah, A., Almirall, E., Brunswicker, S., Dahlander, L., ... Ter Wal, A. L. (2017). The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis. Industry and Innovation, 24(1), 8-40. http://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068
Wang, E. (., Berthon, P., Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. P. (2016). Service, emotional labor, and mindfulness. Business Horizons, 59(6), 655-661. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2016.07.002
Bliemel, M. J., McCarthy, I. P., & Maine, E. M. (2016). Levels of Multiplexity in Entrepreneur's Networks: Implications for Dynamism and Value Creation. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 6(3), 247-272. http://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2015-0001
Xie, Z., Hall, J., McCarthy, I. P., Skitmore, M., & Shen, L. (2016). Standardization efforts: The relationship between knowledge dimensions, search processes and innovation outcomes. Technovation, 48-49, 69-78. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2015.12.002
Robson, K., Plangger, K., Kietzmann, J. H., McCarthy, I., & Pitt, L. (2016). Game on: Engaging customers and employees through gamification. Business Horizons, 59(1), 29-36. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2015.08.002
Hannah, D. R., McCarthy, I. P., & Kietzmann, J. (2015). We're leaking, and everything's fine: How and why companies deliberately leak secrets. Business Horizons, 58(6), 659-667. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2015.07.003
Berthon, P., Pitt, L., Kietzmann, J., & McCarthy, I. P. (2015). CGIP: MAnaging consumer-generated intellectual property. California Management Review, 57(4), 43-62. http://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2015.57.4.43
Prpić, J., Shukla, P. P., Kietzmann, J. H., & McCarthy, I. P. (2015). How to work a crowd: Developing crowd capital through crowdsourcing. Business Horizons, 58(1), 77-85. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2014.09.005
Robson, K., Plangger, K., Kietzmann, J. H., McCarthy, I., & Pitt, L. (2015). Is it all a game? Understanding the principles of gamification. Business Horizons, 58(4), 411-420. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2015.03.006
Bogers, M., McCarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. (2015). Leveraging users as innovators: Managing the creative potential of individual consumers. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 37, 3-5. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2015.09.001
Robson, K. E., Plangger, K. A., Kietzmann, J. H., McCarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. F. (2014). Understanding gamification of consumer experiences. Advances in Consumer Research, 42, 352-356.
Bliemel, M. J., McCarthy, I. P., & Maine, E. (2014). An integrated approach to studying multiplexity in entrepreneurial networks. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 4(4), 364-402. http://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2014-0007
Malek, K., Maine, E., & McCarthy, I. P. (2014). A typology of clean technology commercialization accelerators. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 32, 26-39. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2013.10.006
Johnson, M. R., & McCarthy, I. P. (2014). Product recovery decisions within the context of Extended Producer Responsibility. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M, 34, 9-28. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2013.11.002
McCarthy, I. P., Silvestre, B. S., & Kietzmann, J. H. (2013). Understanding outsourcing contexts through information asymmetry and capability fit. Production Planning and Control, 24(4-5), 277-283. http://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2011.648765
Kitcher, B., McCarthy, I. P., Turner, S., & Ridgway, K. (2013). Understanding the effects of outsourcing: Unpacking the total factor productivity variable. Production Planning and Control, 24(4-5), 308-317. http://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2011.648543
Xie, Z., Hall, J. K., & McCarthy, I. P. (2012). Review and some ideas on the research of sustainable development innovation. Keji Jinbu yu Duice [Journal of Science & Technology Progress and Policy], 29(24), 191-195.
Kietzmann, J. H., Silvestre, B. S., Mccarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. F. (2012). Unpacking the social media phenomenon: Towards a research agenda. Journal of Public Affairs, 12(2), 109-119. http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1412
Campbell, C. L., Berthon, P. R., Pitt, L. F., McCarthy, I., & Plangger, K. (2012). Making a face: Graphical illustrations of managerial stances toward customer creativity. Australasian Marketing Journal, 20(1), 9-15. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ausmj.2011.10.009
Berthon, P., Campbell, C., Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. (2011). Creative consumers: Awareness, attitude and action. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 28(7), 500-507. http://doi.org/10.1108/07363761111181482
Mccarthy, I. P., & Gordon, B. R. (2011). Achieving contextual ambidexterity in R&D organizations: A management control system approach. R and D Management, 41(3), 240-258. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9310.2011.00642.x
Kietzmann, J. H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I. P., & Silvestre, B. S. (2011). Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons, 54(3), 241-251. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2011.01.005
McCarthy, I., Lawrence, T., Wixted, B., & Gordon, B. (2010). A multidimensional conceptualization of environmental velocity. Academy of Management Review, 35(4), 604-626. http://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2010.53503029
Bliemel, M. J., & McCarthy, I. P. (2008). Networks of dedicated biotechnology and service fi rms in Vancouver. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 14(3), 265-273. http://doi.org/10.1057/jcb.2008.17
Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. (2008). Connecting product innovation management and marketing. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 14(3), 197-200. http://doi.org/10.5912/jcb242
McCarthy, I. P., Pitt, L., Campbell, C., van der Merwe, R., & Salehi-Sangeri, E. (2007). Exploiting the business opportunities in biotech connections: The power of social networks. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 13(4), 245-257. http://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jcb.3050063
Berthon, P. R., Pitt, L. F., McCarthy, I., & Kates, S. M. (2007). When customers get clever: Managerial approaches to dealing with creative consumers. Business Horizons, 50(1), 39-47. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2006.05.005
McCarthy, I. P., Tsinopoulos, C., Allen, P., & Rose-Anderssen, C. (2006). New product development as a complex adaptive system of decisions. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 23(5), 437-456. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5885.2006.00215.x
McCarthy, I. P. (2005). Toward a phylogenetic reconstruction of organizational life. Journal of Bioeconomics, 7(3), 271-307. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-005-5245-5
Rose-Anderssen, C., Allen, P. M., Tsinopoulos, C., & McCarthy, I. (2005). Innovation in manufacturing as an evolutionary complex system. Technovation, 25(10), 1093-1105. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2004.03.006
McCarthy, I., & Anagnostou, A. (2004). The impact of outsourcing on the transaction costs and boundaries of manufacturing. International Journal of Production Economics, 88(1), 61-71. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0925-5273(03)00183-X
McCarthy, I. P. (2004). The what, why and how of mass customization. Production Planning and Control, 15(4), 347-351.
McCarthy, I. P. (2004). Manufacturing strategy: Understanding the fitness landscape. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 24(1-2), 124-150. http://doi.org/10.1108/01443570410514858
McCarthy, I., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2003). Strategies for agility: An evolutionary and configurational approach. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 14(2), 103-113. http://doi.org/10.1108/09576060310459401
McCarthy, I. P. (2003). Technology management - A complex adaptive systems approach. International Journal of Technology Management, 25(8), 728-745. http://doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2003.003134
Rakotobe-Joel, T., McCarthy, I. P., & Tranfield, D. (2003). A structural and evolutionary approach to change management. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, 8(4), 337-364. http://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025420718857
McCarthy, I., & Menicou, M. (2002). A classification schema of manufacturing decisions for the GRAI enterprise modelling technique. Computers in Industry, 47(3), 339-355. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-3615(02)00002-7
Fernandez, P., Mccarthy, I. P., & Rakotobe-Joel, T. (2001). An evolutionary approach to benchmarking. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 8(4), 281-305. http://doi.org/10.1108/14635770110403783
McCarthy, I. P., & Tan, Y. K. (2000). Manufacturing competitiveness and fitness landscape theory. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 107(1-3), 347-352. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-0136(00)00687-7
Tsinopoulos, C., & McCarthy, I. P. (2000). Achieving agility using cladistics: An evolutionary analysis. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 107(1-3), 338-346. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-0136(00)00675-0
McCarthy, I. P., Rakotobe-Joel, T., & Frizelle, G. (2000). Complex systems theory: implications and promises for manufacturing organizations. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2(1-7), 559-579. http://doi.org/10.1504/ijmtm.2000.001365
Lowe, A., Ridgway, K., McCarthy, I. P., & Atkinson, H. (2000). An evaluation model for determining the business process benefits of thixoforming. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 214(1), 11-23. http://doi.org/10.1177/095440540021400101
McCarthy, I., Ridgway, K., Leseure, M., & Fieller, N. (2000). Organisational diversity, evolution and cladistic classifications. Omega (United Kingdom), 28(1), 77-95. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-0483(99)00030-4
McCarthy, I., & Ridgway, K. (2000). Cladistics: a taxonomy for manufacturing organizations. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 11(1), 16-29. http://doi.org/10.1108/09576060010303631
McCarthy, I., Leseure, M., Ridgway, K., & Fieller, N. (1997). Building a manufacturing cladogram. International Journal of Technology Management, 13(3), 269-286. http://doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.1997.001664
McCarthy, I. P., & Ridgway, K. (1995). The implementation of a marketing orientation and focused manufacturing techniques in a hand tool company. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 209, 237-243.
McCarthy, I. P., & Ridgway, K. (1995). Re-engineering manufacturing systems at presto engineers cutting tools. Business Change & Re-engineering, 2(4), 31-33.
McCarthy, I. (1995). Manufacturing classification: Lessons from organizational systematics and biological taxonomy. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 6(6), 37-48. http://doi.org/10.1108/09576069510099365
books chapters and monographs
Lam, J., Robson, K. E., Plangger, K. A., Kietzmann, J. H., McCarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. F. (2022). Play, games and gamification: possibilities for customer loyalty. In Keeling, D. I., de Ruyter, K., & Cox, D. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Customer Loyalty (pp. 173-188). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing (UK).
Robertson, J., McCarthy, I. P., & Pitt, L. F. (2021). Building sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems: A mediated model of university–industry collaboration, knowledge creation, and the entrepreneurial environment. In Fernandes, C., Ramirez-Pasillas, M., & Ferreira, J. J. (Eds.), Universities, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Sustainability (pp. 107-132). Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670219-007
Plangger, K. A., McCarthy, I. P., Kietzmann, J. H., Robson, K. E., & Pitt, L. F. (2019). Dynamic Game Plans. In Tuncdogan, A., Lindgreen, A., Volberda, H., & van den Bosch, F. (Eds.), Strategic Renewal: Core Concepts, Antecedents, and Micro Foundations (pp. 15). London, United Kingdom: Routledge (UK).
McCarthy, I. P., Pitt, L. F., & Berthon, P. (2010). Service customization through dramaturgy. In Fogliatto, F. S., & da Silveira, G. J. C. (Eds.), Mass customization: Engineering and managing global operations (pp. 43-64). London, United Kingdom: Springer-Verlag (UK). http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-489-0
McCarthy, I., & Gordon, B. (2010). Leveraging dynamic capabilities: A contingent management control system approach. In Wall, S., Zimmerman, C., Klingebiel, R., & Lange, D. (Eds.), Strategic Reconfigurations: Building Dynamic Capabilities in Rapid Innovation-based Industries (pp. 13-32). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing (UK). http://doi.org/10.4337/9781849805629.00010
Related Teaching Material
Berthon, P., Pitt, L. F., Kietzmann, J. H., & McCarthy, I. P. (2015). CGIP: Managing consumer generated intellectual property. Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case ID:HBS Case No. CMR600.
Chan, C., & Johnson, M. (2013). Business statistics (3rd revision). Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada: BCIT.