Donald Bergh, PhD

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Professor; Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration

Department of Management

Donald D. Bergh (PhD, University of Colorado Boulder) is the Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration and professor of management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.

Bergh comes most recently from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Business. He had previously served at Cornell University’s Statler School of Hospitality and The Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. He also serves as visiting professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands).

His research interests lie primarily in corporate strategy (diversification, divestitures, acquisitions) and research methodology where his work has appeared in many of the management field’s highest rated academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Organization Science (OS), Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management (JOM), the Journal of Management Studies (JMS), Organizational Research Methods (ORM), Strategic Organization (SO) and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), among others. He has more than 30 contributions to Financial Times Top 50 journals. His research record is among the top 2% of scientists in Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual global rankings.

He has served as an associate editor of AMJ, ORM and JMS, guest co-editor of four ORM special issues, and was the inaugural chair of the Scientific Integrity and Rigor Task Force of JOM (2017-2020), the first of its kind in the management field. He is currently a member of the editorial review boards of AMJ, SMJ, ORM, JMS and SO. Along with David Ketchen, Jr., he co-edited the Emerald series, Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, volumes 1 through 10. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management.

He has held numerous leadership positions in the Strategic Management Society including serving as the founding chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group and founding co-chair of the Research Methods Community, and was co-chair of the 35th Annual International Conference. He served as founding co-chair of the Strategic Management Society Conference Research Methods Paper Prize.

Education

PhD, Business Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder
MBA, Business Administration, Utah State University
BS, Business Administration, Utah State University

Recent Publications

Bergh, D. D., D’Oria, L., Crook, T. R., & Roccapriore, A. 2025. Is knowledge really the most important strategic resource? A meta-analytic review. Strategic Management Journal, 46(1): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3645

Bergh, D.D., Powell, R.P., & Zhang, Y. 2024. Another look at takeover defenses, acquisitions, and value creation: A replication of Humphery-Jenner (2014). Journal of Management Scientific Reports, 2: 62-99.

Combs, J.G., Ketchen, D.J. Jr., Terjesen, S.A., & Bergh, D.D. 2023. After the startup: A collection to spur research about entrepreneurship growth. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 17: 693-709.

Aguinis, H., Bergh, D. D., & Molina-Azorin, J. F. 2023. Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 54(2): 219-232.

Arregle, J. L., Dattée, B., Hitt, M. A., & Bergh, D. 2023. Organizational autonomy: A review and agenda for future research. Journal of Management, 49: 85-124.

Bergh, D.D., Boyd, B.K., Byron, K., Gove, S., & Ketchen, D.K. Jr. 2022. What constitutes a methodological contribution? Journal of Management, 48: 1835–1848.

Bergh, D.D. 2021. Research methods in international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 52: 1225-1228.

Bergh, D.D. & Oswald, F. 2020. Fostering robust, reliable, and replicable research at the Journal of Management. Journal of Management, 46: 1302-1306.

Bergh, D.D., Peruffo, E., Chiu, W-T., Connelly. B, & Hitt, M.A. 2020. Market responses to divestiture announcement: A screening theory perspective. Strategic Organization, 18: 547-572.

Bergh, D.D., Ketchen, D.J. Jr., Orlandi, I., Heugens, P., & Boyd, B. 2019. Information asymmetry in management research: Past accomplishments and future opportunities. Journal of Management, 45: 122–158.

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