Office: RSB 209
Phone: (804) 289-8625
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: mprovanc@richmond.edu

Teaching:
Strategic Management
Business Policies
Entrepreneurship
Management and Organization Theory
Advanced Business Models

Research:
Entrepreneurship
Institutional Rivalry

Education:
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, The Pennsylvania State University
PhD, George Washington University (expected June 2008)

Selected Publications:
"Roadmapping as mitigator of uncertainty in strategic technology choice.”Petrick, IJ + Provance, M. 2005, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, Vol. 1, No. 2. 171-184.

“Measuring firm innovativeness: Towards a composite innovation index built on firm innovative posture, propensity and performance attributes.”Carayannis, E + Provance M, In press, International Journal on Innovation and Regional Development.

“A buyer discourse perspective on market entry: Co-evolutionary dynamics of opinions and entrepreneurial action.”Provance, M + DiGregorio, D · In Carayannis, E (Editor), Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters, MacMillan Press, In press. 

“Knowledge appropriation and the complexity of regional innovation systems: a conceptual precursor to simulation.”Provance, M + DiGregorio, D · In Carayannis, E (Editor), Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters, MacMillan Press, In press.

Academic and Professional Activities:
Academy of Management (member, presenter, reviewer); Strategic Management Society; New England Complex Systems Institute; Smeal College MBA Alumni Board, Penn State 1997-current (chairperson emeritus).