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marc.ventresca@said-business-school.oxford.ac.uk
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Marc Ventresca is a university lecturer in management studies at Saïd Business School, a fellow of Wolfson College, and a university fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, all at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. For 2004-2005 he was a CISAC research fellow in Organizational Learning for Homeland Security.

His research and teaching interests focus on institutions, organizations, and industry entrepreneurship; organizational learning; organization design and managing change; environmental management; power and leadership in organizations, and economic sociology of strategy. His research investigates how large-scale organizational systems emerge and change, with applications to economic institutions like markets and industries. In current projects, he examines institutional politics of strategy and governance innovation in global financial markets and the interface of states and entrepreneurial markets in the evolution of US and UK information services industries. In his work with CISAC, he is reviewing issues of organizational learning and policy, part of a project on how theories of action and practice can revitalize institutional theories of organization.

He earned his PhD in sociology at Stanford University, after master's degrees in policy analysis and education and in sociology. He served on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Illinois, the Copenhagen Business School, the Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations at Stanford University, and the Stanford Institute for Research on Higher Education.

Prior to his faculty career, Ventresca worked as a policy analyst at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C., studied language and politics in Florence, Italy, and worked as a technical writer for hopeful start-ups in Silicon Valley. He serves as a director for Citizens Information Service, a Chicago-based community organizing agency, and for Connections for the Homeless, an Evanston-based nonprofit. He also works with the Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Investments in Business.