Current Courses

• BG665   Strategic Management

• BG479   Business Policy & Administration

Education

• Ph.D. Strategic Management, University of Colorado, 1997

• MBA Finance, University of Colorado, August 1986

• BA Psychology, University of New Mexico, May 1979, Cum Laude with Distinction

Teaching Experience

• Business Policies and Administration (BG479).

• Strategic Management/Competitive Advantage (BG621).

• Organizational Innovation and Change (BN 330)

• Analysis of Competitive Enterprises (BG665).

• Entrepreneurship in a Contemporary World (BN 320)

Publications

• Sarason, Y. & Van Rekom, J. (Forthcoming). Organizational identity and strategic sensemaking: Breaking up AT&T.  In Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, and Guillaume Soenen (Eds), Organizational Identity in Practice. Routledge Press.

• Sarason, Y. , Dean, T. & Dillard, J. (2005). Entrepreneurship as the nexus of individual and opportunity: A structuration perspective. Journal of Business Venturing, New York, NY: Elsevier Science Publishing Co.

• Tegarden, L., Sarason, Y., Childers, S. & Hatfield, D. (2005). The engagement of employees of in the strategy process and firm performance: The role of strategic goals and environment. Journal of Business Strategies.

• Sarason, Y. & Morrison, M. (2005). Hispanic women entrepreneurs and small business owners. In Sandra Fielden and Marilyn Davidson (Eds.), International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publication Ltd. Cheltenham: England.

• Sarason, Y. & Banbury, C. (2004) Active learning facilitated by using a game show format. Journal of Management Education, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Tegarden, L., Sarason, Y. & Banbury, C., (2003). Linking strategy processes to performance in dynamic environments: The need to target multiple bull’s eyes. Journal of Managerial Issues.

• Sarason, Y. & Tegarden, L., (2003). The erosion of the competitive advantage of strategic planning: A configuration and resource based view. Journal of Business and Management.

• Sarason, Y. & Tegarden, L. (2001). Exploring a typology of technology intensive firms: When is a rose a great rose. The Journal of High Technology Management Research, 12, 93-112. New York, NY: Elsevier Publications.

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Presentations

• Sarason, Y. & Huff, A. (2005). Strategy and organizational identity in a late modern world: Implications for practice and research, presented at the European Academy of Management held in Munich, Germany.

• Sarason, Y. (2004) From the perspective of the 'beholder': A qualitative investigation of organizational identity in the diversification process at three baby bells, Western Academy of Management held in Alaska.

• Wu, J., Tegarden, L. & Sarason, Y. (2004). How I think, therefore I am: A theoretical exploration of cognitive processing modes and strategy creativity, presented at the  Western Academy of Management in Alaska.

• Tegarden, L., Sarason, Y., Childers, S. & Hatfield, D. (2003) Strategy making and firm performance: The critical link of strategic goals moderated by environmental and organizational variables. Presented at the Strategic Management Society meetings held in Puerto Rico.

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Proceedings

• Tegarden, L. & Sarason Y., (2000). Exploring a typology of technology intensive firms: When is a rose a great rose, presented and included in the Best Papers Proceedings at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Toronto, Canada.

• Sarason, Y. & Huff, A., (August, 1998). Structuration theory: An expanded theoretical framework for organizational identity, presented and included in the Best Papers Proceedings of the Academy of Management Conference in San Diego, CA.

• Sarason, Y., (1995). A model of organizational transformation: The incorporation of organizational identity into a structuration theory framework, presented and included in the Best Papers Proceedings of the Academy of Management Conference in Vancouver, Canada.