Sidney G. Winter

Sidney G. Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as a co-director of a Wharton research center, the Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy and Organization. Before joining Wharton in 1993, he served for four years as Chief Economist of the U.S. General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was professor of economics and management at Yale University from 1976 to 1989. He has also served on the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. During his career he has been a staff member of the RAND Corporation and of the Council of Economic Advisers, a consultant for various governmental and non-profit organizations, and an expert witness in antitrust and other litigation. Most of his research has been in the area of firm behavior, industry evolution and technological change; its current focus is on the study of corporate strategy and management problems from the viewpoint of evolutionary economics. He is frequently an invited lecturer on these topics, at institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. He co-authored An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, and has been a contributor to many scholarly journals and symposium volumes. He was co-editor of two such volumes, The Nature of the Firm and a new book, The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Economic Association, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the International J.A Schumpeter Society, and other scholarly organizations. Winter is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and received his doctorate in economics from Yale University. He resides in Washington, D.C.