Professor of Strategy organizational theorist
In English Literature in 1968 and her Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature in 1973. In 1977 she obtained his Doctorate.B.A. in Administrative Systems from Harvard Business School with the thesis, entitled "Institutionalizing innovation.".
Born in 1942, in 1960 Jelinek started to study English, French, Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1967, her Master of Arts Jelinek started her academic career with appointments at the Tuck School of Business, the McGill University, and the University at Albany, State University of New New York In 1984 she was appointed Professor at the Case Western Reserve University, and in 1989 moved to the College of William & Mary, where she was Professor of Strategy for 22 years. Since 2001 she is Fellow at the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) at the North Carolina State University, becoming Academic Fellow in 2002. In the years 2007-2010 she was also Visiting Research Scholar at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, and was Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Mariann Jelinek was married to the American organizational theorist Joseph A. Litterer (1926-1995).
Jelinek"s research interests are in the fields of management of technology and innovation, and organizational change, specifically the leveraging information for strategic advantage.
