She is the Edward J. Frey Dean and the Stephen M. Ross Professor of Business at the University of Michigan. Matusik's teaching and research areas of expertise include strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and knowledge assets. She focuses on understanding the knowledge-intensive firm and how firm knowledge and innovation capabilities contribute to competitive advantage.
Matusik joined the faculty of the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 before moving to the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2004,[2]. She rose through the ranks to become Professor in the Leeds School in 2014 and also served as Academic Research Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.[3] In 2016, Matusik was named interim senior associate dean for Faculty and Research, and in 2017, she was appointed interim dean and later dean at the Leeds School of Business of the University of Colorado Boulder.[4][5]
Matusik and Hill examined the role of "contingent workers" in knowledge flows that affect competitive advantage of a firm – temporary employees, independent contractors; workers at outsourcing firms, contract workers on-site at a firm, consultants, etc. Reliance on contingent workers can stimulate information flows inside a firm by causing firms to codify of tacit knowledge inside the firm, but also puts the firm at risk of having its special expertise appropriated.[8] Matusik has also studied entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as the role of “offensive” and “defensive” patents in the pricing of initial public offerings,[9] the role played by venture capitalists in the success or failure of startup firms.[10][11]
Matusik, Sharon F.; Hill, Charles W. L. (October 1998). "The Utilization of Contingent Work, Knowledge Creation, and Competitive Advantage". The Academy of Management Review. 23 (4): 680. doi:10.5465/amr.1998.1255633.
Matusik, Sharon F.; Heeley, Michael B. (August 2005). "Absorptive Capacity in the Software Industry: Identifying Dimensions That Affect Knowledge and Knowledge Creation Activities". Journal of Management. 31 (4): 549–572. doi:10.1177/0149206304272293. S2CID144165373.
Matusik, Sharon F; Mickel, Amy E (August 2011). "Embracing or embattled by converged mobile devices? Users' experiences with a contemporary connectivity technology". Human Relations. 64 (8): 1001–1030. doi:10.1177/0018726711405552. S2CID145457464.
^Matusik, Sharon F. (1998). Ephemeral resources and firm knowledge: The case of the contingent workforce (PhD thesis). University of Washington. ProQuest304462107.
^Matusik, Sharon F.; Hill, Charles W. L. (1998). "The Utilization of Contingent Work, Knowledge Creation, and Competitive Advantage". The Academy of Management Review. 23 (4): 680–697. doi:10.2307/259057. JSTOR259057.
^Heeley, Michael B.; Matusik, Sharon F.; Jain, Neelam (2007). "Innovation, Appropriability, and the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings". The Academy of Management Journal. 50 (1): 209–225. JSTOR20159848.
^Fitza, Markus; Matusik, Sharon F.; Mosakowski, Elaine (April 2009). "Do VCs matter? the importance of owners on performance variance in start-up firms". Strategic Management Journal. 30 (4): 387–404. doi:10.1002/smj.748.
^Matusik, Sharon F.; Fitza, Markus A. (April 2012). "Diversification in the venture capital industry: leveraging knowledge under uncertainty". Strategic Management Journal. 33 (4): 407–426. doi:10.1002/smj.1942.
