Christopher Tucci

Christopher L. Tucci is Dean of the College of Management of Technology at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is also Professor of Management of Technology and holds the Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation. Before returning for his PhD, he was an industrial computer scientist involved in developing Internet protocols and applying artificial intelligence tools to industrial problems.

He is interested in technological change and how waves of technological changes affect incumbent firms. He is also studying how the popularization of the Internet affects firms in different industries. Professor Tucci also studies business models, open innovation, crowdsourcing, and dynamic capabilities.

He has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review (AMR), Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, Communications of the ACM, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of Product Innovation Management. His 2012 article with Allan Afuah, “Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search,” won the Best Paper of 2012 for AMR. He was the TIM Department Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. In 2004, he was elected to the five-year division leadership track of the Academy of Management’s (AOM) TIM Division. In 2010, he was elected to the leadership track of the SMS’ Strategy & Entrepreneurship Division. In 2013 he was elected to the AOM’s Board of Governors.